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Des Moines Register
December 17, 2004
BayTSP
helps halt Internet's pirates
Caught downloading an illegal copy of the movie "Alien vs. Predator" last
month? Chances are good you were caught by BayTSP.
Des Moines Register
December 16, 2004
Fund
to bring tech businesses to Iowa
A California-based venture capital fund has reached an agreement with the
state to bring five new companies to Iowa over the next five years and create
at least 300 jobs that pay an average of $50,000 annually.
Federal Trade Commission
December 15, 2004
Workshop
on Peer-to-Peer File Trading
BayTSP CEO Mark Ishikawa participates in a panel "P2P and How It Works",
detailing the scope and breadth of Internet piracy, particularly on peer-to-peer
networks.
Variety
December 14, 2004
MPAA serves notice;
Org to crack down on technology aiding piracy
The MPAA revealed plans Tuesday to crack down on servers around the world
that help make movie piracy possible - while taking pains to project a pro-technology
image.
CNET News.com
December 14, 2004
MPAA
targets core BitTorrent, eDonkey users
The Motion Picture Association of America launched a new legal campaign
Tuesday targeting the BitTorrent and eDonkey file-swapping networks, two
technologies widely used to trade movies online.
Syfy Portal
December 14, 2004
NBC
Universal Going After Internet Pirates
The battle between the Colonials and the Cylons might have been epic in
the "Battlestar Galactica" miniseries last year, but the new battle between
the series' producers and American fans might trump it.
The Hollywood Reporter
December 14, 2004
Hollywood
fights illegal downloads by targeting servers
LOS ANGELES - Hollywood's major studios intend to escalate their battle
against illegal movie downloading by targeting the popular BitTorrent network
and those who operate its servers, the movie industry's lobbying arm is
set to announce.
Variety
December 13, 2004
Antipiracy
effort pins tail on eDonkey – Possible civil action against users
running indexing servers
HOLLYWOOD -- The MPAA is cracking down on two of the biggest peer-to-peer
networks used for movie piracy. Trade org is expected to announce today
it's working with law enforcement authorities in the U.S. and Europe to
arrest individuals and groups who run indexing servers for eDonkey and BitTorrent.
Associated Press
December 10, 2004
'BitTorrent'
Gives Hollywood a Headache
LOS ANGELES — Bram Cohen didn't set out to upset Hollywood movie studios.
But his innovative online file-sharing software, BitTorrent, has grown into
a piracy problem the film industry is struggling to handle.
Silicon Valley Watcher
December 10, 2004
Cybercops:
Software industry takes p2p pirates more seriously
The media has gone wild with stories about internet copyright infringements
for years now. Illegal file sharing of music and video files on peer-to-peer
networks kept reporters (including me, I admit) busy writing thousands of
stories on this issue as well as on how the entertainment industry has been
blaming the p2p revolution for their gigantic downturn.
Wall Street Journal
December 9, 2004
Digits
- 'Hot' Downloads
Did downloading illegal music land you a virus? For thousands of Americans,
the solution is heading back to the Internet for another illegal downloading
spree -- this time, trawling for Symantec Corp.'s Norton AntiVirus 2005.
According to BayTSP , that $64.99 program was the No. 1 illegally downloaded
software package during November, with more than 40,000 separate copies
available on file-sharing networks.
DMAsia.com
December 8, 2004
Alien
vs. Predator, Fahrenheit 9/11 top pirate movie downloads for November
The film Alien vs. Predator was the top pirated movie on peer-to-peer networks
in November, with 34,733 copies available for download, according to security
firm BayTSP, which tracks the film and software titles that are most commonly
downloaded. Possibly due to election interest, Fahrenheit 9/11 placed second
for the month, with 33,582 copies.
Digital Media Wire
December 8, 2004
BayTSP - top
pirated films on P2P
BayTSP, a service that monitors peer-to-peer file-sharing traffic on behalf
of entertainment industry clients, announced on Wednesday that "Alien vs.
Predator" was the top pirated film in November, based on the number of unique
copies available for download on the FastTrack (Kazaa) and eDonkey file-sharing
networks.
Consumer Electronics Daily
December 2, 2004
Private
Cyber Cops Nabbing Copyright Pirates
Illegal file sharers aren't caught by accident. They're usually collared
by one of 2 secretive companies that specialize in identifying, tracking
and shutting down content pirates with the help of ISPs. BayTSP and MediaSentry
are the vanguard in the investigation and enforcement of online copyrights,
counting among their clients the world's largest entertainment and software
companies, and business is booming.
The California Aggie
November 18, 2004
Motion
Picture Association sues movie downloaders
The Motion Picture Association of America filed an undisclosed number of
lawsuits Tuesday throughout the country against individuals it believes
illegally downloaded films online from filesharing programs such as Kazaa
and BitTorrent.
Bestfares.com
November 11, 2004
Send
Postcards By Mail Directly From Your Camera Phone
PictureTrail, a photo sharing website, has launched mobile2postcard, a service
that allows subscribers to send picture postcards to the United States via
regular mail, directly from their camera phones. This is the first time
this service, which is popular in Europe, is being offered in the United
States.
Inside Digital Media
November 10, 2004
Interview
with BayTSP CEO Mark Ishikawa
Editor Phil Leigh interviews BayTSP Mark Ishikawa and discusses BayTSP,
online piracy and what companies can do to protect themselves from it.
Reuters
November 8, 2004
Pirated
U2 Album Hits Net
Pirated versions of U2's new album "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" have
emerged on Internet file-sharing networks two weeks before it goes on sale,
throwing into question its official release date.
