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Harvard Develops P2P Client that uses Bandwidth as “Currency”
Harvard researchers have teamed up with the Tribler team to work on a P2P client with BitTorrent support that uses bandwidth as a global currency. They released Tribler V4.1 yesterday.
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‘Heroes’ Star Recognizes Benefits of BitTorrent
The actor who plays the time-and-space warping ‘Hiro Nakamura’ in the hit US TV show ‘Heroes’ has made some positive comments about file-sharing after it became evident that French fans had either teleported into the future and watched the show before it aired on TV, or maybe downloaded it using BitTorrent.
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Most Popular DVDrips on BitTorrent (wk34)
The 10 most downloaded DVDrips on BitTorrent, better late than never. “Spider-Man 3″ tops the chart this week.
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More BitTorrent Trackers Shut Down, Owner’s Cover Blown
Hosting a BitTorrent tracker at Leaseweb in the Netherlands has been considered by some to be a great option, offering value for money and good service. However, if you asked the administrators of Araditracker, BitHQ and PeerPortal what they think of this host, don’t expect a positive answer – Leaseweb has just given their personal details to the anti-piracy police, BREIN.
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Congressman wants ISPs to be Copyright Police
With warrentless wiretapping sweeping the US, a leading congressman is proposing similar measures for the Internet. This isn’t an attempt at ‘fighting terror’ but instead a new measure to reduce so-called ‘piracy’ by making the ISPs the police force
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GetAmnesty.com: MPAA Extortion at its Finest
The MPAA and their fellow anti-piracy organizations send out thousands of infringement notices. Only a fraction of these are played out in court, and those that do make it into court are settled at an early stage. So why not circumvent the whole legal system, and gently coerce people to pay for “amnesty”?
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TorrentSpy Blocks Searches From US Visitors
Starting today, TorrentSpy blocks all searches from US visitors and redirects them to a privacy statement. TorrentSpy is caught up in a lawsuit in which the MPAA demands that TorrentSpy hands over all user info stored in “random access memory” (RAM).
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Anime Distributor Has No Legal Right to Threaten BitTorrent Users
A company that tracked thousands of users sharing anime via BitTorrent has lost its legal battle to force an ISP to reveal its customer’s details. The company would’ve used the information to demand $3,500 in compensation from each person they tracked – a plan which now lies in ruins.
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Regal Cinemas Make Example out of Teen for 20 Second Transformers Recording
Jhannet Sejas, the girl who was arrested last month for recording a 20 second clip of “Transformers” in a local cinema pleaded guilty and agreed to pay a $71 fine. Regal Cinemas pressured the Arlington County prosecutor to charge Sejas, they wanted to make an example of her.
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TorrentPod Episode 44
Here’s TorrentPod episode 44, – yes, on time – Enjoy!
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BitComet Pollutes BitTorrent with Junk Data
Due to a new feature recently introduced into Bitcomet’s torrent maker, people who do not use BitComet (the majority) are sometimes forced to download so called “padding files” which is — for them — a waste of time and bandwidth.
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BitTorrent Admin Monitored by US Government, Forced to Dump GNU/Linux
Sk0t, an ex-administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker is to have his internet connection forcibly monitored by the US Government. If that wasn’t bad enough, the monitoring software is Windows based – which means he is being forced to ditch GNU/Linux – or face being barred from the internet.
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Most Popular DVDrips on BitTorrent (wk33)
The 10 most downloaded DVDrips on BitTorrent, better late than never. “Reign Over Me” tops the chart this week.
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Comcast Wrongfully Denies Interfering with BitTorrent
Last week we reported that Comcast is making it impossible for its customers to seed files on BitTorrent. Not surprisingly, Comcast’s PR department does all it can to deny there allegations, but we – and with us some of the leading BitTorrent developers – know better.
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SuprNova: The Legend Returns Today
The legendary BitTorrent site “SuprNova” will return today, courtesy of The Pirate Bay. Not surprisingly, the new and improved SuprNova has a special message to the copyright police: “You are the past and the forgotten, we are the Internet and the future”.
