Archivos September 2007


Demonoid Back Online, But Blocking Canadian Users
Zeropaid, CA - 20 hours ago
Yet, it seems as though the world's second largest BitTorrent tracker site did run into legal problems after all, for a message on it's HP says that it's ...

Demonoid is back online - p2pnet.net

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Demonoid is back online
p2pnet.net, Canada - 17 hours ago
Those who were slagging BitTorrent’s Ernesto over in Holland owe him an apology. He was one of, if not the, first to suggest Warner Music, EMI, ...

Demonoid Trackers Back Up, But Site Still Down
Zeropaid, CA - Sep 30, 2007
Many of you, myself included, have been following the whole Demonoid, a popular BitTorrent tracker site, affair very closely. Well, I'm pleased to report ...

BitLet Evolves: Create and Upload Torrents Online
TorrentFreak - Sep 30, 2007
BitLet, the web-based BitTorrent client has received a significant update. A new feature makes it possible to create .torrent files online - ready ...

TorrentFreak

Demonoid Trackers Back Online, Site Still Down
TorrentFreak - Sep 29, 2007
It is great to see that the second largest BitTorrent tracker is back in action. Thousands of torrents stopped responding when the tracker went down, ...
Demonoid Returns, Forced to Block Canadian Traffic By the CRIA TorrentFreak
all 3 news articles

TorrentFreak

“Heroes” and “Prison Break” Torrents Tracked by MiiVi.org
TorrentFreak - Sep 28, 2007
On the contrary, the Miivi tracker is a project in part sponsored by The Pirate Bay and other BitTorrent sites. Initially MediaDefender, an anti-piracy ...

How free is online music really? - Etownian

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How free is online music really?
Etownian, PA - 11 hours ago
Isohunt needs a program called BitTorrent for you to use to download the songs on the Web site. To use this program all you need to do is go to the main Web ...

Three Different Ways To Get TV on Your PC
American Chronicle, CA - Sep 27, 2007
1) One approach to watching TV on your PC is to down load the entire movie for free on to your hard drive using BitTorrent networking. ...

BitTorrent sets up shop in Japan
Computer Business Review, UK - Sep 27, 2007
BitTorrent's offers a managed, peer-assisted networking platform that reduces bandwidth for high-performance content delivery applications. ...

TechCrunch

Demonoid Not Shut Down by the CRIA, Servers Being Rebuilt?
Zeropaid, CA - 6 hours ago
It's been a hectic last few nights for many of those whom have come to rely on Demonoid as their BitTorrent tracker site mainstay. ...
Vid-Biz: Demonoid, MSN, Userplane NewTeeVee
Demonoid Down, For Now TechCrunch
Has Demonoid Been Shut Down by the CRIA? Zeropaid
all 5 news articles

TechCrunch

Demonoid Not Shut Down by the CRIA, Servers Being Rebuilt
Zeropaid, CA - 1 hour ago
It's been a hectic last few nights for many of those whom have come to rely on Demonoid as their BitTorrent tracker site mainstay. ...
Vid-Biz: Demonoid, MSN, Userplane NewTeeVee
Demonoid Down, For Now TechCrunch
Has Demonoid Been Shut Down by the CRIA? Zeropaid
all 4 news articles

BitTorrent users take another hit
Tech Republic, KY - Sep 26, 2007
For those of you who don’t know what a torrent tracker is, it’sa server which helps BitTorrent users to locate peers for a download via the BitTorrent ...

TorrentFreak

IsoHunt shuts down trackers to US users
CNet News.com Blog - Sep 26, 2007
BitTorrent search engine, IsoHunt, is cutting off access in the US to software that enables users to download BitTorrent files, the technology that has ...
IsoHunt's trackers now blocked to US users Afterdawn.com
all 4 news articles

CMJ.com

The Pirate Bay files charges against media companies
TechSpot - 4 hours ago
... Bay tracks are illegal to download, the site has continued to operate in Sweden – where laws fail to see the hosting of BitTorrent links as piracy. ...
Pirate Bay Charges Sony, Universal CMJ.com
Porn Industry Infighting As Pirate Bay Takes On Big Media TorrentFreak
BitTorrents Site Attacked by Hackers Web Host Industry Review
all 4 news articles

Vid-Biz: Demonoid, MSN, Userplane - NewTeeVee

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TechCrunch

Vid-Biz: Demonoid, MSN, Userplane
NewTeeVee, CA - 5 hours ago
Demonoid is Down; popular BitTorrent tracker and web site has been offline for 24 hours, allegedly because of the Canadian Recording Industry Association. ...
Demonoid Down, For Now TechCrunch
Has Demonoid Been Shut Down by the CRIA? Zeropaid
all 3 news articles

Torrent site Demonoid downed - Inquirer

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bit-tech.net

Torrent site Demonoid downed
Inquirer, UK - 3 hours ago
By Nick Farrell: Wednesday, 26 September 2007, 3:42 PM POPULAR CANADIAN Bittorrent tracker site, Demonoid appears to have been shut down by the Canadian ...
Torrent troubles around the world bit-tech.net
all 2 news articles

Afterdawn.com

Torrent Tracker Demonoid.com Take Offline
Wired News - Sep 26, 2007
By Scott Gilbertson September 26, 2007 | 8:52:16 AMCategories: P2P The popular Demonoid.com, a semi-private BitTorrent tracker, has been taken offline. ...
CRIA allegedly shuts down Demonoid Afterdawn.com
Demonoid Torrent Tracker Shut Down by CRIA Slashdot
Torrent site Demonoid temporarily shuts down TG Daily
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Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIA - Atomic

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Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIA
Atomic, Australia - Sep 26, 2007
Demonoid.com, one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers has allegedly been taken offline by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA). ...

