Archivos February 2010


TorrentFreak (blog)

Torrents.ru Fights Back After Domain Seizure
TorrentFreak (blog)
Last week, Torrents.ru, a massive Russian BitTorrent site had its domain name suspended by order of the authorities. It quickly returned with a new URL but ...


Top 10 Torrent Sites Soon Without Mininova
TorrentFreak (blog)
Compared to a year ago the BitTorrent landscape has changed significantly. The Pirate Bay decided to shut down its tracker last fall and a few weeks later ...


TorrentFreak TV Season 2 Continues
TorrentFreak (blog)
This week's episode covers the latest Pirate Bay news, Olympic pirates, Twitter's BitTorrent crush, Flattr, LG's pirate manual and much more. ...


Is The Fan Who Buys A Product He Wants A Big Dope?
Techdirt
I can get that for free from the radio or BitTorrent sites. Those people are the biggest dopes of them all. by Alan Gerow (profile) People that buy ...


TorrentFreak (blog)

Supreme Court Movie Piracy Case Could Reveal Wrong Person
TorrentFreak (blog)
Instead of going after KAMERA, Simonsen are going after a much easier target – a secondary uploader who made his upload to a private BitTorrent tracker just ...


Comcast/NBCU to be Martinized
Radio Business Report
The internet dispute involved Comcast's slowing down traffic for peer-to-peer file sharing website BitTorrent. According to the Washington Post, ...
House Judiciary Committee HearingTrading Markets (press release)

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Former Pirate Bay bidder is back - CNET


CNET

Former Pirate Bay bidder is back
CNET
... rocketed out of obscurity by announcing he would spend $8 million to acquire The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular BitTorrent search engines. ...

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UK ISP TalkTalk Boosts Essentials Broadband Bundle Speeds to 24Mbps
ISPReview UK
... will be given a FREE speed boost 'up to' 24Mbps. The provider will also be removing P2P (BitTorrent file sharing) traffic shaping for all Pro customers. ...


TorrentFreak (blog)

Can Google Secure a Safe Haven for BitTorrent Sites?
TorrentFreak (blog)
When the operators of The Pirate Bay were sentenced to prison last year Google quickly distanced itself from the site. Nearly a year later, ...


Senate Considers P2P Security Bill
InformationWeek
Congress also is considering a bill that would require the Office of Management and Budget to prohibit the use of P2P software like BitTorrent or Limewire ...
19000 reasons to protect your firm against file-sharing exposuresCFODailyNews.com

all 3 news articles »

Japanese P2P program leaks data on US Military Ops in Iraq
Zeropaid
... P2P direct connect programs could compromise our troop's security? I hate to say it but, what an idiot this guy is. Guess he's never heard of BitTorrent.


TrustedReviews

Virgin Media 100Mbps broadband service coming
UberGizmo (blog)
If you want something lesser due to your more anti-BitTorrent lifestyle, then there are always 10Mbps, 20Mbps and 50Mbps services to choose from. ...
Virgin to roll out 100mbps broadband serviceTelegraph.co.uk

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9 Free, Open Source Tools for Video and Media Playback and Encoding
OStatic (blog)
Miro is widely known as a free, open source video player through which you can watch web videocasts, BitTorrent files, and play almost any type of video ...


Soft Sailor (blog)

Download FrostWire 4.20.1 Free Final Version
Soft Sailor (blog)
FrostWire 4.20.1 is open source, provides fast download speeds, doesn't have spyware or adware, and it's compatible with iTunes and BitTorrent, ...


USA Today

P2P 'Community' Responds to FTC Warning
Internet Evolution
Citing LimeWire and BitTorrent, Lafferty said those technologies have safeguards built in to protect users from sharing sensitive information. ...
FTC Warns 100 Companies About P2P Data LeaksCIOZone
FTC issues warnings to plug P2P security holesScientific American (blog)
FTC warns groups about data breachesSarasota Herald-Tribune
San Francisco Chronicle -Washington Post -International Business Times
all 125 news articles »

iiNet in Hollywood's sights as battle resumes on copyright ruling
The Australian
... provided the "means" of infringement. In iiNet's case, he said, the BitTorrent system was "the means" of infringement, and "iiNet has no control over (it)".


Dynamic Business

AFACT: Judge wrong on BitTorrent
ZDNet Australia
AFACT will contest that BitTorrent was a "necessary precondition" to infringement, but that iiNet's carriage service was the key. ...
AFACT to appeal iiNet decisionThe Australian
AFACT To Appeal iiNet Piracy VerdictChannelNews
iiNet copyright decision fails to follow Hollywood's script: ISP liability for ...Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
SmartCompany.com.au -Australian Personal Computer
all 71 news articles »

Walt Disney, Paramount Appeal Australian Internet Piracy Suit
BusinessWeek
Village Roadshow Ltd.'s Roadshow Films led the companies trying to stop Iinet customers from using BitTorrent software to download films. ...

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AFACT to appeal iiNet decision - The Australian


AFACT to appeal iiNet decision
The Australian
iiNet has not control over the BitTorrent system and is not responsible for the operation of the BitTorrent system," Justice Cowdroy said.
AFACT To Appeal iiNet Piracy VerdictChannelNews
iiNet copyright decision fails to follow Hollywood's script: ISP liability for ...Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
AFACT to appeal copyright case against iiNetSmartCompany.com.au
Australian Personal Computer
all 40 news articles »

McCarthy Tetrault LLP > Court Finds Fung and Isohunt Liable for Inducing ...
Linex Legal (registration)
... in a copyright infringement action against Gary Fung and four websites operated by him, including Isohunt, one of Canada's largest BitTorrent sites. ...


Senators get involved in combating online file-sharing dangers
The Hill (blog)
Popular examples include BitTorrent and LimeWire. But they can also lead to the inadvertent sharing of sensitive documents, the Federal Trade Commission ...


