Have you heard about this 16 year old kid in the Czech Republic who’s facing a 5 million euro damages claim for linking to copyright works? It’s as ridiculous as it sounds. Now the Czech arm of the Pirate Party is coming to the kid’s defence, escalating their “Linking is Not A Crime” camping with their new project described [...]
TorrentFreak reports that the Hollywood funded Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) has been successfully convincing police into busting down doors of some of the lesser known torrent sites of the world. What’s interesting is that after the whole scare-down, no real action seems to have taken place. Read more below: While sites like The Pirate Bay grab most of [...]
Well January flew by and 2011 is moving at a brisk pace in spite of the Winter trying to slow us down. Just in case you may have missed some of the New Rockstar Philosophy talk we’ve decied to put up a monthly review of our top posts. MySpace Lays Off Half Of Work Force – Well [...]
Torrent Freak sheds some light on the 2010 stats provided by the British Recording Industry (BPI). The BPI stats show how the industry has sufferd through another slump in sales in 2010. Yet digging further into the data Torrent Freak shows how 2010 was actually a banner year for music sold. …the BPI reports that there [...]
Quietly over the Thanksgiving weekend American authorities made moves against a number of torrent sites. Via TorrentFreak Following on the heels of this week’s domain seizure of a large hiphop file-sharing links forum, it’s clear today that the U.S. Government has been very busy. Without any need for COICA, ICE has just seized the domain [...]
There is nothing the human mind wants more then freedom. Freedom to choose, freedom to want, freedom to think, freedom. Freedom is the reason the internet works on such a primal level. It gives us more freedom. And on the internet there is seldom a freedom more infringed upon then our freedom to hear. To [...]
Just a heads up for all you University and College students: The RIAA has convinced Tennessee to filter computer networks for unauthorized music downloads at the states colleges and universities. This piece of legislation once again shows the short sightedness and idiotic attitude of the Recording Industry. The cost to monitor file sharing is expected [...]
Franz Ferdinand is Coming After You!
Franz Ferdinand is using Web Sheriff Confessed pirates themselves, Franz Ferdinand have recently taken a pro-piracy stance, encouraging fans to download some of their work. It was therefore quite a surprise to hear that the band has recently hired the infamous Web-Sheriff to stop people from downloading their recently leaked album “Tonight”. I’ve figured it [...]