TorrentFreak | Amazon Doesn't Want to Sell Music to Pirates TorrentFreak One of these features is a link to buy the various albums on Amazon, after downloading them on BitTorrent and enjoying the sample. Surprisingly enough, Amazon objects to getting business this way and has taken action. When we first reported on Coda.fm ... |
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TorrentFreak | Google Custom Search Cuts BitTorrent Off TorrentFreak The immensely popular bittorrent client utorrent recently added a Google powered torrent search engine to its website. This added search capability used Google's custom search program and allowed visitors to search for .torrent files on Google. ... |
Wyzo Web Browser is a Downloader's Dream Lifehacker, CA Windows/Mac/Linux: Built from the Firefox core, free web browser Wyzo integrates bittorrent capabilities, download acceleration, and much more—though you can get many of Wyzo's best features in Firefox if you're not up for the switch. ... |
CrunchGear | Research suggests Internet could run out of bandwidth in the ... CrunchGear, NY The study, carried out by Nemertes Research, suggests that the proliferation of bandwidth-intensive Web sites (again, YouTube, Hulu, and iPlayer for you Brits) and services (BitTorrent) is wreaking havoc on the Internet's fragile infrastructure. ... |
Windows 7 RC Torrents May Hide Malware PC Magazine by Larry Seltzer Of course, every time a major release like this comes out it gets leaked on to BitTorrent, the open peer-to-peer network, and that has happened with Windows 7 as well. But downloading and installing these copies of it is inadvisable if ... |
Leaked Windows 7 RC Torrents Infected With Trojan PC Magazine Of course, every time a major release like this comes out it gets leaked on to bittorrent, the open peer-to-peer network, and that has happened with Windows 7 as well. But downloading and installing these copies of it is inadvisable if you believe the ... |
Macworld UK | Swords drawn in Pirate Bay New Statesman, UK The best example of this is BitTorrent, which provides a way to share large files over the internet by storing relatively small chunks on lots of separate computers. In order to get your hands on the leaked copy of the new film Wolverine, for example, ... RIAA's Hostile Takeover of the Internet Italian Courts Target Pirate Bay |
Zeropaid | Hong Kong Cops Bust Another BitTorrent User Zeropaid, CA Back on May 9th, 2007 Chan Nai-ming, a Hong Kong resident, gained the distinction of becoming the world's first person to be convicted for using BitTorrent to illegally distribute copyrighted material online. He was sentenced to 3 months jail which he ... |
Hungarian BitTorrent sites raided Afterdawn.com Police in Hungary have raided and shut down several BitTorrent and Warez sites in actions against growing Internet piracy in the country. Hungary was kept on the piracy "watch list" for many reasons, one being the existence of several "pay to leech" ... |
Earthtimes (press release) | Hong Kong makes third BitTorrent arrest Afterdawn.com Hong Kong set a precedent in 2005 when a man was jailed for three months for downloading and sharing films using BitTorrent software, the first conviction of its kind in the world. Customs officers announced on Wednesday that they had arrested a man ... Hong Kong arrests third BitTorrent user for sharing movies online HK Man Arrested for Sharing Films with bittorrent Man arrested for film piracy |
Transmission 1.60 Beta 1 released Zeropaid, CA Transmission is one of several popular Mac BitTorrent clients, which includes XTorrent and BitRocket among others. It's developers recently announced the release of version 1.60 Beta 1 for users to test out in advance of a new stable update. ... |
Tom's Hardware : News google pirate bay bittorrent torrent Tom's Hardware Guide, CA “Bit torrent technology can be used for both legal and illegal means on Pirate Bay in the same way as by Google or MySpace,” said defense lawyer Jonas Nilsson on the closing day of the trial. The prosecution, and subsequently the judge, didn't buy the ... |
Obama's 100 Days: High Marks for Science, Low for Privacy Wired News Free Press was the group responsible for getting the Federal Communications Commission last year to order Comcast to stop throttling bittorrent traffic. Scott, seen at right, supports Obama's nomination of Julias Genachowski as FCC chairman, ... |
Hong Kong arrests third BitTorrent user for sharing movies online Monsters and Critics.com Hong Kong - Customs officers in Hong Kong said Wednesday they arrested an internet user for distributing movies using BitTorrent technology, the third such arrest of its kind. The jobless 38-year-old was arrested after investigators monitoring internet ... HK Man Arrested for Sharing Films with bittorrent |
'Star Trek' release in Mexico delayed due to swine flu crisis Entertainment Weekly No decisions have been made about when Wolverine or Star Trek will open in Mexico. All that it will do is make bittorrent much more famous. Lucky that I can cross to San Diego. So, in short, there'll be no "pigs in spaaaaaaace". |
TorrentFreak | Why Pirates Buy More Music and Music Labels Fail TorrentFreak This is one of the main reasons why most users of music oriented BitTorrent sites love an initiative such as Spotify where they have access to one of the largest music libraries online. Although piracy can breed consumers, it's generally happens the ... Why Pirates Buy More Music and Music Labels Fail |
TorrentFreak | Wyzo 3, The bittorrent Web Browser TorrentFreak The newest version has been a long time in the making and is one of the few web browsers supporting bittorrent downloads straight out of the box. We first discovered Wyzo when it was released in June 2007. The project showed potential but many reported ... |
ABC News | Supreme Court Indecency Case Has Implications for Comcast/BitTorrent Public Knowledge Tech News and Comment, D.C. By Harold Feld on April 28, 2009 - 2:25pm To refresh everyone's memory, Comcast blocked/degraded/"delayed" peer2peer traffic -- notably BitTorrent uploads -- as a way of reducing demand on its network. We filed a complaint at the FCC, arguing that this ... The Supreme Court Back FCC Procedures in Dirty-Words Case |
CrunchGear | Cablevision to offer fastest broadband speed in America: 101 ... CrunchGear, NY My [private high-def BitTorrent site whose name I've removed] account is jumping for joy. Cablevision will be able to attain such speeds using Docsis 3 technology, something I won't even pretend to understand on a technical level. All I, and you, ... |
HK Man Arrested for Sharing Films with BitTorrent CRIENGLISH.com, China A man was arrested in Hong Kong after recently distributing two copyright films on the internet using a BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing program, the local Customs and Excise Department said Tuesday. The man, 38, allegedly uploaded BT seed files of ... |
The Supreme Court Back FCC Procedures in Dirty-Words Case New York Times Blogs, NY That was one reason that Comcast has challenged the commission after it was sanctioned for slowing down the connections of customers using the BitTorrent file sharing software. The Supreme Court Tuesday backed Mr. Martin's approach to procedures in a ... |
‘Bad' bittorrent and Warez Sites Raided By Police TorrentFreak Almost immediately action was taken against some bittorrent and warez sites operating in the country. In 2008 it was recommended in an International Intellectual Property Alliance report that Hungary should remain on a piracy ‘watch list' for that year ... |
Techtree.com | Review: Windows 7 RC1 adds speed, UI improvements -- and promises ... Computerworld, MA By Preston Gralla April 28, 2009 (Computerworld) Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 (RC1), prematurely available on BitTorrent file-sharing sites and due to be more widely available on May 5, is a polished piece of work, ready for prime time. ... Windows 7 Will Include "Windows XP Mode" Windows 7 RC1 is here... almost |
P2P Art - 5th Film Uploaded to BitTorrent Zeropaid, CA He uploads the original artwork to BitTorrent tracker sites, in this case Mininova, and seeds it until at least one other user has downloaded it. He then deletes it and everything used to create it from his PC so that the artwork will only be available ... P2P Art: an Interview with Anders Weberg |
Zeropaid | Taiwan Passes “Three-Strikes” Anti-P2P law Zeropaid, CA Researchers have already proven that BitTorrent users are prone to false copyright infringement claims so why should Taiwan's system be any different? It's unclear when the legislation will become law, but it comes on the heels of different outcomes ... |
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 sharing? Every week we take a look at the most downloaded TV-Shows on bittorrent. ... |
The Pirate's Dilemma UT The Daily Texan, TX The skull and crossbones flag flew at half-mast on April 17 when the Stockholm district court found the four operators of The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent search engine, guilty of assisting making available copyrighted material. Peter Sunde, Fredrik Nelj, ... |
