Archivos May 2009


TorrentFreak

Nielsen Hugely Underestimates bittorrent Traffic
TorrentFreak
bittorrent's user base is growing month by month and has reached a level where reputable marketing research companies have started to look into the phenomenon. Over the years Nielsen Media has optimized their ratings system for television, ...

TorrentFreak

Panera Bread's Evil Torrent Filter
TorrentFreak
We assume that those who maintain the web filtering databases have grown wary of anything related to bittorrent, but in some cases it's even worse than that. With over 1250 free wifi access points across the US, Panera Bread is offering a much ...

ScreenCrave.com

The Top Ten Pirated Movies: An Old X Is Back
ScreenCrave.com, CA
By Kara Every week, BitTorrent lists the top ten pirated movies on bittorrent. Surprisingly, there is one movie that is noticeable absent from the list. I'll give you a hint, it is an action movie, and it starts with a “t”. I'm sure you will figure it ...

Downloading 3322 Copyrighted Movies is Okay in Spain
TorrentFreak
Since sharing files on BitTorrent and other file-sharing networks is legal, it is no surprise that Spain tops the list of countries with the most recorded copyright infringements. Close to 25 million were counted by the piracy tracking company BayTSP ...

Obama exhumes Net neutrality from the Tomb of Forgotten Issues
Los Angeles Times, CA
The debate over Net neutrality has quieted considerably since the Federal Communications Commission rebuked Comcast in August for its discriminatory handling of BitTorrent traffic. Congress has been silent on the issue as one of the leading proponents ...
Verizon's Seidenberg Chats With the Post Washington Post
Verizon CEO nudges against Net neutrality FierceTelecom
all 4 news articles

Aussies love P2P file sharing - p2pnet.net


p2pnet.net

Aussies love P2P file sharing
p2pnet.net, Canada
With that as background, “Total visits by Australians to BitTorrent websites including Mininova, The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, TorrentReactor and Torrentz grew from 785000 in April last year to 1049000 in April this year,” says Nielsen, quoted by The Age. ...
P2P: worth more than the Global Financial Crisis p2pnet.net
all 2 news articles

Macworld

The Sims 3 Racks Up Over 180000 Downloads Prior To Release
Slashdot
It was downloaded through BitTorrent roughly 1.7 million times, with The Sims 2 and Assassin's Creed following at just over a million each. (It's worth noting that Spore came out in September, so that figure is essentially for a mere three months. ...
The Sims 3 suffering worse piracy than Spore ElectricPig.tv
all 15 news articles

ACS:Law Anti-Piracy Lawyers Are Copyright Infringers
TorrentFreak
We recently reported that ACS:Law appear to have taken up where notorious UK lawyers Davenport Lyons left off, sending threatening letters to alleged BitTorrent and eDonkey copyright infringers demanding payment of hundreds of pounds or face legal ...

CNET News

Better Together: Wi-Fi and Powerline Networking
PC World
Exacting applications such as network backup, high-definition video streaming, BitTorrent downloading, and VoIP can choke even the fastest Wi-Fi: At best, a draft-2.0 802.11n router delivers a little over 100 megabits per second in real-world ...
Get a Netgear 802.11n USB adapter for $13.99 CNET News
Belkin N+ Wireless Storage Router CNET.com.au
all 3 news articles

Watermarks, a friendlier DRM?
Los Angeles Times, CA
The average BitTorrent users downloaded about two movies per month, but they told Interpret that they wouldn't face a serious risk unless they increased that rate to nearly 500. One might assume that such surveys underestimate the amount of copyright ...

Windows 7 News

Windows 7 Build 7137 Leaked and Available for Download
Softpedia, Romania
The latest development milestone to be leaked to BitTorrent websites and other illegal third-party sources is Windows 7 pre-RTM Build 7137. Both the 32-bit and the 64-bit flavors of Windows 7 Build 7137 have made it into the wild, according to ...
Windows 7 Build 7137 Leaked Download Tech Fragments
Windows 7 Build 7137 Leaked Windows 7 News
Windows 7 build 7137 leaked Neowin
all 4 news articles

The Music Industry vs. You
Wessex Scene Online, UK
Four men behind the world's largest file-sharing website, The Pirate Bay (TPB), were sentenced to a year in jail on 17th April 2009 for hosting links to BitTorrent files for users to download. On top of this, they were also ordered to pay £3m in ...

Nanaimo Daily News

Canada's failure to protect intellectual property hinders ...
Canada.com, Canada
Rheaume is among those watching a British Columbia court case pitting isoHunt, a Vancouver-based BitTorrent site against the recording industry. Gary Fung, founder of isoHunt is asking the courts to rule that his site, isoHunt. com, is not breaking ...
File-sharing report that slammed Canada plagiarized: Expert Ottawa Citizen
all 58 news articles

Nanaimo Daily News

Canada's failure to protect intellectual property hinders ...
Canada.com, Canada
Rheaume is among those watching a British Columbia court case pitting isoHunt, a Vancouver-based BitTorrent site against the recording industry. Gary Fung, founder of isoHunt is asking the courts to rule that his site, isoHunt.com, is not breaking ...
File-sharing report that slammed Canada plagiarized: Expert Ottawa Citizen
all 56 news articles

Home NAS Box Roundup: 7 boxes tested
PC Authority, Australia
You can even download files using features such as integrated BitTorrent servers, ready for when you get home. And, best of all, you can afford to leave a NAS device on all the time without fearing the arrival of your energy bill. ...

ShowRSS Automates Your TV Show Downloads
Lifehacker, CA
If you're missing the now defunct FeedMyTorrents and its awesome duplicate-free RSS based automation, showRSS offers the same functionality and integration with RSS-enabled BitTorrent clients. Founded by a refugee from FeedMyTorrents, ...

Illegal downloads soar as hard times bite
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Total visits by Australians to BitTorrent websites including Mininova, The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, TorrentReactor and Torrentz grew from 785000 in April last year to 1049000 in April this year, Nielsen says. This is a year-on-year increase of 33.6 per ...

Bye Bye FeedMyTorrents, Hello ShowRSS
TorrentFreak
FMT carried RSS feeds for popular TV shows to automate their downloading via BitTorrent and grew very popular in a short space of time, but sadly it is no more. However, the closure of FMT didn't go unnoticed. Over in Spain the admin of Karmorra - an ...

Better Together: Wi-Fi, Powerline Networking
PCWorld Norge, Norway
Exacting applications such as network backup, high-definition video streaming, BitTorrent downloading, and VoIP can choke even the fastest Wi-Fi: At best, a draft-2.0 802.11n router delivers a little over 100 megabits per second in real-world ...

Ars Technica Reports: How Strong Copy Protection on Videogames ...
Wired News
By Ben Kuchera 11 hours ago With high-speed internet connections and BitTorrent now common, it's easier than ever to download the most popular PC games ... illegally. Publishers are fighting back against the pirates with increasingly strict copy ...

Macintosh, Mac OS X 10.3, Mac OS X 10.2, Mac OS X 10.1
ZDNet.de, Germany
Now, it is also able to connect to multiple networks such as Overnet, gnutella, BitTorrent, Fasttrack, Direct-Connect, Soulseek. It is written in Objective-Caml and runs on most Unix platforms. Files can be downloaded from different sources at the same ...

Blackberry Cool

How to Torrent with your BlackBerry with minimal data usage
Blackberry Cool, Canada
Unfortunately, my search for a BitTorrent client for the BlackBerry OS came up negative. A native BitTorrent client (if available) would be useful to the few users with robust data plans, the latest devices and a large memory cards. ...

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. ...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent TorrentFreak
all 2 news articles

9 of the Best Free Linux BitTorrent Clients
LXer (press release), TX
Over the years BitTorrent has received a considerable amount of bad press, mainly because the protocol is seen as a convenient way of facilitating mass illegal downloads of music, movies, games and software. Consequently, it is disliked by some content ...

