BitTorrent just released version 4.20. The new version gives ISP’s a “customer friendly” alternative to manage the increasing bandwidth need that is caused by BitTorrent traffic; caching traffic instead of throttling or shaping.
In an attempt to decrease the bandwidth generated by BitTorrent traffic, ISP’s started to shape and throttle BitTorrent traffic on their networks. By [...]
The IFPI announced a new round of lawsuits last May, but once again it is shown that their threats sort little effect. Pirates are not easily scared and p2p traffic continues to grow.
Ipoque studied survey anonymized date supplied by some large German network operators and concludes:
Illegal P2P file sharing has had tremendous effects on the [...]
Limewire, one of the most popular filesharing applications just released V 4.12 and announced that limewire will support .torrent downloads in the near future.
Hollywood, The MPAA and the US government demanded action from the Swedish government. If Sweden decided not to give in to their wishes the US would impose trade sanctions.
Say what you will about those dry-land pirates created by the entertainment cartels, but they’re driving a number of cottage industries.
There’s a whole slew of companies trying to dream up ways to stop people from freely using CDs and DVDs they’ve bought and paid for, and let’s not forget all those high-priced lawyers getting fat [...]
Today Mininova announced that they banned 3652 spam/scammers. Fake files, “free stuff”, and poker deals; Torrent sites are a great tool to spam and scam “innocent Pirates”.
Some time after we started mininova there were a few people that thought that uploading spam torrents would be a good idea to advertise their “GET A FREE [...]
Sab but true. What’s next? What were they actually looking for?
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For those of you who haven’t followed the Swedish news, a quite funny (or tragic) thing has surfaced: Apparently, on several different occasions, MPAAs Swedish lawyers hired a private eye to stalk me! This must’ve been very entertaining for the poor Tex Murphy clone doing [...]
I came across an awful “top torrent site” list yesterday so I decided to make my own. So Here it is, TorrentFreak’s one and only top torrent sites + firefox search plugins, June 2006. No Login required.
Teeth Are Not for Biting, Hands Are Not for Hitting, Feet Are Not for Kicking, and Words Are Not for Hurting. It’s all about ethics.
Filesharing is also ILLEGAL, just like murder. If you share files, you are a pirate!
Educate the childeren, it’s not too late! Check out the latest part in the X are not [...]
The rumor that the MPAA pressured Sweden to take down the Piratebay is not new, but there’s finally some proof. Here’s a letter that the MPAA sent to Sweden’s state secretary this March.
Clearly the complaints that we filed on behalf of our members in 2004 and 2005 with the Police in Stockholm and Gothenborg against [...]
The Pirate leaders are quite talkative today. First the US Pirate leader, now the leader of Sweden’s piratpartiet.