Microsoft and the Economy Redmondmag.com, CA A few months ago, I got hammered when I mentioned a certain non-public Microsoft beta was available on bittorrent. A reader or two complained that these were unauthorized downloads and I was an unwitting accomplice. So now I will report that the ... |
Expatica Netherlands | Google: We're Not Like Pirate Bay InformationWeek, NY In the wake of a Swedish court's decision to imprison the operators of The Pirate Bay, a Web site that helps users search for BitTorrent files in the same way that Google handles general Internet file searches, Google wants to make sure everyone ... Stick piracy flag where it belongs 26/04/2009Do digital pirates belong in jail? Pirate Bay Opponents Hit by Denial-of-Service |
Australian Personal Computer | Microsoft Creates Leech-While-You-Sleep BitTorrent Hardware Zeropaid, CA It could be a private BitTorrent user's dream come true. Imagine your overall ratio being at 0.98 right before you put your computer into sleep mode and waking up the next morning to discover your ratio is now at 1.25 after bringing your computer back ... Boffins dream up Sleeptalking PC standby-mode tech PCs to get new Sleep Talking state Clever USB key lets your PC download while in standby mode |
Zeropaid | LittleShoot: ‘first true BitTorrent browser plugin' p2pnet.net, Canada “Whew, we've been busy,” he says, going on, “This version makes LittleShoot the first true BitTorrent browser plugin ever made and strengthens our hold as the easiest, most powerful P2P file sharing application on the planet.” Just download it and go. ... Congress Reopens Investigation of Limewire |
Zeropaid | Congress Reopens Investigation of Limewire Zeropaid, CA If it suddenly did somehow people would just switch to a modified version or another like kazaa Lite, bittorrent, etc., etc.. “‘What measures have you taken to identify and eliminate illegal activities associated with the use of Limewire, including any ... |
Game Developer Flirts With Pirates on bittorrent Sites TorrentFreak The developer of a new Windows-based first person shooter game is leaving comments on torrent sites via the actual torrent uploader in attempt to reach out to those thinking of downloading the game. ACE Team, the developer of Zeno Clash, ... |
Techtree.com | Windows 7 Will Include "Windows XP Mode" Lifehacker, CA It won't be baked directly into the Windows 7 Release Candidate, the free download officially due out May 5 but already circulating on bittorrent. Instead, an XP Mode plugin will be made available as a free download for Release Candidate users and, ... Windows 7 RC1 is here... almost |
MusicRadar.com - The place for music makers | Stick piracy flag where it belongs Personal Computer World, UK And don't popular internet sites, including Google, Yahoo and youtube, all lead us in the direction of similar bittorrent' files? Who then is the culprit, here? The people who facilitate file sharing, those who engage in the activity, the internet ... Google and Pirate Bay claw back legal challenges Modern-day pirates make me say, 'Argh' Mixed Review Of Swedish Pirate Bay Jail Sentences |
The Pirate Bay and The Pirate Google SYS-CON Media (press release), NJ By David Weinberger ThePirateBay has links to content hosted elsewhere that's available for download using the BitTorrent protocol. The site also provides a search engine for finding that content, and a page for each torrent with information about the ... |
Boffins dream up Sleeptalking' PC standby-mode tech Register, UK By Lewis Page • Get more from this author Computer boffins at Microsoft Research and UC San Diego have proposed the introduction of "sleep talking" technology allowing PCs to carry out network tasks such as BitTorrent downloads or VoIP/IM listening ... |
TorrentFreak | Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent TorrentFreak The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, ‘Fast & Furious 4' tops the chart this week followed by ‘Paul Blart: Mall Cop'. This week there are four newcomers. ‘Fast & Furious 4′ has taken the lead again while ‘Valkyrie' reappears in the chart as ... |
superfundo Torrent Site Shut Down By Government TorrentFreak Launched in 2006, the bittorrent tracker has around 20000 members who enjoy all the usual content. Not at the moment though since the Content, Consumer and Network Security Division of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (SKMM) ... |
Danish Pirate Bay block will go to Supreme Court Afterdawn.com Following a decision last year by a Danish court which forced the ISP Tele2/Telenor to block access to the Pirate Bay BitTorrent tracker (at the request of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), the ruling now seems set to be ... |
guardian.co.uk | Windows 7 Release Candidate leaked to BitTorrent Australian Personal Computer, Australia But a milestone build known as 7100 and tagged as Release Candidate 1, reportedly been issued to key platform partners during the past week, has already been set loose onto BitTorrent. When APCmag checked popular BitTorrent hub MiniNova on the weekend ... Windows 7 release candidate leaked Windows 7 release candidate leaked |
The Pirate Bay and The Pirate Google Özel Web Tasarım, Turkey thepiratebay has links to content hosted elsewhere that's available for download using the bittorrent protocol.. The site also provides a search engine for finding that content, and a page for each torrent with information about the content. ... |
CNET News | Running Windows 7 RC on a netbook Computerworld, MA It can already be downloaded from most BitTorrent sites. Will you, however, want to download it if you have a netbook? With the Windows 7 betas it was a different story. I found, in short, that Windows 7 required too much RAM and other system resources ... Windows 7 release candidate leaked Windows 7 release candidate leaked |
Expatica Netherlands | 26/04/2009Do digital pirates belong in jail? Expatica Netherlands, Netherlands And how you can make contact with the providers using software like BitTorrent. According to the entertainment industry this is the equivalent of putting ashtrays on the tables in a bar when you know that smoking is prohibited. ... Sneaking Into the Movies |
Rapidshare Shares Uploader Info with Rights Holders TorrentFreak This of course opens up the possibility for rights holders to go after a wide range of file-hosting services and potentially even BitTorrent sites. Indeed, everyone who now uploads a torrent file to a site hosted in Germany is at risk of having his ... |
World News | Somniloquy Lets Your Computer Download Files In Its Sleep Gizmodo.com Usually, when us modern, sensitive, environmentally-conscious types leave the computer on all night, it's because we're downloading something sizable. But what if our computers could handle that task while in sleep mode, thus saving energy? ... Somniloquy external networking card lets PCS "sleep talk ... |
Somniloquy external networking card lets PCS "sleep talk ... engadget, CA by Paul Miller, posted Apr 25th 2009 at 5:51AM Some researchers at UC San Diego, teamed up with Microsoft Research, have a novel new method in the works to let your computer save on power in sleep mode while still keeping up with IMs and whatever other ... |
Q&A: Anti-piracy ruling will have huge impact: Attorney Reuters By Mark Sutherland LONDON (Billboard) - "It's been a busy week," deadpanned Jo Oliver, several days after a Swedish court sentenced four men behind the notorious BitTorrent tracker site the Pirate Bay to a year in jail each, after they were found ... |
Afterdawn.com | Windows 7 RC build 7100 leaked Afterdawn.com Microsoft has apparently sent out an updated build of Windows 7, and the new update, build 7100, has already been leaked to bittorrent sites and other P2P networks. 7100 fixes over 2000 bugs from previous builds. Microsoft has noted however, ... |
Austin Bandwidth Hog Claims Time Warner Cable Cut Him Off GigaOm, CA Howard says he guesses he downloaded so much because he uses his broadband connection in lieu of subscribing to cable TV, and because he also downloaded (illegal) audiobook copies of the entire “Wheel of Time” series by Robert Jordan, on BitTorrent, ... |
Kombo.com | How Konami May Have Managed to Circumvent Sony's PlayStation ... Kombo.com, Michigan They had made the Metal Gear Online beta available to Sony users, and according to Gamasutra, "the small installer client that the user initially downloaded was used to obtain the full beta game via a direct HTTP download or a peer-to-peer BitTorrent ... How Konami's MGS4 May Sneak Around PSN Charges |
PhysOrg.com | Somniloquy: Will Sleep Talking Mode Help Your PC Save Energy? Fast Company Sleep talking mode, enabled by the scientists' Somniloquy prototype, keeps a PC in sleep mode while still allowing it to stay connected to the Internet for activities that don't require human interaction (ie Bittorrent downloads and virus scans). ... 'Sleep talking' PCs use 80% less power 'Sleep talking' PCs save energy and money |
Windows 7 release candidate leaked DVICE In fact, right now on the various BitTorrent sites, you can snag a 32-bit or 64-bit copy of what's been widely rumored to be the release candidate of Windows 7, specifically Windows 7 RC, build 7100, in a file named 7100.0.winmain_win7rc.090421-1700. ... |