Web downloading site found guilty
Canada.com, Canada
The website, www.thepiratebay.org, bills itself as the world's largest BitTorrent tracker. BitTorrent is a file-sharing protocol that allows downloads of digital content while users track everything from music to movies to video games and other content ...
Court Rejects Record Label's Demands to Fine, Gag, Shutter the ... Zeropaid
Court rejects lawyers' call to gag Pirates The Local
all 4 news articles

eBay vs L'Oreal Through a BitTorrent Prism
TorrentFreak
We take a look at the case through a BitTorrent prism. On Friday the High Court ruled that online auction site eBay is not liable when fake beauty products are sold to the public by its users via the site. Justice Richard David Arnold ruled that eBay ...

TorrentFreak

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent. A new R5 release of 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' tops the chart this week followed by 'He's Just Not That Into You'. This week there are only two newcomers including a R5 release of 'X-Men Origins: ...

Canada seen as the world's Blackbeard
Vancouver Sun,  Canada
Rhéaume is among those watching a British Columbia court case pitting isohunt, a Vancouver-based bittorrent site against the recording industry. Gary Fung, founder of isohunt is asking the courts to rule that his site, isohunt.com, is not breaking ...

TorrentFreak

Anti-Piracy Boss Saved From Death, Can't Close Torrent Sites
TorrentFreak
To add insult to injury they also have to deal with the embarrassment of being pwned at the hands of bittorrent site admins. In an interview last year, Simanavicius revealed that one of his biggest problems comes from bittorrent sites. ...

p2pnet.net

MediaSentry Super-Secret Squirrel tech
p2pnet.net, Canada
Firstly, DarkStar Management is currently seeding trojans (as you can see from the entry below) to the BitTorrent world by the millions. But I'll go into that in another article. I was logging onto my favorite anonymity site (xxxx) when PeerGuardian2 ...

Strange Glue Music

Last.fm's User Data is Useless to the RIAA
TorrentFreak
The only thing the RIAA has to do is hire someone to monitor various public BitTorrent trackers where the music is traded, and they can easily catch thousands of people in the act. The upside of this method is that they can verify that the person on ...
CBS gave RIAA Last.fm user data: report p2pnet.net
Deny This, Last.fm Washington Post
Leadership 2.0, and How Not to Achieve it HarvardBusiness.org
Özel Web Tasarım - Slashdot
all 8 news articles

Translation Please: Best of NCTA Tech Papers, 2009
Multichannel News, NY
BitTorrent is heavily analyzed, including newer offshoots, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay, which host metadata files passed by Bittorrent to help distribute chunks of files. Just like everything else, P2P techniques are advancing, and the coming chapters ...

Strange Glue Music

CBS gave RIAA Last.fm user data: report
p2pnet.net, Canada
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. ...
Deny This, Last.fm Washington Post
New 'Last.fm Gave Data To RIAA' Claims 'Still Nonsense' paidContent
Last.FM ratted user details to the RIAA Fudzilla
HarvardBusiness.org
all 11 news articles

TorrentFreak

BitTorrent Spammers Target The Pirate Bay
TorrentFreak
Taken together, all these rogue projects have generated millions of dollars while leaving many BitTorrent users dissatisfied. One of the more recent attacks targets the weak spot of the average BitTorrent user, as it promises to increase the download ...

Week in gaming: Sims 3 leaked, inFamous is great, Punch-Out! returns
Ars Technica, MA
By Ben Kuchera | Last updated May 23, 2009 11:45 AM CT This week in gaming we have a huge EA release hitting the BitTorrent sites a little earlier than expected, a review of a wonderfully written and designed PS3 open world title, and the return of ...

CD Freaks.com

Buffalo linkstation Live with bittorrent 500GB
CD Freaks.com, Netherlands
With a built-in bittorrent Client, linkstation can download content without the requirement to keep your PC powered up. Intelligent Power Saving functions, timer power on/off and auto power on/off with your Windows PC all help towards power saving and ...

ScreenCrave.com

The Top Ten Pirated Movies: Are You Fired Up?
ScreenCrave.com, CA
By Kara Every week, TorrentFreak lists the top ten pirated movies on BitTorrent. I am always curious to see what other people are watching. Between ticket prices and my frugality, I am not too keen on spending my money on a possibly bad movie. ...

TorrentFreak

feedmytorrents Closes In Face of Legal Threats
TorrentFreak
feedmytorrents, a site which published handy RSS feeds for downloading TV-shows using bittorrent, has closed its doors for the last time. The site went down earlier this year due to financial difficulties but following legal threats, has now closed ...

Nielsen stats find 33% of US households with at least one HDTV
Engadget HD, CA
Cable companies have been raising their rates because of pressure for them to influence on consumer access to download services like BitTorrent. It means that to get the kind of competitive service consumers want, they have to get payday loans to get ...

Rejection: Apple hates (certain) books and whistling
tuaw.com, CA
You'll recall that just last Monday, Apple was seen flaunting its control over the App Store by rejecting a remote-control client for the BitTorrent desktop application "Transmission" called "Drivetrain." Of interesting note in that case is that there ...

Dutch Youth Addicted to BitTorrent
TorrentFreak
In most cases this means that using BitTorrent to download copyrighted music is not the best choice, since it generally requires uploading. However, this is not holding any of the Dutch youngsters back, so it seems. BitTorrent was by far the preferred ...

Neoseeker

Apple rejects iPhone game, still sells previous version
Neoseeker
We're inclined to agree, after the Baby Shaker fiasco, NiN theme rejection, and other such amusing iPhone-related moments. Apple has also previously barred a Twitter update tool and a BitTorrent management App.
Apple Rejects Hot Dog Down a Hallway Escapist Magazine
Apple bars video game but still sells an earlier version Denver Post
Author: Victoria Barret Alibaba News Channel
all 4 news articles

San Francisco Bay Times

TV Wonderland, Download Style
San Francisco Bay Times, CA
I'm watching and downloading all of my favorite shows episode by episode online, some on the many sites that now stream your shows of choice anytime like Hulu, but mostly I download shows from a variety of BitTorrent sites. BitTorrent is a peer to peer ...

New Zealand Herald

Judge Reviewing Pirate Bay Trial Bias is Removed for Bias
Wired News
The convoluted web of potential scandal further complicates the April 17 copyright infrigment convictions of the four founders of The Pirate Bay, the world's most notorious BitTorrent tracker. Judge Ulrika Ihrfelt was assigned to investigate whether ...
Lessons From the Pirate Bay Trial Chicago Reader
Report: Majors Pursue Pirate Bay Hosting Co Billboard Business News
The Pirate Bay Gets an Anthem Zeropaid
CD Freaks.com - PC Authority
all 94 news articles

p2pnet.net

Luxembourg bittorrent sites taken down
p2pnet.net, Canada
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- One wouldn't normally think of the tiny Grand Duchy of Luxembourg as a hotbed of something or other calling for the attention of the cartels. Webhoster Rott esolutions (also known as root.lu, server.lu) has taken down ...

Globe and Mail

How the iPod changed everything
Globe and Mail, Canada
By 2003, the BitTorrent protocol was fast becoming a Web sensation. People around the world were using the technology to share not just songs, but entire albums of music. Video games and other software could be downloaded much faster than before with ...

Ars Technica

Lessons From the Pirate Bay Trial
Chicago Reader
BitTorrent operations like the Pirate Bay are hard to prosecute—they neither host copyrighted files nor actively coordinate their transfer—and the entertainment industry showed uncommon savvy by going after the Pirate Bay three years ago, ...
Report: Majors Pursue Pirate Bay Hosting Co Billboard Business News
More bias found in Pirate Bay case CD Freaks.com
The Pirate Bay Gets an Anthem Zeropaid
PC Authority - CNBC
all 88 news articles

CrunchGear

BitTorrent nearly maxes out Optimum Online Ultra: Hooray for 10+ ...
CrunchGear, NY
Let's first look at BitTorrent, which I'd guess is the most popular P2P thingie out there. I use Vuze because I'm on a Mac (well, two Macs: a Fall 2006 era iMac, which now sorta acts as a server, and a pre-unibody MacBook, which is what I use to pump ...