Palm Folds the Foleo - PC World

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PC World

Palm Folds the Foleo
PC World - Sep 25, 2007
NBC dumps Apple for Amazon: Guess we'll have to get Heroes on our iPods from BitTorrent or friends' ripped DVDs. Just how you planned it--right, NBC? ...
Palm plays catch-up with new device Globe and Mail
all 4 news articles

TECH.BLORGE.com

Pirate Bay Goes After Music and Film Industry
Zeropaid, CA - 9 hours ago
Now that they have proof of the music and film industry's use of hackers, saboteurs, and DDOSers, the world's largest BitTorrent tracker site decides to ...
Pirate Bay Alleges Record-Label E-Attacks Aversion
all 23 news articles

Demonoid Down, For Now - TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

Demonoid Down, For Now
TechCrunch, CA - 16 hours ago
Shutting down Demonoid for a few days will have no impact on the volume of BitTorrent traffic, and Demonoid will be back shortly and with more interest and ...
Has Demonoid Been Shut Down by the CRIA? Zeropaid
all 2 news articles

TorrentFreak

Anti-Piracy Technology For Sale On eBay For $1m
TorrentFreak - 18 hours ago
TorrentFreak spoke to Dr. Ir. Johan Pouwelse, researcher on P2P technology at Delft University of Technology, who explained why: “Bittorrent uses a separate ...

Pirate Bay Charges Sony, Universal - CMJ.com

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CMJ.com

Pirate Bay Charges Sony, Universal
CMJ.com - 12 hours ago
The Pirate Bay, the self-described world's largest BitTorrent tracker, has filed charges against several record and movie labels accusing them of paying-off ...
Porn Industry Infighting As Pirate Bay Takes On Big Media TorrentFreak
all 2 news articles

Pirates take film companies to court - T3

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Pirates take film companies to court
T3, UK - 9 hours ago
See, the Pirates have remained in business so far thanks to Swedish laws which fail to see the hosting of BitTorrent links as piracy. ...
Pirate Bay turns MediaDefender against itself Guardian Unlimited
Pirate Bay fires a salvo Inquirer
all 4 news articles

BitTorrent opens subsidiary in Japan
VNUNet.com, UK - Sep 25, 2007
The company said that BitTorrent Japan will address a growing demand for peer-assisted content delivery technology among Japanese content publishers and ...

ISOHunt Begins Blocking US Visitors
Zeropaid, CA - 21 hours ago
BitTorrent users in the US have just lost another popular public BitTorrent tracker site with ISOHunt's recent announcement that it has decided to begin ...

Halo 3 Leaked to BitTorrent - Zeropaid

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Halo 3 Leaked to BitTorrent
Zeropaid, CA - Sep 24, 2007
... bootleg copies of Halo 3 for the Xbox 360 have already shown up on BitTorrent sites everywhere and Microsoft is none too pleased. ...

TorrentFreak

MPAA Takes Down IsoHunt’s BitTorrent Trackers in the US
TorrentFreak - Sep 24, 2007
However, the takedown of IsoHunt’s trackers will have an even bigger effect on the BitTorrent community worldwide, especially because TorrentBox runs one of ...

The 5 Most Popular BitTorrent Trackers
TorrentFreak - Sep 24, 2007
Most BitTorrent sites don’t run their own tracker, and the ones that do often go unnoticed and don’t always get the respect they deserve. ...

BitTorrent Expands Global Reach with New Subsidiary in Japan
TMC Net, CT - Sep 24, 2007
BitTorrent founded BitTorrent Japan to address the growing demand for peer-assisted content delivery technology among Japanese content publishers and ...

BitTorrent sets up Japan unit
Bizjournals.com, NC - Sep 24, 2007
File transfer company BitTorrent Inc. set up a subsidiary company in Tokyo to better sell its products in Japan. BitTorrent is based in San Francisco. ...

BitTorrent Expands Global Reach with
Ad-Hoc-News (Pressemitteilung), Germany - 53 minutes ago
BitTorrent Inc., home to the global standard for delivering high-quality files and media over the Internet, today announced that it has established ...

Mobile Digest

A portable DVD player styled after a butterfly knife? Huh?
Mobile Digest, UK - Sep 24, 2007
... this is still just a concept, but somehow I doubt it'll ever become a reality, when digital films and music are the way forward. Thank god for BitTorrent.
A new spin on portable DVD players Reg Hardware
Concept DVD player embraces flexible OLED screen Pocket-lint.co.uk
all 4 news articles

TorrentFreak

MediaDefender’s Decoy Effectiveness on BitTorrent Sites
TorrentFreak - Sep 22, 2007
MediaDefender’s email and anti piracy tool leaks gave the world an unique insight into the workings and the effectiveness of their BitTorrent decoy ...

WNY Media Network

ThePirateBay Files Charges Sourced to Media Defender Leak
Slyck, NY - Sep 21, 2007
According to the official blog, administrators of the popular BitTorrent website "now have proof [... that] the big record and movie labels are paying ...
Media Defender's Torrent Decoy Tools Leaked BroadbandReports.com
all 5 news articles

Presenting: µBitTorrent - CNET Crave Blog

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CNET Crave Blog

Presenting: µBitTorrent
CNET Crave Blog - Sep 21, 2007
That was the day that BitTorrent, Bram Cohen's torrent progenitor, announced it had bought µTorrent, the free-but-closed source torrent client that ...

COOL WEB 2.0 APPS FOR EVERYONE - Webware/Cnet

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Webware/Cnet

COOL WEB 2.0 APPS FOR EVERYONE
Webware/Cnet, CA - Sep 21, 2007
That was the day that BitTorrent, Bram Cohen's torrent progenitor, announced it had bought µTorrent, the free-but-closed source torrent client that ...

Presenting: µBitTorrent - Webware/Cnet

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Webware/Cnet

Presenting: µBitTorrent
Webware/Cnet, CA - 3 hours ago
That was the day that BitTorrent, Bram Cohen's torrent progenitor, announced it had bought µTorrent, the free-but-closed source torrent client that ...

BitTorrent sites banned by Rice IT
The Rice Thresher, TX - Sep 21, 2007
By Lily Chun | Thresher Editorial Staff Students were concerned at the beginning of the semester that BitTorrent was blocked on the Rice Owls wireless ...