NBC Nightly News
November 6, 2004
Pirates of
the Internet
NBC Nightly News used BayTSP statistics to highlight the widespread piracy
of Hollywood movies on peer-to-peer networks.
Engadget
November 6, 2004
Cellphone
pictures into postcards
For a small fee, PictureTrail’s new service, mobile2postcard, takes
a picture you snapped with your cellphone, lets you personalize a message,
then sends it off as a postcard to whomever you choose in the US.
Billboard Magazine/Reuters
November 6, 2004
P2P
Use Increases as Students Return to Campus
America's students are back to school, but it seems they have yet to learn
their lesson about file sharing. Despite the efforts of digital music services,
record company litigation, "spoofing" technology and legitimate offerings
at various universities, illegal file sharing on peer-to-peer networks has
risen since college students returned to their high-speed Internet connections
this fall.
The Wall Street Journal
November 5, 2004
Threatening
Lawsuits, Hollywood Launches War on Online Piracy
Lawsuits against individual music pirates have done little to stop music
fans stealing songs over the Internet. But as the movie industry begins
a legal campaign of its own to snuff out online film-swapping before it
becomes rampant, it may have better luck.
New York Times
November 5, 2004
Movie
Industry Preparing Suits on File Sharing
Hoping to head off the kind of rampant online piracy that has plagued the
record industry, Hollywood's major movie studios said yesterday that they
would begin filing lawsuits this month against people who make copyrighted
films available for downloading over the Internet.
San Francisco Chronicle
November 5, 2004
Studios
to sue pirates: Film industry fights illegal file sharing
It's high noon for Internet movie pirates. Hollywood studios plan to file
hundreds of lawsuits this month against people who illegally share movies
online, industry representatives said Thursday.
New Scientist
November 4, 2004
Hollywood
to sue internet file sharers
Hollywood's biggest movie studios are to sue people who share films through
internet file-sharing networks. The Motion Picture Association of America
(MPAA) announced on Thursday that it will sue unnamed individuals for up
to $30,000 each in damages, starting from 16 November.
CNET News.com
November 4, 2004
Hollywood
lawsuits to strike Net pirates
Hollywood studios are about to take the long-anticipated step of firing
a barrage of lawsuits at some of the most prolific Internet pirates, an
effort that mirrors the legal strategy that the recording industry already
has used with limited success.
picturephoning
October 28, 2004
PICTURETRAIL
ANNOUNCES APPLICATION TO SEND TRADITIONAL POSTCARDS FROM JAVA-ENABLED CAMERA
PHONES
In a US debut of what has already become popular in Europe Picture Trail
announces a new app, mobile2postcard.com , that allows subscribers to send
picture postcards via regular mail to friends, family and business contacts
directly from their Java-enabled camera.
Wireless Week CTIA Show Daily
October 25, 2004
Transforming
Pictures Into Postcards
Wireless application developer PictureTrail this week is debuting a new
service, mobile2postcard, that allows subscribers to send picture postcards
based upon photos taken by their digital camera phones via regular mail.
Wired Gaming World
October 25, 2004
PictureTrail
Announces Mobile-to-Postcard for Java
PictureTrail, a popular photo sharing website and wireless application developer,
today announced the availability of mobile2postcard.
mobile2postcard
October 25, 2004
PictureTrail
Announces "Mobile-to-Postcard" Application for Java-Enabled Camera Phones
Santa Clara, October 25, 2004 - PictureTrail, a popular photo sharing
website and wireless application developer, today announced the availability
of mobile2postcard, a service that allows subscribers to send picture postcards
via regular mail to friends, family and business contacts directly from
their Java-enabled camera phones.
CHQR News Radio
October 25, 2004
eDonkey overtakes Kazaa
in file sharing
CHQR news reporter Wayne Nelson does a live interview with BayTSP CEO Mark
Ishikawa on the significance of BayTSP's report that eDonkey has surpassed
Kazaa as the most popular file sharing system.
Associated Press
October 21, 2004
Online
tracking firm reports Kazaa losing users
LOS ANGELES — Kazaa's long-standing position as the most popular online
file-sharing software appears to be over. Last month, the daily average
of file-swappers on the FastTrack peer-to-peer network, which includes Kazaa
and related programs, was surpassed for the first time by users on the eDonkey/Overnet
network, according to online tracking firm BayTSP Inc.
Newsfactor Network
October 21, 2004
eDonkey
Kicks Kazaa Out of No. 1 Spot
Kazaa, which has long been targeted by the music industry as the most popular
software for peer-to-peer music sharing, was edged out by rival eDonkey
in September. BayTSP, which tracks online file-sharing, also reports that
sharing of movie files is becoming more popular.
MIT Technology Review
October 19, 2004
Digital
Movie Forecast: BitTorrential Downpour
It’s been pretty busy on the digital music front of late, with the
U.S. Supreme Court declining to hear a case that might have forced Internet
Service Providers to expose the identities of people sued by the recording
industry. Most of these lawsuits are now filed against "John Doe." The decision
was a big blow to the Recording Industry Association of America, the industry’s
lobbying group. The RIAA downplayed the news, however, saying that the court’s
decision "will not deter our ongoing anti-piracy efforts. The John Doe litigation
process we have successfully utilized this year continues to be an effective
legal tool."
The Hollywood Reporter
October 14, 2004
Panel:
P2P can be good for biz
The power of peer-to-peer technology can be harnessed for the good of the
entertainment industry, a panel of experts concluded Wednesday.
Entertainment Technology Summit
October 13, 2004
The
Future of Film and Television Distribution
BayTSP CEO Mark Ishikawa will participate in a panel "The Future of Film
and Television Distribution" as part of USC’s Entertainment Technology
Center conference on future trends in entertainment technology.
