MovieX BitTorrent Tracker Busted By Australian Police (2)
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MovieX, a very large BitTorrent site which made the headlines last year for its controversial tracker policy, has been shut down by Australian police. The site, thought to have as many as 400,000 users, is being blamed for the ‘transfer’ of 14 million movies and TV shows. So far, two people have been arrested. Last year, semi-private BitTorrent site MovieX hit the headlines after it was accused of diverting upload bandwidth from users of The ...
Movie Industry: London ‘Fake-Free Zone’ by 2012 (7)
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Touted as the biggest ever anti-piracy collaboration, the MPA and several major anti-piracy groups have announced that by the time the 2012 Olympics begin, they will have made London “a fake-free zone”. This impossible mission to stamp out DVD piracy was launched by Intellectual Property Minister, David Lammy. The Motion Picture Association, U.K. Film Council, UK Intellectual Property Office, Federation Against Copyright Theft, London Councils, Trading Standards and the Police are teaming up to eliminate ...
Shop Amazon For Free w/ Firefox Add-on Linking to Pirate Bay (59)
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Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, is under attack by online pirates. An add-on for the Firefox browser called ‘Pirates of the Amazon’ makes it possible to shop at the Amazon store but leave without paying a dime. Instead, on Amazon product pages the add-on integrates links to ‘free’ copies on The Pirate Bay. The timing of the ‘Pirates of the Amazon‘ launch could not have been more (un)fortunate. At the busiest time of the ...
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Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, is under attack by online pirates. An add-on for the Firefox browser called ‘Pirates of the Amazon’ makes it possible to shop at the Amazon store but leave without paying a dime. Instead, on Amazon product pages the add-on integrates links to ‘free’ copies on The Pirate Bay.
Obama Embraces Creative Commons (9)
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US President-Elect Barack Obama is a man with a message, and according to the speeches made during his campaign, that message is ‘Change’. One of those changes has been somewhat of a snub to the creative industries and their lobby groups - the embracing of Creative Commons licensing. In some ways, Obama is an enigma. His meteoric rise to win the presidency from almost complete obscurity several years ago is, of course, the very basis ...
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link broken. real link:http://torrentfreak.com/obama-embraces-creative-commons-081202/
Will uTorrent Really Kill the Internet? (35)
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An inflammatory article published by Richard Bennett in The Register makes the claim ‘BitTorrent will kill the Internet’, or at least VoIP and games. However, are Bennett’s claims based in reality, or is it just another round in the FUD war that envelops the Internet? A lot of buzz around the net today has been generated by Richard Bennett, with his article “BitTorrent declares war on VoIP, gamers”. There’s just one problem with it – ...
Top 10 BitTorrent and RSS Tips (33)
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RSS can be a real time saver for BitTorrent enthusiasts. Rather than manually trawling many torrent sites hunting for material, most will agree it’s much more convenient for the content to come to the user. This is exactly what you can achieve by using RSS and these ten handy tips. For those not familiar with the term, RSS is an acronym that stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. It’s a really convenient mechanism which allows you ...
Anti-Piracy Lobby Defeats European Democracy (17)
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An amendment designed to protect Internet users from the anti-piracy lobby has been rejected by President Sarkozy of the European Council. The rejection goes against the will of the European Parliament, where 88% of the members already voted in favor of the amendment, which was originally destined to protect file-sharers from Internet disconnection under the ‘3 strikes’ framework. When the European Parliament accepted the amendment this September, it did so to protect the rights and ...
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A Frenchman once assured me Sarkozy is not a fascist. I guess he lied.
Atari Cancels Anti-Piracy Witch-Hunt (43)
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After Atari received some bad press recently for mistakenly accusing an elderly couple of pirating one of its games, the company has now stopped the anti-piracy campaign in question. The “witch-hunt”, carried out by the UK law firm Davenport Lyons on behalf of Atari, based on spreadsheets full of IPs gathered by a company named Logistep, continues to lose credibility. For regular readers of TorrentFreak, Davenport Lyons and Logistep are familiar names. For more than ...
uTorrent Releases Long-Awaited Mac Version (17)
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Until today, uTorrent - the client of choice for most BitTorrent users - was only available on Windows PCs. Now, after years of waiting, Mac users finally have the chance to try uTorrent, to see for themselves how it fares against the competition. uTorrent for Windows saw its first public release in September 2005, and soon became the most widely used BitTorrent application. In 2006, uTorrent was acquired by BitTorrent Inc., who continued to develop ...