New Zealand Herald

Report: Majors Pursue Pirate Bay Hosting Co
Billboard Business News, NY
By Andre Paine, London Following the Swedish court victory against BitTorrent tracker the Pirate Bay in April, the majors are now reportedly taking further legal action against three of the men convicted and the Web company that is said to host the ...
Music giants seek fresh sanctions against Pirate Bay: report AFP
The Pirate Bay Gets an Anthem Zeropaid
Music industry hits Pirate Bay again Inquirer
iTWire - Computerworld
all 65 news articles

Breaking Down the Demigod Launch - Slashdot


Breaking Down the Demigod Launch
Slashdot
All Bittorrent applications I ever used only required one port to be forwarded. by ledow (319597) on Wednesday May 20, @08:24AM (#28023905) Homepage 1) It's not worth keeping logs, certainly not for diagnosis, if they aren't synch'ed between servers ...

CNET News

RIP standalone network media players
CNET News, CA
With the exception of home movies, the only video files you'd really want to stream from a PC to your TV were all manner of illicit content: ripped DVDs and videos from BitTorrent. That left mainstream manufacturers unable to openly market these ...

TrustedReviews

Office 2010 Preview Somehow Leaks To Web
ChannelWeb, NY
On Friday, the technology blog Geeksmack posted BitTorrent links to the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the Office 2010 preview, which Microsoft plans to launch in July on an invite-only basis. The leak follows the pattern of major Microsoft software ...
Office 2010 Builds Hit BitTorrent, Feature Windows 7 Taskbar ... Lifehacker
Office 2010 test version leaks onto Web CNET News
Microsoft Office 2010 tech preview hits torrent sites TechSpot
Webmonkey - TECH.BLORGE.com
all 21 news articles

TorrentFreak

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on bittorrent
TorrentFreak
The top 10 most downloaded movies on bittorrent, 'Fired Up' tops the chart this week followed by 'The Horsemen'. The Telecine release of 'Star Trek' completes this week's top three. This week there are only four newcomers including a Cam release of ...

Then why shouldn't write a new one?
OS News
Distribution of packages could get done by bittorrent or similar technology. This means the death of mirrors and package maintainers. I think the most important part is that you shouldn't think about that you're using an OS. ...
Opinion: Ask Not What Linux Can Do for You Wi-Fi Planet
RE[3]: Comment by pcunite OS News
RE[2]: Then why shouldn't write a new one? OS News
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Mininova Court Trial Postponed Until June
TorrentFreak
The outcome of the civil dispute between the anti-piracy group BREIN and Mininova will decide if the BitTorrent indexer has to actively filter torrents from the site. Mininova, based in The Netherlands, is up against local anti-piracy outfit BREIN, ...

The Pirate Bay Gets an Anthem - Zeropaid


TorrentFreak

The Pirate Bay Gets an Anthem
Zeropaid, CA
Swedish artist Montt Mardié creates “We're All the Pirate Bay” for the BitTorrent tracker site, and users are encouraged to remix the song, or make your own video for it. Support for Swedish BitTorrent tracker site the Pirate Bay continues to grow ...
Aye! The Pirate Bay Anthem is Here TorrentFreak
'Don't write songs to make money': Pirate Bay anthem released PC Authority
'We're all The Pirate Bay' p2pnet.net
all 4 news articles

DailyTech

Office 2010 Builds Hit BitTorrent, Feature Windows 7 Taskbar ...
Lifehacker, CA
Microsoft is due to release a Technical Preview of Office 2010 to trusted partners and lucky registered testers in July, but in what's become a pretty common pattern, BitTorrent-savvy browser are already seeing leaked builds. ...
Office 2010 preview leaks to Web Computerworld
Office 2010 tech preview leaks onto interwebs Register
Office 2010 Technical Preview Leaked and Available for Download Softpedia
all 74 news articles

Wired News

The Truth Behind the Mysterious 'Project Charlie'
Wired News
The new iPhone will stream music to any Airport Express. RSS BitTorrent. Pick a TV show and new versions will automatically turn up via a native BitTorrent client. Wi-Fi only, sadly (blame AT&T). SD card reader for backing up and reviewing photos. ...

Wired Blogs

The Truth Behind the Mysterious 'Project Charlie'
Wired Blogs
The new iPhone will stream music to any Airport Express. RSS BitTorrent. Pick a TV show and new versions will automatically turn up via a native BitTorrent client. Wi-Fi only, sadly (blame AT&T). SD card reader for backing up and reviewing photos. ...

DailyTech

Office 2010 tech preview leaks onto interwebs
Register, UK
By Kelly Fiveash • Get more from this author A technical preview version of Microsoft's forthcoming Office 2010 has popped up on several BitTorrent sites, just days after the company released it to a select bunch of testers. The software was supposed ...
Office 2010 Technical Preview Leaked and Available for Download Softpedia
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Office 2010 Technical Preview Leaked and Available for Download
Softpedia, Romania
Yet over 40 days ahead of the Technical Preview delivery date, the Community Technology Preview of Office 2010 is available to all users with a BitTorrent client. Illegal sources of downloads are offering both the 32-bit and the 64-bit flavors of ...

Australian Personal Computer

Office 2010 'technical preview' beta leaks onto BitTorrent
Australian Personal Computer, Australia
Microsoft hasn't officially opened its preview program for Office 2010 but the beta test build has already hit the Web via BitTorrent... You don't have to wait until early next year to try out Office 2010. You don't even need to cool your heels until ...

Road test: mobile broadband - WA today


WA today

Road test: mobile broadband
WA today, Australia
And unlike many fixed broadband services, mobile wireless counts uploads as well as downloads towards your final monthly tally, so avoid using peer-to-peer software such as BitTorrent. The mobile broadband services from the four 3G networks span Sydney ...

FeedMyTorrents RIP - Sydney Morning Herald


FeedMyTorrents RIP
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
It looks like FeedMyTorrents.com, a handy website helping you automatically download your favourite shows via BitTorrent, is a victim of its own success. FeedMyTorrents maintained RSS feeds for more than popular 100 television shows such as CSI, Lost, ...

TorrentFreak

Anti-Piracy Group Takes Out Usenet Indexer
TorrentFreak
Anti-piracy group BREIN is well known in the BitTorrent community, having already managed to shut down hundreds of small sites. The Dutch outfit is currently being sued by a group of Usenet enthusiasts after it called their site illegal. ...
Offence Is the Best Defence: 'Dutch RIAA' Sued OS News
Usenet Group Sues Dutch RIAA Slashdot
FTD takes anti-piracy group Brein to court Telecompaper
TorrentFreak
all 8 news articles

What is the Best BitTorrent Client?
TorrentFreak
With an estimated 50 million users at any given time of the day, BitTorrent has established itself as the leading way to share large files online. As a consequence, BitTorrent applications are among the most installed and most frequently used ...

TorrentFreak

Aye! The Pirate Bay Anthem is Here
TorrentFreak
A video was posted on YouTube and elsewhere, and the single is also available on the world's largest BitTorrent tracker. The Pirate Bay crew officially endorsed the anthem, and encourages everyone to download, remix and share it. “To show the world, ...
The Pirate Bay Returns Fire! ShortNews.com
'We're all The Pirate Bay' p2pnet.net
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P2P Startup Looks To Porn For Profits
The Business Insider, NY
Peer-to-peer content distribution companies like Vuze, bittorrent, and Pando raised millions of dollars over the last several years under the assumption that big media companies would shift some of their distribution to P2P to cut their bandwidth costs ...

