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Anti-piracy legislation has more than just Americans up in arms. Europeans are showing their distaste for such government intrusion, too.

Digital Music News recently shared part of a study about the effects that online content distribution , particularly streaming, has on conversion rates.

These are interest times for the ever changing Pirate Bay, a "simple" indexing service for downloads available on the BitTorrent P2P network yet convicted by the Swedish justice as liable of assisted copyright infringement: the latest technical changes brought by the new admins let the site shrink in size and required bandwidth, to the point that ... (more)

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A Jackson man, who is employed as A school bus driver was arrested by federal agents early this morning for using his home computer to distribute child pornography, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Torrent Freak directs our attention to the development of a new BitTorrent client whose developers claim is impossible to shut down without pulling the plug on the entire Internet.

Copyright holders thought they had scored a major victory last month when one of the biggest file-sharing networks in the world was shuttered .

Non-techie users may find it difficult understanding how it works, but that it does work is likely to fuel anger and frustration among members of the MPAA who appear to be adopting ever more stringent policies to shut down BitTorrent websites that pirate copyrighted material.

FBI agents are on the trail of possibly hundreds of child porn suspects, thanks in no small part to the computer of a former elementary school teacher's aide who is himself facing a variety of child porn charges.

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A A state Grand Jury has indicted a Bayville man for sending "hundreds" of images and videos of child pornography online, the U.S. Attorney's Office said today.

An Ocean County man has been indicted in Trenton on charges that he possessed and distributed child pornography, including images of young children engaged in sexually explicit acts with adults.

LaGrange police say three of its recent arrests are included in a statewide crackdown on child pornography.

It's a turbulent time in the world of content distribution. Despite a successful protest against overly restrictive anti-piracy legislation, law enforcement has demonstrated its already considerable power to take copyright-infringing websites offline , and several hosting and torrent sites have gone dark voluntarily to evade prosecution.

"While the file-sharing ecosystem is currently filled with uncertainty and doubt, researchers at Delft University of Technology continue to work on their decentralized BitTorrent network .

With lawmakers all over the world struggling to agree upon copyright regimes that would disconnect people from the Internet, shut down websites simply for linking to infringing content and cut off whole advertising networks that support pirate domains, one might think the world was on the verge of plugging up the copied media loophole for good.

A 25-year-old Phoenix man is facing 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor after police discovered he downloaded child porn.

A A tennis instructor at Westboro Tennis and Swim Club, who was charged in Westborough District Court last week with two counts of possession of child pornography and two counts of dissemination of child pornography, is out on bail.

While the file-sharing ecosystem is currently filled with uncertainty and doubt, researchers at Delft University of Technology continue to work on their decentralized BitTorrent network.