Archivos February 2009

5 ways to speed up online gaming - PC Advisor


5 ways to speed up online gaming
PC Advisor, UK
File-sharing programs such as BitTorrent are infamous for eating up bandwidth, and will guarantee you a choppy online gaming experience on your game system. Big downloads, such as TV shows or movies, will also slow down your online game. ...

TorrentFreak

KTorrent Web Interface Vulnerable to Remote Takeover
TorrentFreak
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the web interface plugin for the KDE BitTorrent client, KTorrent. A malicious attacker sending specially crafted parameters to the interface could enable both remote code execution and arbitrary torrent ...

Vuze Contemplates Top Secret Project - Slyck


Vuze Contemplates Top Secret Project
Slyck, NY
Vuze (the BitTorrent artist formerly known as Azureus) has something up their sleeve. According to their latest blog post, Vuze is thinking of a top secret device that could bring downloaded TV shows to your TV or mobile device. ...

CrunchGear

The Pirate Bay’s little-talked-about financier’s adventures in ...
CrunchGear, NY
by Nicholas Deleon on February 27, 2009 To me, the ongoing Pirate Bay trial is utterly boring: courtroom machinations, childish snickering (tee-hee, this random record industry CEO doesn’t understand the technical underpinnings of the BitTorrent ...

Transmission 1.51 Improves Layout on iPhone, Adds Internet ...
Softpedia, Romania
By Filip Truta, Apple News Editor Transmission, one of the most popular BitTorrent clients for Mac OS X, has reached version 1.51, adding support for Internet Explorer, as well as layout fixes when viewed on an iPhone/iPod touch. ...

DigiTimes

CeBIT 2009: Alpha Networks to showcase all-in-one network media player
DigiTimes, Taiwan
Alpha Networks, a Taiwan-based network equipment maker, has unveiled its new network media player, BT (BitTorrent) Box, which will be showcased at the upcoming CeBIT Hannover in Germany on March 3-8. With a built-in hard drive, the Alpha network media ...

TorrentFreak

Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak
TV-shows are some of the most wanted files on BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people downloading? Every week we take a look at the most downloaded TV-Shows on BitTorrent. ...

guardian.co.uk

TPB trial witness: file-sharing not bad for music business
Ars Technica, MA
One explained more about how BitTorrent functions; the other got into a fight with prosecutors, suggested that file-sharing wasn't bad for the music business in general and that it has led to a huge transfer of wealth to artists, and sarcastically ...
Pirate Bay Founders’ Broccoli Manifesto Wall Street Journal
Pirate Bay 'not directly linked' to industry damage VNUNet.com
BitTorrent Site The Pirate Bay Faces Trial in Sweden Home Media Magazine
Wired News - guardian.co.uk
all 110 news articles

Windows (All) / Open Source / 318904 downloads
BetaNews
Vuze is a Java based BitTorrent client that offers multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems (on torrents and files), start/stop seeding options and instant access to numerous pieces of information about your torrents. ...

Christmas in February! The New Budget Is Here!
AOL News Newsbloggers, VA
Others of you got a pirated copy via Limewire or BitTorrent (shame on you!) and have been spreading it all over the interwebs. (Incidentally, if anyone has the web site number for a bootleg copy, please tell Vice President Biden. ...

Pirate Bay Trial Day 9: BitTorrent Is Not Evil
TorrentFreak
Today, Kristoffer Schollin from Gothenburg University explains that BitTorrent is not evil, while media professor Roger Wallace informs the court that the file-sharing is actually beneficial to the entertainment industry. First up today was Kristoffer ...

Times Online

BitTorrent Site The Pirate Bay Faces Trial in Sweden
Home Media Magazine, CA
By Chris Tribbey | Posted: 25 Feb 2009 Four men behind the BitTorrent downloading site The Pirate Bay are on trial in Sweden, with a coalition of studios and music companies accusing them of running the largest illegal downloading operation in the ...
Pirate Bay Founders’ Broccoli Manifesto Wall Street Journal
Music exec blasts infringers during Pirate Bay trial CNET News
As charges change (again), Pirate Bay writes a book Ars Technica
All About Jazz - Mediapost.com
all 95 news articles

Prosecution Alters Pirate Bay Charges in Bid to Win Conviction
All About Jazz, PA
The Pirate Bay prosecutor altered the copyright-infringement charges Tuesday to make it easier to convict the four defendants who co-founded the world's most notorious BitTorrent tracker. Moments later, Hollywood investigators testified about the ease ...
Pirate Bay Prosecutor Alters Charges Mediapost.com
all 2 news articles

To download or not to download - VNUNet.com


Digital-Lifestyles.Info

To download or not to download
VNUNet.com, UK
Around half of them said they use P2P sites such as BitTorrent and Limewire, but hilariously, 53 per cent said they "have never knowingly downloaded illegally". Sneak can only think of one way these consumers manage this, given the quantity of illegal ...
Tiscali study finds half UK internet users visit P2P sites Telecompaper
Illegal music downloaders undeterred by music industry threats Brand Republic
Surfers unsure on music downloads Web User
New Media Age - Digital-Lifestyles.Info
all 13 news articles

Film backers disagree over file sharing
The Copenhagen Post, Denmark
The Swedish-based website has more than 3.1 million registered users and hosts torrents - small computer files that are used to download large files from the BitTorrent network. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) maintains ...

OneSwarm friend-to-friend P2P likely to irk Big Content, ISPs
Ars Technica, MA
The software is back-compatible with BitTorrent, meaning it functions fine as a generic P2P client. But the software's specialty is adding a layer of social networking on top of P2P sharing. When first starting up on a user's machine, OneSwarm creates ...

Content industry finds its case in dire straits
DailyTech, IL
In the defense’s cross-examination, however, Mårtensson later admitted that part of his testimony was based on assumptions, on account of his lack of expertise in file-sharing; when asked whether his was sure his BitTorrent client used The Pirate Bay’s ...

Digital-Lifestyles.Info

Tiscali study finds half UK internet users visit P2P sites
Telecompaper, Netherlands
Almost half of respondents said they had used one or more of the sites most associated with illegal downloading (BitTorrent, Limewire, Gnutella, emule, Ares or DirectConnect) with Limewire (34%) and BitTorrent (25%) by far the most popular. ...
Illegal music downloaders undeterred by music industry threats Brand Republic
Surfers unsure on music downloads Web User
Nearly half of web users have illegally downloaded music New Media Age
Digital-Lifestyles.Info - ISPReview UK
all 12 news articles

Internet traffic shaping seen stifling innovation
Toronto Star,  Canada
Both Bell and Rogers currently use special software to sniff out mainly peer-to-peer file sharing protocols such as BitTorrent and put them in the equivalent of an Internet slow lane during peak periods of usage. Jacob Glick, the policy counsel for ...

Police Shut Down Latvian BitTorrent Trackers
TorrentFreak
Latvia continues its clamp down on BitTorrent trackers, as two more sites have been pulled offline by the local police. Whether the attempts will prove effective is doubtful. File.lv, Latvia’s largest BitTorrent tracker was taken down last summer but ...

Ars Technica

Prosecution Alters Pirate Bay Charges in Bid to Win Conviction
Wired News
... the worldwide counterpart of the Recording Industry Association of America — testified he visited The Pirate Bay site and looked for "Intensive Care" by Robbie Williams, downloaded the torrent file and started his copy of BitTorrent client Azureus. ...
As charges change (again), Pirate Bay writes a book Ars Technica
Pirate Bay Prosecutor Alters Charges Mediapost.com
Investigator paid by Warner not available for Pirate Bay trial Afterdawn.com
Business News Network - Contactmusic.com
all 69 news articles

Publisher's description of Apple Safari
CNET News, CA
Download movies, music, TV on Gnutella and Bittorrent networks. Write your own review Be the first one to review Apple Safari 4.0b and share your experience with the CNET community! (Mouse over the stars to rate this product and click to set your ...