TorrentFreak

Vuze Cashing in on Porn BitTorrent Users
TorrentFreak
In a bid to increase their revenue, among other things, Vuze has added a catalog of HD adult videos to their BitTorrent client. For a few dollars a month Vuze users can subscribe to the latest hotness. Of course, all torrents on the erotica network are ...
bittorrent control app Drivetrain rejected from the appstore IntoMobile
Take That, Apple: Download Torrents With Your iphone Without Any ... NewTeeVee
Vuze Looks For Money In Porn NewTeeVee
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Trial of OiNK BitTorrent Site Admin Delayed Until 2010
TorrentFreak
During October 2007, the popular BitTorrent tracker OiNK was shut down in a joint effort by Dutch and British law enforcement. Four users of the popular BitTorrent tracker have already been sentenced to community service, fines and payment of court ...

TorrentFreak

Pirate Bay Bias Charge: 'Random' Judge Assignment Wasn't
Wired News
The latest ethics charges in the aftermath of the April conviction of the four founders of the world's most notorious BitTorrent tracker alleged that the judge who presided over the trial wasn't chosen at random, as is required under Swedish law. ...
Another Scandal Surrounds Pirate Bay Judge TorrentFreak
The Pirate Bay asks for retrial claiming conflict of interest Metamorphosis
all 3 news articles

RE[2]: Accessibility? - OS News


RE[2]: Accessibility?
OS News
However Syllable does have a screen-zoom application, and some work on alternative inputs may be done for the next release. Not that either of those will help me, but I'm glad to here that accessibility is at least in the plans. ...

Zeropaid

UK Law Firm Quits Suing File-Sharers En Masse, Another Takes its Place
Zeropaid, CA
The law firm used IP addresses gleaned from a Swiss firm Logistep from BitTorrent swarms. Now apparently a new law firm called ACS: LAW is now taking up the file-sharing cases. It has also been reported that there have been staff swaps between the two ...
UK Consumer Group Reports Anti-File-Sharing 'Bully' to Authorities Zeropaid
all 2 news articles

Usenet Community Takes Anti-Piracy Group to Court
TorrentFreak
BREIN, which has taken action against many Usenet and BitTorrent sites including Demonoid and Mininova, has declared the activities of FTD illegal. Angered by these claims, FTD is now taking BREIN to court to force it to eat its words. ...
Offence Is the Best Defence: 'Dutch RIAA' Sued OS News
FTD takes anti-piracy group Brein to court Telecompaper
all 3 news articles

IntoMobile

BitTorrent control app Drivetrain rejected from the AppStore
IntoMobile, CA
Maza Digital, the company behind RSS reader app for the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone and iPod Touch called Trackr, is saying that their Transmission (BitTorrent client for Mac OS) remote control application Drivetrain has been rejected from the AppStore. ...
Take That, Apple: Download Torrents With Your iphone Without Any ... NewTeeVee
all 2 news articles

ReadWriteWeb

"Once This Hits 4chan, It's Over:" RIAA/MPAA Privacy/Security Failure
ReadWriteWeb, CA
Think of them as the online debt collectors of the BitTorrent universe, with all the information security risk that implies. BayTSP's process involved sending suspected copyright violators a URL to a "Web Infringement Response System. ...
Canada falls in online piracy ranking CBC.ca
Report shows Canada declining as source of P2P infringement claims Georgia Straight
all 3 news articles

Take That, Apple: Download Torrents With Your iPhone Without Any ...
NewTeeVee, CA
Apple created a little bit of an uproar this week when it refused to approve a BitTorrent application for its App Store. The company explained the rejection by saying that this “category of applications is often used for the purpose of infringing ...

Ars Technica

The Pirate Bay owners' crazy plan to bankrupt law firm
SmartCompany.com.au, Australia
The owners of The Pirate Bay, a website dedicated to BitTorrent files that is currently being sued by several media organisations, have developed a plan to pay a fine imposed by a court decision and also force the opposing legal team out of business. ...
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Demands a “Fair Trial” Zeropaid
Pirate Bay Devises DDoS Retaliation BroadbandReports.com
Swedish government tries to collect fine from The Pirate Bay Ars Technica
Zeropaid
all 26 news articles

Idolator

'Study' By Online Music Licensing Org - File-sharing Makes Pop ...
Zeropaid, CA
Was it monitoring just BitTorrent or all file-sharing apps? Plenty of questions about a wide topic with few details. So, why has this organization released such a study at all? A little research has revealed that PRS for Music has recently posted a ...
Report Challenges Long Tail Theory on P2P Networks Wired News
all 14 news articles

Digitaltrends.com

Torrented Windows 7 RC Builds Botnet
Tom's Hardware Guide, CA
The firm said that the hidden Trojan infected thousands of users when the software first began to circulate BitTorrent sites on April 24, spreading at a rate of "several hundred" new bots per hour, maxing out (so far) with as many as 552 users per hour ...
Pirate Win 7 ruse used to build botnet Register
Pirated Version of Windows 7 Has Malware Built-in Washington Post
Pirated Windows 7 leads to malware, botnet ZDNet Blogs
ZDNet UK - Dark Reading
all 29 news articles

eHomeUpgrade (press release)

Look Out Boxee, VUDU, VuNow PoD… TVBLOB's BLOBbox Is Ready to ...
eHomeUpgrade (press release), CA
Anyone can join the BLOBforge network and create service tie-ins that leverage TVBLOB's BitTorrent, podcast, and video on-demand delivery methods. TVBLOB also provides hooks for interactive features, pre-roll advertising, and even payment collection ...

A Book Author Wonders How to Fight Piracy
New York Times, United States
The BitTorrent sites sell ads. The search engines often sell ads on the search results that point to pirate sites. There are even a growing number of Usenet indexing sites that charge for high-speed downloads of information from the old Usenet ...

Documentary Filmmaker Supports BitTorrent Uploader
TorrentFreak
Right now, he is embracing file-sharing and even the uploader who released his work via BitTorrent sites. Last week, 'godcanjudgeme', a prolific uploader to Demonoid, The Pirate Bay, Mininova and OneBigTorrent, made another upload to add to his long ...

Digitaltrends.com

Pirated copies of Windows 7 RC used for botnet
MX Logic, CO
Pirated copies were leaked on BitTorrent sites with a Trojan horse that, once downloaded, attempts to install a bundle of other malware on the infected machine, researchers said. Pirated software has been used previously to spread malware. ...
Pirate Win 7 ruse used to build botnet Register
Pirated Version of Windows 7 Has Malware Built-in Washington Post
Pirated Trojan-Infested Windows 7 RC Builds Botnet Softpedia
ZDNet Blogs - CNET News
all 29 news articles

PUMP Is A Great P2P Video Application, And Then Some
Washington Post, United States
PUMP is a desktop application that lets you search for and download the Flash versions of videos from a variety of services, including YouTube, Dailymotion, BitTorrent search engine Mininova, Jamendo, LegalTorrents and Google Torrent, and the results ...

Ars Technica

Pirate Bay Co-Founder Demands a “Fair Trial”
Zeropaid, CA
Notes that Judge was a member of same group as plaintiffs, and that Jim Keyzer, the Chief Swedish police investigator in the preliminary investigation of the BitTorrent tracker site became an employee of Warner Bros soon afterwards. ...
Swedish government tries to collect fine from The Pirate Bay Ars Technica
Sweden Looking to Collect $3.8M in Damages From Pirate Bay Digital Media Wire
SWEDISH PHISH: WEB PIRATES WON'T PAY New York Post
The Local - Zeropaid
all 6 news articles

Telegraph.co.uk

Drivetrain rejection highlights App Store approval flaws
Computerworld, Norway
Drivetrain is an iPhone app that lets you remotely control Transmission ( Macworld rated 4.5 out of 5 mice ), a desktop BitTorrent client that runs on OS X. Aaron Scott of Drivetrain developer Maza Digital told Macworld that Apple's rejection letter ...
Apple bans BitTorrent app for iPhone StrategyEye (subscription)
Apple rejects BitTorrent, Jesus-themed iPhone apps ipodnn
Apple rejects one bittorrent app, but approves another VentureBeat
Softpedia - TECH.BLORGE.com
all 773 news articles

TorrentFreak

Spain, Italy, France top illicit file-sharing report
Ars Technica, MA
BitTorrent, the popular and much-maligned P2P file-sharing protocol, has once again been identified as the biggest source of pirated content on the Internet, according to a report by content-tracking firm BayTSP, and the US has dropped from the number ...
MIT, the School with the Most (pirates) p2pnet.net
all 13 news articles

Business Briefs: bittorrent, Microsoft, Google, WMG
Billboard Business News, NY
bittorrent tops the list and edonkey is second. Ares, a decentralized P2P network, is a very distant third. Spain tops the list of recorded infringement by country, followed by Italy, France and the US Note that those rankings are not per-capita ...

