One day last fall, several hundred thousand music fans were confronted with a harsh new reality. OiNK, an exclusive, members-only file-sharing community, had been shut down, its servers confiscated; ...
The music industry has vowed to pursue a man cleared of criminal fraud charges relating to his BitTorrent tracker service through the UK’s civil courts. Last week The Next Web reported that the ...
In a blow to the entertainment industry, a U.K. jury on Friday acquitted the operator of a popular BitTorrent search engine that enabled people to download music. Alan Ellis, 26, was charged with ...
Private file-sharing network OiNK has been shut down following two years of investigation by the IFPI (International Federation Of The Phonographic Industry) and British and Dutch police. An unnamed ...