Security firm TrustedSource reports that a new trojan has been identified that infects multi-media files on Windows computers.
The malware embeds malicious content into multimedia files based on the Advanced Systems Format (ASF), a widely used format for video and audio content such as MP3 and WMA music files, WMV video files and others. When trying [...]

Jim Louderback, CEO of podcasting/new media network Revision3, has an explanation for why his site died over Memorial Day weekend: they were hacked and attacked by MediaDefender, a company that works for the music and film industries doing anti-piracy work.

“Media Defender was abusing one of Revision3’s servers for their own purposes, without our approval,” says Louderback. “They willingly admitted to abusing Revision3’s network, over a period of months, by injecting a broad array of torrents into our tracking server.”

In Atlantic v. Howell, an anti-piracy lawsuit in Arizona, the RIAA is making the case that, while it’s legal to rip CDs for personal use, it’s illegal if you store ripped tracks in a folder that is shared:
Once Defendant converted Plaintiffs’ recording into the compressed .mp3 format and they are in his shared folder, they [...]

50 Cent says he isn’t snorting coke, but some in the industry may think that he’s talking like he’s high.
In an interview with Pål Nordseth in Oslo, Fitty denied taking coke on live TV in Zagreb and then went on to talk about how file-sharing was inevitable and that the music industry needed to figure [...]

Billionaire blogger & HD video guru Mark Cuban has an interesting perspective on the controversy over the issue of Internet companies blocking P2P traffic:
“BLOCK P2P TRAFFIC , PLEASE,” asks Cuban.
“As a consumer, I want my internet experience to be as fast as possible. The last thing I want slowing my internet service down are P2P [...]

TorrentSpy, one of the most popular sites for .torrent sharing, has been ordered by US federal judge Jacqueline Chooljian in the Central District of California that, despite the site’s privacy policy, which states they will never monitor their visitors without consent, they must start creating logs detailing their user’s activities.
This information could then be turned [...]

The RIAA is increasing the pressure it puts on colleges and universities to restrict activities on school networks, sending thousands more complaints to top universities this school year than it did last year.
A few schools, including Ohio and Purdue universities, already have received more than 1,000 complaints accusing individual students since last fall. For students [...]

A new study in the Journal of Political Economy has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music, contrary to the claims of the RIAA and other music industry organizations.
The study, The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis, by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf, [...]

Zune articles. Archived stories from Zunerama’s Zune blog.
Some Zune users are starting to get upset with the limitations imposed on the device’s wireless sharing technology:
Zune’s wireless sharing is described by Microsoft with a footnote - indicating that “the Zune to Zune sharing feature may not be available for all audio files on your device”.
Curious about [...]

The venerable BBC has announced plans to offer hundreds of episodes of its programs on a file-sharing network for the first time, Azureus’ Zudeo. Until now, most BBC programmes found on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks have been illegal copies.
Azureus is best known for developing a BitTorrent client, or program, that allows large media files to be [...]