NZ Herald Auckland Metro

As charges change (again), Pirate Bay writes a book
Ars Technica, MA
Defendant and BitTorrent expert Gottfrid Warg pressed Mårtensson on this point. "I think I’ve said this three times, that I just assumed it," was the eventual response. Defense attorneys also pressed him on whether he had downloaded illegal content ...
The Pirate Bay 'Spectrial' Day #8 - Record Exec Takes the Stand Zeropaid
Investigator paid by Warner not available for Pirate Bay trial Afterdawn.com
The Pirate Bay faces its accusers Business News Network
Contactmusic.com - Register
all 83 news articles

ITProPortal

Irish ISP: We Won't Block The Pirate Bay
PC World
... efforts the entertainment industry has undertaken to try and shut down The Pirate Bay, which is one of the most popular sites to obtain torrents, or small information files, that coordinate the download of material via the BitTorrent protocol. ...
Irish ISP Agrees to Block BitTorrent Tracker Sites Zeropaid
all 29 news articles

p2pnet.net

Investigator paid by Warner not available for Pirate Bay trial
Afterdawn.com
But when questioned by the defense he admitted to using a feature of BitTorrent that would allow him to download with no tracker whatsoever. Referring to screenshots he took as evidence, he acknowledged that he assumed The Pirate Bay was used because ...
The Pirate Bay vs Them: Day Seven p2pnet.net
When You Pick An Author To Represent Swedish Authors Angry At The ... Techdirt
‘Call-to-arms’ in The Pirate Bay case p2pnet.net
all 4 news articles

Baltimore Sun

After BitTorrent Leak, U2 Offers Free Album Streaming on MySpace
Zeropaid, CA
The album was leaked to BitTorrent last Wednesday after Australian Universal's online music store accidentally allowed fans to purchase and download the album. So far album reviews are pretty evenly mixed, with some calling it the "biggest deception of ...
U2 Album Leaks; 'spider-Man' Musical Delayed KBS Radio
U2 album leak: everything you need to know Music Ally
all 39 news articles

ITProPortal

Last.fm Denies Handing User Data to RIAA
PC World
TechCrunch's story alleged that a log of users who listened to U2's unreleased album (obtained in illegal ways, usually via BitTorrent clients) was handed to the RIAA. "The only type of data we make available to labels and artists, other than what you ...
No, Last.fm Didn't Provide User Data To The RIAA Overclockers Club
Last.fm Deny Leaking User Details To RIAA Strange Glue Music
‘TechCrunch is full of shit’ - Last.fm p2pnet.net
all 28 news articles

Amazon beats Itunes in the UK - IT Examiner


Reuters

Amazon beats Itunes in the UK
IT Examiner, India
Less than half of all respondents said they'd click and buy - hardly surprising in times of Bittorrent and file hosting sites. One thing is certain - downloading music will never be as satisfying as buying a limited edition deluxe double LP of your ...
Britons prefer Amazon for digital media -survey Reuters
Report: UK Prefers Amazon Over Apple for Media Downloads Digital Media Wire
Strategy Analytics: Amazon Beats Apple's iTunes As Preferred ... Business Wire (press release)
PC Retail
all 31 news articles

BitTorrent goes stealth(BitTorrent + Privacy = TorrentPrivacy.com)
SecuObs, France
Présentation : If you're worried about your ISP snooping on your BitTorrent downloads, or the RIAA or MPAA trying to sue you for that illegal movie/song download, there is apparently help. I've been doing a little research into this topic since I'm ...

Posted by Ed Bott @ 4:27 pm - ZDNet


UberGizmo.com

Posted by Ed Bott @ 4:27 pm
ZDNet
Thanks to the miracle of BitTorrent, any release that goes to more than a literal handful of trusted partners might as well be a general release. The other big, perhaps inadvertent, benefit to the current development schedule is that it allows people ...
Windows 7 Evolution, M1 (6519), M2 (6589), M3 (6801), Beta (7000 ... Softpedia
all 123 news articles

OneSwarm Turns P2P into F2F - Zeropaid


OneSwarm Turns P2P into F2F
Zeropaid, CA
It's based on BitTorrent (and backwards compatible), but includes some new features like search, friend to friend data sharing (F2F), permissions, and a web UI with real time audio/video transcoding and remote access to name a few. ...
Meet OneSwarm - ‘Keep pushing, RIAA’ p2pnet.net
OneSwarm network improves file-sharing control, anonymity BetaNews
all 3 news articles

Torrent Relay Lets You Download Torrents Right Through Your Browser
Inventorspot
In fact, Ipoque, a German company that manages bandwith solutions for schools and ISPs, recently released its 2008/2009 study showing that 45-78% of all P2P traffic is under the BitTorrent protocol. TorrentRelay is a site that is helping people take ...

Combining BitTorrent With Darknets For P2P Privacy
Slashdot
For applications like BitTorrent or Gnutella, sharing a file means exposing your behavior to anyone interested in monitoring it. OneSwarm is a new file sharing application developed by researchers at the University of Washington that improves privacy ...
OneSwarm Turns P2P into F2F Zeropaid
all 2 news articles

Music Industry Wants BitTorrent Blackout
Tom's Guide, CA
By Devin Connors, published on February 23, 2009 at 5:00 PM If the forces representing the music industry have their way, that will be the case. In its latest push against P2P, the music industry is demanding that Internet service providers block all ...

The Pirate Bay Trial: Understanding Finreactor
TorrentFreak
On Day 4 of The Pirate Bay trial, the Prosecutor referred to legal action taken against the admins of another BitTorrent tracker, Finreactor, who together received huge fines and currently have their case before the Supreme Court. ...

StatShot: Oscar Tweets, Paul Rudd’s BitTorrent Beats
NewTeeVee, CA
Paul Rudd’s comedy Role Models takes the No. 1 position on TorrentFreak’s list of the Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent. He’s accompanied by a host of newcomers including the host of last night’s Oscars, Hugh Jackman, and his Australia.

Music Industry Orders BitTorrent Blackout
TorrentFreak
This comes as no surprise of course, as the music industry’s IFPI has already succeeded in blocking the largest BitTorrent tracker in Denmark, after which they attempted to do the same in Norway and Italy. In Italy the Internet providers initially ...

Tweak uTorrent's Settings for Faster Downloads
Lifehacker, CA
By Kevin Purdy , 4:00 AM on Mon Feb 23 2009, 20840 views Aside from having a really fast, non-filtered broadband connection, there are a few ways you can speed up your BitTorrent downloads through simple tweaks. The MakeUseOf blog runs down a few of ...

Speed Diary: Day Five - BBC News


BBC News

Speed Diary: Day Five
BBC News, UK
On the upload site I was getting around 1Mbps. Two readers suggested downloading some TV programmes via BitTorrent and The Pirate Bay. One reader said: "In the name of journalistic research and only to watch Beeb programs of course. ...

Strange Glue Music

Last.fm Deny Leaking User Details To RIAA
Strange Glue Music, UK
There was however an interesting twist to U2's tale as their new album 'No Line On the Horizon' found its way to Bittorrent. Claims surfaced on Friday that music scrobbling (software which sends details of music listening habits to a central database) ...
‘TechCrunch is full of shit’ - Last.fm p2pnet.net
CBS, Last.fm deny passing user data to RIAA; some users delete ... guardian.co.uk
Last.fm Shoots Down Rumors Over U2 Album Leak Slashdot
Ars Technica - The Consumerist
all 12 news articles

NME.com

Pirate Bay: Preparing for another week humiliating The Man
guardian.co.uk, UK
So what are the most popular TV shows being shared through BitTorrent? According to TorrentFreak's weekly ratings: In a announcement designed to coincide with Oscar night, the FBI has tracked down a couple of BitTorrent users in California they accuse ...
Pirate Bay goes on trial: 20 things you need to know Australian Personal Computer
File sharing or stealing? Business Line
all 15 news articles

Tweak uTorrent's Settings for Faster Downloads
Lifehacker, CA
By Kevin Purdy , 4:00 AM on Mon Feb 23 2009, 301 views Aside from having a really fast, non-filtered broadband connection, there are a few ways you can speed up your BitTorrent downloads through simple tweaks. The MakeUseOf blog runs down a few of them ...

Data Robotics Drobo FW800 - TechRadar UK


TechRadar UK

Data Robotics Drobo FW800
TechRadar UK, UK
A community of developers is creating apps to run directly on the Drobo too, so you can turn it into, say, an iTunes server or a BitTorrent client. All this, however, is also true of the first generation Drobo, but this one should be faster, ...