Pirate Win 7 ruse used to build botnet
Register, UK
Damballa reckons malicious hackers distributed the malware by hiding it within counterfeit copies of pre-release versions of Microsoft's next operating system on offer through BitTorrent. Damballa reckons that the pirated package was released around 24 ...
Pirated Windows 7 OS Comes With Trojan, Builds A Botnet Dark Reading
Pirated Windows 7 software part of criminal botnet Computerworld
all 19 news articles

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. ...

Zeropaid

Swedish Bank to Freeze Accounts of The Pirate Bay Admins
Zeropaid, CA
All this while the administrators of the famous BitTorrent site is demanding a re-trial. It'sa new twist that could possibly deal a fresh blow to the administrators of The Pirate Bay, but a report from The Local also said that the fine would not affect ...
Sweden to freeze guilty Pirates' loot The Local
all 3 news articles

Globe and Mail

How the iPod changed everything
Globe and Mail, Canada
By 2003, the BitTorrent protocol was fast becoming a Web sensation. People around the world were using the technology to share not just songs, but entire albums of music. Video games and other software could be downloaded much faster than before with ...

TorrentFreak

BitTorrent: King of Copyright Infringements
TorrentFreak
The report notes that BitTorrent has further strengthened its dominant position as the protocol used to infringe the most copyrights, with eDonkey (eD2k) in second place. It has to be noted that BitTorrent may be more actively and easily monitored than ...
BitTorrent Extends Dominance in P2P Arena; Europe Up, US Down in ... Business Wire (press release)
all 9 news articles

PBS could become a cause for the web
Web 2.0 Journal, NJ
And I admit that when there's a new Frontline, I download it via bittorrent, and I seed it to make sure it's available for others. This adds to my $150 annual contribution. I'm giving some of my bandwidth to make sure people who live outside the US and ...

Pirated Windows 7 OS Comes With Trojan, Builds A Botnet
Dark Reading, NY
By Kelly Jackson Higgins A pirated version of the new Windows 7 operating system release candidate that has been circulating around the Internet is also building out a botnet. The rogue OS, which is rigged with a Trojan downloader, at one point had ...
Pirated Windows 7 software part of criminal botnet Computerworld
all 16 news articles

Pirated Windows 7 Builds a Botnet With Trojan
eWeek,  NY
According to researchers at Damballa, attackers hid a Trojan inside of pirated copies of the operating system and began circulating them on BitTorrent sites. The company reported they shut down the botnet's command and control server May 10, ...
Pirated Version of Windows 7 Has Malware Built-in Washington Post
all 10 news articles

Pirated Version of Windows 7 Has Malware Built-in
Washington Post, United States
In fact, there are no shortage of shadowy pay-per-install programs that revolve around this concept, granting tiny commissions to affiliates who spread the poisoned files on P2P networks like BitTorrent. The screen shot below shows a popular ...
Pirated Windows 7 software part of criminal botnet Computerworld
all 8 news articles

BitTorrent app rejected by Apple
CD Freaks.com, Netherlands
BitTorrent's reputation as the standard for illegal file sharing has brought down the banhammer from Apple. The company has rejected Maza Digital's Drivetrain app, a simple interface for remote control of the Transmission BitTorrent client. ...

TorrentFreak

WHERE DID THE BITTORRENT HITS GO?
Contactmusic.com, UK
The disappearance of the shows, some of the most popular on BitTorrent sites, coincides with Mininova's experimentation with a content removal tool that some analysts had predicted would not work. TorrentFreak said that now anyone trying to upload the ...
Are Mininova about to jump ship because of the Pirate Bay? PC Authority
Popular Torrents Start to Disappear From Mininova TorrentFreak
all 4 news articles

Zeropaid

Vuze Introduces “Vuze to Go”
Zeropaid, CA
Run the popular BitTorrent client from a portable disk drive, and download content from any PC. Vuze, formerly Azureus, continues to try and create new ways for users of the BitTorrent client to watch HD video content on devices that they “already care ...
Ceedo and Vuze Launch Portable Media Hub Earthtimes (press release)
all 6 news articles

Freedom or piracy? Website founder wants courts to decide
Canada.com, Canada
It uses the BitTorrent file sharing system to link users with music and movies, something the industry claims is piracy. While the founders of one of the world's largest free file-sharing websites, The Pirate Bay, have been sentenced to jail, ...

TorrentFreak

Pirate Bay co-founder demands new police probe
Register, UK
By Kelly Fiveash • Get more from this author One of the Pirate Bay's co-founders is calling on Swedish police to conduct a new investigation into the notorious BitTorrent site's operations. Peter Sunde - aka BrokeP - said in a blog post yesterday that ...
Are Mininova about to jump ship because of the Pirate Bay? PC Authority
The Pirate Bay trial - the Swedish verdict Linex Legal
Appeals filed in The Pirate Bay case ZDNet
all 16 news articles

Pirate Bay Devises DDoS Retaliation
BroadbandReports.com, NY
Last month, the four founders of popular BitTorrent portal Pirate Bay were found guilty of enabling copyright infringement in Sweden, each of them sentenced to a year in prison and a $905000 fine each they say they won't pay. While the appeal is bogged ...
Pirate Bay Founder Devises DDo$ Attack Hard OCP
Pirate Bay Founders Plan a ddo$ Attack on the IFPI Gizmodo.com
all 8 news articles

BitTorrent Extends Dominance in P2P Arena; Europe Up, US Down in ...
Business Wire (press release), CA
(BUSINESS WIRE)--BitTorrent extended its dominance as the most popular file sharing application for unauthorized content, and while infringements in the US have dropped, Spain, Italy and France have surged, according to an annual report on digital ...

Product Spotlight: Excito Bubba 2 network attached storage server
TechRepublic, KY
The Excito Bubba 2 does many things: Serves as a small to mid-size network attach storage (NAS) box, shares printers, serves up e-mail, streams music via DAAP, downloads bittorrent files, and more. The Bubba 2 is more than ready to serve up your small- ...

Are Mininova about to jump ship because of the Pirate Bay?
PC Authority, Australia
There is no shortage of competing trackers; sites such as ISOhunt and Torrentz are eager to provide a new home for the world's disenfranchised Bittorrent users - which number in the hundreds of millions. Bittorrent trackers hosted in foreign countries ...

Are Mininova about to jump ship because of Pirate Bay?
PC Authority, Australia
There is no shortage of competing trackers; sites such as ISOhunt and Torrentz are eager to provide a new home for the world's disenfranchised Bittorrent users - which number in the hundreds of millions. Bittorrent trackers hosted in foreign countries ...

Apple Rejects BitTorrent App, Boobs
Tom's Guide, CA
By Kevin Parrish, published on May 11, 2009 at 7:10 PM Apple is rejecting Apps left and right, first giving Trent Renzor a hard time, and now giving boobies and BitTorrent apps the boot. As of late, Apple is getting tough on applicants, ...