Xinhua | Windows 7 release candidate leaked Electronista, CA Build 7100 is an update to the 7077 RC build leaked onto BitTorrent sites and contains roughly 2000 bug fixes made to the beta version that have been planned for the RC phase. The company has previously said it will have just one RC before the software ... Hands on: Running Windows 7 on a netbook Windows 7 RC Build 7100 Leaked and Available for Download |
PhysOrg.com | 'Sleep talking' PCs use 80% less power TechRadar UK, UK ... and software plug-in system called Somniloquy that allows a PC to remain in sleep mode while continuing to support instant messaging applications, VoIP, background web downloads, peer-to-peer file sharing like BitTorrent, and remote access. ... 'Sleep talking' PCs save energy and money |
Zeropaid | BTAccel - the Web-Based BitTorrent Client Zeropaid, CA Transfer large files to devices that can't run BitTorrent, circumvent network P2P throttling, or use on networks with poor upload capacity. BTAccel has created a new, web-based BitTorrent client that offers file-sharers some interesting new download ... |
Leaked Windows 7 Release Candidate hits the Web Computerworld, MA By Gregg Keizer April 24, 2009 (Computerworld) Pirated copies of the Windows 7 Release Candidate have leaked to file-sharing sites, according to several reports on the Internet and searches of BitTorrent trackers. A search on the Mininova.org ... |
MusicRadar.com - The place for music makers | Your views: Pirate Bay and copyright IT PRO, UK And more importantly, have you ever downloaded from a BitTorrent? Based on the number of readers asking us not to use their full names or email addresses, it seems even IT professionals are taking advantage of BitTorrent sites like Pirate Bay to find ... 6 things we've learned about music this week |
Pirate Bay walks plank Irish Independent, Ireland While these types of whack-a-mole cases graduate to the uncharted three-strikes policy, it is the fully legal and open source BitTorrent, a technology which has proved itself to be a great way to distribute media to large numbers of people that may, ... The Anniston Star, Ala., Dan Whisenhunt Column: Piracy and You |
BitTorrent PRO 4.9.4.0 Free Download Soft Sailor, AZ BitTorrent PRO might sound like the advanced version of the already popular BitTorrent client (the one developed by the same team that developed the BitTorrent file transfer protocol), but it is an independent client, built by IntelPeers. ... µTorrent 1.9 Build 14908 Beta / 1.8.3 Build 14809 Beta / 1.8.2 ... |
Swedish Anti-Pirates Threaten BitTorrent Trackers TorrentFreak Indeed, Antipiratbyrån - the Swedish anti-piracy office - is now going after BitTorrent trackers with that verdict in hand. They demand that the trackers stop their activities, threatening them with legal action. A few days ago we reported that many ... |
Telegraph.co.uk | Pirate Bay To Judge: You're Biased, We Want A New Trial ChannelWeb, NY Lawyers for the defense in the trial of Swedish BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay are demanding a retrial following a report that Judge Tomas Norstrom has close ties to as many as three pro-copyright organizations in Sweden. If the lawyers can prove bias ... Judge in Pirate Bay Case Member of Pro-Copyright Groups IWF denies wielding Pirate Bay banhammer BT Blocks Pirate Bay, P2P Sites Shut |
CrunchGear | The Pirate Google: Can we please stop pretending that Google and ... CrunchGear, NY For one, these files don't point to a Google BitTorrent tracker. This particular search for an episode of 24 brings up a site called TorrentPortal, a site whose torrent points to, surprise, the Pirate Bay's tracker, tracker.thepiratebay.org. ... Comedian Louis CK Gets bittorrent Content Removed By Asking Nicely The Pirate Google Bay Gives the Finger to Record Companies, Studios Pirate Bay Verdict: Is Google Facilitating Piracy? |
The Anniston Star, Ala., Dan Whisenhunt Column: Piracy and You California Chronicle, CA Today it's BitTorrent. Tomorrow, it will be something else. It's a futile battle for defenders of copyrighted material, like scraping sand off a beach. Going after the pirate headquarters is a good strategy. An even better strategy would be offering ... |
Breakfast briefing: Hacker mayhem and BitTorrent blocks guardian.co.uk, UK |
uTorrent Is Going to Make Money With a Toolbar TorrentFreak New users of uTorrent may shortly have the option of something extra with their BitTorrent client. In a move to try and generate extra revenue, some of the of new installs will have the option to include the Ask.com browser toolbar in addition to the ... |
GamePro.com | Sony: PSP Piracy 'Sickening,' Has Reduced Sales Shacknews "We can look at data from BitTorrent sites from the day Resistance: Retribution goes on sale and see how many copies are being downloaded illegally, and it's frankly sickening. We are spending a lot of time talking about how we can deal with that ... Piracy and the PSP Sony blames Piracy for PSP's lack of success, fails to understand ... How Sony can stop piracy on the PSP |
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 sharing? Every week we take a look at the most downloaded TV-Shows on BitTorrent. ... |
Bittorrent's Bram Cohen on the music biz Register, UK By Andrew Orlowski • Get more from this author Interview I've known Bram Cohen since 2001, when Bittorrent was a glimmer in his eye. It's a worldwide phenomenon now, and is at the heart of the Pirate Bay trial. So there was plenty to chew over when I ... |
Users Need A Decent Alternative To Video Piracy Studios: we're ... Dslreports Slate's Farhad Manjoo laments the lack of options, proclaiming he heads to piracy and BitTorrent because he hasn't been given a user-friendly, inexpensive alternative. Studios tell Manjoo they'd love to offer better services, but they're limited by "a ... Why Hollywood has no itunes for movies |
Old school music sales fell 8% last year Register, UK The music industry has blamed widespread piracy for the global decline in album and single sales, as it continues to grapple with new business models, the spread of BitTorrent tracker sites and legal spats with individuals keen to give tunes away for ... |
UberGizmo | Sony points to mistakes and piracy as reasons for poor PSP ... Pocket Gamer, UK ... and we're convinced that piracy has taken out a big chunk of our software sales on PSP" he said, citing the recent example of Resistance: Retribution as a title that suffered from "sickening" levels of illegal downloading from BitTorrent sites. ... Sony: Piracy Has Taken 'Big Chunk Of Game Sales' From PSP |
What a Difference Jail Time Makes: Swedish bittorrent Trackers ... Spacelab, MN But that's not what other Swedish bittorrent trackers are thinking in the wake of the of the Pirate Bay decision last week in which the boys from Pirate Bay were sentenced to jail time and millions of dollars in fines. Nordicbits, Powerbits, Piratebits ... |
Locke Addresses Content Piracy Broadcasting & Cable, NY By Staff -- Broadcasting & Cable, 4/21/2009 9:20:00 AM MT Newly minted Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Wednesday provided one of the Obama administration's strongest statements on content piracy Tuesday, according to Paul Sweeting of B&C sister pub, ... Pushing Buttons: Piracy and you WOLVERINE - LOCKE, BIDEN REASSURE HOLLYWOOD ON PIRACY |
Government Shuts Down bittorrent Tracker TorrentFreak Today the Malaysian government ordered prominent webhosting provider Shinjiru to close down bittorrent site leecherslair.com. The order came from the Content, Consumer and Network Security Division of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia ... |
Gamasutra | Sony: Piracy Has Taken 'Big Chunk Of Game Sales' From PSP Gamasutra, CA We can look at data from BitTorrent sites from the day Resistance: Retribution goes on sale and see how many copies are being downloaded illegally, and it's frankly sickening. We are spending a lot of time talking about how we can deal with that ... |
FON's Next VOIP Router Adds BitTorrent, YouTube PC Magazine by Eric Griffith Spanish company FON, which spreads Wi-Fi with inexpensive routers that its community members can use to share Internet connections, this week will start selling its new La Fonera 2.0 router in Europe for €49.95. ... |
CrunchGear | Study: Illegal music downloaders buy 10 times as much legal music ... CrunchGear, NY In other words, you download that downright terrible Rick Ross album from your favorite BitTorrent establishment—it'sa victimless crime!—while turning around and buying Clarity Live from Jimmy Eat World's Web site, and then a whole bunch of house ... |
Gear Live | IWF denies wielding Pirate Bay banhammer Register, UK By Chris Williams • Get more from this author The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has denied involvement in blocking the Pirate Bay bittorrent tracker site, after BT mobile broadband users were told they had fallen foul of a filter against "over 18 ... Big Content seeks injunction as Pirate Bay appeals verdict Could Pirate Bay Verdict Affect EU Elections? Mobile Broadband Providers Block The Pirate Bay |
Music Industry Celebrates 'Major' Pirate Bay Victory About - News & Issues, NY The Pirate Bay is perhaps the most well know (and infamous) bittorrent file sharing site that has rebuffed many legal threats over the years. This time however, in a landmark victory for the music industry, the founders of The Pirate Bay have now been ... |