Digital Media Wire
October 12, 2004
Report: File-Swappers
on eDonkey Outnumbered Kazaa Users in September
Los Gatos, Calif. - For the first time, users of the Kazaa file-sharing
application were outnumbered in September by users of the rival eDonkey
service, which can more easily handle larger files like video, according
to a report from Los Gatos, Calif.-based BayTSP, a peer-to-peer tracking
firm.
Article Central
October 12, 2004
EDonkey
Overtakes Kazaa
Kazaa's popularity has diminished since it was the most popular platform
for peer-to-peer file trading, according to recent reports from monitoring
firm BayTSP, which place rival eDonkey atop the list of most frequently
used peer-to-peer applications last month.
CNET News.com
October 11, 2004
Kazaa
loses P2P crown
Kazaa, once the top Net nemesis of record companies and movie studios, appears
to have lost its role as the world's most popular file-swapping software,
network watchers said Monday.
Digital Music News
October 6, 2004
P2P
Watch: The Digital Hollywood Roundtable
Will P2P ever see the light of day as a legitimate, mainstream avenue for
record industry profit? Some poo-poo the idea, noting that file-swapping
is not necessarily a better alternative to offering legal song downloads
from a secure server. Others see a thriving digital music marketplace succeeding,
with consumers most interested in the viral and community aspects presented
by P2P networks.
News and Observer
September 30, 2004
Now
playing, free
The comedy "Napoleon Dynamite" is still playing in movie theaters, but David
Merrifield recently watched it on a 17-inch computer screen in his dorm
room with a couple of buddies. The N.C. State University freshman downloaded
the movie from the Internet even though he knew he was violating federal
copyright law. "I don't personally agree with it," Merrifield said.
Good Morning Silicon Valley
September 30, 2004
Well,
it's a good idea if you're an RIAA attorney, anyway
Is suing your customers a good idea? The recording industry seems to think
so, but Fred von Lohmann, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, says it's sorely mistaken. Writing in Law.com, von Lohman explains
that despite what the industry's oft-cited win-loss percentages might suggest,
its unprecedented legal campaign against music lovers is largely a failure.
Law.com
September 29, 2004
Is
Suing Your Customers a Good Idea?
Four thousand two hundred and eighty lawsuits and counting. That's how many
lawsuits have been brought by the major record labels against music fans
for using peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software (like Kazaa or Morpheus)
to swap music over the Internet.
San Jose Mercury News
September 28, 2004
File-swap
software gets a speedy update - Superfast transfers pose threat to studios
SEATTLE - A radical new technology threatens to do to Hollywood what Napster
did to the music industry. It's called BitTorrent and is much faster than
other file-swapping software used to exchange movies and music over the
Internet. In fact, BitTorrent can transfer a feature-length film in about
two hours - a fraction of the 12 hours it typically takes with file-sharing
services like Kazaa. What's more, the speed of the download actually increases
with the number of people sharing a particular file.
Digital Hollywood
September 29, 2004
Digital
Hollywood Fall Conference
BayTSP CEO Mark Ishikawa is a panelist at the conference's "Next Generation
P2P - DRM, Paid for Pass-Along and Other Legal Distributed Computing Models
and the Entertainment Industries" discussion, debating what role peer-to-peer
technology will have in legal distribution of digital entertainment content.
Billboard Magazine
September 20, 2004
Dance
Music Summit
BayTSP CEO Mark Ishikawa is a panelist at the conference's "Download This:
The Future of Digital Distribution" discussion, debating file sharing, new
business models in the era of peer-to-peer networks and the fate of current
music subscription services.
Forrester Research
September 15, 2004
Monitoring Services
Protect Brands and Digital Assets
(report)
The Internet gives brands global reach. At the same time, it enables misuse
of brand assets on a global scale by angry consumers, opportunistic partners
and unscrupulous criminals. But it has also led to the development of tools
that allow marketers, channel managers and legal executives to monitor incidents
in real time - and even turn them into new revenue opportunities.
Der Spiegel
September 10, 2004
Der
Jäger der Internet-Piraten
Der kalifornische Ex-Hacker Mark Ishikawa jagt mit seiner Firma BayTSP Medien-Piraten
im Internet - angesichts nach wie vor florierender P2P-Börsen ist das ein
Boom-Geschäft. Seine Arbeit sieht er als Schadensbegrenzung, die das Problem
nicht löst, seine wachsende Firma aber gut ernährt.
Digital Music News
September 10, 2004
P2P
Watch: FastTrack Usage Increases, New Spoofing Patterns Emerge
Usage of leading P2P network FastTrack edged up slightly in August, despite
renewed RIAA enforcement efforts. According to a recent report from network
security and tracking firm BayTSP, average daily use of the FastTrack network
rose to 2.5 million users, up from 2.4 million in July. Meanwhile, eDonkey
held steady, averaging 2.3 million users daily. That creates a tight horse
race between the two networks, with eDonkey most recently receiving increased
attention from the RIAA.
Washington Post
September 9, 2004
'F'
Is for File Sharing: Area Colleges Strive to Curtail Illegal Downloads
It's move-in day for freshmen at the University of Maryland's College Park
campus and the narrow lawn outside Denton Hall is strewn with piles of suitcases,
bedding and Dell computer boxes. If recent history is any guide, the smiling
teens wandering amid the makeshift encampments are primed to join the next
generation of hard-core music pirates who'll raid Internet file-swapping
networks for hundreds of thousands of illegally copied songs over the next
four years.