Techtree.com

Apple rejects one BitTorrent app, but approves another
VentureBeat, CA
It'sa remote-control device for a desktop / laptop BitTorrent application called Transmission. It's not surprising that app developer Aaron Scott, who sells under the name Maza Digital, got a rejection letter from Apple that said, “This category of ...
BitTorrent App for iPhone Gets Rejected on Anti-Piracy Grounds Gizmodo.com
all 774 news articles

Telegraph.co.uk

Apple Rejects bittorrent iphone App
Wired News
Clearly, there are legitimate uses for the bittorrent protocol . Still, Apple is obviously wary of authorizing bittorrent downloading apps because it could hinder its itunes market for videos and music by turning the iphone into a pocket-sized venue ...
Apple rejects BitTorrent, Jesus-themed iPhone apps ipodnn
Apple Rejects Bittorrent Control App Hard OCP
Apple rejects iphone App for allowing remote control of Bittorrent ... Geek.com
Gizmodo.com - Özel Web Tasarım
all 197 news articles

Torrential Reign: You Too Can Get Fired for Generating "Buzz" in ...
LA Weekly, CA
Wolverine's impressive debut undermines the argument that former Fox entertainment blogger Roger Friedman, who was fired for reviewing a bootlegged working print of the film that he downloaded via bittorrent, had hurt the movie's financial prospects. ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Apple rejects BitTorrent, Jesus-themed iPhone apps
ipodnn, CA
The first is Maza Digital's Drivetrain, a remote control program for the Transmission BitTorrent client. Initially met with an Apple message that the app would demand "unexpected additional time for review," Maza later received a notice saying that ...
Apple Doesn't Like BitTorrent, Bans Drivetrain From the App Store Mashable
Apple rejects iPhone App for allowing remote control of Bittorrent ... Geek.com
Apple rejects bittorrent control app Drivetrain iLounge
Gizmodo.com - Özel Web Tasarım
all 196 news articles

Telegraph.co.uk

Apple rejects iPhone App for allowing remote control of Bittorrent ...
Geek.com
According to Maza, the developer's application, Drivetrain — which allows for the remote control of Bittorrent files through the Transmission client — was turned down by Apple because “this category of applications is often used for the purpose of ...
Apple rejects bittorrent control app Drivetrain iLounge
BitTorrent App for iPhone Gets Rejected on Anti-Piracy Grounds Gizmodo.com
Apple Bans BitTorrent Software Özel Web Tasarım
all 165 news articles

Tech advances trample over copyright paradigms
La Voz Weekly, CA
... the secrecy of From a less technical standpoint, information freeness is why musical piracy is such a big problem in the first place: it's magnitudes more expensive to keep access to music limited than it is to load up an MP3 to a Bittorrent site. ...

FTC Chairman: Agency May Enforce Net Neutrality
PC World
The US Federal Trade Commission may start enforcing net-neutrality rules and take action against bad network management practices when broadband providers don't live up to the promises they make to consumers, the agency's chairman said. ...
Video: The Communicators: Joel Leibowitz C-SPAN
FTC chair: we may jump into net neutrality fray Ars Technica
all 12 news articles

Apple rejects BitTorrent control app Drivetrain
iLounge, CA
By Charles Starrett Apple has rejected iPhone developer Maza Digital's Drivetrain application, a remote control for Transmission, a BitTorrent client for Mac OS X and other platforms. After an initial email stating that Drivetrain required “unexpected ...

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, 'Push' tops the chart this week followed by 'Crank: High Voltage'. A Telecine release of 'Star Trek' enters the chart in sixth place. This week there are only three newcomers including 'Star Trek'. ...

Afterdawn.com

Vuze now portable, for a price
Afterdawn.com
Vuze, the popular Java-based BitTorrent client formerly known as Azureus has now released a portable version, but for a price, $9.99 USD to be exact. The version can be carried around on a flash drive or external HDD and the decision to sell the ...

Zeropaid

Davenport Lyons Threatens to Sue Wikileaks Over Publication of ...
Zeropaid, CA
The alleged incident in question happened over bittorrent, but no website was given, so who really knows where the evidence was gathered in the first place? The turn of events seems to resemble the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) ...

BitTorrent News Roundup: Birdtorrent, Coda.fm and Transmission Updates
Open Media Boston, Massachusetts
by Jesse Kirdahy-Scalia (Independent), May-08-09 There's more going on in the tech world than we've been able to keep up with recently, so we've compiled some important BitTorrent news that's fallen through the cracks bypassed the firewall. ...

AT&T Clarifies Position on ETF & Material Changes, Argues Only Two ...
PhoneNews.com, CA
Mr. Siegel declined to comment on the impact of the FCC's Comcast/BitTorrent ruling, which appears to state that AT&T (or any other service provider) cannot limit individual usages or protocols on their connection to the internet. ...

Zeropaid

STUDY: Sweden's Pirate Party to Win 2 Seats in EU Parliament
Zeropaid, CA
The entertainment industry may have won the first phase of its copyright infringement case against Swedish BitTorrent tracker site the Pirate Bay, but in the end it's file-sharers who'll surely win. Many of the country's youth have been angered over ...
Hard Times for Sweden's Social Democratic Party The Epoch Times
Pirate Party Sweden's third-largest ahead of EU vote: study The Local
International Nordic News IceNews
all 5 news articles

TorrentFreak

Vuze Goes Portable, With a Price Tag
TorrentFreak
Vuze, the BitTorrent client formerly known as Azureus, has just been released in a portable version. Unlike the regular Vuze client, Vuze to Go is closed source and costs $9.99. No doubt a pirated version will end up on torrent sites sooner or later. ...

Download New and Improved uTorrent Mac OS X Client
Softpedia, Romania
By Filip Truta, Apple News Editor BitTorrent Inc. has released uTorrent 0.9.1.2 Build 15399 Beta, a new version of its popular file-sharing application for Mac OS X. The release adds a total of nine fixes to issues reported in previous versions of the ...

Hell Mail

'New' Anti-Piracy Lawyers Chase UK File-Sharers
TorrentFreak
Their clients - all second or third rate publishers - employed anti-piracy tracking companies like Logistep to enter BitTorrent or eD2k swarms of people sharing their titles and harvest IP addresses. These IP addresses were then filtered by country (to ...
The Lucrative File Sharing Solicitors Game Hell Mail
all 2 news articles

Google Currently Offering Free Public and Private BitTorrent Trackers
Zeropaid, CA
While it doesn't appear that the service is searchable yet, what's to stop someone from creating a private forum and running the BitTorrent service through IPNM? That much isn't clear. What also isn't clear is whether or not the service is filtered. ...

Zeropaid

German Lawyer Speaks About Risks of Using One-Click File Hosters
Zeropaid, CA
Of course, original leakers aren't typically charged, usually just those who are the first to upload the work onto a more public internet medium (sometimes private bittorrent sites like elitetorrents, but more often public blogs, public bittorrent ...

Electronic House

vunow Adds More TV, Goes 802.11n
Electronic House, MA
That's in addition to the goods already included with the box such as search functionality and bittorrent download capability. Sorry, Mac users, but the pod only works with Windows or other Networked Attached Storage (NAS) devices that are DLNA ...
Verismo Releases New Version of VuNow TMCnet
all 10 news articles

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InformationWeek, NY - Paul McDougall
Windows 7 RC, which Microsoft Corp. will officialy launch on May 5, leaked two weeks ago, with copies first appearing on BitTorrent tracking sites on April 24. Some of the pirated builds include a Trojan horse, numerous users said in message forums and ...

p2pnet.net

Report: BitTorrent Site Mininova Tests Filtering
Billboard Business News, NY
By Antony Bruno, Denver A BitTorrent tracking site akin to the Pirate Bay - Mininova - reportedly is implementing a copyright filtering system to stave off legal action against it. The site's co-founder, known only as "Niek," told TorrentFreak that the ...
BitTorrent Search Aggregator Filters Copyrighted Content Technologizer
Mininova Begins Filtering Out Copyrighted Files PC Magazine
Mininova starts filtering torrents for copyright material Geek.com
Digital Media Wire - TorrentFreak
all 12 news articles

Zeropaid

The economics of Internet file-sharing
BusinessWorld Online, Philippines
Used as a sharing protocol to transfer large amounts of data, BitTorrent is estimated to account for 35% of all traffic in the Internet. Basically, what the BitTorrent protocol does is maximize the bandwidth available to those who want to acquire ...
Swedish Internet Traffic Still Down Almost 50% Zeropaid
all 2 news articles

Microsoft delivers PCs that "talk in their sleep"
PC Pro, UK
This device maintains a presence on the network even when the machine is in sleep mode. the basic code and network protocols needed to get an app running - Somniloquy can continue with BitTorrent downloads or updates without waking the main system. ...

