LimeWire is trying  its best to keep its popularity, legit appearance and relevance in the business. The company has recently announced their plans to secure their network.

Says the press release: "LimeWire Pro users will see the 'Protected by AVG' assurance whenever a downloaded file is safely scanned and cleaned." It's great to see a developer taking a proactive approach. Plenty of P2P users don't understand the risks associated with what they're downloading, so I appreciate LimeWire doing something to mitigate that risk.

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TorrentFreak has published the data they collected with the top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent for the week ended March 7. All the films included in this chart are DVDrips (unless mentioned otherwise).

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The tables turn – Atari and other major game publishers have chosen Davenport Lyons to represent them numerous times and the law firm quickly made a reputation for hunting alleged copyright infringers. However, according to GI.biz, the firm is now being investigated for harassment and bullying by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, an industry watchdog.

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The South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival, regarded as one of the largest and most popular in the US, has released its latest DRM-free, file sharing-safe collection of songs. Thanks to BitTorrent (and TorrentFreak which first reported the event), the comprehensive song selection has once again been included in a single torrent file, which is now available for download free of charge.

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To get a better view on how the peer-to-peer scene is evolving with respect to what file sharing software people prefer to download, we keep you posted weekly with the latest numbers. So here’s a list with last week's top ten most downloaded p2p file sharing programs – the chart is based on figures published by Download.cnet.com and it refers to the number of times a p2p client was downloaded from their site (click on the names for download):

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Engaged in an overwhelming battle against online piracy they are planning to win, the UK government has not been taking the best decisions lately as we already noted in a previous post this week.

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The RIAA looks more determined than ever to profit over people’s mistakes, seizing every opportunity that comes along to drag them through courtrooms. RIAA’s case filed against Joel Tenenbaum stands out as most suggestive of this fact.

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The ongoing pressure exerted by Hollywood has forced Internet media delivery software and services provider RealNetworks to give in and permanently interrupt the distribution of its RealDVD software line.

RealNetworks agreed upon paying the settlement of $4.5 million requested by the parties involved in the lawsuit against the company, which included six Hollywood studios, Viacom and the DVD Copy control association, for the charges to be dropped. The settlement finally puts an end to 17 months of litigation, initiated just one day after RealNetworks introduced the RealDVD line into the market back in 2008. RealNetworks will also have to pay compensations to the 2700 customers who purchased the RealDVD software since its official launch.

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Not complying with the directions of the entertaining industries may turn you into the enemy of some insatiable moguls who unfortunately know and are able to work the system in their favor.

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