Handling DMCA notices is probably one of the most effortful tasks of a BitTorrent site admin. In order to lighten this load, and to please copyright owners, snarf-it.org introduced a “delete it yourself” (DIY) service. On Snarf-it.org we read: A couple of days ago we received this email from Microsoft asking us to remove about [...]
Podtropolis, the popular “Ipod” torrent site had to close its doors a couple of weeks ago. Podtropolis had financial problems and wasn’t able to pay the bills. But it looks like things changed for the better. Gary from Isohunt.com came to the rescue…. At Podtropolis we read: Well, I just hate good community and nice [...]
A weekly returning chart listing the most popular BitTorrent movie downloads. Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers 1 (1) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest 49,594 2 (2) Superman Returns 48,032 3 (3) Nacho Libre 47,431 4 (7) The Devil Wears Prada 45,267 5 (4) Click 43,289 6 (5) Cars 42,081 7 (8) Eight Below [...]
A lot of things happened after the Swedish police attempted to take down The Piratebay. It’s time to recap and look ahead.
Evidently, very little is happening in Sweden right now. This is indicated by an attack against the Bureau of Piracy that turned out to be quite a funny story. Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet ran a story about Piratshoppen, the website that sells Piratbyrån and the Pirate Bay related material such as T-shirts, stickers and so [...]
The popular BitTorrent client Azureus received funding by BV Capital, a company that previously supported del.icio.us and peerflix. Azureus is currently implementing a “content layer” where commercial downloads will start to appear. Users will be able to search for certain keywords, or browse through the available content by tags. Azureus is downloaded almost 2million times [...]
In days of yore, when the corporate record labels wanted air-time for one of their tunes, they’d fire CDs at every DJ and his brother. But not any more. That’s because they’ve found a clever, new ‘high tech’ way of getting the music out. It’s called Kazaa, the self-same p2p file sharing application used by [...]
Shawn Hogan, CEO of Digital Point Solutions is sued by the MPAA for downloading a movie over BitTorrent. The MPAA wants to settle the case for $2,500, but Hogan rather spends $100,000 on legal fees, than giving in to the MPAA’s scare tactics. Hogan says: “$100,000 in legal fees is a small price to pay [...]
A couple of months ago we posted that demonoid’s registration opened (for a couple of hours). It closed soon after that, but visitors kept asking for invites in the comments.
The Piratebay openly supports the war against Ladonia, a micronation located in the south of Sweden. Yet another political statement by those fearless pirates. TPB supports an initiative by the AFCI to help the Ladonians in their quest for internet connectivity. The AFCI demands: * No copyright laws! * Internets connectivity from every stone! * [...]
Filesharing is getting more popular in Japan according to a recent survey by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ). 3.5 percent of the Japanese Internet users is actively using p2p software to share files, compared to 2.7 percent last year.
Pirates are popular these days, Pirate Parties are popping up like mushrooms, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is leading the BitTorrent movie download chart, and became the fastest film ever to go beyond $300 million in Canada and the US. so sing along.. You are a Pirate! WoW!
P2Pnet owner Jon Newton is facing a libel suit filed by Kazaa CEO Nikki Hemming. To help Newton with his legal fees, Toronto based singer/songwriter Neil Leyton has written a song about the situation, and has organized a fundraiser for August 5th at the Rivoli, with fellow Fading Ways Music label-mates Aceface, as well as [...]
SqrtBoy published a whitepaper on discussing his ideas on how BitTorrent webmasters should design their BitTorrent RSS feeds. SqrtBoy is known for his work on Torrent Trader Lite, VBTT, IPBTT and other several BitTorrent tracker php/mysql scripts. It is great to see that someone is proposing a standard for BitTorrent rss feeds. Every webmaster probably [...]
A weekly returning chart listing the most popular BitTorrent movie downloads. Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers 1 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest 49,397 2 Superman Returns 47,792 3 Nacho Libre 47,298 4 Click 45,102 5 Cars 43,289 6 X-Men: The Last Stand 41,951 7 The Devil Wears Prada 41,782 8 Eight Below 39,291 [...]
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The MPAA teams up with Guba in their war on piracy. Guba introduces Johnny, a content filter for their online video download and share service. Guba recently signed a deal with Warner Bros. to spread DRM loaded movies and TV-shows online. According to the press release “GUBA is filtering movies and TV shows using a [...]
Done the impossible is the story behind the rise, fall, and rebirth of the cult TV show Firefly. Firefly was ressurected thanks to efforts of the fans of this popular sci-fi show. In the documentary “done the impossible” the fans tell their part of this success story. They explain why and how they managed to [...]
Cheggit.net is an adult content torrent site founded by a group of former members and admins from empornium.us. They were not happy with some of the changes a empornium, so they launched their own torrent site, not without success.