FCC's broadband reclassification proposal comes under fire
FierceTelecom
... is examining whether the agency overstepped its authority in ordering Comcast from blocking subscribers' access to the BitTorrent file-sharing service. ...

Mac malware: myth or reality? - Computing


Mac malware: myth or reality?
Computing
Mac users who downloaded the software via BitTorrent were also treated to the iServices Trojan horse, hidden inside the iWork installer. ...


What's on the mind of the Freetard eBookworm?
Register
But in the presentations I saw a Top 10 downloads chart that's too good not to share. It's a list of the most downloaded eBook titles on Bittorrent. ...


iiNet copyright decision fails to follow Hollywood's script: ISP liability for ...
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The direct means by which infringement of the film studio's copyright occurred was the subscribers' use of the BitTorrent system, not the use of the ...

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iiNet copyright decision fails to follow Hollywood's script: ISP liability for ...
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The direct means by which infringement of the film studio's copyright occurred was the subscribers' use of the BitTorrent system, not the use of the ...


The Tech Herald

FTC issues warnings to plug P2P security holes
Scientific American (blog)
... vulnerabilities that come with using peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks, the most popular of which today are perhaps BitTorrent and LimeWire. ...
FTC warns groups about data breachesSarasota Herald-Tribune
Federal Trade Commission links wide data breach to file sharingWashington Post
FTC warns firms, organizations of widespread data breachAFP
IDG -The Tech Herald
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Torrents.ru Web Site Closed
St.Petersburg Times.ru
MOSCOW — Prosecutors shut down the Torrents.ru web site on Thursday after accusing Russia's most popular BitTorrent tracker of breaching ...


Boston Globe

Industry describes FCC's efforts to reclassify broadband as 'untenable'
FierceWireless
... whether the FCC overstepped its authority when it ordered Comcast to stop blocking subscribers' access to the BitTorrent file-sharing service. ...
ISPs Warn FCC Against Title II Regulation of Web AccessBroadcasting & Cable
Taking Title to the InternetAmerican Spectator

all 446 news articles »

Australian Personal Computer

Tasmania's dirty bunyip not the last
Australian Personal Computer
As one Generation Y person said to me when I started explaining the case to her, “What, do people still use BitTorrent? Doesn't everyone use streaming video ...

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Flattr: Pirate Gone Legit Or An Attempt To Flattr The Court?
The Music Void (blog)
Peter Sunde, one of the founders and former spokesperson of BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay, ...


France24

FTC warns groups about data breaches
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
... for example, an employee could make unsecured customer data public by using a work computer to download a music file using programs such as BitTorrent, ...
Federal Trade Commission links wide data breach to file sharingWashington Post
FTC warns firms, organizations of widespread data breachAFP

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USA Today

Federal Trade Commission links wide data breach to file sharing
Washington Post
... inadvertently publicize unsecured customer data by using a work computer to download music from a Web service such as BitTorrent, BearShare or LimeWire. ...
FTC warns firms, organizations of widespread data breachAFP

all 37 news articles »

Internet may render censorship futile
Brisbane Times
BitTorrent is the main technology for the distribution of illegally copied video around the world. The forum founder said fewer than 1000 people download ...

This Week's Top 10 BitTorrent Movies - Tom's Guide


TorrentFreak (blog)

This Week's Top 10 BitTorrent Movies
Tom's Guide
TorrentFreak has listed this week's top ten most downloaded movies on BitTorrent. ...
How to Investigate a Fake BitTorrent TrackerLifehacker
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrentTorrentFreak (blog)

all 4 news articles »

Spybot.AKB Infects P2P Networks - Zeropaid


Spybot.AKB Infects P2P Networks
Zeropaid
As usual I recommend switching to BitTorrent or Usenet from Direct Connect-style P2P networks. Between copyright infringement investigations and malware ...

AFACT to appeal some iiTrial court costs - iTWire


BigPond News

AFACT to appeal some iiTrial court costs
iTWire
... those costs on issues which iiNet had conceded — such as on the issue of whether the ISP's customers had used BitTorrent to share copyrighted material. ...
Anti-Piracy Group Loses In Court, Doesn't Want To Pay CostsTorrentFreak (blog)
AFACT to claw back iiNet court costsZDNet Australia

all 35 news articles »

How to Investigate a Fake BitTorrent Tracker
Lifehacker
Ed. note: Ever go on a BitTorrent scavenger hunt but end up with bum files from a fake tracker? All-things-BitTorrent site TorrentFreak explains how to ...

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Are Broadband Usage Caps Inevitable? - PC World


Are Broadband Usage Caps Inevitable?
PC World
Often it's a mom or dad who is unaware that their teenager is seriously using BitTorrent. Somewhat less common are home networks populated by infected ...

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Are broadband usage caps inevitable? - Macworld


Are broadband usage caps inevitable?
Macworld
Often it's a mom or dad who is unaware that their teenager is seriously using BitTorrent. Somewhat less common are home networks populated by infected ...


TorrentFreak (blog)

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak (blog)
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, 'Legion' tops the chart this week followed by 'Edge of Darkness'. 'Old Dogs' completes the top three. ...


Money College: Collecting from roommates
WalletPop (blog)
No one can go that long without BitTorrent, after all. So what happens a month later when you get $150 worth of utility bills, not to mention a $1200 rent ...


TorrentFreak (blog)

How To Quickly Investigate A Fake BitTorrent Tracker
TorrentFreak (blog)
Seeding fake files on BitTorrent is nothing new and the practice has been carried out by anti-piracy groups and malware spreaders for a long time. ...


Microsoft RickRolls Port Slamming BitTorrent Users
Hard OCP
"….we implemented certain, ahem, 'interim countermeasures'," wrote Connor. "We quickly built a list of all of the top torrent trackers around and got the ...