DMEurope
August 17, 2004
Fahrenheit,
Garfield enter top ten downloaded films for July
For July, there were seven new films on the Top 10 list of illicitly downloaded
films, including "Kill Bill Vol. 2", "Garfield", "Spiderman 2", "King Arthur",
"Fahrenheit 9/11", "Shrek 2" and "Around the World in 80 Days," - all of
which are still in theatres in most parts of the world.
Digital Music News
August 17, 2004
P2P
Watch: Kazaa Continues to Lose Competitive Edge
P2P market leader Kazaa and its FastTrack network continue to show declines,
steadily losing traction to competitors like eDonkey. Average daily usage
of the FastTrack network dipped to 2.4 million users in July, down from
2.7m in June. That data was supplied by digital tracking and protection
firm BayTSP, which also reported a surge in the number of spoofed files
on the network.
Billboard Magazine (cover story)
July 31, 2004
P2P Users Get More
Elusive
A complex cat-and-mouse game is emerging between the Recording Industry
Assn. of America and users of file-sharing services it seeks to squash.
Kazaa, whose users have been the main target of the RIAA's legal initiative,
is showing chinks in its armor, with usage dropping off recently.
GameSpot On the Spot
July 29, 2004
Maxgames
coverage
GameSpot's Web-streamed news show On the Spot airs a segment on the Tech
Museum of Innovations Maxgames videogame tournament.
San Jose Mercury News
July 19, 2004
Tech
museum hosts video-game tourney
The Maxgames, a fundraising video-game tournament with some of the finals
played on the giant IMAX movie screen at the Tech Museum of Innovation in
San Jose, takes places Friday, with pre-registration online.
Billboard Magazine
July 17, 2004
Studios
Load Guns Vs. Piracy
Studios are breaking out new weapons in their battle against DVD piracy
as increasing broadband penetration and DVD recorder sales threaten to aid
and abet illegal copying.
BBC
July 17,2004
Gibson
sues over Passion profits
Mel Gibson's film distribution company is suing a second US cinema chain
in a dispute over revenues for The Passion of the Christ.
DMEurope
July 16, 2004
Spoof
files on Fast Track up; Day After Tomorrow #1 movie download
Interdiction companies increased pressure on the Fast Track network (used
by Kazaa), in June, flooding it with more spoofed files, according to digital
security firm BayTSP.
Digital Lifestyles
July 14, 2004
CacheLogic
Survey: P2P Accounts for 10 Petabytes of Data
CacheLogic, the P2P technology company has conducted a survey of global
internet traffic using network monitoring tools to find out more about the
size of the file sharing community. In June, an average of 8 million P2P
users were online at any one moment, with 1 petabyte of data available to
share.
CNET News.com
July 13, 2004
Survey:
Movie-swapping up; Kazaa down
Online movie trading is skyrocketing, but onetime leader Kazaa is tumbling
in use, according to a new worldwide survey of file-swapping traffic from
network management company CacheLogic.
Digital Music News
July 13, 2004
P2P
Watch, Pt. II: FastTrack Continued Focus of Anti-Piracy Efforts
The FastTrack peer-to-peer network and its popular application Kazaa continue
to be in the scope of anti-piracy firms. New data from network security
and tracking firm BayTSP shows that Kazaa is continuously getting flooded
with spoofed files.
Digital Media Wire
July 13, 2004
Report: "Day
After Tomorrow" Most-Downloaded Film During June
Los Gatos, Calif. - Fox's "The Day After Tomorrow" was the most-downloaded
film on Internet file-sharing networks during the month of June, followed
by "The Passion of the Christ," "Van Helsing" and "Hellboy," according to
data from Los Gatos, Calif.-based piracy tracker BayTSP.
AM New York
July 9, 2004
10,000
mile mission plans to rock vote coast to coast
The dusty roads of Fort Smith, Arkansas will be a bit more lively this summer
when an American flag paints school bus rolls into town, unfurls eagle wings
and discharges a small band of New Yorkers hell bent on registering locals
to vote.
The Salinas Californian
July 1, 2004
Win a chance
to play the biggest screen around
Imagine playing video games on a 60-by-40-foot screen. Master Chief would
be twice as big as you and the Koop Troopa's go-kart would be larger than
a Chevrolet Suburban.
CNET News.com
June 30, 2004
Does
Kazaa matter?
The owners of the popular Kazaa file-swapping software have withstood assaults
from the record industry for years, but now they're facing a new enemy that
may be even harder to fight: competition.
BusinessWeek
June 28, 2004
Up Front: The
Stat
The number, in thousands, of copies of The Passion of the Christ available
for download in May, the most of any movie. So much for ``thou shalt not
steal.'': 38
Toronto Star
June 28, 2004
Technology
has the edge in war on child porn - Canadian tool against child porn barely
used here
It's not only illegal to distribute and possess child porn in Canada but
there are strict penalties if a person is caught just viewing it.
Slashdot
June 23, 2004
Gaming,
Red Vs Blue Gets IMAX Treatment
An anonymous reader writes "The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California
will host its third annual Maxgames videogame tournament on Friday, July
23. Finalists on several of the games will duke it out for the championship
on the museum's Giant Dome Screen [82 feet in diameter, and covering 12,000
square feet] and its 13,000 watt, 44 speaker sound system.
TeamXbox
June 23, 2004
MaxGames
Video Game Tournament Announced
The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose is hosting the 3rd Annual MaxGames
Video Game Tournament, on Friday, July 23. The tournament starts as a single
elimination ladder on 20" TV monitors, with matches during about 10 minutes
each. Finalists on several of the games will duke it out for the championship
on the museum's Giant Dome Screen and its 13,000 watt, 44 speaker sound
system.