Network dreckwork - Playlist

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Network dreckwork
Playlist, CA - 22 hours ago
In the age of TiVo, personal DVRs, DVD compilations of TV seasons, BitTorrent, and, yes, the iTunes Store, forcing your viewers to sit through commercials ...

Shutdown of eDonkey Servers May be Short-Lived
PC World - Sep 21, 2007
The bigger threat to eDonkey may be losing users to BitTorrent, which is currently the most popular P-to-P service, Arber said. BitTorrent has risen in use ...
Illegal file-sharing network eDonkey shut down Times Online
P2P: eDonkey Is Shut Down In Germany Spacelab
Music industry shuts down six eDonkey servers TechSpot
PC Pro - LinuxElectrons
all 10 news articles

Speed Up Your Torrents With Ono
TorrentFreak - Sep 21, 2007
A plug-in developed by a university is promising improved BitTorrent transfers by selectively connecting to peers offering faster response times. ...

WNY Media Network

Media Defender's Torrent Decoy Tools Leaked
BroadbandReports.com, NY - 15 hours ago
The applications in the pack have such names as BTPoster, BTSeedInflator and BTDecoyClient, and all are focused on disrupting BitTorrent or other p2p ...
NYS Attorney General’s Office Gets Pwned WNY Media Network
all 8 news articles

Illegal file-sharing network eDonkey shut down
Times Online, UK - Sep 21, 2007
Several experts have rated it as the second largest contributor to internet-based piracy, behind BitTorrent. The IFPI said that rather than target those ...
Shutdown of eDonkey file-sharing servers may be short-lived InfoWorld
Music industry cripples eDonkey network Register
Music industry shuts down six eDonkey servers TechSpot
PC Pro
all 10 news articles

Copyright infringement monitors are the latest target of a well ...
DailyTech, IL - 6 hours ago
“The [leak] is complete for their operations regarding Kazaa, bittorrent, gnutella etc. This system is … released for the public in order to identify the ...

p2pnet.net

MediaDefender walks the plank. Yarrrrr
Gauntlet, Canada - 16 hours ago
In recent months, Internet piracy prevention company MediaDefender has been accused by BitTorrent weblog TorrentFreak of launching websites to entrap ...
MediaDefender fiasco: update III p2pnet.net
all 2 news articles

Wired News

Source Code for MediaDefender Anti-Piracy Tools Leaked
Wired News - Sep 20, 2007
These include tools like BTSeedInflator and BTDecoyClient that target the BitTorrent network. The code is a boon to admins on the targeted file-sharing ...
Pirate Bay Calls Cops on Hollywood Big Shots Wired News
all 2 news articles

TECH.BLORGE.com

MediaDefender suffers another blow, as anti-piracy tools leaked
TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia - 14 hours ago
The torrent file included the software tools that Media Defender uses to catch pirates using the Kazza, BitTorrent, WinMX, Ares, and Gnutella P2P networks, ...

CNET News.com

Leaked e-mails reveal MediaDefender's antipiracy woes
CNET News.com, CA - Sep 20, 2007
This would work on older protocols such as FastTrack/Kazaa, but the company had no answer for BitTorrent--the Michael Jordan of file-sharing tools, ...

Source Code of RIAA Surveillance Partner MediaDefender Leaked on ...
Wired News - Sep 20, 2007
"The source is complete for their operations regarding Kazaa, bittorrent, gnutella etc. This system is now released for the public in order to identify the ...

MediaDefender source code leaked to wibble
Inquirer, UK - 11 hours ago
"The source is complete for their operations regarding Kazaa, bittorrent, gnutella etc. This system is now released for the public in order to identify the ...
P2P subverter sees emails leaked on net Guardian Unlimited
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biztech: Caught in the high-speed throttle
Nova Scotia Business Journal, Canada - 9 hours ago
He noted that bittorrent itself is not illegal in Canada and many legitimate files being swapped are being caught in the mix. From personal experience he ...
Warnings of internet overload Canada Free Press
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This is why your net connection is so slow
Tech, UK - Sep 20, 2007
The problem is bigger than you probably think it is, and the blame lays with bittorrent. Using bittorrent clients, people can download practically any TV ...
Internet traffic set for global meltdown? Tech
all 2 news articles

MediaDefender Anti-Piracy Tools Leaked
TorrentFreak - 5 hours ago
In the .nfo that was posted with the torrent we read: The source is complete for their operations regarding Kazaa, bittorrent, gnutella etc. ...
Secret MediaDefender Snooping Tools Revealed Wired Blogs
Stolen MediaDefender E-Mails Reveal Fake BitTorrent Site Wired Blogs
Hackers Smack Anti-Piracy Firm Again and Again Wired News
all 6 news articles

CNET News.com

Leaked e-mails reveal MediaDefender's antipiracy woes
CNET News.com, CA - Sep 20, 2007
This would work on older protocols such as FastTrack/Kazaa, but the company had no answer for BitTorrent. This is the Michael Jordan of file-sharing tools, ...

CNET News.com

Leaked e-mails reveal mediadefender's antipiracy woes
CNET News.com, CA - 17 hours ago
This would work on older protocols such as fasttrack/Kazaa, but the company had no answer for bittorrent. This is the Michael Jordan of file-sharing tools, ...
E-mails of Anti-Piracy Firm mediadefender Leaked Online Digital Media Wire
Hackers Release Anti-Piracy Firm's E-Mails FOX News
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iFMagazine

'GHOST IN THE SHELL' COMING TO XBOX, UNBOX
iFMagazine - 9 hours ago
Starz Media has entered into a partnership with XBox, Amazon.com’s Unbox service, BitTorrent, Netflix, and Guba to make series that it produces or owns the ...
Starz goes digital with anime Indiantelevision.com
all 3 news articles

NBC to offer content, DRM via NBC Direct
tuaw.com, CA - 5 hours ago
... software out there that let them easily do that right now. Oh well. Good luck, NBC. Say hi to Tina Fey for me, and tell her I'll see her on bittorrent.

