Allpeers is a revolutionary Firefox extension that let you share pictures, music and videos within Firefox. The extension makes it possible to share pictures, music and video’s within Firefox.
The extension is currently in the Beta-testing phase.
Dmitri Popov, one of the Allpeers Beta testers wrote a reviewed the extension om NewsForge. He concludes:
there are some [...]
June 30th, 2006
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Piratebay’s hosting company PRQ had demanded the return of both paperwork and computer equipment seized by police However the Stockholm District Court ruled that they stay with the police a little longer, and prosecutor HÃ¥kan Roswall defended this by comparing The Piratebay and the Bureau of Piracy (PiratbyrÃ¥n) with terrorists.
June 30th, 2006
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A Swedish company is offering insurance against p2p lawsuits and fines. And it’s pretty cheap actually, just $19 US Dollars per year.
So if you get in trouble with the MPAA or the RIAA, your insurance company will handle the bills for you. Now this is a great idea. And on top of paying your bills, [...]
June 29th, 2006
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The police will not return the Piratebay servers that were raided last month. The servers were seized after the US government threatened Sweden
According to the local, Internet hosting company PRQ had demanded the return of both paperwork and computer equipment seized by police, saying that the material had no significance for the investigation and [...]
June 28th, 2006
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The Grokster decision made filesharing companies vulnerable. The court ruled that they can be sued if they encourage people to share copyrighted material was a great victory for Hollywood, and was believed to be the end of filesharing by some.
But now, one year later, peer-to-peer technologies flourish more than ever.
P2P traffic is rapidly [...]
June 28th, 2006
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BitTorrent inc. is developing a video download website to distribute movies online. They are still negotiating with several movie studio’s, but today they selected GNi to “host” their online Video Store.
GNi signed an agreement with BitTorrent Inc., to provide an IP transit Internet address for streaming videos at one gigabit per second. GNi’s Service Level [...]
June 27th, 2006
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Warner Bros is using a Guba, company specializing in online pornography searches, to sell its DRM-loaded Warner movies and TV online.
“You may well know that some of the best porn gets circulated on newsgroups,” says Supervert. But, “You need a news reader, and often you miss some of the best posts, or you end up [...]
June 27th, 2006
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Is the MPAA is losing the “war on piracy”? Hollywood lost 6.1 billion according to reasearch by the MPAA, 75% higher than they expected.
Although The DVD sniffin Dogs “Lucky and Flo” help a little bit, the pirates are on the loose. The MPAA claimes “major victories” in their war against piracy but if you [...]
June 27th, 2006
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BitTorrent can be fun, as long as you get decent speeds. Not satisfied with your current speeds? These suggestions might help to optimize your download pleasure
June 26th, 2006
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Sealand is on fire. The self-proclaimed safe haven for everything that’s forbidden elsewhere suffered from a fire, probably caused by a generator.
Firefighters attacked the fire from a ship, but it is unknown if they succeeded and what the damage is.
Sealand and it’s hosting company havenco have no regulations concerning copyright, patents, libel, restrictions on [...]
June 26th, 2006
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A month ago Torrentspy sued the MPAA because an alleged hacker, hired by the MPAA, retrieved private information from the BitTorrent indexer. But according to Cnet Robert Anderson (the hacker) is now helping Torrentspy to fight the MPAA.
Among the claims by Valence Media (Torrentspy) is that as part of its attempt to gather information on [...]
June 25th, 2006
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