… of spectacular. From a standing start in 2005, by mid-2007 Mininova had entered the list of Top 100 most popular sites on the entire … the Tribler team from the Technical University Delft and Free University Amsterdam. In April 2008, the BitTorrent community realized …
… At any given point in time, more than 25 million peers actively trade files thought the Pirate Bay tracker. Compete rank 885 / Alexa rank 117 / 2007 #3 2. Mininova Mininova has seen a steady rise in visitors in 2008, …
… It is the office dealing with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Privacy and Electronic … Wales. UK ISPs were ordered earlier this year [and in 2007] by the High Court to disclose information relating to its customer’s …
… other countries. No stranger to criticism, in March 2007 UK consumer protection TV show ‘Watchdog’ held a survey which deemed … nor denying claims of a block. Yesterday, TorrentFreak contacted Orange’s PR company for comment and, after a reminder today, received …
… 2007 legal case involving Belgian ISP Scarlet and music copyright group SABAM, … their customers from accessing copyrighted works, and thus act as a virtual police force. Earlier this year, IFPI took the Irish ISP … strict as well, as such policies restrict the rights and freedoms of Internet users. In the light of these recent developments, and …
… and with little fuss, January 2007 saw the birth of TextBook Torrents, a relatively small site initially, … focused on TextBook Torrents and it quickly gained traction after being picked up by Slashdot and subsequently, many other … we were out to make a statement, to give out as much free stuff as possible, and I think we’ve made that statement – perhaps not as …
… are honest customers, since pirates will get their DRM-free version off BitTorrent anyway. In fact, DRM seems to produce an increase in downloads over legitimate sales, with …
… thousand times the cost of three CDs. While the Copyright Act was intended to permit statutory damages that are larger than the simple … act. In short, they said they didn’t want to be used as free lawyers for the entertainment industry, and also felt that the position of …
… on Mininova’s download figures for a while now. In June 2007 Mininova saw its 2 billionth download. This figure has since tripled to 6 … given point in time are TV-episodes. The availability of free-streams seems to bring this figure down a little, but only in the …
… in a handful of times each month through the summer of 2007, he started to get bored with “Monkey Defenders” – his pet name for the … users. The emails contain information about the various tactics and technical solutions for tracking p2p users, and disrupt p2p …
… the four OiNK uploaders are being charged for doing exactly the same thing. The fact that it is only one CD makes the case even more … effort by Dutch and British law enforcement in October 2007, based on intel from the IFPI and the BPI, two well known anti-piracy …