P2P subverter sees emails leaked on net
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Sep 19, 2007
There is a certain irony in the release: last month a US judge threw out a lawsuit by torrentspy, a bittorrent search engine, even though it emerged that ...

Starz puts video downloads on Amazon Unbox, Xbox Live
Video Business (subscription), CA - 1 hour ago
In the past few months, Starz has signed content deals to reach new distribution channels, including: Azureus’ Vuze service, BitTorrent, Guba, ...

Internet traffic set for global meltdown?
Tech, UK - Sep 19, 2007
An astronomic rise in P2P bittorrent traffic is anticipated next week when file-swappers share DivX-encoded files of new US shows such as Heroes and Prison ...

MediaDefender hacked, internal emails published
SC Magazine US - Sep 19, 2007
The theft and subsequent publishing of the emails on BitTorrent – by a group called MediaDefender-Defenders – indicated that MediaDefender had created a ...
Anti-Piracy Firm MediaDefender Compromised by Hackers Hardware Zone
MediaDefender emails leak onto the Internet TechSpot
all 6 news articles

OpenOffice 2.3 Released - Slashdot

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OpenOffice 2.3 Released
Slashdot - Sep 18, 2007
... with 2.3 that users can make full use of our growing extensions library.' You can download it but be kind and use a P2P client instead, such as bittorrent."

Anti-Piracy Firm MediaDefender Compromised by Hackers
Hardware Zone, Singapore - 23 minutes ago
The fake BitTorrent site would be serve as a DRM-free honey-pot, to lure media pirates across the InterWeb, and towards illicit P2P gains. ...

Trapping file-sharers? - Los Angeles Times

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Trapping file-sharers?
Los Angeles Times, CA - 20 hours ago
A person or group called MediaDefender-Defenders unleashed onto BitTorrent a huge cache of e-mails -- internal ones, evidently -- ostensibly written by ...

Starz boxes up package - Hollywood Reporter

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AllthingsHiDef

Starz boxes up package
Hollywood Reporter, United States - Sep 18, 2007
Starz already has signed BitTorrent, Netflix and Guba, among others. "These deals represent our company's commitment to expansion in the growing digital ...
Unbox, Xbox Seeing Starz NewTeeVee
Starz Adds Titles to Unbox, Xbox Live AllthingsHiDef
‘Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex,’ ‘Street Fighter II V ... Anime On DVD
all 9 news articles

Stolen emails reveal anti-piracy company's 'honeypot' strategy
SC Magazine US - 11 hours ago
The theft and subsequent publishing of the emails on BitTorrent – by a group called MediaDefender-Defenders – indicated that MediaDefender had created a ...
Hackers Leak Antipiracy Vendor's E-Mail PC World
E-mails of Anti-Piracy Firm MediaDefender Leaked Online Digital Media Wire
Online Anti-Piracy Firm's E-Mails Leaked The Associated Press
Wall Street Journal - CNET News.com
all 106 news articles

Australians Sucked In To Illegal Content Sting
Smart House, Australia - 2 hours ago
Most of the IPs of these fake BitTorrent trackers are already blocked by blocklist software such as PeerGuardian. However, the company still manages to ...

BitTorrent-busters busted by BitTorrent
Register, UK - Sep 18, 2007
Over the weekend, what looks like nine months of internal MediaDefender email messages turned up on BitTorrent sites across the net, in an apparent expose ...

Legal P2P For Fall TV? Fat Chance.
NewTeeVee, CA - 22 hours ago
Before Joost and Babelgum, when BitTorrent was considered evil and P2P streaming was only being done by piraters out of China? A lot has changed since then. ...

MediaDefender E-Mail Ranks BitTorrent Site 'Protection'
Zeropaid, CA - Sep 18, 2007
The infamous 99.9% BitTorrent tracker download on TorrentSpy is perhaps the most famous of all fake files that I'm sure they can take partial credit for. ...

BOTH PRISON BREAK 3 AND HEROES 2 PREMIERE ON MONDAY
Holy Moly, London - 3 hours ago
On Tuesday morning go to any one of about a million Bittorrent sites and start downloading Episode 1 of Heroes Seaon 2. It will take about 3 hours, ...

Hackers Leak Antipiracy Vendor's E-Mail
PC World - Sep 18, 2007
A file containing the e-mail messages quickly spread via BitTorrent, and its contents have also been extracted and converted into HTML, then published on at ...
E-mails of Anti-Piracy Firm MediaDefender Leaked Online Digital Media Wire
Hackers Leak MediaDefender Emails Web Host Industry Review
Online Anti-Piracy Firm's E-Mails Leaked The Associated Press
all 102 news articles

E-mails of Anti-Piracy Firm MediaDefender Leaked Online
Digital Media Wire, CA - 10 hours ago
The hacker group, calling itself "Media Defender-Defenders," said by releasing the e-mails on networks including BitTorrent it "hope[s] to secure the ...
Hackers Leak Antipiracy Vendor's E-Mail PC World
all 103 news articles

Hackers Smack Anti-Piracy Firm Again and Again
Wired News - Sep 17, 2007
The revelations began Saturday, when more than 6000 internal company e-mails were exposed in a 700-megabyte BitTorrent download. ...
MediaDefender hacked, internal emails published SC Magazine US
Anti-Piracy Firm MediaDefender Compromised by Hackers Hardware Zone
all 8 news articles

Nine Inch Nails: "Steal away, and give it to your friends"
Punknews.org - 3 hours ago
... GarageBand-compatible files to encourage remixing. He then took his favorite remixes and made them available on file sharing networks using BitTorrent.

