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 [...]
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
9
The Da Vinci Code
39,149
10
The Break-Up
39,146
The data is collected by Big Champagne, the numbers of seeds and peers is the average swarm [...]
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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 proprietary technology, [...]
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 get [...]
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.
Cheggit went public nearly a day ago but the torrent site already has 20806 registered users, a [...]
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:
Combating trade [...]
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 new [...]