Online: Useful music website - Dispatch Online


Online: Useful music website
Dispatch Online
... as websites such as Spotify, YouTube, iLike, LastFM, Limewire, MySpace and BitTorrent, which makes the site an effect gauge of what is trending online. ...


The Secret World Of Private BitTorrent Trackers
Gizmodo Australia
So is TorrentSpy, MiniNova, Suprnova and many other public BitTorrent trackers. But the most savvy and obsessive file hoarders don't care about that stuff; ...


Vuze/Azureus being pushed out on prominent BitTorrent sites
CrunchGear (blog)
There's a bit of a controversy in the BitTorrent community, friends. Two rather prominent, so-called private ...


Business Matters: Ticketmaster, Joel Tenenbaum, TuneCore
Billboard Business News
Russian BitTorrent site Torrents.ru has had its domain suspended. The site, the largest BitTorrent site in the country, has set up a temporary domain. ...


TorrentFreak (blog)

Microsoft RickRolls Port Slamming BitTorrent Users
TorrentFreak (blog)
Ed Australia 2009 conference, abnormal levels of network consumption by some users led them to take action against BitTorrent by 'Rickrolling' users who ...


Gamasutra

ESA: Mod Chips Still Biggest Global Piracy Concern
Gamasutra
Look at about 200 popular games on leading peer-to-peer platforms like BitTorrent and Gnutella, and see over 9.78 million successful ...
ESA: Over 10 million illegal game downloads in Dec 2009Videogamer.com
ESA estimates 'over 9.78 million' pirated game downloads in DecemberJoystiq (blog)
ESA Estimates Nearly 10 Million Games Illegally Downloaded in DecemberKotaku.com (blog)

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ESA: Over 10 million illegal game downloads in Dec 2009
Videogamer.com
The figure is a result of monitoring downloads of 200 games on the most popular peer-to-peer platforms including BitTorrent, eDonkey, Gnutella and Ares. ...

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Format shifting, low damages put Canada on IP watch list
Ars Technica
What really chaps the collective hide of the copyright groups is BitTorrent trackers, though, and the IIPA document refers multiple times to the fact that ...


OnLive CEO does live demo, launch details 'soon'
GameSpot
He contended that downloaded media is also past its peak, and even BitTorrent downloads are on the decline. Streaming media is now the majority of all ...

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ConnectedPlanet (blog)

In search of…Comcast broadband meter sightings
ConnectedPlanet (blog)
... of sites like Hulu and others also means that mainstream users are less like to use protocols like BitTorrent to download uncompressed mega-video files. ...


TorrentFreak (blog)

Huge Russian BitTorrent Site Has Domain Suspended
TorrentFreak (blog)
A massive Russian BitTorrent site has seen its domain name suspended by order of the authorities. Torrents.ru, the largest torrent site in the country ...


Zeropaid

Italians Circumvent Pirate Bay Blockade
Zeropaid
One BitTorrent tracker site in particular, BTjunkie, has reported an increase in Italian visitor traffic by astounding 50%. It's fairly obvious to everyone ...


Porn Studios Gag Rival Anti-Piracy Solution
TorrentFreak (blog)
Instead of having to worry about people seeding their content on BitTorrent, so called “tube sites” are now the prime threat. The owners of these streaming ...


TorrentFreak (blog)

How and Why BitTorrent Works, a Visualization
TorrentFreak (blog)
Millions of people use BitTorrent to share files every day, but only a small percentage actually understand how BitTorrent works and appreciate why it is ...


Sony fighting PSP piracy with multiplayer keys
Neoseeker
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, ...

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Useless Features of a Newsgroup Provider - Slyck


Useless Features of a Newsgroup Provider
Slyck
However - there are instances where SSL has helped against traffic shaping by ISPs, at least in the BitTorrent environment. The jury is still out on whether ...


HBO Finally Unveils Broadband Video Plan 'HBO Go,' only available to HBO ...
Dslreports
They've been accused of poisoning copies of their TV shows available for download via BitTorrent. They've petitioned the FCC to make DVR recording of ...

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Browser Toolbar for LimeWire? - Slyck


Browser Toolbar for LimeWire?
Slyck
The popularity of these Napster-like programs has steadily declined in the last five years, thanks to streaming media and the BitTorrent juggernaut. ...


Italy Plays Whack A Mole With BitTorrent Users Users flock to other sites on ...
Dslreports
... has given the Italian government the authority they needed to force ISPs to block users from accessing popular BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay. ...

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Freecom Network Media Centre Nas box - Reg Hardware


Freecom Network Media Centre Nas box
Reg Hardware
If you don't know what BitTorrent is, don't care for iTunes, and have a passion for copy dialogs and progress ...


CNET

Redbox, like Netflix, agrees to sales-only window
CNET
And no, it doesn't involve bittorrent. :-) "It's hard to express just how bad an idea this is for Warner Bros., and how far out of touch with their ...

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Pirate Bay Uploader Raided by Police - Tom's Guide


Pirate Bay Uploader Raided by Police
Tom's Guide
Think it's a free-for-all upload/download frenzy using BitTorrent or peer-to-peer networks like Limewire? It can be until you're busted. ...
Danish man's home raided by anti-piracy groupAfterdawn.com
Pirate Bay Uploader Raided By Anti-Piracy GroupTorrentFreak (blog)
Ten most pirated moviesMyADSL

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Twitter Loves Open Source And Launches A Directory To Prove It
Washington Post
While some of them you may have not, such as Murder, the code deployment project that uses Bittorrent. Underneath the short description of each project, ...