Game Industry News
June 23, 2004
MAXGAMES
TOURNEY TO PLAY ON IMAX
The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California will host its third
annual Maxgames videogame tournament on Friday, July 23. Finalists on several
of the games will duke it out for the championship on the museum's Giant
Dome Screen and its 13,000 watt, 44 speaker sound system.
Game Cube Advanced
June 23, 2004
Gaming
On The BIG Screen - Not just any big screen... an IMAX screen!
Ever dream of playing videogames on a huge screen? Well, here's your chance.
The upcoming Maxgames tournament is going to be displaying games on a 40
foot by 60 foot IMAX Giant Dome Screen. In addition, the game's audio will
be heard via 44 speakers!
Gamespot
June 22, 2004
Maxgames
tournament gets IMAX billing - Final games to be played in the IMAX Dome
in San Jose; Red vs. Blue creators and Halo 2 trailer to make special appearance
Imagine playing your favorite multiplayer console game with your friends
on your tiny kitchen or dorm-room television set. Now imagine playing that
game on a giant IMAX screen. On July 23, the Maxgames video game tournament
will be bringing that fantasy to life at the Giant Dome Screen in San Jose,
California.
SPOnG
June 22, 2004
Videogame
Favourites Played out on IMAX Cinema Screen - Maxgames tournament gets giant
dome screen
For anyone who's ever played videogames on a massive telly or projector
screen, the sentiment is always the same - bigger is better. That's why
the upcoming Maxgames videogame tournament in San Jose, California, is going
to be a genuinely awesome spectacle. The organisers are displaying games
on a 40' by 60' IMAX Giant Dome Screen, and pumping the in-game audio through
44 speakers.
GCCafe
June 22, 2004
IMAX Games
Ever wondered what playing some of your favorite games would be like in
an IMAX theater? Well, if you're lucky, you might get the chance. The upcoming
Maxgames tournament will be held in San Jose, California and they will be
played on the big screen and pumping out with 44 speakers.
Toronto Star
June 22, 2004
U.K.
tests child-porn blocker - Cleanfeed keeps subscribers out of known Web
sites but Canadian Internet providers wary of monitoring role
Canada's major Internet service providers are prepared to work with law
enforcement agencies to help combat online child pornography, but they won't
commit to the large-scale blocking of known child-porn sites.
Santa Cruz Sentinel
June 22, 2004
PR
firm to serve area’s tech sector
A new public relations agency serving the technology community has opened
in Felton. Jim Graham Public Relations will serve clients in the digital
content distribution, networking, e-business and consumer technology sectors.
Jim Graham is the firm’s principal.
Planet GameCube
June 21, 2004
Play
Videogames on the Big, BIG Screen
If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can participate in a game tournament
with a rather enormous twist. Normally, we don't alert our worldwide audience
of an event in such a small area of the country, but this one is a little
different. The final rounds for many of the games at the tournament will
be held on a big screen. A very, very large screen.
1Up
June 21, 2004
Games
Take Over San Jose IMAX Theater
Gamers interested in enjoying acute motion sickness may want to check out
an upcoming event at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California
next month. On July 23, the third Maxgames videogame tournament will take
over the Museum's IMAX theater, displaying tournaments and other gamer entertainment
on its "Giant Dome Screen" and 44-speaker sound system.
Observatoire Europeen de l'audiovisuel
June 18, 2004
L'Impact
du Piratage Sur L'Industrie Audiovisuelle
A report on the effect of Internet piracy on the French movie industry by
the European Audiovisual Observatory. (PDF)
Associated Press
June 15, 2004
Movie
industry to air new ads targeting online piracy
LOS ANGELES - The film industry is expanding its awareness campaign against
online movie piracy with a nationwide rollout of newspapers and magazine
ads, the industry's trade group said Tuesday.
USA Today
June 15, 2004
Online
pirates use submarine tactics
In the face of potential arrests and litigation, Internet movie swappers
are getting foxier in outwitting Hollywood. They have begun bypassing popular
peer-to-peer (P2P) networks like Kazaa and eDonkey, where their activities
can be tracked, to share unauthorized copies of hit films. That is making
it harder for the film industry to find them.
DMEurope
June 10, 2004
Spoof
files no goof for record industry
Some interesting things have been happening lately with music downloading.
Today, the digital tracking and security firm BayTSP released its monthly
stats on peer-to-peer music and film downloading and reported that the number
of users on the Kazaa network averaged 2.7m in May, down from 2.9m in April.
Digital Media Wire
June 10, 2004
Report: "The
Passion" Still Most-Pirated 'Net Film; Studio Spoofing Increases
"The Passion of the Christ" was the most-downloaded movie on peer-to-peer
file-sharing systems for the second month in a row, according to data from
Los Gatos, Calif.-based BayTSP, a marketer of anti-piracy solutions that
also monitors traffic on file-sharing networks.
Digital Music News
June 10, 2004
Movie
Studios Increase Spoof File Levels
Recent data from network security and tracking firm BayTSP shows that movie
studios are increasing the amount of spoof files generated for P2P networks.
Interdiction companies flooded the FastTrack network with spoofed files
in May, with a noticeable increase in the average number of files in each
monitored user`s shared folder.
DMEurope
June 10, 2004
Illegal
downloads stagnated in May as interdiction firms flood P2P networks with
spoof files
Peer-to-peer media downloading networks stagnated or saw a very slight decline
in May, according to digital tracking and security firm BayTSP.
