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More MegaUpload Fallout As BitTorrent Search Engine BTjunkie Calls It Quits
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BTjunkie, a popular BitTorrent search service, has been ‘voluntarily’ shut down by its operator(s). In a goodbye message, BTjunkie writes: This is the end of the line my friends. The decision does not come easy, but we’ve decided to voluntarily shut down. We’ve been fighting for years for your right...
The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent A Box Office Record
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A week before its premiere in US movie theaters, a camcorded version of The Avengers appeared online. Immediately thousands of fans jumped on the release and according to figures collated by TorrentFreak, in the days that followed it was downloaded half a million times. While this may very well be...
In world of copyright craziness, BitTorrent, Inc. soars to new heights
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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...
The Pirate Bay Says Goodbye to (Most) Torrents on February 29
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For half a decade The Pirate Bay has been the leading BitTorrent site, but soon its users will no longer be able to download .torrent files. The first step in this direction will be taken on February 29, the Pirate Bay announced today. Instead of deleting all torrent files at...
Pirate Bay plans to build aerial server drones with $35 Linux computer
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The Pirate Bay (TPB), a popular BitTorrent website, experienced a brief stint of downtime this week. After restoring service, the site's operators confirmed that the outage was caused by routine maintenance and not a law enforcement raid. According to a blog post published by TPB, system upgrades were needed...
BitTorrent is the New Radio, Says Counting Crows Frontman
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Last month Counting Crows released their latest studio album titled Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation). Fans have been waiting since 2008 for the release and it’s selling well, but that won’t prevent the band from giving some tracks away for free. Counting Crows decided to...
Wil Wheaton Reminds Us That Torrents Are Awesome, And Not Just For Pirated Movies
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The conflation of tools and technologies with the ways people use them is a big problem in the copyright debate. One of the many, many examples is the way the anti-piracy crowd treats "torrent" as a dirty word. Google endorsed this last year when they started dropping it from their...
SurfTheChannel Owner Found Guilty of Conspiracy to Defraud
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At its height in 2010, SurfTheChannel.com was among the most-visited streaming link websites on the Internet with more than 400,000 visitors a day. This popularity didn’t go unnoticed by the UK and US entertainment industries, who went to extremes to bring the site down. Aside from the use of an...
UK Seize Popular Music Blog, Arrest Operators and Threaten Readers
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Founded in 2008, RnBXclusive.com quickly became one of the most popular R&B / hip hop blogs. With over a quarter million fans on Facebook it was the go-to destination for many music fans. But that all changed today when the UK Government’s Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) took over the...
Comcast Protests “Shake Down” of Alleged BitTorrent Pirates
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United States citizens who download and share copyrighted files through BitTorrent risk being monitored and in some cases subjected to legal action. In recent years more than a quarter million alleged BitTorrent users have been sued in federal courts. Most of the lawsuits are initiated by adult entertainment companies, but...
BitTorrent Inventor's New Goal Is 'To Kill Off Television'
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Bram Cohen, inventor of the popular file-sharing system BitTorrent, demoed his latest project at the San Francisco MusicTech Summit yesterday, reports GigaOm. It's a new live video streaming protocol that doesn't rely on a central infrastructure to work. In other words, you could hypothetically watch the Superbowl by connecting...
IP-Address Can’t Even Identify a State, BitTorrent Judge Rules
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In recent years more than a quarter million people have been accused of sharing copyrighted works in the United States. Copyright holders generally sue dozens, hundreds or sometimes even thousands of people at once, hoping to extract cash settlements from the alleged downloaders. The evidence they present to the court...
Lawyer in P2P porn case accused of practicing without a license
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Third Degree Films publishes pornographic masterpieces like Illegal Ass 2 and Tampa Swingers Party. The company has been filing lawsuits around the country against individuals who have been uploading and downloading its movies on BitTorrent. But the campaign hit a snag in Florida on Thursday when three of the...
Space Monkey: Dropbox meets BitTorrent for peer-to-peer cloud storage
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Space Monkey is a new cloud storage service that has some pretty cool ideas about how to serve you up your files. Instead of storing them on its own server for Dropbox-style remote access, it puts a free 1-terabyte hard drive right inside your home and lets you access...
