In world of copyright craziness, BitTorrent, Inc. soars to new heights
arstechnica.com
It's a turbulent time in the world of content distribution. Despite a successful protest against overly restrictive anti-piracy legislation, law enforcement has demonstrated its already considerable power to take copyright-infringing websites offline, and several hosting and torrent sites have gone dark voluntarily to evade prosecution. In the middle of...
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Alleged BitTorrent Pirate Sued Three Times For The Same Download
torrentfreak.com
Just as you thought you’ve seen it all, the ever continuing mass-BitTorrent lawsuits in the U.S. bring yet another surprise. In February the makers of the animated movie Zambezia, featuring Samuel L. Jackson as voice actor, filed a dozen lawsuits at a federal court in Washington. At first glance this...
Hackers Are Trying To Create An Untraceable And Comprehensive Financial System Using Bitcoin
www.businessinsider.com
What's often missed about alternative currencies like bitcoin is that they weren't just made for buying and selling things. Nor are they simply tools for financial speculation. Bitcoin is also a payment system, allowing anyone to transfer money anonymously, immediately, irreversibly--and, if you like, illicitly. As virtual currencies grow, that could...
The Pirate Bay Moves to .SX as Prosecutor Files Motion to Seize Domains
torrentfreak.com
Swedish prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad has filed a motion at the District Court of Stockholm, requesting for the seizure of thepiratebay.se, piratebay.se and the new thepiratebay.is domains. The move comes just a few days after the infamous BitTorrent site switched to the Iceland-based domain, following suspicions that the Swedish authorities would...
Ridiculous: Short-Sighted, Anonymous Hollywood Exec Flips Out Over Using BitTorrent For Promotions
www.techdirt.com
I had thought that we'd gotten past the point at which Hollywood execs would freak out over the use of a modern, better, more efficient technology to help promote a movie, but apparently in the minds of some of the folks who run the big movie studios, we're perpetually stuck...
Anonymous Hollywood Exec Ignites BitTorrent Inc Piracy Controversy
torrentfreak.com
If one is to understand what caused this big BitTorrent dispute, one has to understand a few key things. First, BitTorrent is a data transfer protocol, just like HTTP or FTP. It was invented more than a decade ago by Bram Cohen and one of its first public applications was...
Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain
torrentfreak.com
It has been a busy month for The Pirate Bay’s IT department thus far, with the site skipping from domain to domain. Two weeks ago the notorious BitTorrent site traded in its .SE domain for the Greenland-based .GL TLD. The Pirate Bay took this decision because they feared that Swedish...
Prenda's last stand: threats sprawl from a Minnesota hacking lawsuit
arstechnica.com
Prenda's not going down without a fight. arthwollipot Given how badly things have been going, it seems like the copyright-lawsuit factory that is Prenda Law should be on the verge of shutdown. The lawyers behind the operation were hauled into federal court in Los Angeles, and questioned about possible...
BitTorrent's Latest Bid For More Content To Its Platform: Investment Via Its New Accelerator
techcrunch.com
BitTorrent, the once-notorious file sharing service that has been repositioning itself as a legit platform for those in digital media to distribute and collaborate on their content to 170 million users, is taking a step to attract more media startups to its platform. Today, it is launching BitTorrent Acceleration, opening...
BitTorrent accelerator fights off piracy reputation with innovation
venturebeat.com
With a new accelerator program, BitTorrent is taking control of its story. Applications opened today for the BitTorrent Acceleration Program as part of its “ongoing quest” to find new and innovative ways to apply the BitTorrent protocol. The program will give relevant startups the opportunity to test and promote their...
BitTorrent Sync challenges Dropbox
www.bbc.co.uk
BitTorrent offers a free peer-to-peer based file synching technology to the public as an alternative to Dropbox, Google Drive and others....
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