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Here’s a roundup of some of the how-to articles that appeared on TorrentFreak over the past few months. Might be useful to some of the new readers.

It seems that quite a lot of Universities completely ban p2p traffic, without paying attention to the content that’s being shared.

AOL efforts to offset losses expected following its decision to drop subscription fees for some high-speed customers mean it, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer will team up.
Buffy is among movies and TV shows AOL hopes to peddle for between $10 and $20 each through its new video site.
“The offerings also mark the latest experiments in [...]

A Dutch judge has decided today that ISP UPC has to hand over the name and address of one of its customers to the Piracy Watchdog BREIN. The customer in question is a so called “heavy” illegal filesharer.
Last week we reported that UPC said they were planning to release the names and addresses of some [...]

Mark Achbar, Producer and Co-director of the award winning documentary “The Corporation” just released an official “share” version of the documentary on BitTorrent.

Several Apple Retail employees were fired after downloading a copy of the “Leopard OSX 10.5 preview” that was leaked on several BitTorrent trackers last week.
Apparently Apple’s headquarters was not pleased with these pirates. After being confronted with the rumors, the alleged pirates readily admitted that they had breached the non-disclosure agreement.
However, this [...]

Charlie’s back! with the second episode of our weekly podcast.

Welcome to TorrentPod, the official podcast of TorrentFreak.com. Join your host Charlie as he delves into this weeks latest news, and talks about Copyright Law.
Enjoy, and feel free to leave a (audio) comment if you have something to say to Charlie, or if you want to [...]

Last week TorrentFreak wrote a review on “allpeers”, the BitTorrent extension for firefox. Today allpeers will go live with a public beta!

The Web2.0 bloated music streaming site “Soundpedia” just added a new section where Indie artists and labels can upload their singles and albums. A BitTorrent download section will be added in the near future.
Soundpedia is a relatively unknown community, indexing albums and videos from commercial artists (for free). The new feature allows indie artists to [...]

Sony Pictures aquired the Youtube-like video sharing service “grouper”. CEO Michael Lynton announced this deal earlier today, and said Sony is paying $65 million dollar for the internet startup.
For now Grouper will keep its current management, but they will be working closely with a team at Sony Pictures. Lynton stated:
“Consumers are spending more and more [...]

Bill Gates admitted to watch pirated content on youtube. As you might know, the MPAA and RIAA are targeting youtube at the moment for its pirated content.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal Bill Gates said:
WSJ: You watch physics lectures and Harlem Globetrotters [on YouTube]?
Gates: This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.
WSJ: [...]