BitTorrent suing someone else over IP infringement
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In an amusing turn of events, BitTorrent Inc. — the company behind the BitTorrent file sharing protocol — is heading to court to protect its intellectual property. The San Francisco-based company is suing the Berlin-based Bittorrent Marketing GmbH in the Northern District of California for infringing on its trademarked...
Who’s Pirating Game of Thrones, And Why?
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In a few hours a new episode of Game of Thrones will appear on BitTorrent, and a few days later between 3 and 4 million people will download this unofficial release. Statistics gathered by TorrentFreak reveal that more people are downloading the show compared to last year, when it came...
Counting Crows says file-sharing is 'the new radio station,' releases BitTorrent promo
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Content creators have expressed mixed feelings towards peer-to-peer file-sharing, from vehement opposition to resignation to outright celebration. California-based band Counting Crows is firmly in the latter camp: it's released a selection of four songs for free in a partnership with BitTorrent, asking listeners to buy the full album if...
Buying a set-top box: everything you need to know
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You’re so over DVDs, right? And you’re done with trying to track down every movie on BitTorrent, only to find that it’s in Russian, has Chinese subtitles, and is only 480 x 320 resolution anyway. So you’ve subscribed to Netflix and Hulu, downloaded a few movies from Amazon, and...
Dropbox rival Space Monkey puts 'cloud' in your house
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An intriguing combination of concepts from Dropbox, BitTorrent, and CrashPlan makes up a new, inexpensive cloud-storage provider. [Read more]...
Keen On… Cary Sherman: The RIAA Needs To Give Music Consumers What They Want (TCTV)
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So has the Internet been the best or the worst of things for the music industry? Some musicians, like Camper Van Beethoven’s David Lowery, argue the latter; while some technologists, like BitTorrent’s Bram Cohen think the former. And this all important question – the real impact of the Internet...
BitTorrent piracy has no impact on U.S. box office sales, study finds
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Though box office revenues declined for the second consecutive year in 2011, a new study suggests that there is little if any correlation between United States box office revenues and illegal file-sharing facilitated by BitTorrent. Major Hollywood studios have spent tremendous resources over the years fighting digital piracy, but...
BitTorrent inventor’s new p2p tech could ‘kill off television’
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BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen took the stage at the San Francisco MusicTech Summit on Monday and gave onlookers a live demonstration of his new peer-to-peer live video streaming technology. Cohen’s new tech is potentially capable of streaming live video to millions of Internet-connected devices without the need for a...
NY magistrate judge: IP addresses not an effective way to identify alleged pirates
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Using IP addresses to track down and identify individuals accused of pirating copyright material is common practice in lawsuits, but New York Magistrate Judge Gary Brown sees things a little differently. Ruling this week on a case over the alleged piracy of several adult films via BitTorrent, Brown wrote...
Exclusive: BitTorrent nabs Formspring’s COO Ro Choy
gigaom.com
BitTorrent Inc. has hired veteran tech entrepreneur Ro Choy away from Formspring, where he served as the company’s COO since last April. Choy officially started as BitTorrent’s VP of Business Development and Marketing a few days ago, joining a team of close to 100 employees as the company is looking...
Counting Crows: Don’t bribe radio, use BitTorrent
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Rock band Counting Crows released four tracks of its new album Underwater Sunshine on BitTorrent Monday, complete with artwork and 25 pages of liner notes. Counting Crows singer Adam Duritz told me during a phone conversation last week that he can’t think of a better way to get his music...
Pirate Bay Pesters Copyright Holders with Yet Another New IP-Address
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Copyright holders around the world are growing increasingly annoyed with The Pirate Bay. After expensive legal battles they managed to get ISPs to block the site in the UK, the Netherlands and elsewhere. But despite these orders the BitTorrent site remains widely available. To make matters even worse, the increased...
Mass-BitTorrent Lawsuits Stopped Over Unlicensed Attorney
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The ongoing mass-BitTorrent lawsuits in the U.S. continue to keep the United States judicial system busy. More than 250,000 people have been sued over the last two years and new lawsuits are being filed every week. Through these mass lawsuits the copyright holders are trying to obtain the personal details...
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