The Motion Picture Association of America has obtained a preliminary injunction from a German court for CyberBunker, the ISP responsible for hosting Swedish website The Pirate Bay.

According to Torrent Freak the injunction, taken out against...

Limewire has lost its case with 13 major US record labels, in a lawsuit which originally began in 2006. Lime Wire LLC, the parent name for the P2P sharing software, and its founder Mark Gorton, were judged to have infringed upon copyright and engaged...

FlashForward, a television show just launched in the US from the creators of Lost and based on the book by Robert J Sawyer, has proved a surprise hit on filesharing websites.

At the time of writing, Mininova and the Pirate Bay are both displaying...

A survey of 1000 teenagers, undertaken in January this year, has shown that only 26% admit file-sharing at least once a month, compared to 42% in December 2007. Meanwhile, 65% of teens stream music regularly, with 31% of 14-18-year-olds listening to streaming...

Since the Pirate Bay announced that it was selling out, many in the Bittorrent community have predicted the death of the filesharing community.

Many others however, confidently predicted that the masses would just move to another tracker,...

Filesharing news site Torrentfreak has announced the results of a poll that suggests that 41% of P2P users would "take steps to hide their identity" if they received a warning letter from an ISP.

38% said they'd ignore the warning, but carry...

Until now, it was difficult to completely anonymise your browsing and filesharing habits. VPN services were available for a small fee each month, but most people rely on the sheer volume of filesharing traffic to keep themselves relatively anonymous in...

RawFlow, a P2P live streaming company has launched a beta version of Selfcast - a P2P-based live broadcasting community.

Anyone can broadcast live to the world for free using just a webcam, a PC and an internet connection.

Budding...

Lawsuits against illegal downloader’s could be coming to an end, but not a pleasant end for the downloader. Changes are being made to MP3s in order to recoup financial losses from peer-to-peer networks.

To legitimise songs being exchanged...

Microsoft's Sliverlight, launched yesterday, has already found a way to make TV streaming smoother with fewer glitches in the connection.

Skinkers, a push video and news service has announced that it will be using the software giants "LiveStation"...

We hailed broadband when it gave us faster download speeds. Now a trio of researchers have discovered a way to get files to your PC faster.

Current file sharing techniques rely on the number of people online at the time to share the file....

BitTorrent is scheduled to become legit today as it launches its new pay-per-movie download site.

The BitTorrent Entertainment Network has not yet gone live, as there is a holding page up right now.

It will offer films and TV...

TribalWeb, the free software that lets users set up secure and private peer-to-peer file sharing networks, is now available in the UK.

The freeware lets families and friends share photographs, films, or documents of any size on their own private...

It might have become the norm to illegally download television shows and the latest blockbuster movies on the Internet the day they are released, but all that is about to change with the news that a Hong Kong man has been convicted for illegally distributing...