Games firms are accusing innocent people of file-sharing as they crack down on pirates, a Which? Computing investigation has claimed.The magazine was contacted by Gill and Ken Murdoch, from Scotland, who had been accused of sharing the game Race07 by makers Atari.
The couple told Which they had never played a computer game in their lives.
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The file-sharing network LimeWire – which is currently being sued by several major record labels for allegedly contributing to copyright infringement – has signed a deal with Comedy Central Records that will make it easy for users of the peer-to-peer application to find and buy legal versions of comedy videos from Lewis Black, Mitch Hedberg [...]
A married couple with a combined age of 120 have been accused by UK games lawyers Davenport Lyons of pirating an Atari game, and faced demands for over £500. However, the shocked couple enlisted the help of a popular consumer magazine, and unsurprisingly, the lawyers have backed down.No matter how many times it gets said, [...]
PeerApp Ltd., the leader in Intelligent Media Caching and content acceleration solutions for the Video Internet, today announced that IFX Networks has selected PeerApp’s UltraBand(TM) 1000 product to improve network operations in Argentina, Chile and Colombia. Headquartered in Hollywood, Florida, IFX Networks is a leading Network Services Provider (NSP) serving regional and non-regional carriers [...]
We here at P2P Tech Time have a saying “If it aint broke, Dont fix it.”, but were not fixing it were making it better thats why were moving “Rant Out Loud Friday” to Wednesday!!!!!!!!!!!! So this week is the last week that “Rant Out Loud” will be on a Friday. And then after that [...]
The news that a Dream Pinball 3D enthusiast has been fined £6,086 in damages, plus costs of £10,000 has been greeted with both satisfaction and dismay from Mike Dager, CEO of Arxan Technologies Ltd.Dager explained, “It is good that game makers like Topware Interactive are following the lead of the business software and music groups [...]
A new survey of IT managers shows that heavy use of social networks, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and instant messaging may be strongly correlated to a higher number of security incidents.In this recent DarkReading story, Kelly Jackson Higgins writes that a recent vendor survey shows that within organizations where employees are heavy users of Web [...]
