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A study done at Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M) identifies and characterizes the users who upload contents on the main P2P piracy networks on Internet and points out the incentives that they find to carrying out this activity.The research study examines the behavior of the users who are responsible for publishing over 55,000 files on the two main portals (Mininova and The Pirate Bay) of BitTorrent, the most popular P2P application for file-sharing on Internet, where some users publish...
ITHACA, N.Y., Jan. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ATC-NY has just released two free, new forensics tools: Mac Memory Reader and eMule Reader. Mac Memory Reader is a simple command-line utility to capture the contents of physical RAM on a suspect Macintosh computer, letting an investigator gather volatile state information prior to shutting the machine down. Mac Memory Reader is based on the physical RAM acquisition tools in Mac Marshal Field Edition, a computer forensic tool for Mac OS X...
A new MarkMonitor study offers a snapshot into the changing nature of online piracy. The anti-fraud firm monitored illegal traffic levels on 43 file-sharing sites and found that they generated over 53 billion visits per year. The top three generated over 21 billion visits. Sites like RapidShare.com, Megavideo.com and Megaupload.com are becoming as popular as peer-to-peer methods of accessing illegal content. The study used a small sample of sites suggesting that the problem could be much...
http://www.zaptunes.com will be re-branded as a music social network. The site will no more offer free music downloads. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) January 4, 2011 ZapTunes (http://www.zaptunes.com ), a website where one can download free music, is getting a new face as a music social network. The new website will provide a plethora of features for music lovers, including an innovative new discussion forum where they can talk about various artists, tracks and albums. The users will also be...
LimeWire is looking to get court-ordered subpoenas that require third parties to open up about their dealings with the record industry. After U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood delivered a death penalty to LimeWire for copyright violations with an injunction against the company in October, the case moved to question how much LimeWire should pay to the record industry in damages. The labels claim over $1 billion in damages and plan to argue for the compensation in a jury trial scheduled for...
According to court documents, a key investor of The Pirate Bay file sharing site appealed to the country's highest court on Monday to overturn his four-month prison sentence and fines to the music and movie industry. "Carl Lundstroem demands the Supreme Court cancel the Appeal Court's ruling," the petition read.Lundstroem and Pirate Bay founders Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg were all sentenced to a year in jail in 2009, while also being ordered to pay $4.5...
A study for the recording industry lobby group BPI said on Thursday that at least 1.2 billion songs will have been illegally downloaded by the end of 2010 in Britain. The estimate dwarfs the total of 370 million tracks across singles and albums expected to be bought legally this year. Music industry executives said that the estimate underlines the scale of the problem facing record labels and other investors who are reluctant to spend on new talent when revenues become undercut. "Illegal...
ITHACA, N.Y., Dec. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- ATC-NY has just released Version 3.1.0 of P2P Marshal(TM). P2P Marshal is a computer forensics tool which automatically detects, extracts and analyzes P2P evidence on hard drives. A typical data acquisition and analysis taking hours by hand runs in a few minutes with P2P Marshal. The tool comes in two editions: P2P Marshal Forensic Edition(TM) - The "software only" edition installs and runs on an investigator's workstation to analyze a mounted...
NATICK, Mass., Dec. 6, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Nasuni®, creator of the storage industry's leading cloud gateway, will join with Storage Switzerland to present a live webinar tomorrow addressing how to add NAS functionality to virtualized SANs by levering cloud storage. During this webinar Storage Switzerland lead analyst George Crump will take participants through the four options on adding NAS services to a virtualized SAN environment, explaining the pros and cons of each. Then Nasuni CEO...
LimeWire, one of the world's leading online outlets for free peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing of music, movies and TV shows, said it would be shutting down by the end of the year and closing its New York-based office for good. A US federal judge in October granted the music industry's request to close down the popular file-sharing service, which had been found liable for copyright infringement. "As a result of our current legal situation, we have no choice but to wind down LimeWire Store...
