Torrentfreak reports on a new P2P scam involving elusive DomPlayer software which steals your money trough hotline phone calls or infects you with malware.

It all starts when someone downloads a TV show (very often an aXXo fake) via BitTorrent. When the file is played, a message appears:

RIAA is making a blod step by suing usenet.com saying it compares to Napster, Kazaa, P2P sharing files networks.

"Defendant provides essentially the same functionality that P2P services such as Napster, Aimster, Grokster and Kazaa did (prior to being enjoined by the federal courts) -- knowingly providing the site and facilities for users to upload  and download copyrighted works -- except that defendant goes further than even the P2P services to facilitate and encourage copyright infringement by its users," said  the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Demonoid.com torrent website is back online after being shut down following a lawsuit threat from the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA). Apparently the threat was not enough to keep the green devil offline and on Oct 1 the site was back online even though not fully functional.

Demonoid.com, one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers has allegedly been taken offline by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA). Both the tracker and the website have been unresponsive for a few days now.

Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIAAs of now it is still unsure what exactly happened, but the popular Dutch news site nu.nl reports that the CRIA is responsible for the downtime.

Following a disgraceful email leak that threw hundreds of MB of MediaDefender emails out in the Internet, it is no surprise to see that The Pirate Bay will retaliate and take MediaDefender to court.

Apparently, MD has been using un-ethical and illegal techniques in order to bring down P2P websites.Usually on the other end of accusations of wrongdoing, The Pirate Bay is accusing media companies of hiring hackers to sabotage, create denial of service attacks and other hacking and spamming offenses, according to its blog:

The second largest file-sharing network on the internet has been severely disabled in a significant coup for the music industry's fight against piracy.  

Seven servers on the notorious 'eDonkey' network, on which millions of users illegally share music and other files, were this week shut down following orders by German courts, the International Federation of Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said.

Exploit code that targets Yahoo Messenger is out there on the Internet and this eaises the number of Yahoo Messenger Vulnerabilities &Exploits to 9 this year alone.

In a message to the milw0rm.com Web site, someone identified as "shinnai" disclosed malicious Visual Basic code that allegedly lets attackers feed any file to users of the latest version of Messenger. The exploit code successfully executes on a fully-patched PC running Windows XP SP2, shinnai said, although the effect depends on the security settings of Internet Explorer (IE)

A Swedish company is investigating an easy way to make calls between phones for free using P2P similar system. The main benefit of this system is better communication in developing world .e developing world.

Basically, TerraNet has researched this concept using peer-to-peer technology that enables users to speak on its phone without the need for a mobile phone base station.

Gregory Kopiloff has been accused of stealing sensitive financial data of hundred of users using a very simple scheme : P2P LimeWire browsing.

While most of the milion P2P users swap media files such as MP3s and movies, Kopiloff was looking for something very different : credit card numbers, financial reports, income tax returns credit reports and other documents that might give hackers enough information about a person to impersonate them.

If you have a Contaminated P2P Network Program on your computer you have Violated US Copyright laws. “This landmark case means that anyone who has contaminated P2P network programs on his computer is committing copyright infringement, since the only reason to have them  installed is to make copyrighted files available to all other P2P users,” said Pasquale Giordano, President/COO, SafeMedia Corporation

“This precedent setting ruling by Judge Neil V. Wake will provide the legal foundation for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to more aggressively stop individuals from distributing unauthorized copyrighted music over Peer-to-Peer networks,” said CEO &Chairman Safwat Fahmy SafeMedia Corp., Boca Raton, Fl.