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Long live the humble BBS, and the current state of file sharing
Downloadsquad (blog)
You all know about BitTorrent and other P2P networks like Kazaa or Limewire, but there is a massively diverse range of other networks and protocols out ...
Feb. 16, 1978: Bulletin Board Goes ElectronicWired News

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Danish man's home raided by anti-piracy group
Afterdawn.com
This is the second high profile raid by the anti-piracy group this year. Last month their target was the admin of a private BitTorrent tracker called EliteBits.
Pirate Bay Uploader Raided By Anti-Piracy GroupTorrentFreak (blog)
Ten most pirated moviesMyADSL

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Failure of Australian ISP to police illegal file sharing does not amount to ...
Lexology (registration)
Thus in recent times we have seen Viacom pursue video-sharing website YouTube in the US (ongoing), the conviction of individuals behind the BitTorrent ...
AFACT v iiNet: Appeal decision to be known in a fortnightComputerworld Australia
Techno File: Copyright judgmentScotsman

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UCD team suspects 65000 of weekly illegal downloading
Irish Times
Although BitTorrent can be used for legal downloading, it is mostly used for illegal filesharing such as sharing music, film and computer games through the ...
Leading fight against online crimeThe Press Association

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Mininova Recovering from Torrent Index Loss - Slyck


Mininova Recovering from Torrent Index Loss
Slyck
But Mininova is a special breed of BitTorrent site. Not nearly as belligerent as The Pirate Bay, the entertainment industry never sought to annihilate this ...


TorrentFreak (blog)

KickassTorrents Reveals BitTorrent Search Trends
TorrentFreak (blog)
Users can use it to browse through the most popular search phrases for any given day or month to find out what's wanted by other BitTorrent users. ...


Court finds Fung and Isohunt liable for inducing copyright infringement
Lexology (registration)
BitTorrent is a popular Internet protocol that enables users to quickly share large software and media files. To download files using the BitTorrent ...


Double your networks capabilities with Belkin's new double N+ Wireless Router
Al-Bawaba
Complete with a USB interface for storage, integrated Bit Torrent client and UPnP server, the new Double N+ is much more than simply a high speed router. ...

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Thoughts on e-Textbooks from a Columnist at Washington University in St. Louis
ResourceShelf (blog)
E-book piracy has actually been around for quite awhile, albeit in small pockets of elite private BitTorrent trackers. The ethics of piracy put a new spin ...

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What's the Easiest Way to Share Large Files and Media with Friends?
Lifehacker
Plenty of web sites let you send large files around, usually by uploading a file and then sending a link to the content, and BitTorrent is also great for ...

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Pirate Bay Uploader Raided By Anti-Piracy Group
TorrentFreak (blog)
Equally, the recent raid on the operator of the EliteBits BitTorrent tracker was targeted at “traffickers”, she explained.
Ten most pirated moviesMyADSL

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Bandwidth quotas to stay, say internet service providers
The Australian
iiNet chief Michael Malone wrote in a forum yesterday the plan would be a magnet for "leeches" a term to describe BitTorrent users in internet parlance. ...

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Cavium Networks Introduces Innovative DPI Protocol Software for 3G/4G Core ...
CNNMoney.com (press release)
Web 2.0 (Facebook, Myspace etc), Multimedia (Flash, Quicktime, Youtube etc), Peer to Peer (Bittorrent, eDonkey etc) and Voice and Messaging (Skype, ...

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Belkin launches Double N+ Wireless Router
AME Info
Complete with a USB interface for storage, integrated Bit Torrent client and UPnP server, the new Double N+ is much more than simply a high speed router. ...

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Pirate Bay founder in new venture - MCV


Pirate Bay founder in new venture
MCV
One of the founders of controversial BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay has lifted the lid on a brand new venture ...
Pirate boss to make the web payBBC News

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TorrentFreak (blog)

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak (blog)
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, 'Sherlock Holmes' tops the chart this week followed by 'Daybreakers'. 'Avatar' completes the top three. ...


TorrentFreak (blog)

Olympics Opening Ceremony a Hit On BitTorrent
TorrentFreak (blog)
Despite efforts to prevent coverage of the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony from leaking online, the broadcast is widely available on BitTorrent, ...
Shane Koyczan Defines Canada At Olympics Opening CeremonyCinema Blend

all 2 news articles »

Guess I'm Game to stay home - Toronto Sun


Guess I'm Game to stay home
Toronto Sun
But in the age of PVRs and timeshifting and BitTorrent downloads, it's kind of cool that the Olympics are still one of those TV events that millions of ...

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p2pnet.net

Pirate Bay founder wants users to pay for music
TG Daily
Peter Sunde is best-known as one of the founders of the Pirate Bay website, which indexes BitTorrent files to enable illegal downloading of music - without ...
Would You Use a Payment System Built by Pirates?GigaOm (blog)

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E-book piracy: the final (?) frontier
Student Life
E-book piracy has actually been around for quite awhile, albeit in small pockets of elite private BitTorrent trackers. The ethics of piracy put a new spin ...

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Sydney Morning Herald

Would you pay 99c for iTunes TV downloads?
Sydney Morning Herald
Of course they were also available last week for free on BitTorrent. Even the Seven Network is getting in on the act, letting you stream full screen ...

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BitTorrent Tracker Loses Lengthy Legal Battle
TorrentFreak (blog)
More than two years have passed since a coalition of anti-piracy organizations forced Torrent.is, the largest BitTorrent site in Iceland, to go offline. ...


Would You Use a Payment System Built by Pirates?
GigaOm (blog)
... apparently not content with having co-founded the world's most popular index of copyright-infringing movies, music and software (the BitTorrent tracker ...
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Launches Flattr in BetaErictric
Peter Sunde's Flattr: micropaymentsp2pnet.net

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Police Skip Millions Of BitTorrent Users On Evidence Issues
TorrentFreak (blog)
But were these people really a major threat to the music industry or are the millions sharing on BitTorrent proving too hard a target? ...


