CBC interviewed Gary Fung, the man behind Isohunt.com. Isohunt was recently sued by the MPAA, but planned to fight back.
Gary is glad his voice is heard:
I’m glad CBC gave me the opportunity to voice our stance, what we do and why the MPAA is after us. Media distributions are converging and decentralizing at the same [...]
The largest BitTorrent tracker on the net just got raided. The Swedish police took their servers to check whether they actually commit a crime or not. This is obviously a huge setback for BitTorrent pirates “safe haven”.
Hot on the heels of news that Sweden’s ThePirateBay.org is down comes MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) disinformation release, complete with a fantasy picture. And you know what they say about pictures.
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“The operators of The Pirate Bay have publicly ridiculed copyright holders and taunted law enforcement for years claiming immunity to copyright [...]
Ashwin Navin from BitTorrent inc. announced at the Cannes film festival that BitTorrent is working out deals with various Chinese movie and TV-companies. Navin hopes commercial distribution of movies and TV-shows in China will be up by the end of 2006.
Navin said:
“They’ve (Chinese movie and TV-companies) been very receptive. Everyone knows what BitTorrent is. If [...]
BitTorrent is working on a new and improved version that will incorporate superseeding by cachelogics servers. This means that the content will be copied to cachelogic servers to dramatically increase the download speeds.
Currently, “regular” BitTorrent is traffic is suffering from throttling ISP’s that claim that BitTorrent traffic is cluttering their pipes. However, this new [...]
Torrentspy is suing the MPAA because an alleged hacker, hired by the MPAA, retrieved private information from the BitTorrent indexer.
A bug in the popular torrentbits tracker code makes it extremely easy to increase your ratio on most private torrent sites. With HTTP analyser and Firefox you can increase your upload/download ratio pretty easy. Leeching without being recognized as a leecher.
I guess you were expecting a link here? Too bad.
People who want to cheat [...]
Mininova now has over 400 million torrent downloads, nearly 16 months after it’s launch. Currently, mininova is the most popular torrent site, leaving the piratebay and torrentspy behind.
At this very moment they’re even more popular than suprnova in the “old days“. And they continue to grow with over a million downloads per day.
More great examples of “legal” BitTorrent sites. Filesharing goes beyond piracy.
Movies
PublicDomainMovies
StarWreck (star trek parody)
Cactuses
Star Wars Revelations
“TV”-Shows
MariposaHD (first HDTV show)
NerdTV (TV for Nerds)
The Scene
Marcus hates his job
Stageside
Tech-TV
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Legal Torrents
* Games, Music and Software
* Movies and Videos
BitTorrent is often associated with piracy and copyright theft. However, it’s not all bad. Check out these less controversial sites using BitTorrent.
Jon Newton at P2PNet.net is facing a libel suit. The details on the case remain unknown however. Well, curiosity got the better of me, so I went to the Province of British Coloumbia to search through their Court Services Online. It would appear that the plaintiff in this is Sharman Networks. Yes, Sharman Networks who [...]
