Last week, a Virginia federal court dismissed a piracy lawsuit against the popular stream ripping sites FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com. The court dismissed the case arguing that it lacked jurisdiction over these type of sites. The record labels clearly disagree with this conclusion and have just announced that they will appeal. Over the years we have […]
Popular torrent site YTS has been hit with a third lawsuit from a US company this year. The website, which has millions of users, is accused of uploading and sharing a copy of the film “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.” In addition, the complaint also targets 16 Hawaii residents who allegedly shared the film […]
On July 1, 1999, a new application was uploaded to the Internet. Named Napster, it was the first tool that created a file-sharing network of millions of people, something that had never been done before. Two years later that network shut down, but its impact still resonates today, two decades on. Somewhere in the fall […]