Obama Wants Spain to Ban BitTorrent Sites
TorrentFreak
One of the countries heavily criticized in the 2009 edition is Spain - largely because it views file-sharing for personal use and non-commercial BitTorrent and file-sharing sites as legal. Obama wants to change all that. In recent months we've reported ...

Hulu Continues Its War On Users
Techdirt
Those who are blocked are likely to just go elsewhere -- such as BitTorrent -- to find the content they want, and thus the content providers won't get any ad revenue, whereas on Hulu they do share in the ad revenue. It's difficult to see how it makes ...
Control Freaks: Hulu Now Blocks Anonymous Proxies Too Washington Post
all 6 news articles

As economy softens, Microsoft ramps up research
Reuters - Jeremy Kirk
Business users often leave their office PCs on overnight to allow remote file access, and consumers tend to leave them on for overnight BitTorrent downloads or constant VOIP presence, said James Scott, a Microsoft researcher. Somniloquy lets a computer ...

p2pnet.net

BitTorrent Search Aggregator Filters Copyrighted Content
Technologizer, CA - David Worthington
They are just hiding behind the BitTorrent architecture. There are various esoteric arguments made in defense of torrent search Web sites such as “a crime can be committed with product X, but the people that sell it are not responsible for the action ...
Mininova Begins Filtering Out Copyrighted Files PC Magazine
File-Sharing Hub Mininova Begins Filtering Copyrighted Media Digital Media Wire
Mininova Filters Copyright Infringing Torrents TorrentFreak
Zeropaid
all 9 news articles

Opera 10.0 Build 1413 Alpha / 9.64 Build 10487 Final Free Download
Soft Sailor, AZ
If you are using the BitTorrent transfer protocol to download files, but find BitTorrent clients too difficult to handle, with Opera there is no need for them. Just click a torrent link and the download will start in Opera's downloads window. ...

p2pnet.net

Mininova Begins Filtering Out Copyrighted Files
PC Magazine - Mark Hachman
Mininova has said that it does not offer copyrighted content directly from its Web site; using the BitTorrent protocol, users download the files in pieces from others, then reassemble the file on the user's PC. At press time, however, ...
MiniNova Begins Torrent Removal Trial Slyck
Mininova Filters Copyright Infringing Torrents TorrentFreak
Mininova Tests Out “Content Recognition System” Zeropaid
The Inquisitr
all 6 news articles

p2pnet.net

MiniNova Begins Torrent Removal Trial
Slyck, NY - Thomas Mennecke
Every few years, the BitTorrent world goes through a purging cycle. There were the first BitTorrent communities such as Donkax.com, Turok.info, ByteMonsoon.com and Torrentse.cx that were among the first to introduce users to the BitTorrent experience. ...
Mininova Filters Copyright Infringing Torrents TorrentFreak
all 3 news articles

TorrentFreak

Download a Free Car from BitTorrent and P2P Sites
TorrentFreak
In a new promotion about to launch, motor manufacturer Mitsubishi has hidden parts of its new Colt car on BitTorrent sites and other P2P-networks. First to find and assemble them all gets a free car. When it comes to collecting pieces of something from ...

Macworld UK

LaCie Intros New NAS Devices with Integrated BitTorrent
Softpedia, Romania
Designed to deliver a number of useful features, the new NAS devices from LaCie also integrates an internal BitTorrent client. “Data storage needs are becoming increasingly significant in homes and small offices,” said Edin Del Mar, LaCie product ...
LaCie Offers New Network Storage Servers PC World
LaCie Intros d2 Network and Big Disk Network 123Macmini.com
LaCie adds to NAS catalog with Big Disk, d2 Network engadget
all 12 news articles

SlashGear

LaCie Big Disk Network and d2 Network with BitTorrent
SlashGear, AZ - Chris Davies
There's also an integrated BitTorrent client for standalone downloads, and a comprehensive admin panel that lets you assign users and groups. Both drives are available now, with the LaCie Big Disk Network priced at $379.99 and the LaCie d2 Network ...
LaCie Intros d2 Network and Big Disk Network 123Macmini.com
lacie adds to NAS catalog with Big Disk, d2 Network engadget
all 3 news articles

DVD / Blu-ray Player Software Roundup
Extreme Tech - Jason Cross
Naturally, many DVD and Blu-ray movies are "ripped" and then distributed via Bittorrent, and there are many ways to play these ill-gotten goods. Likewise, you could use a free program like VLC to play DVDs. But if you want to legally play both the DVDs ...

Pirate's Booty in Bootlegged Win7
Microsoft Certified Professional - Jabulani Leffall
Copies first appeared April 24 on BitTorrent, the Internet download clearinghouse for movies, games and music that often originate from dubious origins. In an irony to end all ironies, users who downloaded programs complained about the Trojan horses ...

Post-Pirate Bay Trial - Interview with the IFPI
Slyck, NY - Thomas Mennecke
The Pirate Bay and the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) are currently locked in a compelling legal showdown that will have far reaching consequences for the future of BitTorrent and file-sharing technology. ...

guardian.co.uk

Italian Court Rules ISP Block of The Pirate Bay Illegal
Zeropaid, CA
Almost two months ago I mentioned how an Italian judge from the Court of Bergamo had ordered Italian ISPs to begin blocking customer access to The Pirate Bay BitTorrent tracker site. Now comes word that The Pirate Bay has successfully won an appeal of ...
Next up for Pirate Bay defendants: Italian trial? CNET News
The Pirate Bay trial just growing pains ABC Online
Report: Pirate Bay Operators to Face More Charges in Italy Digital Media Wire
NME.com - Techdirt
all 33 news articles

Post-Pirate Bay Trial - Inverview with the IFPI
Slyck, NY - Thomas Mennecke
The Pirate Bay and the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) are currently locked in a compelling legal showdown that will have far reaching consequences for the future of bittorrent and file-sharing technology. ...

guardian.co.uk

Italian Prosecutor Targets the Pirate Bay
Zeropaid, CA
Gallus also notes that society shouldn't outlaw BitTorrent tracker sites simply because they may contain some copyrighted material that may be shared illegally. "I continue to maintain that no punishable activity has taken place in Italy," he added. ...
Next up for Pirate Bay defendants: Italian trial? CNET News
The Pirate Bay trial just growing pains ABC Online
Report: Pirate Bay Operators to Face More Charges in Italy Digital Media Wire
NME.com - Techdirt
all 31 news articles

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. ...

Cnet Asia

Will Wolverine benefit from (Bit)Torrent of publicity?
Cnet Asia, CA - Greg Sandoval
"Torrents won't have one iota of impact on the financial results of the film," said Justin Bunnell, founder of TorrentSpy, a formerly popular BitTorrent search engine that shut down after being sued by the film industry. "The torrenting only increased ...

statshot: What's Being bittorrented? Testosterone
NewTeeVee, CA - Chris Albrecht
Break out the Creatine and your old Soloflex, high-action and even higher octane rev up BitTorrent list of the Most Pirated Movies on bittorrent this week. Fast and Furious holds on to the top spot while a shirtless Jason Statham keeps his pirates ...