The Key To Making Free Music Services Work
paidContent.org
It's one thing having spotty teenagers downloading from BitTorrent casting nervous glances over their shoulders, but having their parents stop buying CDs in ...

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Twitter to use BitTorrent for backend
Afterdawn.com
According to a new blog post, Twitter is set to begin using BitTorrent on the backend as a way to more efficiently deploy files. Anyone who has the battle ...


Sahi '10 finds piracy on Bit Torrent
The Daily Princetonian
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file-sharing system that lets users download large files, called torrents, quickly. While users download a file, they can also ...


Washington Post

John Mayer Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Aniston Rant
Newsolio (blog)
He said, “If Jennifer Aniston knows how to use BitTorrent I'll eat my f****** shoe. One of the most significant differences between us was that I was ...
In Defense of John Mayer: Why is it so Wrong to be Honest and Witty?Small Screen Scoop
The Quotable John Mayer: Excerpts from His Playboy InterviewFlavorwire (blog)
John Mayer Talks About Dating Jennifer Aniston and Sex With Jessica Simpson in ...PopSugar.com (blog)
Fashion.ie
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Can television networks defeat file-sharing?
PC Authority
Should free-to-air broadcasters try to win back BitTorrent users, or just beat them into submission? After years of mistreatment, previously loyal ...

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MTV.com

In Defense of John Mayer: Why is it so Wrong to be Honest and Witty?
Small Screen Scoop
PLAYBOY: Maybe she'll download it from BitTorrent. MAYER: If Jennifer Aniston knows how to use BitTorrent I'll eat my fucking shoe. Did You Enjoy this Post? ...
John Mayer Kisses And Tells On Ex-Girlfriends Jennifer Aniston And Jessica SimpsonAHN | All Headline News
The Quotable John Mayer: Excerpts from His Playboy InterviewFlavorwire (blog)
John Mayer Talks About Dating Jennifer Aniston and Sex With Jessica Simpson in ...PopSugar.com (blog)
Fashion.ie
all 331 news articles »

Why Fame

John Mayer Kisses And Tells On Ex-Girlfriends Jennifer Aniston And Jessica Simpson
AHN | All Headline News
He said, "If Jennifer Aniston knows how to use BitTorrent I'll eat my f****** shoe. One of the most significant differences between us was that I was ...
The Quotable John Mayer: Excerpts from His Playboy InterviewFlavorwire (blog)
John Mayer Talks About Dating Jennifer Aniston and Sex With Jessica Simpson in ...PopSugar.com (blog)

all 146 news articles »

AFP

Italian Court Orders ISPs To Block The Pirate Bay
Music Indistry News Network
The Court of Bergamo in Italy has again ruled that ISPs should act to prevent their users from accessing The Pirate Bay, the BitTorrent service that ...
The Pirate Bay blocked in Italy, a second timeAfterdawn.com

all 10 news articles »

Us Magazine

The Quotable John Mayer: Excerpts from His Playboy Interview
Flavorwire (blog)
While a few of his one-liners made us laugh out loud (“If Jennifer Aniston knows how to use BitTorrent I'll eat my fucking shoe. ...
John Mayer Talks About Dating Jennifer Aniston and Sex With Jessica Simpson in ...PopSugar.com (blog)

all 53 news articles »

Hackers Crack Office 2010 RC Build 14.0.4734.1000
Softpedia
By Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor Microsoft might want to comb BitTorrent trackers for leaked copies of Office 2010 Release Candidate and build ...


TorrentFreak (blog)

Twitter Uses BitTorrent For Server Deployment
TorrentFreak (blog)
Twitter is calling in the help of BitTorrent to deploy files across its many servers in a more efficient way. The project dubbed 'Murder' is based on the ...


Ars Technica

Users, not ISPs, liable for copyright infringement after iiNet decision
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Justice Cowdroy held that the act of infringement occurs when the pirated file is made available through the BitTorrent system - which happens once. ...
Focus: ISPs off the hook – for nowAllens Arthur Robinson
ISP did not authorise customers' copyright infringement, says Australian courtOut-Law.com
iiNet decision to lead to more legal actionLegal Business Online
Lexology (registration) -Mondaq News Alerts (registration) -Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
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Newzbin Usenet Trial Day 4: Things Can't Get Worse, Right?
Slyck
If Alan Ellis' OinK Pink Palace, one of the most popular BitTorrent sites, beat the rap, surely Newzbin could right? From the limited information being ...

QNAP NMP-1000 Network Media Player - Jonny Guru


QNAP NMP-1000 Network Media Player
Jonny Guru
The small unit includes a BitTorrent client, NAS, uPnP & DNLA functionality along with playback of ShoutCast, YouTube, Flickr, Picasa and Apple Trailers. ...


Buffalo LinkStation Mini comes with built-in BitTorrent client
Tech Digest
... apart from the host of other media server options vying for your money by offering a built in BitTorrent client to manage all your P2P file sharing. ...
Network Attached Storage Device supports RAID 0 and RAID 1.ThomasNet Industrial News Room

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Shareaza 2.5.2.0 - Techtree.com


Techtree.com

Shareaza 2.5.2.0
Techtree.com
... Gnutella, BitTorrent and Shareaza's native network, Gnutella2 (G2). Shareaza is completely FREE and won't show any annoying ads or pop-ups. ...


'Avatar' beats "Hurt Locker" in piracy stakes
Reuters Canada
... which jumped to the fourth most-pirated film last week. Here's the entire Top 10 list of most-pirated movies on BitTorrent, according to TorrentFreak:


Italy Tries (Again) To Force ISPs To Block Pirate Bay
BroadbandReports.com
Back in the summer of 2008 Italian government officials demanded that broadband ISPs in the country begin blocking users from accessing popular BitTorrent ...
The Pirate Bay To Be Censored in Italy, AgainTorrentFreak (blog)
Italian Court Reinstates ISP Block on The Pirate BayDigital Media Wire
The Pirate Bay blocked in Italy, a second timeAfterdawn.com
Techdirt
all 7 news articles »

Pocket-lint.com

iPhone OS 3.1.3 firmware hacked in just 5 days
Pocket-lint.com
The hack is available on Bittorrent, and there's a bunch of mirrors and installation instructions on the hacking group's blog post about the release. ...