Examiner.com | Anime in a recession Examiner.com Subbers can still translate an episode and release it anonymously on a peer-to-peer network like Bittorrent. Anime companies therefore had to rely on the appeal of an English language audio track, spiffy box art and some extra goodies to get fans to ... |
BT blocks off Pirate Bay 12:02PM, Tuesday 21st April 2009 PC Pro, UK BT Mobile Broadband users who attempt to access the notorious BitTorrent tracker site are met with a "content blocked" message. The warning page states the page has been blocked in "compliance with a new UK voluntary code". ... BT and UK Mobile Broadband ISPs Team With IWF to Block PirateBay BT puts 'voluntary' block on Pirate Bay |
Pirate Bay verdict causes massive BitTorrent exodus MusicRadar.com - The place for music makers, UK Last week's surprise Pirate Bay guilty verdict has caused a domino effect of similar sites offering a BitTorrent tracker service. Nordicbits, Powerbits, Piratebits, MP3nerds and Wolfbits have closed down since the Pirate Bay's founders were sentenced ... BT blocks off Pirate Bay 12:02PM, Tuesday 21st April 2009 |
guardian.co.uk | Study finds pirates 10 times more likely to buy music guardian.co.uk, UK We are made to imagine legions of internet criminals, their fingers on track-pads, downloading songs via BitTorrent and never paying for anything. One of the only bits of good news amid this doom and gloom is the steady rise in digital music sales. ... Are Pirates Ruining the Music Industry or Saving It? Online music pirates buy the most music Study: pirates biggest music buyers. Labels: yeah, right |
TorrentFreak | Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent TorrentFreak The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, ‘The Uninvited' tops the chart this week followed by ‘Fast & Furious 4'. This week there are only three newcomers. ‘The Uninvited' was downloaded the most and leads the chart. ... |
Are Pirates Ruining the Music Industry or Saving It? TwentyFourBit, CA The BI Norwegian School of Management (via Gizmodo) found that people who download free music from filesharing sites like BitTorrent and The Pirate Bay are ten times more likely to download music through legal means (iTunes, Amazon, etc.) than others. ... Study Finds Pirates Buy 10x More Music Online than Non-Pirates Pirates more likely to buy music online than non-pirates according ... Online music pirates buy the most music |
BitTorrent Trackers Close En Masse After Pirate Bay Verdict TorrentFreak Several private BitTorrent trackers including Nordicbits, Powerbits, Piratebits, MP3nerds and Wolfbits, have closed down after the Pirate Bay verdict came in last Friday. Other trackers are set to follow this example in what could be the greatest ... |
Pirates Love iTunes IGN, CA According to a new study from the BI Norwegian School of Management, digital thieves who use protocols like BitTorrent to get their hands on "free music" are also the leading purchasers of digitally distributed music, such as that made available ... |
Why the War Against File-Sharing is Unwinnable HarvardBusiness.org, MA Bye Napster, hi BitTorrent. Bye BitTorrent, hi anonymous, ciphered, totally decentralized p2p nets. Why? By limiting the supply of interaction, the music industry is only ensuring that each interaction becomes more and more efficient. ... |
Comedian Louis CK Gets bittorrent Content Removed By Asking Nicely Techdirt HI. I'm Louis CK. Can you please take this down? This show is a work in progress and was not intended to be passed around the internet. I have absolutely no problem, personally, with file sharing, and if you take everythign I have on the market on DVD, ... |
“We Are Hunted” Ranks Music Using Social Networks, P2P Zeropaid, CA ... outdated outlets like terrestrial radio and brick-and-mortar record stores. Try to find a chart that accounts for true sources of music consumption like P2P. Check out We are Hunted, it may just give you an idea for some casual BitTorrent downloads. |
Rumor: Windows 7 Release Candidate Due May 5 Webmonkey, California Of course there'sa good chance that Windows 7 RC 1 will turn up on a BitTorrent server near you well before its official release. As for the final release, Microsoft still isn't talking, but Microsoft expert, Mary Jo Foley, says an October release is ... |
Study: pirates are the music industry's largest source of ... Geek.com According to a study from the BI Norwegian School of Management, those who download free music from services like BitTorrent are the biggest legitimate consumers of downloadable music. And not by a small margin: by a factor of one thousand percent. ... Study Finds Pirates Buy 10x More Music Online than Non-Pirates |
Will Copyright Holders Lose the Pirate Booty? eWeek, NY Whether or not executives will admit it, NBC Universal learned the value of BitTorrent from file trading of new “Battlestar Galactica” episodes in autumn 2004. NBC Universal owns Sci Fi Channel and it is partner with Fox in year-old legal file ... |
The rise and fall of the web pirateer ZDNet Blogs The Swedish group of Internet pirates, better known by some of their Internet aliases, such as Anakata and tiamo, run a website which indexes and tracks bittorrent files posted across the expanse of the Internet. These links provide people with access ... |
CNET News | The ipod touch: Integral part of the modern soldier's arsenal CrunchGear, NY by Nicholas Deleon on April 19, 2009 To completely rip off Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Sundays are for watching TV, playing video games and building up your bittorrent ratio. As it turns out, Sundays are also for finding out that the ipod touch is being used ... US military enlists iPod Touch for battlefield iPod touch finding new niches in Afghanistan, Iraq |
Cleveland Indy Media | Pirate Bay sentences prompt protests United Press International The four operators of the Web site, which tracked BitTorrent files for visitors to share, were convicted of violating Swedish copyright law and sentenced to a year in prison each Thursday. Pirate Party leader Rickard Falkvinge, whose party has 21000 ... Protests follow Pirate Bay verdict Protests held over Pirate Bay conviction Will The Pirate Bay Sink? |
Cleveland Indy Media | What the Pirate Bay verdict means for search Pandia, Norway Last week the Swedish BitTorrent search engine Peer Review lost the first round in the Swedish court system. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files, and by some estimates it accounts for about 35% of all traffic on ... Protests held over Pirate Bay conviction I'm a Pirate Pirate Bay Verdict: Why Does SWEDEN Persecute its Citizens? |
Why There's No itunes For Movies Slashdot In reality, he pays nothing because no company sells such a plan, and instead resorts to getting his programming from the friendly bittorrent network. The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for ... |
TorrentFreak | ISP Speeds Up Customers' bittorrent Downloads TorrentFreak There are many ways for isps to manage the increased load bittorrent traffic places on their network. Some choose to interrupt bittorrent transfers like Comcast did, but there are more ‘consumer friendly' alternatives too. An Israeli Internet provider ... |
RE[4]: questions OS News It is the same as what the like of Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft have been doing for decades now: the difference being that TPB has specialised in BitTorrent files. Let me ask you a question: let's say there are no indexes like TPB. ... |
Ars Technica | First Mac Botnet Stems From iWork, Photoshop Trojans ChannelWeb, NY The Mac malware spread on BitTorrent trackers and other peer-to-peer sites that contain links to pirated software. Symantec researchers Mario Ballano Barcena and Alfredo Fesoli discovered that the two separate variants of the Mac malware have now ... Mac Security III: The Rise of the Botnets World's First Mac Botnet? Not Quite. Mac attack: Bot herders going after Apple computers |
Copyright and piracy wars: something for nothing guardian.co.uk, UK Downloading larger files like movies has become easier as broadband gets faster, and the complex system known as Bittorrent - which is used by The Pirate Bay - is now thought to be responsible for more than 40% of all internet traffic. ... File sharers sentenced to prison |
Pirate Bay bust hailed by recording execs as boon to artists and ... Vancouver Sun, Canada Pfohl said that with The Pirate Bay reporting in February of this year that it had 22 million simultaneous users and reports indicating it handles 50 per cent of all BitTorrent traffic on the Internet, the court decision will have considerable impact. ... |
bittorrent: Legal Nightmare or Future Business Model? OUPblog, New York In the post below Carrier reports on a Swedish court decision which will effect bittorrent sites. A Swedish court today found four operators of the high-profile website The Pirate Bay guilty of assisting in making copyrighted content available and ... |
