No fucking duh, I started downloading music in 2000 when I heard about Napster on the news, good job recording industry…I realized you could download movies when I seen…ummm, the I think it was Dateline report of these high school kids downloading movies, did a few Googles, and it led me to , decss, divx, ripping, encoding, and I think you know the rest of the story, its 2008 ~Peilo

Last week a court ruled that Israel
’s largest ISPs should block access to HttpShare, a BitTorrent and http hyperlink site. Thanks to what the owners call “IFPI advertising”, the site is now so busy they’ve had to upgrade their hardware. TorrentFreak caught up with them as they cracked open the champagne.

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The MPAA claims that piracy is causing dire harm to the movie business, but the combination of a record $9.63billion box office take in 2007 and overheated piracy rhetoric lead us to wonder how bad off the motion picture industry really is.

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The stolen credentials belong to companies from around the world and include more than 2500 North American companies, some of which are the world’s top 100 domains, according to security company Finjan. The ISP hosting the db has been notified but they still have not removed it. Finjan says companies can email them to check if their info was stolen

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Comcast has changed its ToS to mirror the FCC’s Internet Policy Statement. The newly-revised ToS spells out what its users figured out several months ago: that the cable ISP actively manages traffic on its network.

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Friends and foes of ‘Net neutrality faced off at Harvard Law School today. The star of the show was Comcast EVP David L. Cohen, with FCC Commissioner Kevin Martin, Columbia Law School professor Timothy Wu, and others playing supporting roles. We’ve got audio of the debate between Cohen, Wu, and the general counsel of Free Press inside.

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A number of consumer groups are petitioning the FCC to fine Comcast $195,000 for every customer affected by their BitTorrent-throttling practices.

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In a lengthy FCC filing, Comcast offers its fullest explanation yet of how it “delays” certain P2P traffic. If you thought that your 6Mbps connection entitled you to actually use 6Mbps of bandwidth all the time, Comcast begs to differ.

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According to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, a group of consumer advocates and legal scholars have asked the commission to look into Comcast discriminating against specific types of data (read: Bit Torrent). The groups have also requested the FCC to fine Comcast $195,000 per affected subscribers.

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Less than two weeks after a complaint was filed with the FCC, Comcast now faces a class-action lawsuit over its practice of blocking BitTorrent and other P2P traffic.

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One of the most vocal anti-network neutrality lobby groups has written to the FCC… in support of an investigation of Comcast. Pressure is building on the FCC to act, and opponents of net neutrality would rather have an industry-friendly FCC investigating the issue than a new law.

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