The Swedish Pirate Party (piratpartiet) held rallies across Sweden in an attempt to bolster support for strengthening personal privacy. The events, in Malm
ö and Stockholm, were aimed at raising awareness of a new bill due next week.
The Pirate Bay is featuring the Swedish glam rock band “Lamont” on their frontpage. Unlike the major record labels, Lamont recognizes the power of filesharing and they give away their album for free. Not without success, over 100,000 people downloaded their album in less than 24 hours, numbers that other artists can only dream of.
A recent study on the impact of filesharing on CD sales shows that the more music people download on P2P-networks, the more CDs they buy.
A French court has ruled that Wikipedia could not be held responsible for content posted by its users in a landmark ruling for the Internet giant.
Last Month The Pirate Bay filed complaints against some of the key players in the entertainment industry for corrupting and sabotaging their BitTorrent tracker. The MPAA has now responded to these claims and deny that they worked with MediaDefender.
The TIFF exploit which could be used to jailbreak and hack the 1.1.1 iPhone has been closed, rendering the latest attempts to jailbreak the phone obsolete.