Is Hulu Driving People Back to Piracy?
All Things D Blogs, CA
One reader wrote to tell us that he’s gonna stop using Hulu altogether and go back to downloading TV shows via BitTorrent. Lifehacker editor Adam Pash apparently had the same idea, given his post entitled “How to Get Hulu Content on TV Without Hulu’s ...
Is Hulu Driving People Back to Piracy? NewTeeVee
Hack Patrol: Restore Hulu to Boxee tuaw.com
How To Bring Hulu Back to Boxee and XBMC Gizmodo
Lifehacker
all 5 news articles

With the Internet comes the ability to impact the world
Kykernel.com (subscription), KY
The only catch was there needed to be Web sites from which to download the small files that would power the downloading through BitTorrent programs. At that time, numerous Web sites sprung up to battle for supremacy, but years later, one would clearly ...

TorrentFreak

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, ‘Role models’ tops the chart this week. ‘Punisher War Zone’ is the first BluRay rip to make it into our weekly download list. This week there are six newcomers. ‘Australia’ and ‘Seven Pounds’ appeared in ...

File sharing or stealing? - Business Line


Ars Technica

File sharing or stealing?
Business Line, India
What it does is merely help its customers, nearly 25 million, track down the files listed by BitTorrent which is basically a data-sharing protocol and helps transfer large files. As one defender of the site put it: “It is at best a file pointer,” ...
With the Internet comes the ability to impact the world Kykernel.com (subscription)
Week in review: Swedish "spectrial" edition Ars Technica
Pirate Bay Trial Watch: Everybody Get Drunk Edition Gizmodo
Zergwatch - CD Freaks.com
all 10 news articles

Cancel Cable Without Losing Your Favorite Shows
The Consumerist, NY
Hulu: Every respectable network streams their shows, and Hulu is one of the better spots to watch full episodes online. Anyone outside the US or in need of more obscure shows can also try SurfTheChannel. Finally, if you're a savvy BitTorrent user, ...

Cancel Cable Without Losing Your Favorite Shows
The Consumerist, NY
Anyone outside the US or in need of more obscure shows can also try SurfTheChannel. Finally, if you're a savvy BitTorrent user, you can use TED to find and download episodes of all your favorite shows, even those hiding on the premium networks.

Prosecution Baffled by Pirate Bay's Anarchic Structure
All About Jazz, PA
STOCKHOLM — Defendant Fredrik Neij took the stand as the landmark trial of Pirate Bay continued Thursday, and left the prosecutor scratching his head over who is in charge of the BitTorrent site. Three young computer geeks and one businessman face ...

FBI Tracks Down Oscars BitTorrent Uploaders
TorrentFreak
The FBI has tracked down two individuals who uploaded Oscar screeners to BitTorrent trackers. The pair are accused of uploading screeners of Australia, Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire to The Pirate Bay, Demonoid and Movie Hogs. ...

Is Hulu Driving People Back to Piracy?
NewTeeVee, CA
Hulu’s promise has been to make content available to people who didn’t have easy access to it before, and we’ve lost count of the numbers of users and industry insiders alike who’ve told us how much easier the service is to use than BitTorrent. ...

Path of Illicit DVD Amounts to File Sharing on Steroids
Wired News
... 2009 | 7:29:42 PMCategories: Hacks and Cracks Authorities said Friday they arrested a Los Angeles man in connection to last year's pre-release uploading of "The Love Guru," which found its way to the online Mininova BitTorrent site. ...

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Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA?
TechCrunch, CA
The unreleased album, which is due out on March 3, found its way onto BitTorrent and was downloaded hundreds of thousands of times. That, apparently, sent music industry lawyers over at the Recording Industry Association of America into a fit. ...

Best Syndication

Can Sweden make the charges stick against The Pirate Bay?
CBC.ca, Canada
The Pirate Bay and many other file-sharing sites use BitTorrent, an internet protocol that allows distribution of files between computers on the net without a central server. When you find a file on a BitTorrent network, just click on it and you ...
Prosecution Baffled by Pirate Bay's Anarchic Structure All About Jazz
U2 No Line on the Horizon album leaked online by Pirate Bay Times Online
Hot News of the Week: Feb. 20, 2009 Tom's Hardware Guide
Best Syndication - Billboard Business News
all 13 news articles

TorrentFreak

Anakata Explains in Court How ‘The Scene’ Works
TorrentFreak
For those people who read this blog regularly, it is no secret that the so called ‘warez scene‘ is not a fan of BitTorrent sites - private or public. They feel that latest pirate releases should be kept within their exclusive group, and file-sharing ...

TorrentFreak

Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak
TV-shows are some of the most wanted files on BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people downloading? Every week we take a look at the most downloaded TV-Shows on BitTorrent. ...

Thepiratebay.org Trial Update
Seattle University Spectator, WA
The Pirate Bay, started in 2003, bills itself as “the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker,” a place where people can easily go to download pirated movies, music, and television shows, sometimes before they are released to the general public. ...

Latest U2 Album Leaked by... Its Label?
PC Magazine
Naturally, the record, which is set to officially go on sale March 3rd, is now widely available via BitTorrent. Universal quickly pulled the record, of course, but by that time, the damage had already been done.

Dumping The TV Cable Box
MediaPost Publications, New York
There's BitTorrent, of course, but also more legal and mainstream sources, including Netflix, Amazon and Hulu. - Our television system plugs into our cable box, but also a dedicated laptop (with Blu-ray DVD) and several other devices. ...

Ars Technica

Day #5 of The Pirate Bay 'Spectrial' - Peter Sunde Takes the Stand
Zeropaid, CA
The trial resumed with Peter Sunde, one of the four founders of The Pirate Bay BitTorrent tracker site, taking the stand, and the prosecution wasted no time making a mockery of the Swedish judicial system. The prosecution grilled Sunde about him being ...
The Pirate Bay vs Them: Day Five p2pnet.net
all 13 news articles

STUDY: P2P Still Generates Most Traffic Worldwide
Zeropaid, CA
A content type analysis reveals which kinds of files have been shared in the two most popular P2P networks BitTorrent and eDonkey. For the first time, the study also includes an analysis of average packet sizes of all encountered protocols. ...

TV Network 'Leaks' Its Own Shows On BitTorrent
Techdirt
A reader using the name PCVirus, sends in the news that down in Australia the TV network Nine Network has been leaking full, high quality downloads of the show Underbelly 2 via BitTorrent, right after the show airs. The network folks note that they see ...

Bradford's NAC Director gives pipeline firm more control
NetworkWorld.com, MA
“They bring their own devices and a lot of times something on them – a BitTorrent client, malware, a virus,” says MacDonald, the technical services project manager for the Canadian pipeline firm, and that would show up as a switch port sending or ...

Telegraph.co.uk

U2 album leaks on BitTorrent despite security measures
Music Ally, UK
U2’s new album No Line On The Horizon has leaked onto P2P networks a week before its release, with hundreds of thousands of copies reportedly available for download. This is despite the stringent security measures taken by the band’s label and ...
U2's New 'No Line On the the Horizon' Album Leaks to BitTorrent Zeropaid
New U2 album makes early debut on P2P networks CNET News
U2 No Line on the Horizon album leaked online by Pirate Bay Times Online
PC Magazine - Digital Media Wire
all 148 news articles

U2 obsesses over small leaks, misses huge, gaping hole
VentureBeat, CA
Of course if you’re familiar with the file sharing service BitTorrent, it’s out right now. Yes, the album leaked onto the web despite a ridiculous amount of security that included no review copies going out to the press. But here’s the best part: It ...