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Finally. Gonna be testing this out tonight. :-)
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It is good & it is FAST!
ISP Must Continue to Block The Pirate Bay (4)
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In February 2008, a Danish court ordered the ISP Tele2 to block its customers from accessing The Pirate Bay. The controversial ruling was under appeal but today, in a move which will delight the IFPI, the High Court upheld the decision to force the ISP to stop its customers from accessing the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker. The original court case to force Danish ISP Tele2 to block The Pirate Bay was initiated by the IFPI, ...
Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent (3)
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TV shows are by far the most wanted files on BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people downloading? Heroes is leading the chart again, with over two million downloads for the latest episode only. The data for the most recent TV episodes are collected by TorrentFreak from a representative sample of BitTorrent sites and is for informational and educational reference only. Thanks to ShowInsider we ...
The Pirate Bay Celebrates 5th Anniversary (8)
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In the fall of 2003, a group of friends from Sweden decided to launch a BitTorrent tracker named ‘The Pirate Bay’. Today, roughly 5 years after this historic day, the founders of the site are celebrities in Sweden, and rockstars on the Internet. The Pirate Bay its roots lead us back to Piratbyrån (The Bureau of Piracy), a pro-piracy organization which was founded in August 2003. Since there was no filesharing network in Sweden at ...
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Long life The Pirate Bay!
The Pirate Bay Celebrates 5th Anniversary (58)
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In the fall of 2003, a group of friends from Sweden decided to launch a BitTorrent tracker named ‘The Pirate Bay’. Today, roughly 5 years after this historic day, the founders of the site are celebrities in Sweden, and rockstars on the Internet. The Pirate Bay its roots lead us back to Piratbyrån (The Bureau of Piracy), a pro-piracy organization which was founded in August 2003. Since there was no filesharing network in Sweden at ...
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Long life The Pirate Bay!
Reports: Orange Customers Blocked From The Pirate Bay (38)
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The Pirate Bay isn’t new to the experience of being blocked by European ISPs. Now, according to many customers of the ISP Orange, it has been impossible to access the site for the last five days, unless they route their traffic through a proxy. Are Orange really taking the bold step of censoring the world’s largest tracker? Orange is a very large ISP, serving more than 10 million customers across the UK, France, Spain, Switzerland ...
Recording Industry Negotiates With BitTorrent and NZB Sites (3)
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Earlier in November, South Africa’s recording industry body RiSA took action against the country’s largest BitTorrent and NZB sites. BitFarm and Newshost looked to be in peril but a lawyer experienced in dealing with RiSA stepped up to help them. Now it appears that a negotiated settlement could be on the horizon. On November 6th we reported that RiSA, South Africa’s version of the RIAA, had taken steps to get three sites - BitFarm, Newshost ...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent (43)
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The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, “The Dark Knight” tops the chart for the second week in a row, followed by “Tropic Thunder”. We do not link to actual torrent files because linking to files that link to files that may be copyrighted is something that might get us in trouble. The data is collected by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. Currently both DVDrips, DVD Screeners and R5 rips ...
Adwords for P2P, Advertising Opportunity or Spamming Tool? (23)
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This year, several companies launched advertising programs targeted at the millions of users of Limewire and other Gnutella or eD2k based filesharing applications. The boundary between advertisement and plain old spam is completely disappearing, especially with the recently launched service ‘PeerMatrix’. Filesharing networks are still gaining popularity, and with millions of active users these networks are interesting venues for spammers and scammers. Recently, Gnutella and eD2k based applications, such as Limewire, Frostwire and eMule have ...