InternetNews.com | Pirate Bay Found Guilty in File-Sharing Trial InternetNews.com, NY The decision could reaffirm efforts by movie and music companies to fight piracy by going after sites like The Pirate Bay, which serves as an aggregator for BitTorrent files. Users download the files to link to others with whom to share movies, music, ... Pirate Bay Operators Jailed Pirate Bay verdict “a victory for ISPs” |
Content Industry Applauds Pirate Bay Guilty Verdicts Wired News A Stockholm court ruled the operations of the world's notorious BitTorrent tracker were conducted "commercially and in an organized manner." "We welcome the court's decision today because The Pirate Bay is a source of immense damage to the creative ... |
Media Guardian | FAQ/Video: Pirate Bay, file sharing and BitTorrent – what's it all ... Computerworld, MA A: It lets users search for torrents, which are files that contain information about files that are downloadable throught the BitTorrent protocol on a vast network of computers, with different pieces of files often collected from different servers. ... Video: "Pirate bay" website founders guilty BitTorrent Site The Pirate Bay Admins Found Guilty, Sentenced to a ... The Pirate Bay Verdict and the Future of File-Sharing |
Pirate Bay Operators Jailed Web Host Industry Review According to a Reuters report, Friday's guilty verdict could help music and film companies recoup millions of dollars in lost revenues due to bittorrent websites, however, it's doubtful that it would stem the tide of illegal downloading, according to ... Pirate Bay verdict “a victory for ISPs†|
TechCrunch | As Court Prepares Shackles For The Pirate Bay, Other Torrent Sites ... TechCrunch, CA by Erick Schonfeld on April 17, 2009 Despite some early fumbling by the prosecution, a judge in Sweden handed down a guilty verdict today in the case against The Pirate Bay, the popular BitTorrent search site. The four founders, who still seem to think ... |
IFPI CEO Hails Pirate Bay Result Billboard Business News, NY Peter Sunde, one of the four founders of the BitTorrent tracker, has described the verdict at Stockholm district court today (April 17) as "bizarre." They were each sentenced to one year in prison and must pay 30 million kronor ($3.54 million) in ... |
Media Pirates Forced to Walk the Plank Minyanville.com, New York The verdict came after a 3-week trial in which prosecutors embarrassed themselves by their woeful ignorance of BitTorrent's technical aspects and peer-to-peer file sharing in general. John Kennedy -- CEO of the International Federation of the ... |
A to Z of online piracy CNN International By Nick Thompson LONDON, England (CNN) -- If mention of The Pirate Bay conjures up images of parrots, peg legs and planks, or geeky jargon like bittorrent and jailbreak leaves you all at sea, this handy AZ will help you navigate the choppy waters of ... FAQ: The Pirate Bay Trial Pirate Bay guilty verdict: Now what? |
FAQ: The Pirate Bay Trial guardian.co.uk, UK The Pirate Bay is a bittorrent tracker. bittorrent is a de-centralised file-sharing technology. While early music file-sharing service Napster hosted music files, The Pirate Bay does not itself host audio and video files, but provides links to torrent ... |
paidContent.org - Pirate Bay Founders Found Guilty: One Year Jail ... Washington Post, United States A Swedish court has found the four men behind the infamous Swedish BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay guilty of assisting copyright infringement. Each has been sentenced to one year in jail. Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, Frederik Neij, ... Video: Four Pirate Bay staff convicted to one year in prison Waiting on the Pirate Bay verdict Pirate Bay co-founder claims 'we lost' |
The Pirate Bay Guilty Wired News Dozens of other illicit BiTtorrent tracking services are easily accessible. The defendants are expected to appeal, and they remain free pending further proceedings. The attention brought by the highly-publicized trial has only made The Pirate Bay more ... |
Verdict due in Pirate Bay case Irish Times, Ireland Using Bittorrent technology, sites such as The Pirate Bay allow users to download songs, movies and computer games without paying. A peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data, BitTorrent is one of the most common ... |
The Inquisitr | Fail: YouTube TV and Movie offering is georetarded The Inquisitr, Australia The biggest winners out of this will always be the same: proxy/ VPN services, and BitTorrent trackers, because a georetarded release like this doesn't stop people talking about what's on offer, and those outside the United States will want to view ... |
Sneak Preview: A Fantastic New Way to Find Hot Music Wired News It would take an army of listeners to keep tabs on all the music being recorded and posted to MySpace, YouTube, BitTorrent and the like. How to filter it all? We Are Hunted, a clean and simple music chart cuts to the chase. It tracks the most-favored ... |
Move Half-Finished BitTorrent Downloads to Another Drive Lifehacker, CA If you've ever run your drive out of space while a long-running download is still going, the Online Tech Tips weblog writes up a simple solution to change your download location to another drive. The solution is easy enough: With uTorrent, ... |
Beeb Meets BitTorrent Home Theater Magazine In future episodes, BitTorrent streams might be embedded in the BBC website, or the show might be available through normal torrent downloads. In addition, users would also be able to access the raw footage and remix the content to their own liking. ... |
Australian Personal Computer | Microsoft to offer XP downgrades from Windows 7 Australian Personal Computer, Australia Windows 7 definitely looks like making up for the loss of face in Vista, the latest leak of a beta, number 7077, is doing the rounds on BitTorrent sites only makes minor visible changes, which means that the pie is very nearly cooked and ready for a ... |
Smartmoney.com | 10 Things Cable Companies Won't Tell You Smartmoney.com In the AP test, computers that were connected to the Internet via Comcast cable modems would not let users send the King James Bible from one location in the US to another using the file-sharing program BitTorrent; however, computers with other ... |
BBC News | Waiting on the Pirate Bay verdict CNET News, CA No actual material is stored on the Web site that features a search function for torrent files used for file sharing with the BitTorrent technology--which is legal in itself, but commonly used for illegal file sharing. It also offers a "tracker," which ... Paulo Coelho Supports The Pirate Bay The Pirate Bay verdict due tomorrow: you predict the outcome! Pirate Bay confident of trial win |
Tribler News (TV over BitTorrent) TheTechLounge, TX triblerResearchers from the Tribler P2P team at the Technical University of Delft, Netherlands, have been working on their next generation BitTorrent client for a few years now. The initial releases worked well and innovative features were introduced ... |
Half-Open Patcher Speeds up BitTorrent Downloads Lifehacker, CA A simple patching utility can fix the problem and speed up your BitTorrent downloads. Microsoft first introduced these limits into Windows as a way to stop the spread of viruses and worms—because they try and connect to thousands of addresses at a time ... |
sharmila saji Zeropaid, CA Windows version of BitTorrent client Features: · Remembers your torrents, no need to find that torrent link again, and reselect the same download directory to resume downloading or seeding. · Built in tracker scraping with automatic periodical scrapes, ... |
Gamasutra | Shakeup at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe: New CEO will lead ... CrunchGear, NY Said Mr. Reeves: We are a PAL market and we are going to do it in PAL and we are going to do it properly, you can wait for it and you can have it in good quality, you know you can get the stuff from Bittorrent if you want to and download PSP games, ... SCEE president quits |
Zeropaid | SwarmScreen Increases Privacy for Vuze Zeropaid, CA Plugin for the BitTorrent client hides real download traffic by connecting to randomly selected torrent trackers, protecting users from newly discovered technique to map out BitTorrent swarms with 86% accuracy. Vuze, formerly Azureus, has always ... |
BBC News | Paulo Coelho Supports The Pirate Bay TorrentFreak In fact, some of the most creative minds are BitTorrent users themselves, including best selling author Paulo Coelho, who offered to travel to Sweden to testify in favor of The Pirate Bay. Novelist Paulo Coelho has sold millions of books, including the ... Pirate Bay founders confident of victory in trial Pirate Bay confident of trial win Pirate Bay verdict due Friday |
BBC News | Pirate Bay confident of trial win BBC News, UK The file-sharing program BitTorrent, which is a legal piece of file-sharing software, uses the torrent links to manage the transfer of files online between those who have parts of the data and those who need parts of the data. ... The Pirate Bay: trial means nothing Facebook blocks Pirate Bay torrent links |
All Tom's Guide news of April 13, 2009 Tom's Guide, CA By Kevin Parrish, published on April 13, 2009 at 3:30 PM Evidently, The Pirate Bay isn't the only bittorrent search engine scheduled to walk the plank. Even though Mininova scored its eight billionth download over the weekend, the masterminds behind ... |
