Only a few days before the largest BitTorrent tracker will celebrate its 5th anniversary, the Pirate Bay reached a new milestone. The site now tracks 25 million peers, which is more than the entire populations of Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland and Denmark combined.
When
The Pirate Bay was founded, November 2003, it was a site targeted [...]

Canada has its first conviction under the controversial Bill C-59. A man has been found guilty of ‘camming’ the movie ‘Sweeney Todd’ in Calgary on its opening day. The 21 year-old was given a $1,495 fine and placed on probation for a year. During this time he is also excluded from all theaters and is [...]

The Pirate Bay (TPB) enjoyed another milestone today, breaking the 25 million user, or peer, barrier. Only two weeks ago, TPB surpassed 20 million users, and in January of this year, broke 10 million users. The growth of TPB has been stratospheric, and in less than a year, has more than doubled the [...]

LimeWire was featured twice this week, for both some good and some bad news. The IFPI touted another victory against unauthorized BitTorrent sharing when the Bulgarian search engine TorrentValley was shut down by local authorities. And there’s some interesting RIAA/College student news coming out of Duke University.

If you have had any
theories Microsoft was conspiring with the media conglomerates to protect their interests and not the user’s, throw them in the bin, pour jet fuel and remotely detonate them since Microsoft can’t be any bolder than
building in DivX and Xvid native support in Windows 7. Yes, all your favorite Family [...]

Wants actual evidence of copyright infringement before it forwards pre-litigation “settlement” letters to students.
An odd thing has happened on the campus of Duke University. The Office of Student Affairs is now requiring the RIAA and other copyright holder groups to submit evidence that a student committed copyright infringement before it forwards pre-litigation “settlement” letters to [...]

Requires public and private colleges and universities to ensure that computers connected to their campus network are not being used for illegal file-sharing.
RIAA Chairman & CEO Mitch Bainwol, along with several other members of the music community, recently celebrated Country Music Association Day in Nashville by participating in a ceremonial signing of college [...]

Cyber Crimes Unit acts on evidence collected by the Bulgarian Association of Music Producers (BAMP).
Authorities in Bulgaria have taken down Torrentvalley.com, an apparently major BitTorrent tracker site located in that country.
The action was taken by the Cyber Crime Unit of the Ministry of Interior’s serious and organized crime directorate, acting on [...]

Motoring giant Toyota is normally ahead of the curve when it comes to technology. The company is known for innovations like the Synergy Drive in the Prius, as well as long term reliability. However, if you take pride in your Toyota, and have it as a wallpaper on your system, Toyota doesn’t want you sharing.
Toyota, [...]

French record labels have received the green light to sue four US-based companies that develop P2P applications, including the BitTorrent client Vuze, Limewire and Morpheus. Shareaza is the fourth application, for which the labels are going after the open source development platform SourceForge.
Société civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France (
SPPF), an umbrella group for [...]