Gizmodo.com

Comcast capping bandwidth usage at about 90GB/month?
CNET Crave Blog - 11 hours ago
... simply used more of their connection than Comcast is comfortable with, along with evidence the ISP has been monkeying with people's BitTorrent usage. ...
Comcast Elaborates Slightly on Unlimited Cable Internet Caps: 90GB ... Gizmodo.com
Comcast Customers Limited To 90GB/Month Wired Blogs
all 3 news articles

Stolen MediaDefender E-Mails Reveal Fake BitTorrent Site
Wired Blogs - Sep 17, 2007
Naturally the e-mails have already spread far and wide via a file on bittorrent, but they’ve also been converted to HTML and published on the web (a site we ...

MediaDefender Used MiiVi to Trap Downloaders
BetaNews - 11 hours ago
By Ed Oswald, BetaNews The company that was hired by the MPAA to rein in leaks and catch downloaders of copyrighted material on BitTorrent networks is ...
Embarrassing MediaDefender emails distributed on Bittorent Afterdawn.com
Leaks Prove MediaDefender's Deception Slashdot
MediaDefender emails leak onto the Internet TechSpot
all 4 news articles

MediaDefender Hacked - Digital Podcast News

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MediaDefender Hacked
Digital Podcast News, CA - 3 hours ago
In addition to the phone call and emails, blogs are reporting that a huge MySQL database dump from a MediaDefender server was leaked on BitTorrent as well. ...
MediaDefender Laid Bare, Leaks to Continue NewTeeVee
all 2 news articles

Seven Hundred Megabytes of Leaked Internal Email
Wired News - 23 hours ago
... MediaDefender suffered an embarrassing leak this weekend, when almost 700MB of internal company e-mail was distributed on the Internet via BitTorrent. ...
Huge BitTorrent Leak Exposes Media Defender p2p tracking tactics ... Dslreports
Internal Emails of An RIAA Attack Dog Leaked Slashdot
all 5 news articles

Major Embarrassment for MediaDefender
IDM.net.au, Australia - 14 hours ago
These networks have quite a large number of legal uses, the most famous of which is currently BitTorrent, a technology for sharing P2P files before they are ...

Back-Ups and You
Los Angeles Loyolan (Subscription), Los Angeles - 11 hours ago
Enter BitTorrent. Created by Bram Cohen in mid-2001, this interesting software is both relatively safe and far easier to use than the aforementioned ...

Our favorite networking gear
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - Sep 17, 2007
The good: Download manager for FTP, Web and BitTorrent; built-in 160-GB hard drive; print server; USB ports for additional hard drives and mirroring ...

Major industry players invited to peer-to-peer forum
The Post Online, OH - 9 hours ago
... several recording artists, the Recording Industry Association of America, BitTorrent, XM Radio and OU’s Student Senate to participate in the forum. ...

Our favorite networking gear
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - 1 hour ago
The good: Download manager for FTP, Web and BitTorrent; built-in 160-GB hard drive; print server; USB ports for additional hard drives and mirroring ...

MPAA downplays 'pirate party' groups
Afterdawn.com - 16 hours ago
... for the entertainment industry, has been pursuing Internet pirates and sources of movie exchanges such as BitTorrent sites for the past few years. ...

Internal Emails of An RIAA Attack Dog Leaked
Slashdot - Sep 15, 2007
Now 700MB of MediaDefender's internal emails from the last 6 months have been leaked onto BitTorrent trackers. The emails detail their entire plan, ...

Porn Industry Gloats Over Hollow Win vs BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Sep 15, 2007
Earlier this week we reported on how the porn industry planned to wipe out sharing of its content via BitTorrent. Right now the porn industry is gloating ...

Huge BitTorrent Leak Exposes Media Defender p2p tracking tactics ...
Dslreports - Sep 15, 2007
But a huge BitTorrent leak may shed some new light on the company’s actual intentions and their means of obtaining them. Approximately 700mb of Media ...

p2pnet.net

Helios, Torrentspy, Isohunt, Mininova
p2pnet.net, Canada - 11 hours ago
It goes on, “Helios Labs has recently been running ads through Google Adwords, some of which appeared on this site, that read: ‘BitTorrent to your TV. ...

BitTorrent plug-in for Mozilla FireFox
Tech Republic, KY - Sep 15, 2007
The UK/Prague based Open Source firm, AllPeers has developed a BitTorrent Plug-in for Mozilla FireFox that lets users search and share files through ...

The Biggest Ever BitTorrent Leak: MediaDefender Internal Emails Go ...
TorrentFreak - Sep 14, 2007
Now, in what is surely the biggest BitTorrent leak ever, nearly 700mb of MD’s emails have gone public. When MD’s Randy Saaf found out we rumbled MiiVi he ...

TECH.BLORGE.com

Prince casts purple rain on The Pirate Bay
TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia - 11 hours ago
The worlds largest BitTorrent tracker, The Pirate Bay, was informed on Thursday that the artist, formerly known as Prince, will be using Web Sheriff, ...
Prince Hires Web Sheriff to Take on YouTube, eBay Digital Media Wire
Prince Sues Web Companies Over Copyright Infringement eFluxMedia (press release)
Artist formerly known as The Aritst Formerly Known As Prince ... Register
TorrentFreak - CNET News.com
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Firefox Gets BitTorrent - InternetNews.com

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Firefox Gets BitTorrent
InternetNews.com - Sep 14, 2007
By Sean Michael Kerner BitTorrent is one of the most popular mechanisms for peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing. For the most part BitTorrent client ...

When Piracy Is Easier Than Legit Purchase
BroadbandReports.com, NY - 21 minutes ago
Miro, a multi-platform RSS and BitTorrent enabled media client is now very stable, polished and fast. Using a tool such as this, and a couple minutes of ...

Prince Hires Web Sheriff to Take on YouTube, eBay
Digital Media Wire, CA - 6 hours ago
... file a suit in the US and UK, and has hired a Swedish law firm to take action against YouTube, eBay, and The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent tracking site. ...
Prince Sues Web Companies Over Copyright Infringement eFluxMedia (press release)
Artist formerly known as The Aritst Formerly Known As Prince ... Register
Prince Hires the Web Sheriff to Take on The Pirate Bay TorrentFreak
CNET News.com
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TorrentFreak

HostGator Doesn’t Allow Customers to Host Torrent Files
TorrentFreak - Sep 14, 2007
One of the benefits of offering media files for download via BitTorrent is that it takes the load off the server and decreases the chance of your site ...