Telegraph.co.uk

New U2 album makes early debut on P2P networks
CNET News, CA
CD-quality copies of the band's 12th album, which is slated for release in Ireland on February 27 and worldwide on March 3, started appearing Wednesday on BitTorrent and now reportedly number in the hundreds of thousands. ...
Latest U2 Album Leaked by... Its Label? PC Magazine
U2 album leaks on BitTorrent despite security measures Music Ally
MySpace Offering Sneak-Preview Stream of U2's No Line on the Horizon Appscout
VentureBeat - Zeropaid
all 108 news articles

Sydney Morning Herald

Look who leaked U2's new album
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Now, No Line On The Horizon is widely available on BitTorrent and other file sharing websites. Universal Music Australia did not respond to calls asking how the track went up for sale early. It is not clear if the leak to illegal download sites was a ...
Universal Australia at fault for U2 track release blunder LIVENEWS.com.au
What The U2 Leak Says About Music Biz Forbes
Universal Australia’s giant fubar U2log.com
all 7 news articles

BBC News

On Witness Stand, Co-Founder Defiantly Defends Pirate Bay
Wired News
By Wired Staff February 19, 2009 | 7:29:33 PMCategories: Yo Ho Ho STOCKHOLM — Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg took the witness stand Thursday afternoon, defiantly defending the BitTorrent tracking site he helped found five years ago. ...
Pirate Bay Jokes With the Prosecution, Dissuades Hackers Wall Street Journal
As Pirate Bay Trial Continues, IFPI Web Site Gets Hacked ChannelWeb
'Pirate' website sued for $18m AsiaOne
ZDNet - Wired News
all 904 news articles

Market Wire (press release)

Windows Mobile 6.x, Windows Mobile, Windows Mobile 5.x
CNET News, CA
Download movies, music, TV on Gnutella and Bittorrent networks. Share photos and videos directly to the desktop. Write your own review Be the first one to review Wunder Radio (Windows Mobile) 1.5 and share your experience with the CNET community! ...
Use Your Windows Mobile Phone to Listen to Over 36000 Radio Stations MSNBC
Wunder Radio reaches out to Windows Mobile CNET News
all 9 news articles

The Inquisitr

Get Hulu Content on Your TV without Hulu's Help
Lifehacker, CA
That's right, there's BitTorrent—the file sharing protocol that so many people were using before they were finally offered a content provider-approved method of watching the shows they love. In the end, it wasn't about the commercials—it was about the ...
Hulu and Boxee disconnect Macworld
Hulu's Superbowl Ad and the Boxee Fight O'Reilly Radar
Boxee pulls Hulu at request of content providers MacDailyNews
Video Business (subscription)
all 129 news articles

RE[13]: Microsoft bashing as an olympic sport
OS News
I want to see them operate within the kernel, so that no maverick application program written by "Pirates" can get around them, and be used by Joe Public to rip videos and distribute them via Bittorrent. Vista does have DRM, and it is a performance dog ...

BBC News

Prosecution Baffled by Pirate Bay's Anarchic Structure
Wired News
Years ago, he innocently offered server space to a friend, Gottfrid, who was looking for someplace to host his fledgling BitTorrent tracker. Before he knew it, Neij testified, he was at the center of a growing project started by Swedish open-culture ...
Pirate Bay Jokes With the Prosecution, Dissuades Hackers Wall Street Journal
As Pirate Bay Trial Continues, IFPI Web Site Gets Hacked ChannelWeb
'Pirate' website sued for $18m AsiaOne
ZDNet - Register
all 904 news articles

Pirate Bay Jokes With the Prosecution, Dissuades Hackers
Wall Street Journal
By Marisa Taylor On day four of the tumultuous Pirate Bay trial, the proceedings were focused on one defendant, Fredrik Neij, according to BitTorrent-news blog TorrentFreak. Pirate Bay’s Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde meet the press in ...

'Pirate' website sued for $18m - AsiaOne

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Times Online

'Pirate' website sued for $18m
AsiaOne, Singapore
But The Pirate Bay, a Sweden-based site which indexes and tracks BitTorrent files, is now involved in a copyright infringement suit that could help music and film companies recoup millions in lost revenues. Local netizens are following the events ...
Prosecutor drops a charge in Pirate Bay case ZDNet
Abba star slates 'lazy, stingy' Pirate Bay fans Register
Pirate Bay: we don't know nothin' about org charts, contracts Ars Technica
CNET News - Techtree.com
all 872 news articles

Ares is Number One! - Slyck

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TorrentFreak

Ares is Number One!
Slyck, NY
Although not as large as FastTrack, Limewire, or BitTorrent, Ares found itself a niche and a large support community. This caught the eye of the music industry, when in 2005 the infamous MGM vs. Grokster case was heard by the US Supreme Court. ...
BitTorrent Still King of P2P Traffic TorrentFreak
Internet traffic report: P2P, porn down; games and Flash up Ars Technica
New ipoque Internet Study Finds Web and Streaming Outgrows P2P Traffic MSNBC
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Not All Information Wants To Be Free
The Big Money, NY
But why do customers flock to iTunes (or Amazon or Rhapsody or the others) to purchase a song or album from, say, U2, one at a time when they could easily download the band's entire discography via Bittorrent for free? Of course, many do. ...

Watch MKV Video Files in Windows Media Center
Washington Post, United States
In fact, it's a format you're likely to encounter if you routinely download videos via BitTorrent. You'd think that installing the right codec would enable MKV playback in Media Center, but, alas, it doesn't. Fortunately, there is way to enjoy your MKV ...

LimeWire strives for relevancy by tapping Web 2.0
CNET News, CA
by Seth Rosenblatt Despite intense popularity of the BitTorrent system, Gnutella clients aren't dead yet. LimeWire 5 for Windows, Mac, and Linux keeps its hand in the file-sharing pot by borrowing your Google contacts to create a friend network and a ...

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Hulu and Boxee disconnect
Macworld, CA
Prior to Boxee, many people interested in watching recent TV shows on their televisions turned to BitTorrent, a reasonably painless (though ethically questionable) way to download high-quality versions of programs you managed to miss. ...
Get Hulu Content on Your TV without Hulu's Help Lifehacker
And the Web TV wars go on, and on, and on CNET News
Hulu's Superbowl Ad and the Boxee Fight O'Reilly Radar
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PC World

U2's New 'No Line On the the Horizon' Album Leaks to BitTorrent
Zeropaid, CA
Bono and company's latest album "No Line On the Horizon" has found its way to BitTorrent tracker sites everywhere well ahead of its scheduled March 2nd release date. The copy is a transcode of fairly decent audio quality, and was apparently "downloaded ...
U2 album leaks on BitTorrent despite security measures Music Ally
New U2 album makes early debut on P2P networks CNET News
Latest U2 Album Leaked by... Its Label? PC Magazine
Digital Media Wire - VentureBeat
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TorrentFreak

BitTorrent Still King of P2P Traffic
TorrentFreak
A recent analysis of the latest P2P trends wordwide shows that BitTorrent is still the most popular filesharing protocol. P2P traffic in general shows a slight decline, but BitTorrent traffic is still on the rise. It is responsible for more than 45-78% ...
Ares is Number One! Slyck
Internet traffic report: P2P, porn down; games and Flash up Ars Technica
New ipoque Internet Study Finds Web and Streaming Outgrows P2P Traffic MSNBC
ARNnet
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KavaSoft announces KavaMovies 1.2 - The Mac Movie Database
prMac (press release), TX - 3 hours ago
And downloading with BitTorrent has never been simpler: one click to search, another click to start the download in your favorite client. ...

Princeton computer scientists guide Internet transparency project
Princeton University, NJ
Another tool, Glasnost, attempts to determine if an Internet service provider, such as Comcast or Verizon, is specifically controlling the data-transfer speed of programs such as BitTorrent, a popular file-sharing program. In 2007, customers complained ...

TorrentFreak

Study: Other Network Traffic Surpassing P-to-P Growth
PC World - 5 hours ago
The data suggests that Internet users are looking at alternative ways to download or view content, other than solely using BitTorrent or other P-to-P ...
BitTorrent Still King of P2P Traffic TorrentFreak
New ipoque Internet Study Finds Web and Streaming Outgrows P2P Traffic MSNBC
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I link, therefore I am - BBC News

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I link, therefore I am
BBC News, UK
One of the technologies that makes PVRs redundant is of course BitTorrent, the distributed file-sharing protocol that allows very large files to be split into large numbers of relatively small chunks that can be scattered over thousands or indeed ...

