Official Ares Free Download

Cyberlockers are online digital storage units.

Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music want them sealed shut.

All of them.

Peter ‘Mandy’ Mandelson, UK front man for the Three Strikes and you’re Off The Net bidniz plan Big 4 and Hollywood are trying to get transformed into law of the land in Britain and elsewhere, recently stated:

“These can be used entirely legitimately, but recently rights holders have pointed to them as being used for illegal use.”

Or as notes TorrentFreak notes, millions of people “use sites like Rapidshare every day for convenient online hosting of their own data, but of course, many use these types of site for storing and sharing copyrighted music and movies.

“Although this activity is illegal in most countries around the world, the operators of hosting sites usually stay clear of trouble due to their ignorance of what resides on their own servers and complying with issued takedown notices, but many tread a very fine line in respect of the law.”

‘Non-P2P methods … ‘

As p2pnet pointed out last weekend, the Big 4’s BPI (British Phonographic Industry) dredged up cyberlockers in a specious ’survey’ organised to support renewed efforts to have the Three Strikes implemented as official government policy.

“The growth in other, non-P2P methods of downloading music illegally is a concern, and highlights the importance of including a mechanism in the Digital Economy Bill to deal with threats other than P2P,” said the BPI’s Geoff Taylor, referring not only to cyberlockers, but also to “the practice of simply passing (and mailing) discs around, to WASTE, through trusted friend-to-friend bulletin boards, FreeWAN cells, Freenet-type sites, physical and WiFi sneaker nets of various kinds, sticks, hidden and disguised sites, and so on,” said our post.

Now the IFPI’s Israeli unit is crowing that an Israeli court has issuing injunctions prohibiting the owners of 10 cyberlocker services, “all hosted outside the country, predominantly in the Netherlands”, from “copying, distributing, linking or ripping onto MP3 or other formats any copyright infringing repertoire.

“Ownership of all domains that were used to infringe copyright will pass to IFPI Israel,” it says, adding:

“The settlement also involves the payment of around US$50,000 in compensation.”

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