Demonoid

Remastered Beatles Albums Hit File-Sharing Networks

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 8, 2009 - 9:09am.
Los Angeles - Every single track from the newly remastered Beatles albums, which are due out in stores on Wednesday, was leaked onto file-sharing networks over the weekend, according to data from BigChampagne, which monitors peer-to-peer networks.

IFPI, Czech Police Shutter Pre-Release Music Server

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 24, 2008 - 8:25am.

Prague - The Czech police, working with record label trade group the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), have shut down a computer server at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic that hosted what they said was one of the largest collections of pre-release music in the world.

CRIA Knocks Popular File-Sharing Site Demonoid.com Offline

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 9, 2007 - 9:51am.

San Francisco - Demonoid, a popular site that offered links to media downloads on the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing network, has been taken offline, with its operators citing legal threats from the Canadian Record Industry Association (CRIA), Wired reported.