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Franz Ferdinand Encourage Fans to Pirate New Track
Franz Ferdinand have talked about downloading and piracy in the past. They have admitted to illegally copying music and expressed their support for file-sharing. Now they appear to have gone one step further by encouraging fans to pirate their latest track – a cover-version of a David Bowie song.
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Usenet: The Next Target in the War on Piracy
The first rule of Usenet is, you don’t talk about Usenet. This rule kept Usenet providers and users out of sight from anti-piracy organizations for years, but this is about to change.
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Police Target ‘Pirate Cinema’ Fuelled by Downloaded Movies
The latest blockbuster movies downloaded via BitTorrent are fuelling a ‘Pirate Cinema’ with free entry for all. However, as usual, an anti-piracy outfit has other ideas and with help from three police cars filled with officers, managed to detain the organizers and confiscate equipment.
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TorrentPod Episode 43
And yet another Podcast from Charlie, late as usual due to some technical problems. Here’s TorrentPod episode 43, Enjoy!
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Comcast Throttles BitTorrent Traffic, Seeding Impossible
Over the past weeks more and more Comcast users started to notice that their BitTorrent transfers were cut off. Most users report a significant decrease in download speeds, and even worse, they are unable to seed their downloads. A nightmare for people who want to keep up a positive ratio at private trackers and for the speed of BitTorrent transfers in general.
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BitTorrent Anime Downloaders Identified, $3500 Bill in the Mail
A company that distributes Japanese animated cartoons has tracked down thousands of BitTorrent users it accuses of breaching their copyrights and has successfully forced their ISPs to reveal their identities. Next step – threatening letters: “Pay Us $3,500 or Else”
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Anti-Piracy Lobby Pressures Police to Take On The Pirate Bay
The Portuguese counterparts of the RIAA, BSA and MPAA sent the Swedish police a letter in which they demanded “swift enforcement of the law” in The Pirate Bay case. They argue that the Pirate Bay is responsible for several BitTorrent related court cases in Portugal and is affecting right holders worldwide.
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Isohunt Foresees a Legal Future
Isohunt’s owner Gary Fung speculates about having MPAA-approved movie downloads on his site that will compete with their pirated counterparts. Gary, who called TPB admin Brokep a communist, shows that he’s a true capitalist himself.
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Torrentz.com: Growing Bigger and Better
With close to a million unique visitors a day, Torrentz.com is by far the most popular BitTorrent meta search engine. Its unique way of indexing torrents from other popular BitTorrent sites makes it the personal favorite of many BitTorrent fans, and one of the most valuable BitTorrent resources on the Internet.
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File-Sharing Kids: “I really don’t care, it’s not my problem. Singers and actors are rich enough”
According to a study into children’s safety and how they use the internet, European kids appear to have a basic grasp of the law when it comes to file-sharing. However, they aren’t really bothered by it and just carry on downloading – music in particular.
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Suprnova: What Will Change and What Will Remain The Same?
The new and improved SuprNova will be launched very soon. Sweet revenge, according to the title of Suprnova’s “coming soon” page. In anticipation of the (re)launch we will list some of the new features, and some things that will remain the same.
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Most Popular DVDrips on BitTorrent (wk32)
The 10 most downloaded DVDrips on BitTorrent, “Sunshine” tops the chart this week.
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27 Years of Warez Scene Release Info Leaked in Giant Database
Usually, when a leak is made by the warez scene, it’s usually material created by someone else – a movie, music, games or software. This time the leak is of their own material. A huge pre database of 2.6 million entries has become available on the internet, containing information on warez scene releases dating back to 1980.
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Metal Detectors and Night-Vision Goggles Now Used To Catch Pirates
Theaters in Canada have recently started using metal detectors and night-vision goggles to track down movie cammers. In addition, theater employees receive a $500 reward for every pirate they catch. The hunt is on!
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TorrentPod Episode 42
And yet another Podcast from Charlie, late as usual due to some technical problems. Here’s TorrentPod episode 42, Enjoy!
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US Pirate Party Starts in Utah
The Pirate Party of the United States, a sister organization to the Swedish Piratpartiet, has officially announced that it is forming a state party in Utah. This is the first state that this burgeoning political party has announced it is forming in.