E-Commerce Times
June 5, 2004
TECHNOLOGY
SPECIAL REPORT: Sharing Files: The Untold Story of Software Piracy
When you get down to the basics, using broadband connections in the workplace
to download files for personal use does more than steal productivity and
cheat employers out of bandwidth costs. Employees generally are not aware
of the damage their P2P and instant-messaging use does to their companies.
BayTSP press release
June 4, 2004
BayTSP
to Sponsor "Summer Fun at Seca" Road Racing June 11-13 at Mazda Raceway
at Laguna Seca
BayTSP, a Los Gatos firm that provides online intellectual property protection
for record labels, movie studios and software companies announced today
that it is sponsoring the June "SCCA Summer Fun at Seca", Oil Recycling
Champions Double Regional road races June 11-13 at Mazda Raceway at Laguna
Seca.
KLIV
June 1, 2004
Feature story on BayTSP
KLIV reporter Judy Peterson aired a report on BayTSP CEO Mark Ishikawa and
the company's efforts to identify individuals who illegally share movies,
music and software online.
Computer Power User Magazine
May 2004
ModeEleven
- Can Screen Savers Get Down To Business?
The last time we heard the terms “screen saver” and “business
model” used in the same sentence a company called Berkeley Systems
was making a small mint off the After Dark series back in the day. And does
anyone recall those winged toasters careening across your dormant Windows
95 screens?
Dallas Morning News
May 28, 2004
Do
these folks also shoplift Bibles?
The Dallas Morning News reported in a front-page story last month that Christian
teens are pirating Christian music through the Internet at just about the
same rates as their less religious peers. So maybe it's not surprising that
the most-swiped movie on major Web servers last month was The Passion of
the Christ.
TechNewsWorld
May 27, 2004
Encrypted
File Sharing: P2P Fights Back
Masking the user's IP address is the Holy Grail of file-sharing networks.
With a hidden IP address, Web surfers can visit Web sites, post messages
and send e-mail without leaving a traditional trail that can link the communication
with a particular Internet connection to a computer's physical location.
Digital Media Europe
May 27, 2004
Illegal
film downloads on increase
The average number of movie download files per user and size of files increased
last month, according to digital tracking firm BayTSP, following a number
of months where the average number of files had been on the decline.
Salon
May 25, 2004
Thou
shalt not steal
Christian teens are just as eager to file-swap copyrighted music as any
other youngsters. But if the word of God gets spread, would Jesus give a
damn?
New Media Age
May 20, 2004
Movie
downloaders are sharing less
Movie piracy held steady in April, but the average number of files per user
and folder size increased.
NBC11
May 20, 2004
Movie
& TV show piracy
KNTV's TechNow reporter Scott McGrew interviewed BayTSP CEO Mark Ishikawa
on movie piracy and the growing area of TV show file trading.
CNBC Bullseye
May 20, 2004
Television
piracy report
BayTSP CEO Mark Ishikawa is interviewed by CNBC Bullseye host Dylan Ratigan
on the growing piracy of television shows on peer-to-peer networks.
USA Today
May 20, 2004
Online
trading of TV episodes grows
LOS ANGELES — Missed the final episode of Frasier or Friends? Many
college kids aren't waiting for the reruns. They're downloading the shows
instead.
The Guardian Weekly
May 15, 2004
The
new digital frontier: download or be damned
The front page of music industry bible Billboard recently declared that
the record industry had returned to a two-format business. It clamed tha
after nearly 20 bumper years, the reign of the compact disc might be coming
to an end, but it had finally found a worthy successor in digital download
format files such as MP3s and Windows Media Audio.
Wall Street Journal
May 13, 2004
Digits
- Pirating the Passion
"The Passion of the Christ" may be sliding at the box office, but for the
second month in a row, it's still No. 1 with an influential group of movie
watchers: pirates. Last month, 36,693 copies of the movie were available
online, several thousand more than any other flick, according to downloading
tracking company BayTSP.
Reuters
May 12, 2004
Net
Pirates Show Passion for Mel Gibson Film
Mel Gibson's box office smash "The Passion of the Christ" broke the ignominious
record as the most-pirated movie on Internet file-sharing networks in April,
an online piracy tracking firm said on Wednesday.
Digital Music News
May 11, 2004
Dribs
& Drabs
Digital tracking, security, and protection firm BayTSP reports that use
of Kazaa and its underlying Fast Track protocol held steady during April,
with an average of 2.9 million users daily, following several months of
decline. eDonkey, which had been adding users for several months, also held
steady during April, with an average of 2.2 million users daily...
Washington Post
May 10, 2004
Fast
Forward: Sony's Online Music Service (transcript)
One news tidbit that just landed in my inbox: According to BayTSP, a company
that researches online movie piracy, the number-one pirated flick online
in April was "The Passion of the Christ." Hmmm.....
Die Zeit
April 29, 2004
Im
Kampf gegen Raubkopierer locken deutsche Plattenbosse die Hörer mit einem
legalen Musikangebot – doch das ist teuer und umständlich
Die deutsche Musikindustrie macht Schlagzeilen – aber keine guten:
Vergangene Woche gab es auf der ganzen Welt wieder Razzien gegen Nutzer
von Internet-Musiktauschbörsen. Und schon vor Wochen hatte der deutsche
Branchenverband Ifpi Anzeige gegen 68 Privatleute erstattet, die besonders
viele Songs im Netz angeboten haben sollen.
Il Sole de 24 Ore
April 29, 2004
Peer-to-peer,
una tassa lo legalizzerà
La legalizzazione dei sistemi peer to peer, con cui gli utenti Internet
si scambiano file di diverso genere, non ultimi i file musicali e audiovisivi,
può oggi sembrare utopistica considerati gli interventi sempre più aggressivi
delle società che difendono i diritti degli autori, la proposta di direttiva
europea e, restando in Italia, l'ormai famoso decreto Urbani che ora arriva
all'esame del Senato.