TorrentFreak | BitTorrent Powered TV is Coming TorrentFreak BitTorrent is already an important tool for millions of people who prefer their television on-demand, but integration with traditional TV-sets is still lacking. This is about to change though, as the Tribler team announces version 5 of its next ... |
World of Warcraft 3.1 Patch Launches Today Wired News It seems that the huge number of people attempting to simultaneously pull down the 742MB file are intermittently overloading the small number of BitTorrent trackers currently available. Personally, I've been downloading for the last 9 hours on a ... |
Spanish Man Behind P2P Site Jailed Billboard Business News, NY It follows a high-profile Spanish case against various BitTorrent tracker sites, which were accused by Microsoft, Spanish authors' and publishers' collecting society SGAE, Spanish labels association Promusicae, and rights group Egeda of facilitating ... Spaniard jailed for operating P2P site |
Zeropaid | “Caprica” DVD Leaks to BitTorrent Zeropaid, CA Sci-fi fans still detoxing after the series finale of Battlestar Galactica have a treat in store this morning with news that a DVD copy of Caprica, the upcoming prequel to BSG, has leaked to BitTorrent tracker sites everywhere. ... 'Battlestar Galactica's' UN visit goes online |
Zeropaid | Microsoft Ends “Mainstream” XP Support Zeropaid, CA “Caprica” DVD Leaks to BitTorrent: [...] Sci-fi fans still detoxing after the series finale of Battlestar Galactica have a treat in store this morning with... DeuxMX: Thats very true, but only till enlightenment. Which is what i preach, and im sure you ... |
Spanish File-Sharer Sent To Jail Billboard Business News, NY It follows a high-profile Spanish case against various BitTorrent tracker sites, which were accused by Microsoft, Spanish authors' and publishers' collecting society SGAE, Spanish labels association Promusicae, and rights group Egeda of facilitating ... |
New Zealand Herald | France says au revoir to three strikes legislation New Zealand Herald, New Zealand Even the PirateBay founders are all found guilty, it probably won't spell the end of file sharing as Mininova (another BitTorrent tracker site) broke download records as its download counter displayed a mind boggling 8000000000 downloads. ... Mininova Passes 8 Billion Torrent Downloads Mark Mininova breaks download records |
TorrentSpy to Appeal Loss in MPAA Email "Hack" Case Digital Media Wire, CA Los Angeles - TorrentSpy, an index of files available for sharing on the BitTorrent peer-to-peer network that was shut down after a copyright infringement lawsuit from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), has filed an appeal of part of the ... MPAA’s Hacking Past Comes Back to Hunt |
Time Warner faces backlash on broadband caps CNET News, CA Comcast got into hot water two years ago when it was caught slowing down BitTorrent traffic on its network. The Federal Communications Commission said that Comcast's actions were illegal, and the cable company has reformed its practices. ... |
Mininova: Over 8 Billion Downloads, Faces Court Tom's Guide, CA By Kevin Parrish, published on April 13, 2009 at 3:30 PM Evidently, The Pirate Bay isn't the only BitTorrent search engine scheduled to walk the plank. Even though Mininova scored its eight billionth download over the weekend, the masterminds behind ... Mininova Passes 8 Billion Torrent Downloads Mark Mininova breaks download records |
Zeropaid | oneswarm v0.6 Released Zeropaid, CA Darknet bittorrent-based P2P application adds features like secure, point-to-point encrypted chat and more. Back in February I mentioned how some of the same researchers at the University of Washington that brought us bittyrant had developed a new ... |
TorrentFreak | Miramax Rewards Would-Be BitTorrent Pirate With Free Ticket TorrentFreak It’s normal for BitTorrent users to be a tiny bit paranoid, since their activities aren’t always popular with everyone. But imagine musing via Twitter that your favorite movie isn’t on torrent sites yet and the next thing you know the studio is in ... |
Conficker's next moves USA Today This is similar to how people share pirated music and movies via popular P2P nets such as eDonkey and BitTorrent. Instructions recently spotted traveling across Conficker's P2P net do a couple of things. First, they reactivate the worm's sophisticated ... |
TorrentFreak | Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent TorrentFreak The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, ‘Fast & Furious 4’ tops the chart this week followed by ‘Taking Chance’. This week there are only three newcomers. The Telesync of Fast and Furious 4 was downloaded the most and leads the chart. ... |
The ethical and social implications of emerging technologies VNUNet.com, UK This site uses BitTorrent technology to facilitate the exchange of files. Its opponents argue that it provides the opportunity to infringe intellectual property; its advocates believe it to be an important tool for the exchange of information. ... |
MPAA’s Hacking Past Comes Back to Hunt TorrentFreak The MPAA isn’t known for wasting opportunities to obtain information about BitTorrent sites and their users. In 2005 the MPAA paid around $15000 to a hacker who obtained emails from TorrentSpy and The Pirate Bay. The case was heard in court and won by ... |
Mininova Passes 8 Billion Torrent Downloads Mark Hard OCP, TX Lately they have been emphasizing the legal use of BitTorrent currently employed by hundreds of independent filmmakers and musicians. In March the site released a new feature that aims to help artists to not only distribute, but also monetize their ... |
TorrentFreak | Poll: Will The Pirate Bay Crew Be Found Innocent or Guilty? TorrentFreak In a few days the verdict in the Pirate Bay trial will be announced, a decision that could have far reaching consequences for fellow bittorrent trackers and file-sharing in general. Through this poll we’d like to hear what the public believe the ... |
Use apt-p2p To Improve Ubuntu 9.04 Upgrade Slashdot These can be downloaded via bittorrent, and usually trigger an "automatic update" prompt as soon as they are inserted into an existing Ubuntu system. There may be more comments in this discussion. Without javascript enabled, you might want to turn on ... |
Mininova Adds Another Billion Torrent Downloads TorrentFreak Mininova, one of the world’s most visited BitTorrent sites, broke another download record today. Just a few hours ago the download counter displayed a staggering 8000000000 downloads. That’s enough for everyone on planet earth to have one - and then ... |
CrunchGear | Myka BitTorrent set-top box now has a legal source of 5000 movies ... CrunchGear, NY Right, it’sa little set-top-box that plays high-def videos on your [presumably larger than your computer monitor] TV; it can download using BitTorrent right onto its built-in hard drive. That, or you can manually load previously downloaded videos onto ... |
Silicon Valley fiber cut Computerworld, MA Facebook has ended its brief relationship with The Pirate Bay, the controversial bittorrent search engine. The Pirate Bay added a "Share on Facebook" button to its site around two weeks ago, allowing its users to post links to small information files, ... |
Ars Technica | Through BitTorrent's randomness, communities emerge Ars Technica, MA A research team from Northwestern University has found that BitTorrent users form unintentional communities based on their shared interests, and that the communities can be used to launch a "guilt-by-association attack." An open-source plugin restores ... P2P eavesdrop 'guilt by association attack' developed Software improves p2p privacy by hiding in the crowd |
BBC Gets Ready for BitTorrent Distribution TorrentFreak To add to the excitement there are also plans to use BitTorrent to distribute the show and source material. The BBC is one of the partners in the EU funded P2P-Next research project that uses BitTorrent technology to shape the future of web based TV ... |
Inquirer | Facebook blocks Pirate Bay torrents Afterdawn.com While this latest change doesn't seem to have gone down particularly well with some Facebook users (not unusual), it will keep them out the of the firing line of media companies fighting BitTorrent-driven piracy. Indeed, the company is not hiding the ... As Expected, Facebook Halts The Pirate Bay Links Facebook Divorces Pirate Bay Facebook scuppers Pirate Bay links |
Telegraph.co.uk | French Parliament Tosses Out Net Piracy Bill ChannelWeb, NY Sweden is also the site of the trial of BitTorrent service The Pirate Bay, which indexes and tracks BitTorrent files and has listed between 22 million and 25 million users since 2003. The Pirate Bay's three founders and an investor are on trial for ... France may ban illegal downloaders from internet |
Soft Sailor | Pirate Bay VPN Service Has 113000 Users and Counting Zeropaid, CA A few weeks ago I reported how BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay was launching a VPN service called IPREDator, a spin on the controversial IPRED, the Swedish Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive, to allow file-sharers to download ... 113000 Have Signed Up For Pirate Bay VPN New anonymizing service ... Pirate Bay's Anonymity Service Attracts 113000 Temporary Safety And Liberty (For Only $6 a Month!) |