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uTorrent Takes on the BitTorrent Scammers
P2P ‘scam sites’ masquerade as genuine file-sharing sites but con inexperienced file-sharers into paying ‘subscriptions’ for free software, such as BitTorrent clients and bombard them with ads and popups. uTorrent has had enough of one such site making profit from their work and is stepping up to the mark to hold them accountable.
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Google Filters Torrents From Search Results
Google has been filtering its search results for years. That’s proven very useful for the Chinese government, and of course content owner representatives like the MPAA and RIAA. According to Google, the filtering of torrents from the search results is a response to the DMCA complaints they receive.
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Television Studios Embrace BitTorrent
From loathing and resisting BitTorrent and the illegal distribution of their shows to encouraging downloading and leaking pilots, TV studios have a come a long way. The creator of ‘Weeds’ is stoked that someone pirated her show.
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uTorrent and WinZip New Targets of BitTorrent Malware
The best torrent software clients like uTorrent or Azureus are free, no strings attached. However, some companies are making money tricking novice users into installing bad clients, bad media players and even bad Winzip-like software. We expose them and their badware and show you how to block them.
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Use uTorrent to Organize Your BitTorrent Downloads
BitTorrent is great, but all those downloaded torrents have the habit of making a mess of your harddrive. Do you still have all your downloaded stuff in a single folder? Take action, organize your torrents.
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The Pirate Bay Now Has a Forum
The Pirate Bay has been around for more than three years now, but it never really had an online community for people to discuss filesharing issues with fellow pirates. But now, together with the relaunch of SuprNova, they opened up a new forum at SuprBay.org.
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Most Popular DVDrips on BitTorrent (wk31)
The 10 most downloaded DVDrips on BitTorrent, “Fracture” tops the chart this week.
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MPAA: Damage Caused By Uploader Can’t Be Measured in Money. Now Give Us Money
According to the MPAA, a file-sharer who uploaded three movies to the internet caused damage so great it caused them an ‘irreperable injury that cannot fully be compensated or measured in money’. Despite cash being completely inadequate to solve this 3-movie download armageddon, the MPAA is having a go anyway – demanding damages, costs and fees.
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TorrentSpam: Report Fake and Malware Ridden Torrents
The popularity of BitTorrent also has its downsides. Over the past months we reported about fake torrents, torrents that force you to download malware, and torrents that spy on your download behavior. TorrentSpam is a new service that allows you to report such scams, and clean up BitTorrent sites, bit by bit.
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Xtorrent Gets New UI, Selective Downloading
The Mac BitTorrent client with the most beautiful UI, and the only shareware one in existence, Xtorrent, has received a significant update. New features, such as Selective Downloading, have been added and its UI has gotten sleeker (if that’s even possible).
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The Pirate Bay About To Relaunch Suprnova.org
The legendary BitTorrent site Suprnova.org will be back in action soon. Sloncek, the former owner of suprnova.org decided to donate the domain to The Pirate Bay lads, who will relaunch the site in a few days, staying true to its original design. The return of a Legend.
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Teen Arrested for Recording 20 Second Movie Clip
Jhannet Sejas, a 19 year old girl was immediately arrested by the police after she recorded a 20 second clip from the movie “Transformers” that she wanted to show to her little brother. She now faces up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine.
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TorrentSpy Advertises Malicious BitTorrent Client
Running a BitTorrent site can get pretty expensive, especially when you’re caught up in a lawsuit with the MPAA. But, recommending malicious BitTorrent clients like Get-Torrent to your users is not the solution, not even if they pay $$ per install. Money corrupts?
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World’s First Conviction for Removing Information from DVD
A Georgia man is facing the prospect of years in prison and fines of $750,000 after he admitted being involved in the ‘camming’ of movies and removing ‘copyright management information’ from DVDs. The cost of removing management information from a DVD in the US? 5 years in prison, 2 more than for camming movies.
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Now Mac Users Can Easily Get Into Private BitTorrent Trackers Too
Last week we announced the availability of a PC-only application to automate the checking of Private BitTorrent Trackers for open signups. After reading the article a developer contacted us, said he loved the idea and set about coding a version for all the Mac users out there. We have the software here for download, free of charge.
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