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10% of BitTorrent users download music – 99% of it is “likely” illegal
Radio Survivor (blog)
Before providing their results, Sahi and Felten also explain that their results only apply to the Mainline trackerless version of BitTorrent (admitting that ...


TorrentFreak (blog)

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak (blog)
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, 'Avatar' tops the chart this week followed by 'Sherlock Holmes'. 'Daybreakers' completes the top three. ...


CNET Asia

AC Ryan Playon! HD wants to be an all-in-one
CNET Asia
To top it off, you can install a 3.5-inch desktop harddisk and the Playon! HD will act as a NAS (network-attached storage) slong with a BitTorrent client.

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Focus: ISPs off the hook – for now
Allens Arthur Robinson
... once using the BitTorrent system, whereas the applicants had contended that a new infringement occurred each time a user's dynamic IP address changed. ...
Hollywood v ISP – iiNet held not responsible for its customers' copyright ...Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
iiNet decision to lead to more legal actionLegal Business Online
Conroy calls for 'mature' talks after iiNet caseNEWS.com.au
iTWire -ARNnet -Computerworld Australia
all 15 news articles »

Hollywood v ISP – iiNet held not responsible for its customers' copyright ...
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
AFACT had collected evidence showing that iiNet's customers were using the BitTorrent system to download copyrighted movies. BitTorrent is free software ...
iiNet decision to lead to more legal actionLegal Business Online
Conroy calls for 'mature' talks after iiNet decisionNEWS.com.au
Markets and laws failing in face of net piracySydney Morning Herald
ZDNet Australia
all 8 news articles »

Sydney Morning Herald

To download or not to download - that is the question
Sydney Morning Herald
That means; If Seven promised to "right-track" Lost, people might be tempted to turn away from the BitTorrent channel and watch it on free-to-air. ...

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Snag A Membership At Semi-Private BitTorrent Site Demonoid Today
Lifehacker Australia
BitTorrent tracker Demonoid was a popular choice in our recent comparison of the five best public BitTorrent ...

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The Pirate Bay To Be Censored in Italy, Again
TorrentFreak (blog)
A few weeks ago the Supreme Court reviewed the case and ruled that ISPs can be forced to block BitTorrent sites, even if they are not hosted in Italy or ...


10 More Sites for Free and Legal Torrents
NewTeeVee (blog)
People tend to equate BitTorrent with piracy, and we're not going to pretend that there isn'ta lot of loot out there on torrent sites. ...


TorrentFreak (blog)

'Ink' – The Movie That Blew Up On BitTorrent
TorrentFreak (blog)
In November 2009, an indie movie received unprecedented worldwide attention after becoming a massive hit on BitTorrent networks. 'Ink', which was downloaded ...


ABC Online

Two significant Australian copyright decisions handed down
Lexology (registration)
That is, the infringing users had to install a BitTorrent client, and seek out the .torrent files themselves. But in doing so, they were provided with no ...
Aussie ISP, Pirate Party win BitTorrent file-sharing caseZDNet (blog)
Are the copyright police coming after you?Sydney Morning Herald
ISP Defeats Hollywood Copyright ClaimsWired News
Public Knowledge Tech News and Comment -Ars Technica -Techdirt
all 703 news articles »

uTorrent And Vuze Enable Torrent Downloads On The Go
NewTeeVee (blog)
Both BitTorrent Inc. and Vuze have released significant updates to their clients this week that include features to remotely control the applications from ...
Download uTorrent 2.0 Final With a revamped setup dialog and the brand-new µTP ...Softpedia

all 2 news articles »

ABC Online

Aussie ISP, Pirate Party win BitTorrent file-sharing case
ZDNet (blog)
... television studios, finding that iiNet did not authorize copyright infringement carried out by its customers using the BitTorrent file-sharing platform. ...
Are the copyright police coming after you?Sydney Morning Herald
ISP Defeats Hollywood Copyright ClaimsWired News
Landmark Australian Ruling Deals a Blow to Three Strikes Down UnderPublic Knowledge Tech News and Comment
Ars Technica -Techdirt -Softpedia
all 699 news articles »

ABC Online

Australian ISP Wins Precedent-Setting Copyright Infringement Lawsuit With ...
Softpedia
It's also important to note that the judge had a clear understanding of how BitTorrent operated and how the ISPs handle the traffic, something that can't be ...
Are the copyright police coming after you?Sydney Morning Herald
ISP Defeats Hollywood Copyright ClaimsWired News
Landmark Australian Ruling Deals a Blow to Three Strikes Down UnderPublic Knowledge Tech News and Comment
Ars Technica -Techdirt -BetaNews
all 696 news articles »

The Hindu

Are the copyright police coming after you?
Sydney Morning Herald
... a surprise legal attack on iiNet - claiming the ISP wasn't doing enough to stop its customers downloading movies using services such as BitTorrent. ...
ISP Defeats Hollywood Copyright ClaimsWired News
Studios crushed: ISP can't be forced to play copyright copArs Technica
Landmark Australian Ruling Deals a Blow to Three Strikes Down UnderPublic Knowledge Tech News and Comment
Techdirt -BetaNews -New York Times
all 687 news articles »

Pesky kookaburra drops one on the debate
Sydney Morning Herald
The open source file-sharing software that allows this downloading, which is called BitTorrent, came in for a lot of discussion in the proceedings and it's ...