TorrentFreak

Abba star slates 'lazy, stingy' Pirate Bay fans
Register, UK
His harsh remarks came yesterday after the shock decision by the prosecution in the case against The Pirate Bay to drop all charges of copyright infringement against the infamous BitTorrent site. Ulvaeus, who also co-produced the box office hit Mamma ...
Record labels accuse The Pirate Bay of 'purposeful crime on a ... Telegraph.co.uk
Download Steal This Film - Spectrial Edition TorrentFreak
New Steal This Film Documentary Just In Time For Pirate Bay Trial NewTeeVee
Computerworld - Examiner.com
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Windows 7 Build 7048 Labeled Release Candidate 1 (RC1)
Softpedia, Romania - 13 hours ago
... only the bits for Windows 7 Build 7022 are available for download in the wild, with the 32-bit flavor having been leaked to BitTorrent trackers. ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Prosecutor drops a charge in Pirate Bay case
ZDNet
Huge win for the Pirate Bay in the Swedish prosecution of the BitTorrent search engine: The prosecutor has dropped one of the major charges against the four men who run the Bay, IT World reports. Prosecutors dropped a charge for aiding in the copying ...
Swedish prosecutors drop some charges in The Pirate Bay trial CNET News
Prosecutors Reduce Charges Against The Pirate Bay InformationWeek
The Pirate Bay Still Sailing As Major Charges Dropped ChannelWeb
Techtree.com - Register
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TorrentFreak

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TorrentFreak - 8 hours ago
Both releases were downloaded an estimated 5 millions times each, and both films remain well seeded on BitTorrent up until today. ...

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Western Europeans Pirate More
Escapist Magazine, NC - Feb 17, 2009
More specifically concerning games, a study monitored the rate at which a selection of 13 game titles were download over the BitTorrent and EDonkey networks ...
Piracy report highlights European countries Joystiq
ESA: Western Europe Among 'Worst Offenders' In Online Game Piracy Gamasutra
IP Crusaders Want Robust Anti-Piracy Agenda National Journal
Zergwatch
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Piracy report highlights European countries
Joystiq, CA - 1 hour ago
It calls out BitTorrent and eDonkey as the two leading P2P networks for illegal downloads. The ESA highlighted one part of the report, which involved ...
ESA: Western Europe Among 'Worst Offenders' In Online Game Piracy Gamasutra
IP Crusaders Want Robust Anti-Piracy Agenda National Journal
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RE: Comment by merkoth
Newmobilecomputing.com - 21 hours ago
I think BitTorrent could prove like a very useful way to distribute _legal_ digital media, reducing production costs dramatically! ...

Times Online

Swedish prosecutors drop some charges in The Pirate Bay trial
CNET News, CA - 13 hours ago
... that points visitors to files -- many of which are Hollywood films, music videos, and commercial software -- available through the BitTorrent protocol. ...
The Pirate Bay Still Sailing As Major Charges Dropped ChannelWeb
Prosecutors Reduce Charges Against The Pirate Bay InformationWeek
Pirate Bay trial gets massive online coverage NetworkWorld.com
Techtree.com - ITworld.com
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Prosecutors Reduce Charges Against The Pirate Bay
InformationWeek, NY - 10 hours ago
The Pirate Bay is accused of making copyrighted materials available to Internet users for free through BitTorrent. On Tuesday, during the second day of the ...

Pirate Bay joy at charge change - BBC News

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Pirate Bay joy at charge change
BBC News, UK - 6 hours ago
BitTorrent is a legal application used by many file-shares to swap content because of the fast and efficient manner it distributes files. ...

Charges against The Pirate Bay partly dropped: torrent search ...
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 15 minutes ago
BitTorrent, BitTorrent search engines, trackers - and even the very notion of peer-to-peer (P2P) data transfer - are widely regarded in the media and by ...

Hardware encourages breaking copyright law
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 6 hours ago
Alex Singleton wrote the other week about the inconvenience of BitTorrent and he's absolutely right. It would be far better to download directly from a big ...

Ars Technica

Air Force engineers develop BitTorrent sniffer
Ars Technica, MA
Air Force Institute of Technology engineers are working on a system that can detect the transfer of illegal content with BitTorrent on networks efficiently, but they haven't licked the problem—yet. By Iljitsch van Beijnum | Last updated February 16, ...

StatShot: SNL Tweets and a Werewolf Feast
NewTeeVee, CA - Feb 16, 2009
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The Pirates Get Boarded
I Really Should Study, WA - 15 minutes ago
Seattle - The Pirate Bay, one of the most high-profile BitTorrent tracker sites, finds itself in court in Stockholm today. The four men that run the site ...

Pirate Bay in the dock as filesharing trial begins
guardian.co.uk, UK - 22 minutes ago
The Pirate Bay is a "torrent" tracker, which uses the peer-to-peer file sharing technology called BitTorrent. Trackers don't host the music, ...

Pirate Bay trial begins in Sweden - What PC?

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Pirate Bay trial begins in Sweden
What PC?, UK - 5 minutes ago
Four men from The Pirate Bay, the world's largest BitTorrent tracker, will stand trial in Sweden today, accused of profiting from the distribution of ...

TorrentFreak

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, “Underworld: Rise of the Lycans” tops the chart this week. Two other newcomers, “The Day the Earth Stood Still” and “Thick as Thieves” are in second and third place respectively. ...

The Pirate Bay BitTorrent site goes on trial
iGIZMO, UK - 10 minutes ago
The site operates a BitTorrent tracker, which enables internet users to share files with one another - but no copyright protected material is actually ...

BBC News

The Pirate Bay: BitTorrent Tracker Goes on Trial
Techtree.com, India
Swedish website, The Pirate Bay, which claims to be the world's largest illegal BitTorrent tracker will go under trail today. The Pirate Bay does not host copyrighted content, but acts as a search engine for 'torrents' available online and directs ...
Pirate Bay Jokes With the Prosecution, Dissuades Hackers Wall Street Journal
Thepiratebay.org Trial Update Seattle University Spectator
BitTorrent Meltdown Possible if TPB Goes Dark Hard OCP
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LS2 Investments Inc. Releases TorrentRun.com, a New Bittorrent ...
PR Web (press release), WA
LS2 Investments Inc., a software investment company has released a new revolution in the Bittorrent industry. TorrentRun.com is a paid service that allows members to run torrents on TorrentRun.com's fast servers located worldwide. ...

Pirate Bay Crew Defiant on Eve of Landmark Trial
Wired News - 21 minutes ago
... Hours away from their landmark criminal trial in Sweden, the men behind the world’s most notorious BitTorrent site are showing no sign of regret. ...

Times Online

The Pirate Bay trial to begin in Sweden
CNET News, CA - 5 hours ago
The Sweden-based BitTorrent indexing site has defiantly linked to pirated copies of films, TV shows, music videos, and other content while often boasting ...
Pirate Bay Crew Defiant on Eve of Landmark Trial Wired News
BitTorrent Meltdown Possible if TPB Goes Dark Hard OCP
If Pirate Bay Is Shut Down, It Could Take All of BitTorrent With It Gizmodo
The Associated Press - NewTeeVee
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Times Online

Pirate Bay founders walk the plank over free downloads
Times Online, UK - 1 hour ago
Using a search engine and an internet protocol called BitTorrent, which enables the transfer of large files, the site contains information needed to ...
BitTorrent Meltdown Possible if TPB Goes Dark Hard OCP
If Pirate Bay Is Shut Down, It Could Take All of BitTorrent With It Gizmodo
Pirate Bay file-sharing trial to start in Sweden The Associated Press
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Feds Shut Down Illegal 'Star Wars' Site
Sci-Tech Today - Feb 15, 2009
By Elizabeth Millard The Elite Torrents network relied on BitTorrent technology, which has been targeted by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) ...

TorrentFreak

uTorrent Adds Google Powered Torrent Search
TorrentFreak - Feb 14, 2009
uTorrent - the client of choice for most BitTorrent users - has added a Google powered torrent search engine to its website. This added search capability ...

BitTorrent Meltdown Possible if TPB Goes Dark
Hard OCP, TX - Feb 14, 2009
TorrentFreak tells us that P2P researchers are concerned about how the BitTorrent community will fare if The Pirate Bay goes down. ...
Online copyright showdown as studios take on ‘pirate paradise’ Sunday Herald
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Landmark Pirate Bay Trial Begins Monday
All About Jazz, PA - 20 minutes ago
The men behind of the notorious BitTorrent tracking service known for pointing the way to pirated software, games, music and movies are accused of ...

