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15 May 12 - P2p Lawsuit News

He said, she said: Is Comcast prioritizing traffic or not?
Comcast categorically denies it's prioritizing traffic, but the issue is sure to dog the cable provider in the near term, much like the back and forth that ensued back in 2007 when it was caught blocking P2P traffic. Comcast sent me the following ...

Judge nixes "Oil Orgy" scheme to scare P2P users into quick settlements
Critics of these lawsuits have long argued that even innocent defendants may be forced to settle simply to avoid the legal expense of a trial and the public embarrassment of having one's name publicly identified with a pornographic film, regardless of ...

Peer-to-penalty: Six-year music sharing trial ends in €880 fine
Cruz comes from Portugal, and one would expect such a gesture to quickly land him in a similar lawsuit. But surprisingly, while sharing songs through P2P networks and blogs goes punished, sharing the same content via YouTube seems perfectly acceptable.

ISPs facing global clamp down on piracy
The long-running lawsuit ended in victory for the Australian ISP after the court ruled that it had not “authorised” copyright infringement by virtue of failing to act in stopping its customers engaging in illegal P2P file sharing.

Australian movie industry fails to force ISP to act on piracy
Though with the precedent set in all three stages of this lawsuit, it's now pretty clear that Australian ISPs do not have obligations in this domain - and at the final appeal hearing in the Australian High Court last week, all five judges ruled in the ...

Ask LH: Is Usenet Safer Than BitTorrent?
Unlike a P2P network, you have to pay a provider to get access to Usenet files. In order to pay you have to send over your credit card and billing information to get access to Usenet files and services.

Kuit Steinart Levy | Kuits Entertainment and Media Law Update - April 2012
The record companies usually come to an arrangement with the P2P sites and any profit gained would or likely to have gone to their shareholders and not the artists.