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Police Seize 50 Servers in Hungarian Online Anti-Piracy Raid

June 18, 2010 — Police in Budapest, Hungary, have seized 50 computer servers in several server hotels and at a technical college in an action against various online piracy operations, according to reports from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.

Torrent Blog RLSLOG Taken Down by Web Host Amidst Copyright Infringement Claims

June 7, 2010 — A site that describes itself as a website for “fresh information about new scene releases and also other interesting software and tech news” has been shut down by its Web host due to a copyright complaint.

Pirate Bay Lawyer Target of Revenge Plan

May 13, 2009 — Peter Danowsky, one of the lawyers who represented the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and several record companies in the Pirate Bay case, has become the target of a revenge plan by the Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm, designed to bring high bank fees to Danowsky’s law firm.

Rock Star Sues Web Hosts Over Video

March 9, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to reports, the lead singer for the rock band Limp Bizkit, Fred Durst, has filed suit against ten Web site operators, almost all Web hosting and Internet service providers, for allegedly hosting footage of him in a homemade sex tape.

MPAA Crackdown Catches Web Hosts

January 18, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to reports released Monday, two Web hosting companies based in Dallas, Texas were caught up in the Motion Picture Association of America’s crackdown on Web site and server operators involved in the illegal online distribution of movies and television content.

Movie Makers Target BitTorrent

December 15, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to reports release on Tuesday Hollywood movies studios sued numerous operators of computer servers that help transfer digital movie files across online file-sharing networks. The copyright infringement suits expand on a new US film industry initiative whose first targets were individual file-swappers. The defendants this time run servers that use BitTorrent, now the program of choice for online sharers of large files, which includes more than 100 server operators.

Proposed Aussie Bill Restricts ISPs

December 3, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to reports, Australian Internet service providers will face restrictions similar to those faced by US ISPs under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, if legislation tabled in the Australian Senate this week is approved.

RegisterGator Offers Reseller Hosting

October 19, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — RegisterGator.Com (registergator.com), a provider of domain, hosting and Web products software, announced on Monday that it had launched The-Domain-Reseller.Com, a complete domain name registration and hosting reseller program.

SCO Resellers Want Unix Support

August 3, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to a report in Ziff Davis Channel Zone, SCO (sco.com) resellers are more concerned with what SCO is doing with its Unix products than its ongoing legal battles over its claim that Unix code found in the Linux kernel violates its intellectual copyrights.

SCO Licensing Revenues Drop

June 14, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to reports, the SCO Group (sco.com) said last week that its SCOsource division, a unit formed to protect the company’s intellectual copyrights, suffered a drastic 99 percent drop in Unix licensing revenue for the second quarter of 2004 compared to the same period last year.