Seattle Post Intelligencer

High schoolers quiz Microsoft's Bach on Vista, Xbox
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Feb 14, 2009
"My friend got Windows 7 through BitTorrent and tested it and said it's really good." Bach responded that "Vista may be a little bit better than your ...

Students grill Microsoft on Windows, Xbox problems
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 16 hours ago
"My friend got Windows 7 through BitTorrent and tested it and said it's really good." Bach responded that "Vista may be a little bit better than your ...

Landmark Pirate Bay Trial Begins Monday
Wired News - 11 minutes ago
The men behind of the notorious BitTorrent tracking service known for pointing the way to pirated software, games, music and movies are accused of ...

High schoolers quiz Microsoft's Bach on Vista, Xbox
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 5 hours ago
My friend got Windows 7 through BitTorrent and tested it and said it's really good." Bach responded that "Vista may be a little bit better than your ...

If Pirate Bay Is Shut Down, It Could Take All of BitTorrent With It
Gizmodo - Feb 13, 2009
Yikes, I know, but here's the scariest part: if Pirate Bay falls, it could be big trouble for BitTorrent as a whole. P2P researchers crunched the numbers ...

Boucher Says Deploying Wider Broadband Is an "Overriding Goal" as ...
Broadcasting & Cable, NY - Feb 13, 2009
Comcast and Bittorrent, for example, began working together on management solutions regarding peer-to-peer traffic management, albeit after Bittorrent had ...
Boucher: Broadband Deployment Will Be Priority Broadcasting & Cable
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New post-beta Windows 7 build leaks to Web
Computerworld, MA - Feb 13, 2009
In October, the alpha of Windows 7 hit BitTorrent just hours after it was handed to attendees at the Professional Developers Conference. ...

Pirate Bay Trial to Start on Monday
PC World - 29 minutes ago
The trial against four people involved in running The Pirate Bay, one of the most widely used BitTorrent trackers for music, movies and software, ...

Download Transmission 1.50 Beta 6 - Softpedia

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Download Transmission 1.50 Beta 6
Softpedia, Romania - 16 hours ago
By Filip Truta, Apple News Editor Transmission, the popular BitTorrent client for Mac OS X, has reached its sixth beta for version 1.50. ...

Ars Technica

Internet piracy trial of the decade to begin
Times Online, UK - 6 hours ago
The Pirate Bay site, based in Sweden, is the world's largest BitTorrent tracker and search engine with an estimated 25 million active users. ...
Pirate Bay Trial to Start on Monday PC World
Pirate Bay Trial Begins Monday MP3 Newswire
Pirate Bay trial starts Monday; pirate bus en route Ars Technica
The Local - p2pnet.net
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A cloud computing primer - ITworld.com

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A cloud computing primer
ITworld.com, MA - Feb 12, 2009
Skype and BitTorrent are sometimes considered successful cloud computing architectures due to their peer-to-peer and scalable natures. ...
Cloud Computing Pros and Cons for End Users informIT
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Prime time finally embraces the internet
Hydrapinion, Australia - 9 hours ago
A lot of people justify illegally downloading TV shows, via BitTorrent or Usenet, by claiming they only do it because there isn't a legitimate alternative. ...

Ars Technica

New post-beta Windows 7 build leaks to Web
Computerworld, MA - 22 hours ago
In October, the alpha of Windows 7 hit BitTorrent just hours after it was handed to attendees at the Professional Developers Conference. ...
Windows 7 Build 7022 Installation – 40 Screenshots Softpedia
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Miro 2.0 released - Heise Online

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Miro 2.0 released
Heise Online, Germany - 23 hours ago
Miro is able to subscribe to RSS feeds and can seamlessly use BitTorrent to download content. MiroGuide is integrated into Miro to allow new users to find ...
Miro Outdoes iTunes with New Channel Guide NewTeeVee
Miro 2.0 revamps interface and improves performance tuaw.com
Miro 2.0 adds new interface, external video window MacNN
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Internet piracy debated - The Santa Clara

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Internet piracy debated
The Santa Clara,  USA - 15 hours ago
BitTorrent is another popular method for downloading, which allows exponential distribution of data as people download small pieces of a file from different ...

Some Of Australia's Tubes Are About To Be Filtered
Slashdot - 7 hours ago
... and an optional adult content filter, and the government has said it hasn't ruled out the possibility of filtering BitTorrent traffic. ...

Sniffing Out Illicit BitTorrent Files
MIT Technology Review, MA - Feb 11, 2009
By Duncan Graham-Rowe A new technique has been developed for detecting and tracking illegal content transferred using the BitTorrent file-trading protocol. ...

Slyck Interviews Giganews - Slyck

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Slyck

Slyck Interviews Giganews
Slyck, NY - 8 hours ago
Giganews: As a Service Provider under the DMCA, we stand in stark contrast to file sharing technologies such as BitTorrent. The DMCA is the codification of ...

Appfrica

Bit Torrent in Developing Countries
Appfrica, Uganda - Feb 11, 2009
So Bittorrent and peer-to-peer sharing in general is the bane of the majority of the media industry, highly destructive and incredibly disruptive to a ...

Virgin Media trials longer bandwidth throttling
Register, UK - 16 hours ago
... CEO Neil Berkett told The Register the firm plans to introduce application-specific restrictions this year to target BitTorrent users. ...
Virgin throttles Preston, but says it's for its own good PC Pro
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RE[3]: Legit Clones - OS News

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RE[3]: Legit Clones
OS News - 18 hours ago
Apple doesn't care what hobbyists do with BitTorrent. The Psystar case is about vultures using their investments against them, and if there were antipiracy ...

The Inquisitr

BitTorrent in Developing Countries
The Inquisitr, Australia - Feb 10, 2009
So Bittorrent and peer-to-peer sharing in general is the bane of the majority of the media industry, highly destructive and incredibly disruptive to a ...

TorrentFreak

Get Your TV-Torrent Fix with Miro
TorrentFreak - Feb 10, 2009
Miro, the Internet TV player with a built in BitTorrent client released a new version today. LegalTorrents is now added as a default site, but users are of ...

Miro Gets A Makeover - Washington Post

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Miro Gets A Makeover
Washington Post, United States - Feb 10, 2009
Miro, a BitTorrent-enabled, Firefox-like open-source application was built by non-profit Participatory Culture Foundation and boasts of more than 4 million ...
Miro Media Player Out in Version 2.0 OStatic
Miro 2.0 released Current IT news from heise online
Miro 2.0: What if Boxee and iTunes Had a Love Child? ReadWriteWeb
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5 Ways to Stop Album Leaks - Zeropaid

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5 Ways to Stop Album Leaks
Zeropaid, CA - 18 hours ago
For the file-sharing community, BitTorrent in particular, courtesy of tracker sites like Waffles and What, leaked albums have been a mainstay of available ...

TorrentFreak

Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Feb 10, 2009
TV-shows are some of the most wanted files on BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people ...

DailyTech

MSU-endorsed download site shuts down
MSU State News, MI - 17 hours ago
A legal alternative to music downloading programs such as Limewire or BitTorrent “definitely helped,” Hall said. Three years ago, MSU announced its ...
Ruckus bites the dust p2pnet.net
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Groove Armada Pioneer New Online Music Sharing System
Spacelab, MN - 14 hours ago
Trent Reznor did that with the Nine Inch Nails release Ghosts last year, seeding the album on BitTorrent as well as making it available for free through the ...
Groove Armada - Drop The Tough EP Music Magazine
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TorrentFreak

Internet's most prolific pirate: aXXo is everywhere, and nowhere
Belfast Telegraph, United Kingdom - Feb 9, 2009
The post in question contained a BitTorrent file – the most widespread and efficient filesharing method on the web – containing an illicit copy of a ...
Mininova - One Million Torrents Strong TorrentFreak
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TorrentFreak

Mininova - One Million Torrents Strong
TorrentFreak - 3 hours ago
These meta-data files are spread out over 10 categories on this BitTorrent giant, with movies and music representing more than half of all the torrents. ...

Danish ISPs Challenge Court Order to Block The Pirate Bay
Zeropaid, CA - 22 hours ago
Court ruling forcing all Danish ISPs to block customers from accessing the famed BitTorrent tracker site forces the country's ISPs to fight back. ...
Danish ISPs Fight For Right To Offer Pirate Bay Access paidContent
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Ruckus bites the dust
p2pnet.net, Canada - 14 hours ago
If one is going to be operating in this gray area anyway, why not just go for the best and get high quality, usable music via bittorrent and torrent ...