Inquirer | As Expected, Facebook Halts The Pirate Bay Links PC World Facebook has ended its brief e-relationship with The Pirate Bay, the controversial BitTorrent search engine. The Pirate Bay added a "Share on Facebook" button around two weeks ago to its site that allowed its users to post links to small information ... Facebook Divorces Pirate Bay Facebook Cuts Off Pirate Bay Links Facebook Overreacts: Decides All Of The Pirate Bay Is Illegal |
P2P eavesdrop 'guilt by association attack' developed Register, UK By Lewis Page • Get more from this author US engineering researchers say they have identified a new privacy threat to users of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks such as BitTorrent and (perhaps) Skype. Obligingly, however, they have freely released a ... Software improves p2p privacy by hiding in the crowd |
guardian.co.uk | X-Men Origins: Wolverine becomes most pirated film Sify, India The Hugh Jackman starrer that became available online last week has already been accessed more than a million times by BitTorrent users, according to the website TorrentFreak, reports contactmusic.com. The film currently tops The Pirate Bay's list of ... X-Men Orgins - Wolverine Free Download Link: But Hugh Jackman ... Wolverine 'heartbroken' over stolen film Some Pirates Won’t Watch Illegal ‘Wolverine’ |
guardian.co.uk | 8 "Wolverine" has been downloaded over one million times... Does ... Variety, CA Fox's leaked copy of Wolverine has been downloaded over one million times in the past week, according to BitTorrent news blog TorrentFreak. It has the early cut of "Wolverine," without special effects or final music, ranked at no. ... A Wolverine in Fox's clothing The Biggest Hollywood Crime of the Decade X-Men Leak Downloaded Over a Million Times |
CrunchGear | Seagate delivers new drives for hot and heavy 24/7 usage CrunchGear, NY Sounds like your average bittorrent user to me. What sets Seagate’s new drives apart is that they have lower power consumption at 7200RPM (5W) then many other drives have while idling. Combine that with a massive data transfer rate of 140 MB/s and ... Seagate Delivers "Next-Gen" HDD |
Facebook Divorces Pirate Bay Wired News The development came the same day that The Pirate Bay announced more than 100000 users of the world's most notorious BitTorrent tracker have signed up for its new $6-monthly anonymity service designed to hide IP addresses from the authorities. ... The Big Question: First music, now film – so can the entertainment ... Facebook Blocks All Pirate Bay Links statshot: 1M Downloads of Wolverine in Less than a Week |
The Big Question: First music, now film – so can the entertainment ... Independent, UK In 2000, Napster was successfully sued by the record companies and shut down, but in 2001 a new form of filesharing software was invented: Bit Torrent. Rather than sharing files between two users, BitTorrent allows downloaders to collect pieces of a ... 8 "Wolverine" has been downloaded over one million times... Does ... The Biggest Hollywood Crime of the Decade Beyond The Blurbs • Alternative Critics Have Their Say |
Software improves p2p privacy by hiding in the crowd PhysOrg.com, VA "This was particularly surprising because BitTorrent is designed to establish connections at random, so there is no a priori reason for such strong communities to exist," Bustamante says. After identifying this community behavior, the researchers ... |
Facebook Blocks All Pirate Bay Links TorrentFreak Just over a week later and the world’s largest social networking site has blocked all links to torrents on the world’s largest and most infamous BitTorrent tracker. It was less than two weeks ago when The Pirate Bay implemented a new feature making it ... |
Bob Mould: Live Last Night Washington Post Blogs, DC But, as Mould lamented from the stage, in an era of MySpace previews and BitTorrent thievery, release dates don't mean much anymore. Thus, since this is also the 20-year anniversary of his first solo record, "Workbook," Mould decided to open the night ... |
BBC News | X-Men Orgins - Wolverine Free Download Link: But Hugh Jackman ... Post Chronicle ... released before hand but one thing is certain the true film will be released on May 1st. But if you just can't wait, click the link to download the movie as a torrent on Mininova - You'll need the program BitTorrent to download it which is free. ... Wolverine 'heartbroken' over stolen film Some Pirates Won’t Watch Illegal ‘Wolverine’ Columnist bitten over Torrent-leaked Wolverine review |
Spotify Becomes Platform, Makes US Music Fans Even More Jealous Wired News ... Programming Interface, means that the sky is the limit: Any developer can build apps that access Spotify's massive music catalog and use its P2P architecture, which streams Ogg Vorbis files between users like a streaming version of BitTorrent. ... |
New York Times | Likely Windows 7 Release Candidate (7077) Lands on BitTorrent Lifehacker, CA A new build of Windows 7, one that appears to be the "escrow" build that eventually becomes a release candidate, is starting to build up steam on BitTorrent servers. Microsoft's Windows 7 engineering team posted yesterday that beta-to-RC upgraders ... Windows 7 candidate leaks? Windows 7 RC Nears, and There Will Be Pain |
Windows 7 candidate leaks? Computerworld, MA In Wednesday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches the run-up to the Windows 7 release candidate, as "escrow" build 7077 leaks to BitTorrent. Not to mention the Fruit Computer Lab... Microsoft Corp. today asked people running the Windows 7 beta to ... Microsoft Plans 'Major' Windows 7 Announcement |
Super-fast trip to a world full of surprises Sydney Morning Herald, Australia No one predicted YouTube, or Napster, Kazaa, and BitTorrent, all applications which made broadband a must-have. It isn't until broadband is available to use, that people can explore its potential. The next-generation broadband network (NBN) opens up ... |
The Biggest Hollywood Crime of the Decade io9, CA Then our thieves put a digital file of it up online, where it promptly got circulated out into the public BitTorrent sites. We also know that the leak was almost certainly an inside job, coming from somebody working at Fox or one of their partners. ... Is it right to download the new Wolverine movie? |
A Pirate's Code of Conduct for BitTorrent Gizmodo.com I propose the same for BitTorrent. My code isn't necessarily the code for everyone. But it is the code for my ship, my computer, my slow-ass DSL connection that can't steal anything worth a damn anyway. Here is the code that I live by. ... |
Windows 7 RC Nears, and There Will Be Pain Virtualization Review, CA Microsoft is discouraging people from using leaked builds of the Windows 7 beta, which have been popping up on BitTorrent sites, explaining that "you really never know what else has been done to the build." Another disappointment for many is that the ... |
Super-fast trip to a world full of surprises Sydney Morning Herald, Australia No one predicted YouTube, or Napster, Kazaa, and BitTorrent, all applications which made broadband a must-have. It isn't until broadband is available to use, that people can explore its potential. The next-generation broadband network (NBN) opens up ... |
MPA Set to Challenge Newzbin Usenet Indexer in Court TorrentFreak While most media attention is focused on the mighty BitTorrent, availability of just about every type of copyrighted digital media continues unabated on Usenet, otherwise known as ‘the newsgroups’. Downloads from Usenet are fast - very fast - with most ... |
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 sharing? Every week we take a look at the most downloaded TV-Shows on BitTorrent. ... |
TorrentFreak | Sports Broadcasters Go After Live Streaming Pirates TorrentFreak The name BayTSP might sound familiar to BitTorrent users, as they are also sending takedown requests on behalf of the movie and music industries. The company does so by joining BitTorrent swarms to record the alleged infringer’s IP-address and other ... |
E! Online | Wolverine Movie Bootleg: More than 1 Million Downloads Appscout, NY And despite 20th Century Fox's best efforts to curb its spread, the movie has been downloaded by more than one million users via BitTorrent. Fox has been sending out takedown notices to sites hosting the movie. Though many have complied, Wolverine is ... FBI Raids TX Data Center Daniel Negreanu Appears in X-Men Origins: Wolverine FBI Investigates “Wolverine” BitTorrent Leak |
ABC News | A Wolverine in Fox's clothing Computerworld, MA I rarely use my bittorrent powers, and then only for the good of mankind. * And yet, this topic has a certain lingering aftertaste I can't seem to shake. Fox isn't talking about why Friedman got the boot. But it seems pretty clear he got axed not only ... statshot: 1M Downloads of Wolverine in Less than a Week Leaked Wolverine: Over 1 million served (and counting) X-Men Leak Downloaded Over a Million Times |