NewsFactor Network
April 27, 2004
Illicit
Music Swapping on the Decline?
The Pew survey methodologies are one-dimensional, says Electronic Frontier
Foundation legal director Cindy Cohen, and thus not adequate to gauge the
true nature of online music-downloading activity. "All that survey meant
was that people are less willing to admit on the phone to a stranger that
they are sharing music online."
Washington Post
April 22, 2004
Raids
Shutter Online Piracy Sites
U.S. and international law enforcement authorities on Wednesday conducted
a series of raids against Web site operators suspected of distributing more
than $50 million worth of pirated music, movies and software, a move the
U.S. Justice Department described as the largest-ever crackdown on online
piracy.
CNET News.com
April 19, 2004
Hollywood's
new lesson for campus file swappers
Hollywood is poised to up the ante in its war against file swappers, with
new technology that could make it easier to remove suspected pirates from
campus networks, CNET News.com has learned.
Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society
April 16, 2004
Speedbumps
Conference
BayTSP CEO Mark Ishikawa will be participating in the Berkman Center's Speedbumps
conference, discussing strategies for stemming the free trading of copyrighted
material and business models to support a viable commercial marketplace
for digital entertainment products.
New Media Age
April 15, 2004
Online movie piracy on
the up despite legal action threats
Despite the growing threat of legal action around the world, online movie
piracy via peer-to-peer services bounced back in March.
Digital Music News
April 13, 2004
Report:
More P2P Users Allow File Uploading; Kazaa Losing Ground to eDonkey
More and more stats are rolling in on recent user behavior on P2P networks,
with the latest report coming from digital tracking, security, and protection
firm BayTSP. The firm recently shared data showing that a larger amount
of P2P users are feeling comfortable uploading files again.
Computerworld
April 4, 2004
BayTSP named to Computerworld
Honors Program
BayTSP was named a Laureate in Computerworld's "A Search for New Heroes"
program for its work in protecting artists rights and intellectual property
in a ceremony at San Francisco City Hall.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
March 27, 2004
Few
have the expertise to stay secret in cyberspace
Online lawbreakers, beware. It is nearly impossible to remain anonymous
on the Internet. Music download scofflaws and child-porn traders alike are
learning that the seeming anonymity of the Web is a myth.
Duke University
March 26, 2004
Third Annual Hot
Topics in Intellectual Property Symposium
BayTSP CEO Mark Ishikawa is a featured panelist at Duke University's Hot
Topics in Intellectual Property Symposium, discussing the Digital Millenium
Copyright Act and what to expect in the coming years as companies grapple
with online piracy.
ModeEleven press release
March 15, 2004
ModeEleven
Submits Patent Application for Broadcast Screensaver Production Toolkit
NEW YORK - ModeEleven has filed a second patent application relating to
the company's broadcast screensaver system, the company announced today.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
March 15, 2004
Piracy
creates another gauge of popularity
Internet file-sharing isn't just a way to get free stuff. It's arguably
the best way to find out what's cool - a barometer measuring the most popular
movies and music that people are eager to download but too cheap to buy
or rent.
New York Times
March 8, 2004
A
Software Program Aimed at Taming File-Sharing
The record industry is hoping that a little magic will solve its problems
with online piracy by file sharers. The Recording Industry Association of
America has been talking up a company named Audible Magic to lawmakers and
regulators in Washington in recent weeks in an attempt to show that file-sharing
networks can be tamed.
Loudeye
March 2, 2004
Loudeye
Acquires Overpeer and Broadens Scope of Its Business to Business Digital
Music and Media Solutions
Loudeye Corp. (Nasdaq: LOUD - News), a worldwide leader in business-to-business
digital media solutions, today announced the acquisition of privately held
Overpeer, Inc., a leading provider of digital media data mining, anti-piracy
and promotional solutions. The acquisition reaffirms Loudeye's leadership
position in the digital media industry and is aimed at converting billions
of unmonetized digital media transactions in unauthorized distribution channels
into growth and opportunity for digital media companies.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
February 25, 2004
"Let
the Music Play" White Paper - Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File
Sharing
The current battles surrounding peer-to-peer file sharing are a losing proposition
for everyone. The record labels continue to face lackluster sales, while
the tens of millions of American file sharers -- American music fans --
are made to feel like criminals. Every day the collateral damage mounts
-- privacy at risk, innovation stymied, economic growth suppressed, and
a few unlucky individuals singled out for legal action by the recording
industry. And the litigation campaign against music fans has not put a penny
into the pockets of artists. We need a better way forward.
News.com
February 24, 2004
Covering
tracks: New privacy hope for P2P
Jason Rohrer was battling an insect invasion last year when he hit on an
idea that he hopes will help file-swappers hide from the copyright police.
Slyck.com
February 23, 2004
ES5=Fraud?
Earth Station 5, the long questionable "anonymous" P2P network, has frequently
been the target of heavy criticism by virtually every segment of the legitimate
file-sharing community. Its brazenly anti-copyright stance and horrific
public relations policy has made it a bad apple of the P2P community; leading
to its virtual excommunication.
Washington Post
February 22, 2004
Techno
Rebels in the West Bank? File Swapping Firm Claims Odd Hide-Out
JENIN, West Bank -- Somewhere in this beleaguered town, Palestinian computer
whizzes from a company called Earth Station V have launched a high-tech
assault on the U.S. entertainment industry, with a defiant message for those
trying to stop the downloading of music and movies: "Resistance is futile."