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New Zealand Herald

Landmark Australian Ruling Deals a Blow to Three Strikes Down Under
Public Knowledge Tech News and Comment
As Cory Doctorow over at Boing Boing notes, it would have been nice if he had added that BitTorrent is no more responsible for the infringement of its users ...
ISP Defeats Hollywood Copyright ClaimsWired News
Studios crushed: ISP can't be forced to play copyright copArs Technica
Decision In iiNet Case Explains Why ISPs Cannot Effectively Be Copyright CopsTechdirt
BetaNews -New York Times -Register
all 681 news articles »

TorrentFreak (blog)

Oscar Pirates, Fewer Films Leak Online This Year
TorrentFreak (blog)
The 2010 Oscar nominees were announced yesterday, inspiring many people to fire up their BitTorrent clients. Each year we take a look at the availability of ...
Fewer Oscar Screeners Leaked Online This Year Than EVER Before/FILM (blog)
A Plug of the LeakNew York Times (blog)
New Alice in Wonderland Character Posters/FILM (blog)

all 4 news articles »

Macworld

"Lost" is found early on France's iTunes
Macworld
Second, for many fans, it's easier to just download shows using BitTorrent, say, than bothering to wait even for the American DVDs. ...

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TorrentFreak (blog)

Avatar DVD Screener Leaks To BitTorrent
TorrentFreak (blog)
Before today, only a lower quality Telesync copy of the film has been available on BitTorrent and other file-sharing networks. Ironically, the DVD screener ...

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ABC Online

ISP Defeats Hollywood Copyright Claims
Wired News
(.pdf) Almost all BitTorrent traffic consists of infringing material. Meanwhile, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement secretly being negotiated between ...
Aussie ISP beats Hollywood on 'copyright' rapRegister
Decision In iiNet Case Explains Why ISPs Cannot Effectively Be Copyright CopsTechdirt
Two significant Australian copyright decisions handed downLexology (registration)
Public Knowledge Tech News and Comment -paidContent.org -BetaNews
all 808 news articles »

IT Chuiko (blog)

μTorrent 2.0 Build 17920 - new version of the compact BitTorrent-client for ...
IT Chuiko (blog)
The program was originally designed as an alternative to the standard and many other clients for BitTorrent network with emphasis on the extensive ...


ABC Online

Aussie ISP cleared of copyright infringement claims
Broadband Genie
The blame for this was put on P2P application, BitTorrent. In summary, the judge ruled iiNet was not to blame because: “the copyright infringements occurred ...
Aussie ISP beats Hollywood on 'copyright' rapRegister
Aussie Court Rules ISP Merely A Conduit For Hollywood PiracypaidContent.org
Awesomely awesome Australian copyright news: scrappy ISP beats Hollywood fatcatsBoing Boing (blog)
BusinessWeek -ISPReview UK -ComputerWeekly.com
all 606 news articles »

A Kinder, Gentler µTorrent 2.0 - Slyck


A Kinder, Gentler µTorrent 2.0
Slyck
Slyck first reported on the development of its main features, support for UDP transfers and uTP - a method for BitTorrent clients to use bandwidth ...


Torrent of joy for the internet file sharers
The Australian
THE Hollywood giants might be smarting after their latest attempt to shut down rampant piracy was shot down in the Federal Court but Australian BitTorrent ...

and more »

Pesky kookaburra drops one on the debate over copyright law
Sydney Morning Herald
The open source file-sharing software that allows this downloading, which is called BitTorrent, came in for a lot of discussion in the proceedings and it's ...

and more »

Comcast's fast-growing Washington presence
Washington Post (blog)
In one example, Comcast fought for a year against claims it blocked or slowed BitTorrent on its Internet network. Last week Roberts said the company made a ...

and more »

Aljazeera.net

Aussie ISP beats Hollywood on 'copyright' rap
Register
Judge J Cowdroy accepted that iiNet users had used BitTorrent to infringe copyright, but that the number was far less than alleged by AFCT and that iiNet in ...
Awesomely awesome Australian copyright news: scrappy ISP beats Hollywood fatcatsBoing Boing (blog)
ISPs Not Responsible For Bittorrent Piracy – iiNet Wins Court CaseGizmodo Australia
Movie Studios Lose Landmark Case Against Aussie ISPTorrentFreak (blog)
Techdirt -Fudzilla -ABC Online
all 601 news articles »

AFP

Awesomely awesome Australian copyright news: scrappy ISP beats Hollywood fatcats
Boing Boing (blog)
"iiNet has no control over BitTorrent system and not responsible for BitTorrent system." Pretty fantastic, though Judge, you might want to rephrase that ...
Piracy case to shake up global fightABC Online
ISPs Not Responsible For Bittorrent Piracy – iiNet Wins Court CaseGizmodo Australia
Movie Studios Lose Landmark Case Against Aussie ISPTorrentFreak (blog)
Techdirt -Sydney Morning Herald -Reuters
all 393 news articles »

uTorrent Version 2.0 Now Available - Erictric


Erictric

uTorrent Version 2.0 Now Available
Erictric
BitTorrent, Inc. has officially released version 2.0 of its popular BitTorrent client, uTorrent, which is said to be used by more than 50 million people ...
uTorrent Reaches Milestone With 2.0 ReleaseTorrentFreak (blog)
uTorrent 2.0 for Windows sheds the beta tag, goes RTM!Downloadsquad (blog)
uTorrent 2.0 Brings Performance Updates, UDP Support And MoreLifehacker Australia

all 5 news articles »

FCC's Neutrality Rules Too Murky To Help Consumers? But just murky enough to ...
Dslreports
... they have a huge copyright loophole in them — a loophole that would theoretically permit Comcast to block BitTorrent just like it did in 2007 — simply ...