AllPeers Enables BitTorrent Downloads Inside Firefox
Converge Network Digest - Sep 13, 2007
With this new release, AllPeers becomes a Social BitTorrent client, making it far simpler to share and recommend torrents to friends. ...

Ottawa Citizen

Prince Sues Web Companies Over Copyright Infringement
eFluxMedia (press release) - 3 hours ago
... Prince has decided to “reclaim the Internet and he is preparing to file lawsuits against YouTube, EBay and the BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay. ...
Artist formerly known as The Aritst Formerly Known As Prince ... Register
Prince lashes out at YouTube, eBay and The Pirate Bay CNET News.com
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TV Torrents - When Piracy Is Easier Than Purchase
Slashdot - Sep 13, 2007
CNET looks into the issue, and discovers that with mature open-source media players such as Miro supporting BitTorrent RSS feeds, it is actually trivially ...
When Piracy Is Easier Than Legit Purchase BroadbandReports.com
all 4 news articles

AllPeers Adds Social BitTorrent to Firefox(R)
TMC Net, CT - Sep 13, 2007
With this new release, AllPeers becomes a Social BitTorrent client, making it far simpler to share and recommend torrents to friends. ...

TV Show BitTorrent Downloading Made Easy With Miro
Zeropaid, CA - Sep 13, 2007
Some of you no doubt already have a system in place for automatically downloading your favorite weekly TV shows, but Miro arguably simplifies the process ...

Stargate Atlantis Screener Episode Hits BitTorrent
Zeropaid, CA - Sep 13, 2007
... channel's "Stargate Atlantis," but a screener of the first episode from the upcoming fourth season has found its way onto BitTorrent tracker sites. ...

Terranet: Free Calls - Not with Ads, but With P2P
Marketing Vox News - 4 hours ago
Peer-to-peer, or P2P, technology has long been associated with the proliferation of online piracy for sites such as GNUtella, Napster and BitTorrent. ...
Swedish Company Trials Peer-to-Peer Cellphones Slashdot
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AllPeers Adds Social BitTorrent to Firefox®
Business Wire (press release), CA - 49 minutes ago
With this new release, AllPeers becomes a Social BitTorrent client, making it far simpler to share and recommend torrents to friends. ...

Firefox Gets BitTorrent - IT Management

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Firefox Gets BitTorrent
IT Management, CT - Sep 13, 2007
By Sean Michael Kerner BitTorrent is one of the most popular mechanisms for peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing. For the most part BitTorrent client ...

TV Torrents: When 'piracy' is easier than legal purchase
CNET Blogs, CA - Sep 13, 2007
Miro, a multi-platform RSS and BitTorrent enabled media client is now very stable, polished and fast. Using a tool such as this, and a couple minutes of ...
Is the iTunes Music Store scratching and skipping? tuaw.com
NBC goes from iTunes to Amazon's Unbox Daily Aztec
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Belfast Telegraph

Cyberclinic: Can you explain what BitTorrent is, and how it works?
Belfast Telegraph, United Kingdom - Sep 13, 2007
By Rhodri Marsden If you suspect that BitTorrent is an internet-related tool used only for nefarious purposes, you're not far wide of the mark. ...

Microsoft offers "Ultimate Steal" Office 2007 promotion to students
Ars Technica, MA - 9 hours ago
... a limited-time promotion that offers a deep discount on Office Ultimate 2007 (and no, before you ask, it doesn't involve a BitTorrent seed). ...

Swedish firm offers legal alternative to internet piracy
The Local, Sweden - 14 hours ago
Customers will be given the opportunity to pay for movies, download them legally using BitTorrent technology and view them using a regular DVD player. ...

Rhodri Marsden: Cyberclinic - Independent

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Rhodri Marsden: Cyberclinic
Independent, UK - Sep 12, 2007
If you suspect that BitTorrent is an internet-related tool used only for nefarious purposes, you're not far wide of the mark. But behind its success as a ...

Mobile Digest

Now BitTorrenting is killing the pr0n industry
Mobile Digest, UK - 12 hours ago
Apparently piracy is costing the industry $2bn a year, with adult-focused BitTorrent trackers like Empornium (pictured), PureTnA and Cheggit taking an ...

How the Porn Industry Plans to Wipe Out BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Sep 11, 2007
With all the negative reporting about BitTorrent in the mainstream media, you could be forgiven for thinking that an anti-piracy crackdown against torrent ...

Procter Gambling on Original TV Content
NewTeeVee, CA - 16 hours ago
... are desperate for attention, with viewers ignoring and skipping past their commercials and spending more time on Facebook, YouTube, and BitTorrent. ...

Daily Brew: the porn industry takes on BitTorrent, Digg this!, the ...
Conde Nast Portfolio, NY - Sep 11, 2007
TorrentFreak.com: With an estimated 5% of file sharing on BitTorrent coming from adult sites, the porn industry takes on the P2P-network. ...

Comcast Disconnecting Users Who Download More than 4 Movies a Day?
Zeropaid, CA - 16 hours ago
Well, Comcast, in addition to throttling BitTorrent traffic, perhaps illegally, has now started to disconnect "excessive" downloaders, arguing that they ...
Article:Comcast gets rid of bandwidth hogs / Prodigious downloa:/c ... San Francisco Chronicle
U-Verse TV Spans 100K Subs Broadcast Newsroom
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Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars demo released
TechSpot - 12 hours ago
Head on over to their official site and download the 727mb installation file via one of the mirrors or via Bittorrent directly. ...
20:49 No cross platform play for Quake Wars (0) Xboxic
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Demo 2404 - PC Gaming (press release)
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Porn Industry to Take on BitTorrent Sites
TorrentFreak - Sep 10, 2007
It is estimated that 5% of all files being shared on public BitTorrent trackers are adult content, and most of these files are copyrighted. On top of that, ...

