ip addresses

In October 2011, a court in Finland ordered local ISP Elisa to block The Pirate Bay to stop copyright infringement among its subscribers.

Today, the blockade - which covers many domains and IP addresses - took effect, but behind the scenes there is an effort to unblock the site and render the court order useless.

Meanwhile there is already collateral damage - the court order has succeeded in blocking a domain linking to Electronic Frontier Finland.

Mid-December, data from YouHaveDownloaded was used to show that several illegal downloads had taken place in the palace of French President Sarkozy.

These, however, were just the tip of the iceberg. More than 250 further IP addresses belonging to the French Ministry of Culture have now been linked to illegal downloads but the government, unsurprisingly, say they are completely innocent.

OK, so prove it.

After being honored with an Oscar for Best Motion Picture last year, the makers of The Hurt Locker went on to secure the award for the biggest file-sharing lawsuit a few months ago.

By targeting at least 24,583 alleged BitTorrent users, Voltage Pictures hoped to recoup millions of dollars in settlements to compensate the studio for piracy-related losses.

And so it happened.

A little-noticed section of the Stop Online Piracy Act could require deep-packet inspection and blocking IP addresses of copyright-infringing Web sites, a significant change from earlier versions.

Read this blog post by Declan McCullagh on Privacy Inc..

Three Canadian ISPs have been ordered by a court to hand over the personal details of their subscribers to Voltage Pictures.

PayPal was attacked by Anonymous last year when they had blocked the Wikileaks accounts transactions. Now PayPal has finally come up with enough evidence to strike back at Anonymous with the help of the FBI.

PayPal has come up with a list of over 1,000 IP Addresses left behind when they were attacked by Anonymous.

Sony continues to massively overreact to the news that a hacker figured out how to "jailbreak" the PS3 in order to re-enable the functionality that Sony had deleted from PS3s.

A notorious Switzerland-based anti-piracy tracking company has to stop harvesting the IP addresses of citizens using P2P networks.

The Swiss High Court ruled that IP addresses constitute personal information and when Logistep collected them without the owner’s knowledge, that amounted to a breach of privacy laws.

From its eDonkey Razorback beginnings, via France through to yesterday’s conclusion, here is the full story.

Hackers in Argentina have accessed the e-mail and IP addresses and usernames for more than four million Pirate Bay users.

While many BitTorrent users operate their clients without a second thought, many are well aware that everything they can do has the potential to be monitored by someone, somewhere.

The data available in BitTorrent swarms is necessarily public – if it wasn’t, no-one would be able to share anything with anyone.