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uTorrent Reaches Milestone With 2.0 Release
TorrentFreak (blog)
The release hopes to optimize the download experience for uTorrent users while eliminating the need for ISPs to manage, block or limit BitTorrent traffic. ...
uTorrent 2.0 for Windows sheds the beta tag, goes RTM!Downloadsquad (blog)
uTorrent 2.0 Brings Performance Updates, UDP Support And MoreLifehacker Australia

all 4 news articles »

The Tech Herald

Twitter Smells a Password-Snatching Rat
TechNewsWorld
Torrents are tiny files created for use by BitTorrent clients. BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol for transferring large amounts of data ...
Twitter Scam Sought User Passwords via Torrent SitesDigital Media Wire
Phisher Booby-Trapped Sites to Gain Twitter AccessPC Magazine
Twitter passwords compromisedInquirer
Wall Street Journal (blog) -CIO Today -TopNews United States
all 140 news articles »

Twitter passwords compromised - Inquirer


CNET

Twitter passwords compromised
Inquirer
After digging around, its team found that the accounts were set up to link to dodgy Bittorrent sites that were created to steal usernames and passwords. ...
Phisher Booby-Trapped Sites to Gain Twitter AccessPC Magazine
Twitter Discloses Attempt to Steal User PasswordsWall Street Journal (blog)
Network Security Phishers Harvested Twitter Logins from Fake Web SitesCIO Today
TopNews United States
all 131 news articles »

uTorrent 2.0 for Windows sheds the beta tag, goes RTM!
Downloadsquad (blog)
uTorrent has been the world's most popular BitTorrent app for quite some time, and today its developers ...
uTorrent 2.0 Brings Performance Updates, UDP Support And MoreLifehacker Australia

all 3 news articles »

TorrentFreak (blog)

Lost Season 6 on BitTorrent before TV, recorded on a beach with a webcam
Geek.com
The lengths some people will go to in order to record a live screening of a show before its official release hit a new high a few days ago. ...
"Lost" Hawaii Beach Screening Camcorded, Leaked OnlineDigital Media Wire
Lost Season 6 Premiere Pirated On The BeachTorrentFreak (blog)

all 3 news articles »

Phisher Booby-Trapped Sites to Gain Twitter Access
PC Magazine
According to Harvey, Twitter discovered an individual who had been creating white-box Web sites devoted to BitTorrent, the protocol sometimes associated ...

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Best Public BitTorrent Tracker: The Pirate Bay
Lifehacker
Last week we asked you to share your favorite BitTorrent tracker, then we rounded up the results so you could cast your vote on the top five contenders. ...


"Lost" Hawaii Beach Screening Camcorded, Leaked Online
Digital Media Wire
The video available on BitTorrent has so far been downloaded just over 25000 times. TorrentFreak noted that "Lost" was the second most-downloaded show on ...

Time to get "Lost" - Washington Post (blog)


Reuters

Time to get "Lost"
Washington Post (blog)
Some sneaky fans who attended the premiere over the weekend in Waikiki shot footage of tonight's episode and posted it on Bittorrent. ...
Lost Season 6 Premiere Pirated On The BeachTorrentFreak (blog)

all 310 news articles »

Oh, now you don't support music piracy? Sure, OK, Keith Urban, whatever you say.
CrunchGear (blog)
... Industry Association of America, public enemy number one to twenty-somethings and teens who grew up with Napster, Kazaa, LimeWire, and BitTorrent. ...
Keith Urban Gets All Confused About Support For DownloadingTorrentFreak (blog)

all 2 news articles »

TorrentFreak (blog)

Lost Season 6 Premiere Pirated On The Beach
TorrentFreak (blog)
Last year, Lost achieved the questionable honor of being the second most pirated TV-show on BitTorrent. With more than 6 million downloads per episode, ...

and more »

Vuze Updates Their BitTorrent Client - Slyck


Vuze Updates Their BitTorrent Client
Slyck
Vuze, the BitTorrent client formerly known as Azureus, has a new update available (versions 4.3.1.2+). Although the update isn't too earth shattering, ...


To combat piracy, UCLA reaches for the Clicker
Los Angeles Times (blog)
... working links and high-quality streams, which makes Clicker significantly more reliable and easier to use than your garden variety BitTorrent site. ...
Clicker.com Links With UCLAsocalTech.com
Fighting File Sharing on Campus: UCLA Partners with ClickerReadWriteWeb (blog)
Clicker.com and UCLA Create Site for Students To Access Online Video Content ...Business Wire (press release)

all 8 news articles »

Of Course Most Content Shared On BitTorrent Infringes; But That's Meaningless
Techdirt
Of course the majority of files shared on BitTorrent are infringing. And I don't see how it much matters if the percentage is 60% or 90% or 99%. ...


SAMAA TV

Global internet industry awaits Federal Court decision on iiNet copyright case
Smart Company (blog)
Similar technical debates played a heavy part in the case, with Cowdroy actually requesting a demonstration of BitTorrent technology and how a user would ...
Beware the 'copyright cops'Sydney Morning Herald
iiNet, AFACT set for judgement dayComputerworld Australia

all 24 news articles »

President Obama: commited to net neutrality, despite ISPs pushback
Washington Post (blog)
... asserting among other things that the FCC didn't have the authority to rule against it for allegedly blocking traffic from Web application BitTorrent. ...

and more »

99% of BitTorrent Files Downloaded are Illegal
Hard OCP
I don't doubt that there is a metric assload of illegal files on BitTorrent but ninety nine percent? That seems a bit high doesn't it? ...


TorrentFreak (blog)

Techno Diva Loves BitTorrent, Hates Spotify
TorrentFreak (blog)
The tracks are part of an upcoming remix album set to be released later this year, but are already available on BitTorrent today. Billie Ray Martin chalked ...


TorrentFreak (blog)

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak (blog)
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, 'Sherlock Holmes' tops the chart this week followed by 'Daybreakers'. 'The Men Who Stare at Goats' ...

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