Best of open source in networking - InfoWorld

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Best of open source in networking
InfoWorld, CA - Sep 10, 2007
Azureus, the BitTorrent (p-to-p file transfer network) client that doubles as the poster app for Java, has gotten a makeover in Version 3.0 that carries it ...

Wired Blogs

DivX, Universal Music Duke out Demons in Court
Marketing Vox News - 17 hours ago
YouTube, Google and BitTorrent have suffered similar grievances from major entertainment content dealers. Vice President Peter LoFrumento of Universal ...
Universal Music Sues Veoh Over User Videos Wired Blogs
DivX Sues Universal Music Group Web Host Industry Review
DivX follows Veoh's lead and takes Universal to court Afterdawn.com
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Full AO-rated Manhunt may have been leaked onto the warez scene
Ars Technica, MA - 3 hours ago
... the full AO-rated game though, if you don't mind being on the wrong side of the law: the game has allegedly been leaked to several bittorrent sites. ...

Australian IT

MIS-shaping future of broadband
Australian IT, Australia - Sep 10, 2007
Conversely, if you're permanently swapping files via BitTorrent, don't choose an ISP that automatically shapes P2P traffic. • SECURE your wireless network. ...

XBoxer

BBC content to hit UK Xbox Live video service?
XBoxer, UK - 6 hours ago
... for download when Video Marketplace launches here in a couple of months, rather than old episodes of US shows we've long since watched "on Bittorrent". ...

SEAS Team Launches File Sharing Program
Harvard Crimson, MA - Sep 10, 2007
BitTorrent, which Seuken identified as the most commonly employed peer-to-peer protocol, attacks the problem of inducing downloaders to give by employing a ...

AllPeers BitTorrent Plugin Preview For TechCrunch Readers
TechCrunch, CA - Sep 9, 2007
AllPeers is a Firefox plugin that lets you easily share files amongst your contacts, using BitTorrent to speed their progress. Although AllPeers started out ...

BitTorrent Anime Downloaders Offered Amnesty
TorrentFreak - Sep 9, 2007
Odex, the anime distribution company that threatened thousands of BitTorrent users it claims it caught distributing its material has made a new offer to ...

Convicted BitTorrent Admin Fights for his Right to Use Linux
TorrentFreak - Sep 8, 2007
Scott McCausland, a convicted ex-administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker is going back to court to fight for his right to use Ubuntu GNU/Linux ...

Cleveland Leader

Does Apple want to sell TV shows for 99 cents?
tuaw.com, CA - Sep 7, 2007
When grey-market Bittorrent downloads are better than purchased content, we have a problem. 5. #2 - it might be less than $4.99 a person, but the total ...
$1, $2, or $5 -- how much would you pay to watch TV? Salon
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Comcast (CMCSA) Vs. Downloaders Will Only Get Uglier
Silicon Alley Insider, NY - Sep 7, 2007
... you're frequently downloading movies from Apple's iTunes or Amazon's Unbox, watching Joost, and downloading podcasts or Linux updates from BitTorrent. ...

Frankston: Who’s pirating bandwidth these days? You or AT&T (and ...
ZDNet - 21 hours ago
Those of us who use legitimate innovations like BitTorrent to move data between nodes? Or the carriers who, in the course of preventing (under false ...

Private BitTorrent Trackers Vulnerable To Anonymous Leechers
TorrentFreak - Sep 7, 2007
BitTorrent set media free and then for a multitude of reasons, private torrent trackers restricted it. It appears that a group of people have published a ...

The Pirate Bay Won’t Bow Down to “Weak” US Government
TorrentFreak - Sep 7, 2007
They kindly pressured Swedish authorities to take down the popular BitTorrent tracker a few months before the infamous raid. ...

News For Your Web Site
dBusinessNews San Jose (press release), CA - Sep 6, 2007
Under the terms of the agreement, OGSi will augment its industry-leading games hosting and transport offering with BitTorrent’s peer-assisted content ...

Should IT Worry About P2P’s Traffic Domination? Yes
IT Business Edge, KY - 23 hours ago
... to a report in Ars Technica. ipoque says that the main offender is BitTorrent, which was responsible for 50 percent to 75 percent of P2P traffic. ...

Online Game Services, Inc. Chooses BitTorrent’s Delivery Network ...
Business Wire (press release), CA - 7 hours ago
Under the terms of the agreement, OGSi will augment its industry-leading games hosting and transport offering with BitTorrent’s peer-assisted content ...

Centennial smartens up asset management
Techworld.com, UK - 1 hour ago
... to identify software that has been delivered through a peer-to-peer program such as BitTorrent, although it will recognise the peer-to-program itself. ...
Centennial Software updates SAM tools VNUNet.com
Play it again SAM.suite ITBusiness.ca
Centennial Makes Software Asset Management Accessible with SAM ... Business Wire (press release)
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Ars Technica

First impressions: Opera 9.5 alpha a worthy contender
Ars Technica, MA - Sep 5, 2007
The integrated BitTorrent client (first introduced in 9.0) has been reworked, and support for Peer Exchange should make torrent downloads faster. ...

'Limitless Potential'- Official Nine Inch Nails Fan Remixes Now on ...
Zeropaid, CA - Sep 5, 2007
21 track album offers the culmination of countless hours of blood, sweat, and tears from NIN fans. It's just been announced that Nine Inch Nail's months ...

CrunchGear

11 Movie Download Services Reviewed, But they Missed One
CrunchGear, NY - 15 hours ago
They even mention Bittorrent, but not in the way you’re thinking. Talk up MovieLink, Unbox, and iTunes all you want — we all know where the real action is: ...

Portal IT

Internet Traffic: There's P2P And Everyone Else
Portal IT, Romania - Sep 5, 2007
P2P clearly dominates Internet traffic and BitTorrent is king in the P2P world, these are the results of a study conducted by research firm iPoque. ...