The world leaders are discussing todays world threatening problems at the G8 summit in Petersburg. They talk about the escalating situation in the Middle East, nuclear terrorism and… the war on piracy. The leaders of Britain, Canada, Russia, Germany, France, Italy, Japan and the United States agreed to combat piracy. Among other points they state: [...]
John Edwards, one of the democratic presidential candidates in 2004 is using BitTorrent to spread his campaign stuff. Campaigns are pretty expensive, so sharing bandwidth is a good idea. Edwards is likely to run for President again in 2008, so if you live in the USA, and you want a president that supports BitTorrent, vote [...]
Last week we reported that that several pro-piracy organizations launched the international project. Today an international meeting point for pirate-parties was announced. On their website they state: Across the world we may have loads of various experiences and ideas, resources that are untapped. This place will hopefully make for a great place to pick up [...]
Elephants Dream is a computer generated short movie. The movie was produced in about 8 months and the rendering of the graphics took 125 days with each frame using 2.8GB of memory. The great thing about the project is that the movie is made entirely using Open Source software. The movie is 11 minutes, including [...]
Two months ago P2Pnet owner Jon Newton and four anonymous commenters were drawn into a libel suit filed by Sharman Networks and Kazaa CEO Nikki Hemming. But now it seems that Sharman Networks dropped the case for some mysterious reason Jon writes: Two months after receiving a summons telling me I was being sued for [...]
BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen was interviewed by Chris and Josh on the Web2.0 Show. Bram talks about BitTorrent’s deal with the MPAA and Warner Bros. And about the past and the future of his amazing filesharing protocol. No breaking news, but it’s a good podcast. link
Dutch anti-p2p organization BREIN has been thwarted in its bid to force five ISPs to reveal the identities of alleged file sharers
A heartbreaking tale about a pig that invents his very own DRM to protect the powers of the magic box he found. Inspired by the harsh Anti-Piracy campaigns targeted at kids. The Pig and the Box is about a pig who finds a magic box that can replicate anything you put into it. The pig [...]
In our previous posts about Targetpoints involvement Empornium.us we never got to hear the story from Emporniums former admins. The Israeli advertising company denied that it owns or bought Empornium. This motivated one of Emporniums former admins to contact TorrentFreak to tell their side of the story.
Earlier today we reported that the Pirate parties are getting more and more popular. Today we found out that a international Pro Piracy Lobby has launched. So far, this international cooperation consist of the following members: * ArtiLiberated (Sweden) * Piratbyrån (Sweden) * Piratgruppen (Denmark) * Piratgruppen (Norway) * The Pirate Bay (Sweden) from the [...]
The raid on the PirateBay, and the responses in Sweden to the case motivated a lot of pirates around the globe to organize themselves into Pirate Parties.
Earlier this year Warner Bros and BitTorrent announced that they are working together to distribute movies online. Today, more movie studios follow this example. According to Cnet BitTorrent teamed up with more movie studios to distribute movies online “The filmmakers that signed with BitTorrent are Hart Sharp Video, Egami Media (a subsidiary of Image Entertainment), [...]
A lot of rumors circling around in the BitTorrent community about the Israeli advertising company Targetpoint and their alleged attempts to buy several torrent sites.
Interesting developments at one of the largest porn torrent sites on the net. Targetpoint, an Israeli advertising company took over Empornium, changed the design and locked out the former site admins.
The fact that The Piratebay Founders profit from ad revenues could mean that they are facing stricter laws in the upcoming court case. Piratebay founder Fredrik Neij said to Svenska Dagbladet on Wednesday: “If there is money left over, it will go to us who work at Pirate Bay as salaries” This could mean trouble [...]
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Limewire is including BitTorrent support in the future. This can be a huge step forward for the most popular non-BitTorrent filesharing application. But how are they going to pull this off? The limewire blog interviewed Zlatin who’s handling the BitTorrent integration What prompted the decision to integrate BT into the next version of the LW [...]
Podtropolis, the most popular “Ipod” torrent site is in trouble. The site was recently covered in a brand new web2.0 sauce, but they are still not able to pay the bills. They are asking their visitors for a little help: it’s looking like we are going to have to close our doors in the next [...]
Mirosoft gave the guys behind vistatorrent.com a framed version of the cease and desist letter that took down their site. Although the demand for Microsoft’s second Vista Beta is extremely high, Microsoft refused to release a torrent for “security” reasons. At the Gnomedex conference Chris Pirillo, one of the organizers, and the initiator of vistatorrent.com [...]
The lightweight BitTorrent client just released version 1.6. uTorrent is an extremely light, but feature rich torrent client, and the winner of the BitTorrent client comparison. changes, fixes and new features include: * Added “Completed On” column * Allow torrents in list to be renamed * Pause in tetris!! (we needed that) * Show speed [...]
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