Leaked copies of Windows 7 shipping with Trojan
The Tech Herald, IN - Steve Ragan
by Steve Ragan - May 4 2009, 21:23 According to blog posts from Alex Kochis and M3 Sweatt, leaked copies of the Release Candidate for Windows 7 located on some select bittorrent sites are infected. Considering that there is a good deal of anticipation ...

Wireless Week

Imperatives For Managing High Data Traffic
Wireless Week - Stuart Taylor
A single user accessing bittorrent, or some other bandwidth-intensive application, threatens to destroy the experience for all users. Operational excellence will be paramount as mobile operators run their networks “hotter” to cope with the rapid ...

Product Reviews

Leaked copies of Windows 7 RC contain Trojan
Computerworld, MA - Gregg Keizer
Windows 7 RC, which Microsoft Corp. will officialy launch tomorrow, leaked two weeks ago, with copies first appearing on BitTorrent tracking sites on April 24. Some of the pirated builds include a Trojan horse, numerous users said in message forums and ...
Windows 7: The XP Play Redmondmag.com
all 160 news articles

Zeropaid

What Leak? “Wolverine” Rakes in $87 Million
Zeropaid, CA
Last month a workprint of “X-Men:Origins: Wolverine” leaked to BitTorrent, and many in the movie industry worried that it would harm ticket sales, a fear compounded by the current economic downturn. Those concerns were unwarranted with news that the ...

guardian.co.uk

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 ‘Crank: High Voltage'. The leaked workprint of ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine' reappears in sixth place. This week there are five newcomers. ...
What Leak? “Wolverine” Rakes in $87 Million Zeropaid
Wolverine Expected to Make Up to $100M, Despite Flu and Torrents NewTeeVee
Time is coming for pirates and studios to work together Scotsman
all 4,637 news articles

bittorrent pirates asked nicely to buy Zeno Clash game
ElectricPig.tv, UK - Simon Munk
bittorrent pirates of the videogame Zeno Clash are being asked nicely “purchase the game if you enjoy it”. Innovative approach, or just a bit naive? Carlos Bordeu of the Chilean independent developers said ACE Team took the unusual step of on one hand ...

The Age

Nvidia releases geforce drivers for Windows 7 RC1
Australian Personal Computer, Australia
If you're warming up for Windows 7 RC1 this week – assuming you haven't already snaffled it from bittorrent – there's more than just Microsoft's multi-gigabyte grab-bag to put into your download queue. Nvidia's made a timely release of an update to its ...
Windows 7: The XP Play Redmondmag.com
all 104 news articles

CNET News

Next up for Pirate Bay defendants: Italian trial?
CNET News, CA - Leslie Katz
In August of last year, as part of a crackdown of BitTorrent sites in Italy, Internet service providers there were ordered to block access to the Pirate Bay site. The Pirate Bay appealed the block and eventually won the court case. ...
The Pirate Bay trial just growing pains ABC Online
Italian Pirate Bay Trial in the Making TorrentFreak
Italy May Hold Its Own Pirate Bay Trial Slashdot
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The Pirate Bay trial just growing pains
ABC Online, Australia
There was eMule, eDonkey, Kazaa, Limewire, BitTorrent and so on. BitTorrent survived as the strongest standard -- it's technically robust and relies on websites, not a built in feature, to list catalogues of files for "sharing". ...
Report: Pirate Bay Operators to Face More Charges in Italy Digital Media Wire
Digital Briefs: Pirate Bay, Sony Music, Variable Pricing Billboard Business News
Ahoy! Mateys Times of India
Slashdot - The Local
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Poll: Where Do You Get Your BitTorrent Fix?
TorrentFreak
As the clampdown on the large public BitTorrent sites continues, private trackers could play an increasingly important role in the file-sharing community. While some people firmly believe that a good public site is all you need, private trackers have ...

TorrentFreak

Record Label Sponsors BitTorrent Site isoHunt
TorrentFreak
At a time when BitTorrent sites are increasingly at odds with the music industry and file-sharing continues to flourish despite legal action, new thinking is called for. Instead of joining the conflict with BitTorrent sites, Honor Roll Music has ...

Italian Pirate Bay Trial in the Making
TorrentFreak
During August last year, The Pirate Bay was “censored” in Italy when isps were ordered to block access to the worlds largest bittorrent tracker. The Pirate Bay appealed the block and eventually won the court case. In October the Court of Bergamo ruled ...
Italy May Hold Its Own Pirate Bay Trial Slashdot
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Inside Ubuntu 9.04
InformationWeek, NY - Serdar Yegulalp
You can get it via one of the official download servers, a local download mirror, BitTorrent, a manufactured CD, or even a CD copied from a friend. This isn't commercial software, remember? No code cops will bust your door down for spreading the open ...

Open Media Boston

Participatory Culture Foundation Supports Open Video with Miro
Open Media Boston, Massachusetts - Jesse Kirdahy-Scalia
While there are competing applications that handle BitTorrent and media libraries (Vuze, SongBird), Participatory Culture Foundation's Miro is the only open source application that delivers both video and audio content via BitTorrent as well as ...

CNET News

Will 'Wolverine' benefit from (Bit)Torrent of publicity?
CNET News, CA - Greg Sandoval
"Torrents won't have one iota of impact on the financial results of the film," said Justin Bunnell, founder of TorrentSpy, a formerly popular BitTorrent search engine that shut down after being sued by the film industry. "The Torrenting only increased ...

ABC News

Wolverine Expected to Make Up to $100M, Despite Flu and Torrents
NewTeeVee, CA - Janko Roettgers
20th Century Fox went nuts when a number of unfinished work prints of X-Men Origins: Wolverine showed up on BitTorrent sites a month ago. The studio bitterly complained that the summer blockbuster wasn't finished and that anyone downloading it was ...
In digital age, can movie piracy be stopped? CNN International
Time is coming for pirates and studios to work together Scotsman
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BC court case has potential to make Google, Yahoo illegal in Canada
Vancouver Sun,  Canada - Vito Pilieci
ISOHunt helps people search through more than 44 million BitTorrent files available on the Internet to find the movies, TV shows, software and music they may be looking for. The company does not store the files, nor does it work directly with people ...
Recording industry slams Canada's 'out of date' laws Vancouver Sun
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TorrentFreak

Google Blocking Torrent Searches
WebProNews, KY - Jason Lee Miller
uTorrent, which is owned by BitTorrent, Inc., added Google Custom Search to its site for use by its 28 million monthly visitors and so the site could generate revenue through an ad revenue sharing program. ThePirateGoogle was set up just in the past ...
Freedom or piracy? Website founder wants courts to decide Vancouver Sun
Swords drawn in Pirate Bay New Statesman
Google - Stop Comparing Us to The Pirate Bay! Zeropaid
TorrentFreak - PC World
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Preparing A PC For A Parent: No, I Didn't Install Bittorrent ;-)
EDN.com, MA
By Category To wrap up the week, I thought I'd share some updates on recent computer projects. On Monday, I told you that I'd spent a good chunk of the weekend getting a PC ready for shipment to my mom. I ended up not being able to retrofit the ...

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New Zealand Herald

Windows 7 setup secrets
ZDNet Blogs - Ed Bott
It's been up on BitTorrent networks for more than a week, and developers with MSDN or TechNet subscriptions have had access to it since early this morning. But those groups constitute a tiny fraction of the people who will be seeing the Windows 7 ...
Windows 7 Will Include "Windows XP Mode" Lifehacker
Windows 7 RC1 is here... almost Computerworld
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Macworld UK

Freedom or piracy? Website founder wants courts to decide
Vancouver Sun,  Canada - Gillian Shaw
It uses the BitTorrent file sharing system to link users with music and movies, something the industry claims is piracy. While the founders of one of the world's largest free file-sharing websites, The Pirate Bay, have been sentenced to jail, ...
Swords drawn in Pirate Bay New Statesman
Google - Stop Comparing Us to The Pirate Bay! Zeropaid
RIAA's Hostile Takeover of the Internet TorrentFreak
PC World
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