Is Comcast's BitTorrent Filtering Violating the Law?
Hard OCP, TX - Sep 5, 2007
Does Comcast’s BitTorrent filtering break the law by falsifying sender information in packet headers? Within the last few weeks, there have been a number of ...

PEER PRESSURE - Light Reading

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PEER PRESSURE
Light Reading - Sep 5, 2007
5:35 PM -- I gotta give it up to the always topical folks at Marvel Comics, who used peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing client BitTorrent in one of their ...

TechShout!

NBC To Sell Its Shows On Amazon Unbox: Apple Scorned
CrunchGear, NY - 15 hours ago
Because if not, hell, I’ll just go back to BitTorrent. They won’t see a dime from me.* *As if I’d ever buy a TV show. Not in a million years.
NBC Now Offers TV Shows on Amazon's Unbox Zeropaid
Apple Calls NBC's Digital Download Bluff Seeking Alpha
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Are Comcast's Alleged Anti-BitTorrent Tactics Illegal?
Wired News - Sep 4, 2007
[Comcast is] sending a reset (or RST) packet to the Comcast customer, pretending to be from the host at the end of the BitTorrent connection. ...

Comcast Forging Packets To Filter Torrents
Slashdot - Sep 4, 2007
An anonymous reader writes "It's been widely reported by now that Comcast is throttling BitTorrent traffic. What has escaped attention is the fact that ...

Comcast BitTorrent Efforts Violating State Laws?
Dslreports - Sep 4, 2007
When we started talking about Comcast's efforts to limit BitTorrent seeding by forging TCP Reset (RST) packets, some users were angry that Comcast was ...

Thursday Afternoon Vid-Biz Headlines
NewTeeVee, CA - Sep 4, 2007
BitTorrent Surpasses eDonkey for P2P Supremacy. New study shows P2P traffic accounts for 50 to 90 percent of all Internet traffic. BitTorrent leads P2P pack ...

Comcast Forging Packets To Filter Torrents
Slashdot - Sep 4, 2007
An anonymous reader writes "It's been widely reported by now that Comcast is throttling BitTorrent traffic. What has escaped attention is the fact that ...

P2P Remains Alive and Well, BitTorrent Surging
BetaNews - Sep 4, 2007
On the P2P side, BitTorrent leads the pack with anywhere from 50 to 75 percent share of the market. However, in some locales, eDonkey pulls even with ...

Opera speeds up its browser - TG Daily

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Opera speeds up its browser
TG Daily - 17 hours ago
Other changes include enhanced zoom and image control, a better integration of the trash can as well as improvements to Bittorrent, which now supports more ...

Verizon Experiments With 100 Mbps FiOS
Wired Blogs - Sep 4, 2007
Welcome to the telcos' vision of the internet, where no-one ever dreams of watching p2p-spread HD video or using BitTorrent, instead restricting themselves ...
100 Mbps Fiber Won't Change Your Life BroadbandReports.com
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"No Problems/Great Speed"
BroadbandReports.com, NY - 16 hours ago
If using Bittorrent---as soon as the speed get going anywhere near 5 Mb the connection quits. I have to reboot the modem each time. ...

Apple's Leopard to Use Bandwidth as Currency?
Seeking Alpha, NY - Sep 3, 2007
Their approach incorporated in new Tribbler BitTorrent client: treat bandwidth like currency. Uploads gain you cash, downloads spend it. ...

P2P responsible for as much as 90 percent of all 'Net traffic
Ars Technica, MA - 23 hours ago
Leading the way is BitTorrent, which has surpassed eDonkey as the P2P protocol of choice. During the last year, BitTorrent accounted for between 50 percent ...

Another Pirate Bay child porn investigation
Afterdawn.com - 12 hours ago
Instead the police are hoping the popular BitTorrent tracker will co-operate with the investigation and hand over IP address info for the traders. ...

From the Newsdesk - Ars Technica

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From the Newsdesk
Ars Technica, MA - 16 hours ago
The MPAA wanted to shut down TorrentSpy, a well-known BitTorrent tracker, and filed suit against it a few years back. When an informant offered access to ...

Ramblin Racket

Where to download the Georgia Tech - Notre Dame game
Ramblin Racket, GA - Sep 3, 2007
This is a BitTorrent file, meaning you'll need a BitTorrent client to download. I recommend µTorrent for Windows users. I'll have a thorough recap/review of ...

Mobile Digest

Web Trend Map - has your favourite start-up reached the end of the ...
Mobile Digest, UK - 10 hours ago
... a big red corporate tech central line, then the outlying little loops of the Bittorrent underground where you'll get mugged leaving the station. ...

Caught in the throttle
Ottawa Business Journal,  Canada - Sep 3, 2007
He noted that BitTorrent itself is not illegal in Canada and many legitimate files being swapped are being caught in the mix. From personal experience he ...

iPod: The 2007 Handicap - MP3 Newswire

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MP3 Newswire

iPod: The 2007 Handicap
MP3 Newswire, NJ - Sep 2, 2007
BitTorrent for iPod = 80:1 - Brahm Cohen's BitTorrent company has the tenative blessing of the movie studios, which makes a deal with Apple at least ...

Reeltime aims for piece of download movie market
ABC Online, Australia - Sep 2, 2007
There are also competitors who just give it away, such as file sharing programs like BitTorrent. "I think piracy is a problem in any content-based industry ...

Has NBC gone mad? - Salon

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Salon

Has NBC gone mad?
Salon - Sep 1, 2007
But most people are also capable of spending a bit of time on file-sharing networks like Bittorrent to get shows for no price at all. In the digital age, ...

Has NBC gone mad? - Salon

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Has NBC gone mad?
Salon - 17 hours ago
But most people are also capable of spending a bit of time on file-sharing networks like Bittorrent to get shows for no price at all. In the digital age, ...
Universal and the dinosaur's last roar Playlist
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