Windows 7 Build 7022 (RC Branch) Leaked and Available for Download
Softpedia, Romania - 16 hours ago
In this regard, Windows 7 Build 7022 has been leaked to torrent websites with the bites now accessible to all users with a BitTorrent client. ...
Microsoft Fan Urges Release of Windows 7 Windows & Net Magazine
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MacHEADS Documentary Leaked on BitTorrent Sites
Softpedia, Romania - Feb 9, 2009
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TorrentFreak

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Feb 9, 2009
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, “Body of Lies” tops the chart this week. “Sex Drive” and “Changeling” remain in second and third place ...

BitTorrent piracy is for cash-poor teenagers with time on their hands
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - Feb 9, 2009
Yes, you can download films using BitTorrent and not pay for them, but it's a right royal pain, something time-rich and cash-poor teenagers will put up with ...

Someone is Leaking Our Torrents - BURN HIM!
TorrentFreak - Feb 8, 2009
The following story revolves around a small private BitTorrent tracker, one that specializes in various sub-genres of urban music. ...

Opening salvos in landmark piracy case
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 6 hours ago
The studios hired online investigators DtecNet to intercept BitTorrent traffic and record all instances of iiNet users downloading copyrighted movies ...
Internet liberty at stake: Fanny’s not for burning TECH.BLORGE.com
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Vuze calls FCC to Probe Cox's Net Traffic Wrangling
Tom's Guide, CA - Feb 7, 2009
“That (P2P Traffic) includes all bittorrent applications, including our Vuze application. We take that personally, and think you should too. ...
Cox testing system in state to prioritize peak-time Net use Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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TorrentFreak

Mac Vs. PC: Who's the More Considerate BitTorrent Software Thief?
Gizmodo - Feb 7, 2009
By Dan Nosowitz , 4:00 PM on Sat Feb 7 2009, 210 views TorrentFreak checked some seed and leech numbers of Mac, Windows, and Linux software to see who's got ...
Mac vs. PC: The Pirate Edition TorrentFreak
Pirate Bay data shows Mac users don’t share TECH.BLORGE.com
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The Pirate Bay Demand Webcast of Trial
TorrentFreak - 10 hours ago
The case of the largest BitTorrent tracker, The Pirate Bay, will be followed by millions around the world. The Pirate Bay team have been preparing for the ...

Torrent Site ‘Franchise’ Eliminated by BREIN
TorrentFreak - Feb 7, 2009
However, they tend to ignore some of the largest BitTorrent sites on the Internet, some of which are also hosted in The Netherlands. ...

The Pirate Bay Plans to Sue IFPI
IT Business Net, CA - 11 minutes ago
... Pirate Bay has once again ignited a debate on Internet filtering, the responsibilities of Internet providers and the legal status of BitTorrent sites. ...

Comcast, BitTorrent to work together on network management
Computerworld, MA - Feb 6, 2009
March 27, 2008 (IDG News Service) Comcast Corp., which has been under fire for slowing some BitTorrent Inc. traffic, will work with the peer-to-peer (P2P) ...

Why No One Can Stop Torrents - Tom's Guide

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Why No One Can Stop Torrents
Tom's Guide, CA - 17 hours ago
“I was getting into the BitTorrent ‘movement’ downloading the shows I missed at night while at work," Angeli said to TorrentFreak. ...

TorrentFreak

Mac vs. PC: The Pirate Edition
TorrentFreak - 18 hours ago
Unsurprisingly, the ads never covered BitTorrent etiquette, because Windows users are better ‘pirates’ compared to their Mac counterparts. ...

IT Examiner

The Pirate Bay Maps Tracker Connections, China Has Most
Zeropaid, CA - Feb 6, 2009
Sweden-based BitTorrent tracker site rolls out new Google-powered map that shows user base percentages by country. Leave it to The Pirate Bay to dazzle ...
The Pirate Bay Plans to Sue IFPI TorrentFreak
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Global torrent connections mapped out by The Pirate Bay Ars Technica
PC Magazine - Music Ally
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BREIN Removes Last Franchise Torrent Sites
Slyck, NY - 1 hour ago
Last month, BREIN, launched a wide scale enforcement action against 75 BitTorrent websites. It was a quick victory of sorts, at least from a financial ...

Charter to Have Data Caps Beginning Next Week
Zeropaid, CA - Feb 6, 2009
... slowly gaining hold amongst most ISPs as a neutral means for fighting network congestion post-FCC ruling that censured Cox for throttling BitTorrent. ...

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Hollywood Studios Battle Digital Theft
RedOrbit, TX - Feb 6, 2009
However, the slow download process, often using a peer-to-peer technology called BitTorrent, required a healthy dose of patience and sophisticated users. ...
Hollywood is scared: Streaming has brought movie piracy into the ... CrunchGear
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CNET News

TorrentSpy Asks Court To Reverse $111M Verdict
MediaPost Publications, New York - Feb 6, 2009
by Wendy Davis, 14 minutes ago In a closely watched case, the defunct BitTorrent search site TorrentSpy has asked a federal appellate court to reverse a ...
TorrentSpy Appeals $110 Million Judgment Won by MPAA Zeropaid
TorrentSpy Appeals $111 Million Copyright Judgment Digital Media Wire
Source: 'Significant' layoffs at MPAA CNET News
Fudzilla - Hard OCP
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Opening salvos in landmark piracy case
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - Feb 5, 2009
The studios hired online investigators DtecNet to intercept BitTorrent traffic and record all instances of iiNet users downloading copyrighted movies ...
IiNet fights movie piracy case Fudzilla
Movie giants sue Australian ISP in landmark case CD Freaks.com
iiNet prepares its defence in copyright infringement case NetworkWorld.com
ABC Online - Australian IT
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CNET News

TorrentSpy Appeals $110 Million Judgment Won by MPAA
Zeropaid, CA - 7 hours ago
Says Federal Judge in the case was wrong to ask it to violate the public BitTorrent tracker site's user privacy rules. TorrentSpy was once the most popular ...
TorrentSpy Appeals $111 Million Copyright Judgment Digital Media Wire
Source: 'Significant' layoffs at MPAA CNET News
MPAA makes significant layoffs Fudzilla
Hard OCP - Afterdawn.com
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CrunchGear

Hollywood is scared: Streaming has brought movie piracy into the ...
CrunchGear, NY - 11 hours ago
It seems that rampant online movie piracy—via BitTorrent, Usenet, streaming, etc.—is responsible for as much as 40 percent of Hollywood’s piracy-related ...
Piraten besiegen die Filmindustrie derStandard.at
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TorrentFreak

Linuxtracker - Moving 180 Terabytes of Linux a Year
TorrentFreak - 23 hours ago
Nearly three years ago, we mentioned Linuxtracker in a short post on BitTorrent sites that list ‘legal’ software downloads. Now, the site is celebrating its ...

Ready made ADSL ISP solution - MyADSL

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Ready made ADSL ISP solution
MyADSL, South Africa - 2 hours ago
Neology has announced the availability of its Hosted ADSL ISP Platform catering to Internet Service Providers (ISP) and Operators in South Africa. ...

IT Examiner

Global torrent connections mapped out by The Pirate Bay
Ars Technica, MA - 18 hours ago
The map also doesn't necessarily reflect overall P2P behavior, as there are P2P networks not reflected here that are preferred over BitTorrent in certain ...
Mapping the World of Piracy NewTeeVee
Most Software Pirates Are Chinese, Pirate Org Reports PC Magazine
The Pirate Bay launches interactive torrent map Music Ally
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TorrentSpy Appeals $111 Million Copyright Judgment
Digital Media Wire, CA - 9 hours ago
Los Angeles - TorrentSpy, the operator of a now-shuttered BitTorrent file-sharing hub that was sued for copyright infringement by the Motion Picture ...
TorrentSpy set to appeal MPAA lawsuit Afterdawn.com
TorrentSpy restarts fight against MPAA Inquirer
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Mapping the World of Piracy - NewTeeVee

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IT Examiner

Mapping the World of Piracy
NewTeeVee, CA - 14 hours ago
It’sa pretty fascinating project in that it helps to dispel certain myths about BitTorrent, namely that while piracy may be a global phenomenon, ...
Global torrent connections mapped out by The Pirate Bay Ars Technica
Most Software Pirates Are Chinese, Pirate Org Reports PC Magazine
Danes block The Pirate Bay Web User
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HLS Electronic Sit In: Make Friday the 13 bad luck for HLS
Cleveland Indy Media, OH - 18 hours ago
... messing with our hosting services, we had to resort to hosting the action on hard to get to places such as Tor, and the filing sharing site, Bittorrent. ...