NewsFactor Network
February 18, 2004
RIAA
Continues Relentless Legal Campaign
"All that survey meant was that people are less willing to admit on the
phone to a stranger that they are sharing music online," says EFF legal
director Cindy Cohen. She was referring to the Pew Internet and American
Life Project's findings that music downloading radically declined following
RIAA legal actions.
TTI/Vanguard
February 9-10, 2004
Security
& Privacy
BayTSP CEO Mark Ishikawa is a featured panelist at TTI/Vanguard's Security
and Privacy conference, discussing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and
what to expect in the coming years as companies grapple with online piracy.
New York Times
February 8, 2004
The
Pornography Industry vs. Digital Pirates
Thousands of Web sites are putting Playboy magazine's pictures on the Internet
- free. And Randy Nicolau, the president of Playboy.com, is loving it. "It's
direct marketing at its finest," he said.
The State Bar of California
February 2, 2004
Cyberlaw
Conference - "Online Piracy"
BayTSP CEO Mark Ishikawa is a featured panelist at the California Bar Association's
Cyberlaw Conference, speaking on peer-to-peer applications and copyright
protection on the Internet.
Vanderbilt Hustler
January 30, 2004
Downloading
debate looks at both sides
Project Dialogue’s latest discussion panel tackled the issue of music
piracy head-on Wednesday after U.S. music industry officials said Monday
they were suing 532 more individuals for illegal downloads.
The Tennessean
January 29, 2004
Answers
to music download debate not easy, VU forum indicates
Some call it sharing, others call it stealing. Whatever the terminology,
the free downloading of copyrighted material from the Internet is a prickly
subject. If last night's panel discussion at Vanderbilt University was any
indication, the debate is fraught with passion and short on solutions.
Sundance
January 17, 2004
Digital Copyright
Forum
BayTSP CEO Mark Ishikawa is a featured panelist at the Sundance Film Festival's
Digital Forum discussing "how the ever-evolving complex web surrounding
copyright in the digital age is impacting the filmmaking world."
BusinessWeek
January 16, 2004
Did
Big Music Really Sink the Pirates?
The Recording Industry Association of America's lawsuits against online
song swappers are aggressive, but do they work? Two widely cited surveys
seemed to show that legal action, which began in September, was chilling
file-sharing activity. In December, a phone survey by the Pew Internet Project
of 1,358 U.S. Net users found music downloading had dropped by half since
May. And in November, comScore Media Metrix, monitoring 120,000 U.S. users,
saw big yearly declines at four popular file-sharing services -- KaZaA,
Grokster, BearShare, and WinMX.
National Journal's Technology Daily
January 15, 2004
Tracking
Experts See Flaws In New File-Sharing Surveys
Music industry executives said they are heartened by recent findings that
the sharing of digital music on peer-to-peer (P2P) computer networks has
dropped dramatically since they began suing consumers suspected of illegally
downloading songs, but technology companies that track downloads said P2P
file trading has not slowed.
TechTV's TechLive
January 14, 2004
'Screener'
Scandal
For weeks, Hollywood has been dealing with the sticky situation over "screeners,"
the new movies sent to Oscar judges. Now the industry's worst nightmare
has come true: those screeners are popping up on the Web.
Los Angeles Times
January 14, 2004
Second
Oscar 'Screener' Finds Its Way Onto Internet
A copy of "The Last Samurai" has surfaced online, the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences said the day after it announced it was investigating
the appearance on the Internet of the comedy "Something's Gotta Give."
Washington Post
January 14, 2004
The
Good, the Bad and the Pirated
Hollywood is quickly becoming the latest battleground in the digital piracy
wars, and studio chiefs probably feel they have the right to shout "I told
you so!" on news that two screener versions of recently released films are
being traded online.
California Lawyer
January issue
Rocked
& Rolled - The Music Labels Are All Shook Up by Online File Sharing.
Is It Too Late for Them to Adapt?
A year ago my wife visited our local Wherehouse store in San Clemente. It
was closed, and soon after the chain filed for Chapter 11. Total industry
music sales are down from $40 billion in 2000 to $30 billion in 2002. In
part that is because huge amounts of music are available for free on the
Internet. Why pay for something that you can get for free?
Billboard
January 10, 2004
Piracy's Next Victim:
Video Biz
LOS ANGELES - Arnold Schwarzenegger had an especially noteworthy November.
Not only was the actor-turned-politician inaugurated as governor of California,
but his latest film, "Terminator 3—Rise of the Machines" (Warner Bros.),
was the most prevalent movie on the Internet. More than 62,827 copies were
available for downloading, according to BayTSP, a firm that monitors file
sharing. Unfortunately, all of those copies were unauthorized, and many
preceded the title's Nov. 11 home video release.
Los Angeles Times
January 7, 2004
Secret
Movie Moguls - In a highly elite realm of the Internet, ego-driven pirates
race to be the first to post films illegally. Profit is not the object
Nearly halfway around the world from Hollywood, a 17-year-old high-school
student is trying to make a name for himself as a film distributor. Unlike
the moguls in Tinseltown, though, he and his colleagues in a group called
MysticVCD don't cut deals, take meetings or campaign for Oscars.
MSNBC
January 4, 2004
Big drop
seen in music downloads - 50 percent drop in file-sharing, survey shows
In just seven months, the number of Internet users in the United States
who download music has been sliced in half, according to new research. The
dwindling numbers appear to reflect a profound impact from the recording
industry's high-profile campaign to sue downloaders for illegal file-swapping.
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