ABC News | A Wolverine in Fox's clothing InfoWorld, CA Forget pirating movies -- just talking about using BitTorrent is enough to get you canned. But when it comes to online leaks, the movie studios end up winning more than they lose. The Internet is a bad, baaaad thing. It turns otherwise normal people ... X-Men Leak Downloaded Over a Million Times Wolverine leak claims first victim? Fox goes too far: calls FBI and fires columnist over leaked ... |
statshot: 1M Downloads of Wolverine in Less than a Week NewTeeVee, CA its way to the top of torrentfreak’s Most Pirated Movies on bittorrent. In less than a week, more than 1 million copies of X-Men Origins: Wolverine have already been downloaded. Hopefully the leak won’t hurt ole Wolvie in ticket sales too much, ... |
ABC News | X-Men Leak Downloaded Over a Million Times TorrentFreak The unfinished workprint of ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ that leaked just a few days ago has already made its way to the computers of more than a million BitTorrent users. Unsurprisingly, the film leads our weekly chart of the ten most downloaded movies ... Wolverine leak claims first victim? FBI Raids TX Data Center Daniel Negreanu Appears in X-Men Origins: Wolverine |
Product Reviews | Fonera 2 Gets Ready to Shake Up Home Networking Wired News You can hook it up to a hard drive and leave it running, pulling down BitTorrent downloads or files from sharing sites like RapidShare and Mega Upload. It does this all without a computer, so once you have it set up you can take your laptop out on the ... Fonera 2.0 wireless router release date unveiled |
New Zealand Herald | New law halves Sweden's Internet traffic BizReport ... speeds of over 8 Mbps, it also has its fair share of file sharers - around 8% of the entire population, according to Statistics Sweden. Sweden is also home to the world's largest and perhaps most infamous BitTorrent sharing site, The Pirate Bay. Web use drops 40% as copyright law goes live in Sweden |
E! Online | FBI Raids TX Data Center for Clues in Wolverine Leak Hard OCP, TX 20th Century Fox got a nasty April Fools Day surprise when an unfinished version of the upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie was leaked onto bittorrent. Fox said that they “forensically mark” their movies so that they can track sources and ... Daniel Negreanu Appears in X-Men Origins: Wolverine X-Men Origins: Wolverine finds its way to the internet Poll: Will the X-Men Leak Hurt the Movie’s Success? |
Fonera 2.0 on sale in Europe April 21, US in May engadget, CA The new unit runs Linux, and supports bittorrent and services like rapidshare and megaupload, so you can set downloads to run without firing up your computer. The launch party seems like it was pretty adorable -- it took place in FON ceo's Martin ... |
Daniel Negreanu Appears in X-Men Origins: Wolverine Poker News Daily, NV torrentfreak noted that X-Men Origins: Wolverine had been downloaded 75000 times on bittorrent, which the website equated to the release of The Dark Knight, which won an Academy Award for the late Heath Ledger as The Joker. ... |
PoliGazette | The Unusual FBI Raid of a Dallas Datacenter PoliGazette In any case, that leak was on bittorrent, making it unlikely that any server at the datacenter was actually hosting the file (Bittorent is decentralized P2P between many computers), though there is precedent for the authorities going after sites that ... Is Wolverine Leak Investigation Causing Collateral Damage ... |
How To: Remote Control Your Home Computer From Anywhere With VNC Gizmodo.com VNC (virtual network computing) is one of those tricks that never gets old, and having it set up can often save your ass—whether you left some info on your home computer that you need at work, want to check on your massive BitTorrent queue to schedule ... |
AT&T Wireless changes terms of service to forbid video streaming ... MacDailyNews Electornista reports, "The difficulty is that such terms may not only restrict the likes of BitTorrent clients, but also mainstream video applications, such as CBS' TV.com app for the iPhone. The wording of the terms also appear to be directly targeted ... at&t's Lame New Terms of Service Hate Mobile Video From Sling and P2P |
Epic Prereleases Slyck, NY Known as prereleases, big named movies that appear on BitTorrent or the Newsgroups are always high profile cases. Some of the most anticipated and popular movie events are landmark cases in prerelease history. The March 31st leak of” X-Men Origins: ... |
X-Men Origins: Wolverine finds its way to the internet Seattle University Spectator, WA In a rare, but not unprecedented event, a near-complete workprint in DVD quality for 20th Century Fox’s spring blockbuster X-Men Origins: Wolverine found its way onto Bittorrent trackers and various other file-sharing woutlets earlier this week. ... |
Is Wolverine Leak Investigation Causing Collateral Damage? FBI ... Dslreports Earlier this week, an unfinished copy of the upcoming Wolverine movie was leaked via BitTorrent. It's been interesting to watch just how quickly the film industry managed to get the FBI to launch a massive investigation into the source of the leak, ... |
TECH.BLORGE.com | Top 5 BitTorrent clients for the Mac TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia By Ronald O Carlson When it comes to sharing the wealth, BitTorrent is the protocol of choice for the great majority of individuals, and increasingly businesses, to distribute the load and move gigabyte and larger files. Here’sa quick and subjective ... |
CBC.ca | Swedish internet traffic sinks on day anti-piracy law comes into ... CBC.ca, Canada Pirate Bay, the popular BitTorrent sharing site, is also located in Sweden. BitTorrent is an internet protocol that allows distribution of files between computers on the net without a central server. When users find a file on a BitTorrent network, ... Internet traffic drops by 33 percent in Sweden after anti-piracy ... Internet traffic in Sweden plummets on first day of law banning ... A Pirate's Meme for Me |
CNET News | Piracy law cuts internet traffic BBC News, UK Popular BitTorrent sharing site, The Pirate Bay, is also based in Sweden. The new law, which is based on the European Union's Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED), allows copyright holders to obtain a court order forcing ISPs to ... File-Sharing Law Cuts Sweden’s Web Traffic By 30 Percent Swedish antipiracy law stirs up political waters Net traffic down on first day of Swedish antipiracy law |
The new, 'friendly' anti-ad by the film biz doesn't mention piracy guardian.co.uk, UK But it's a new world now: thanks to p2p networks, BitTorrent trackers and faster broadband speeds the public can and does download music, movies and entire video games in minutes. And in a recession, most won't take kindly to being lectured on how ... UK biz launches anti-piracy effort New tactics in film piracy battle |
Sydney Morning Herald | Conroy rapped for 'improper' iiNet gaffe Sydney Morning Herald, Australia They also claimed that, because files are broken up into tiny "packets" before being sent over BitTorrent, this may not be enough to suggest a "substantial portion" of a copyrighted file was distributed. Gilbert and Tobin, which is representing the ... |
Cable Show 2009: Technologists Outline Next-Generation Services Multichannel News, NY But Bauer said that identifying users within a peer-to-peer network like BitTorrent can be challenging, as querying tracker lists can give many false positives, because of the way peer-to-peers generate arbitrary IP addresses. While ISPs have been able ... |
Wired dives into App Store piracy tuaw.com, CA by Christina Warren on Apr 1st 2009 App Store piracy is a growing concern for more and more developers, thanks to tools like Crackulous and various bittorrent trackers. Although developers are fighting back, this is a problem that really isn't going ... |
MTV UK | “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” Workprint Leaked to BitTorrent Zeropaid, CA Appears on BitTorrent tracker sites everywhere well ahead of its scheduled May 1st release date. Every so often BitTorrent users are treated to a workprint of a movie many are anxious to see. The most famous, or infamous, depending on which side of the ... Unfinished X-Men Movie a Hit On BitTorrent Enter Your Town Into the Wolverine Premiere Contest! Alleged 'Wolverine' workprint leaked online |
TorrentFreak | Unfinished X-Men Movie a Hit On BitTorrent TorrentFreak Fact: The new X-Men movie has leaked to BitTorrent and Fox won’t be laughing. The movie is unfinished with many special effects yet to be added. Fingers are already being pointed toward the possible source of the leak and downloads are already more ... |
MTV UK | Alleged 'Wolverine' workprint leaked online Entertainment Weekly A high-quality, full-length version of what is being touted as a workprint version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine has leaked online and is available for download on several bittorrent sites this morning. The bootleg copy is said to be a DVD-quality ... X-Men Origins: Wolverine Workprint Leaked Online |
Zeropaid | Australian ISP Defending BitTorrent-Using Subscribers in Court Zeropaid, CA It also noted that if BitTorrent breaks a movie, for example, down into a hundred different files and a customers only shares a portion of them then it may not be enough to argue that a user illegally distributed a “substantial portion” of the ... |