Vuze Takes Dim View of Cox Net Neutrality Plan
eWeek,  NY - 5 hours ago
In August 2008, the FCC ruled that Comcast violated the agency's Internet policy when it throttled P2P traffic by BitTorrent during times of peak network ...
Vuze Calls for FCC Scrutiny of Cox P2P Throttling Plan Zeropaid
Vuze calls for FCC probe of Cox Cable traffic management Ars Technica
CABLE DIGITAL NEWS ANALYSIS Light Reading
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Find Out If Your ISP Is Throttling Your Internet Service
PC World - Feb 4, 2009
The ISPs' real targets aren't businesses, but people playing bandwidth-intensive games and doing huge uploads/downloads using things like BitTorrent. ...

TorrentSpy appeals $110 million judgement
TechSpot - 14 hours ago
By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com It appears that the once popular BitTorrent indexing site, TorrentSpy, is preparing to fight the year-old court order that led ...
TorrentSpy appeals decision in MPAA lawsuit CD Freaks.com
TorrentSpy to Appeal in MPAA Court Case TorrentFreak
TorrentSpy renews legal campaign against MPAA CNET News
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Most Software Pirates Are Chinese, Pirate Org Reports
PC Magazine - 8 hours ago
The Pirate Bay uses the BitTorrent protocol to seed all sorts of pirated digital goods, including software, movies, music, and pictures. ...
The Pirate Bay Maps Out its Tracker Connections TorrentFreak
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Where Do Software Pirates Come From? Look Here
Appscout, NY - 1 hour ago
The Pirate Bay uses the BitTorrent protocol to seed all sorts of pirated digital goods, including software, movies, music, and pictures. ...
The Pirate Bay Maps Out its Tracker Connections TorrentFreak
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Zatz Not Funny

Oscar Screeners & P2P Sharing
Zatz Not Funny, DC - 19 hours ago
In general, though, the most reliable and accessible analysis of Bittorrent behavior is provided by TorrentFreak in their weekly top 10 lists, ...
Where do all those Oscar screeners come from? CrunchGear
Oscars screeners appear online in six days, on average Tech Digest
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Official Noob Guide for getting into Private BitTorrent Trackers
Zeropaid, CA - Feb 4, 2009
Easy step-by-step guide detailing how to climb the ranks to gain access to the best private tracker sites BitTorrent has to offer. ...

iiNet gears for court battle
Australian IT, Australia - 15 hours ago
BitTorrent is said to be the most popular file-swapping platform allegedly used by iiNet subscribers to exchange files. AFACT is seeking damages that could ...
Aus ISP iiNet To File Copyright Case Defense Billboard Business News
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StatShot: Super-Sized Tweets - NewTeeVee

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StatShot: Super-Sized Tweets
NewTeeVee, CA - 6 hours ago
Vikings are the name of the game over at TorrentFreak’s Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent list, as James Caviezel leads a band of Norsemen against an ...

iiNet gears for court battle
Australian IT, Australia - 1 hour ago
BitTorrent is said to be the most popular file-swapping platform allegedly used by iiNet subscribers to exchange files. AFACT is seeking damages that could ...

CrunchGear

Where do all those Oscar screeners come from?
CrunchGear, NY - 10 hours ago
... specifically: how do screeners of these Academy Award nominated films wind up available for download on BitTorrent, Usenet, etc. ...
In short: Oscar-nominated short films coming to Harbor Theater MLive.com
And the Oscars screening goes to ..... Memphis! Memphis Commercial Appeal
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Hollywood Legal Threat Leads to Detective Work
Computerworld, MA - 11 hours ago
... the IP address of the computer involved, the name of the suspicious file and the suspected method of transfer (BitTorrent or Morpheus, for example). ...

How to: Manage Traffic Using Tomato and QoS
Wi-Fi Planet, CT - Feb 3, 2009
There is Web browsing (HTTP), for example, but there may also be gaming, and VoIP, and FTP, and P2P data, such as BitTorrent. But not all traffic is created ...

TorrentFreak

Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Feb 3, 2009
TV shows are by far the most wanted files on BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people downloading ...

Vuze Calls for FCC Scrutiny of Cox P2P Throttling Plan
Zeropaid, CA - Feb 3, 2009
Concerned that content available on the Vuze HD Network will automatically be given a lower priority since it's delivered via a BitTorrent client. ...
Vuze calls for FCC probe of Cox Cable traffic management Ars Technica
CABLE DIGITAL NEWS ANALYSIS Light Reading
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European ISPs About to be Slammed?
TMCnet - 20 hours ago
By Gary Kim As the US Federal Communications Commission has made clear, Internet service providers may not block specific protocols, such as BitTorrent ...

Cloud computing is a storage spot for malware
SC Magazine UK, UK - 22 hours ago
Hobson said: “Using P2P programs like BitTorrent has always been a risky procedure for PC users owing to the issue of infections arriving along with the ...

Ars Technica

iPhone App Cracker Released--Then Pirated
PC World - Feb 2, 2009
... purchased from Apple's iTunes Store, allowing anyone to share the cracked app with friends or on BitTorrent, peer-to-peer networks, or sharing sites. ...
Irony – iPhone App Cracker Gets Pirated Softpedia
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TorrentFreak

Get Into 200+ Private BitTorrent Sites
TorrentFreak - Feb 2, 2009
Getting an account at a good private BitTorrent tracker can be quite a challenge. Some people make a habit out of it, checking dozens of torrent sites every ...

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Feb 2, 2009
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, “Outlander” tops the chart this week, followed by “Sex Drive” and “Changeling”. ...

Pirated iLife '09 Seemingly Clean of Malware So Far
Softpedia, Romania - 20 minutes ago
A. The malware was reportedly circulating in copies of Apple’s iWork '09 found on BitTorrent trackers and other sites containing links to pirated software, ...

Google offers test for Web blocking
Rocky Mountain News, CO - Feb 1, 2009
Programs will let Web users identify problems that may slow their connections, and figure out whether their broadband providers are blocking BitTorrent, ...
Google-backed tool detects Net filtering, blocking ZDNet Asia
Google tools to tell all on ISP throttle practices Australian IT
M-Labs Throws Wet Blanket Over Covert Traffic Throttlers Marketing Vox News
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Is the war on online piracy Lost? - The Age

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Is the war on online piracy Lost?
The Age, Australia - Feb 1, 2009
Anyone with internet access can already download the first three episodes of the new series of Lost using BitTorrent. If you combine the uTorrent software ...

EU Plots Pirate Bay Ban and Piracy Clampdown
TorrentFreak - 12 hours ago
The report specifically mentions The Pirate Bay, and it approves actions by national courts against the popular BitTorrent tracker. ...

Is the war on online piracy Lost?
Brisbane Times, Australia - 57 minutes ago
Anyone with internet access can already download the first three episodes of the new series of Lost using BitTorrent. If you combine the uTorrent software ...

MMC RTV Slovenija - prvi multimedijski portal
RTV Slovenija, Slovenia - 14 hours ago
The new variant is being distributed via BitTorrent within Adobe Photoshop CS4 for the Mac. According to Intego, the new Trojan is named OSX.Trojan. ...
MMC RTV Slovenija - prvi multimedijski portal RTV Slovenija
MMC RTV Slovenija - prvi multimedijski portal RTV Slovenija
MMC RTV Slovenija - prvi multimedijski portal RTV Slovenija
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thx for utorrent - Techtree.com

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thx for utorrent
Techtree.com, India - Jan 31, 2009
... 2006 05:01 AM, Report abuse Reply actually, having hacked around a bittorrent core, i strongly recommend you all stick with the official client for the ...

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