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Mixed media artist and filmmaker Anders Weberg created a piece of P2P art. The experimental movie “Filter” is about by the emotional rollercoaster he went through when his son almost died.

The Dutch Anti-Piracy organization BREIN has successfully “taken down” 19 filesharing websites. They now reached a total of 103 this year. Among their new trophies are at least two BitTorrent sites; torrentsplanet.com and easytorrent.eu.

Pirates are planning a mass attack on Europe. The Swedish Pirate Party is coordinating a pan-European electoral assault for the 2009 European Elections, says leader Rick Falkvinge.

It turns out that the popular hosting company Dreamhost is shutting down any BitTorrent trackers hosted on its servers. In a letter to a customer, a representative of Dreamhost said “BitTorrent is strictly forbidden, both as a client and as a server right now.”

This weeks most popular BitTorrent movie downloads.

Ranking
Movie
Seeds / Peers

1 (2)
Scary Movie 4
48,837

2 (4)
Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest
47,859

3 (1)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
47,800

4 (5)
Beerfest
45,758

5 (8)
Final Destination 3
42,985

6 (3)
RV
41,713

7 (7)
Poseidon
41,207

8 (10)
The Sentinel
39,702

9 (-)
Silent Hill
39,441

10 (9)
The Benchwarmers
39,014

The data is collected by Big Champagne, the numbers of seeds and peers [...]

Solid State, a digital media delivery company has developed an advanced streaming technology based on the BitTorrent protocol. The company presented their peer-assisted streaming technology at the DEMOfall 2006 conference in San Diego.
Technologies like this could save popular streaming websites like YouTube or Google Video a lot of money. It is estimated that YouTube uses [...]

McDonald’s targets Pirates: “until you can illegally download food, this is your best deal… the mcdonalds dollar menu”.

What keeps the most popular BitTorrent site on the Internet in the air? In case you ever wondered, here’s the answer.

A Swarm of Angels is a project that aims to create the first community driven film. The Film will be written, funded and distributed over the Internet. The plan is to gather a group of 50.000 people who each contribute £25 ($47.5) to join the project.
The initiator Matt Hanson is an award-winning filmmaker and [...]

The popularity of BitTorrent is growing every day. BitTorrent sites are on the rise, and now four of them hold positions in the top 500 most popular websites on the Internet. Even more are expected to join the club in the near future.

The popular semi-private tracker Demonoid.com announced that it will open its doors during the weekends. Until today Demonoid’s registration was mainly “invite only”.