Ron Bowes, a security consultant at Nmap, has caused quite a turbulence in news earlier this week as he made available through file-sharing sites the public Facebook profiles of 100 million users of the social networking site which makes about 20% of the site's global membership. More on 100 Million User Data Spreads on Bittorrent Sites

Industrial Light & Magic and Sony Pictures Imageworks, two major companies in the visual effects business, have teamed up to launch an open-source software as a solution for sharing large, complex CG files. More on New Program by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Industrial Light & Magic Streamlines CG File Sharing

Recently Motorola filed a patent which lets you believe that the company has been busy developing some sort of a cloud-based file sharing service. The new tool called “Family Room” which some say could be an addition to the MOTOBLUR, the company’s software which provides social media updates in one collective space and also offers back up solution, is described by Motorola as follows: More on Motorola Preparing the Launch of A Cloud-Based File Sharing Tool

While ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) lines up US as one of the advocates of severe copyright rules (abroad), it the laws surrounding anti-circumvention don’t seem just as tough. The Courthouse News Service mentioned late last week that according to a court’s decision, the mere act of breaking a digital lock is not, in and of itself, an infringement. More on Permissiveness Added to American Anti-Circumvention Laws

Some interesting news related to a lawsuit that has all the major US mobile carriers involved including AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, & T-Mobile was picked up recently by Techdirt. According to the site, the company Luvdarts claims these providers are no better than file sharing networks that spread illegal content and goes as far as comparing them to Limewire and Gnutella. More on MMS Compared to Limewire. AT&T, Verizon, Sprint & T-Mobile Face New Copyright Infringement Suit

Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor in "The Ghost Writer" TorrentFreak has published the data they collected with the top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent for the week ended July 25. All the films included in this chart are DVDrips (unless mentioned otherwise). More on Top 10 Most Downloaded Movies via BitTorrent

Here’s a site you may want to check out – Tweet A Tune – a place where users can enter the name of their favorite band and learn immediately some useful things like the name of the twitterers that are currently listening to tracks by that band, and tweets that have been sent out related to that particular band. More on TweetATune.tk – Find People on the Same (Musical) Wave Length

It’s hard to guess the impact file sharing studies have on those interested in the issue but when a pretentious institute puts its endorsement on them it tends to give them more credibility. So many readers have come to accept statistics and data without questioning just because behind them there’s a imposing name. More on File Sharing Study Spreads False Data

TorrentFreak has published the data they collected with the top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent for the week ended July 18. All the films included in this chart are DVDrips (unless mentioned otherwise). More on Top 10 Most Downloaded Movies via BitTorrent

Bethany Hare abusing of copyright protected song Bearing a delightfully straightforward motto “Helping ordinary people raise extraordinary amounts for charity is all we do, and we love it”, JustGiving is a popular, trusted online charity fundraising platform where people can create their own fundraising page or make donations. More on Ten-Year-Old a Copyright Infringer for Singing Chaplin Song in Her Charity Video

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