… from the Tribler P2P team at the Technical University of Delft, Netherlands, have been … you launch Tribler all you have to do is put some keywords in the search box and you can download torrents instantly. The search results are ranked by relevance and …
April 14th, 2009
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… people sharing files on the Internet are aware that at any time they could be being … told TorrentFreak, “My friends and I usually wait to download cams of movies. We have yet to find one for Adventureland. So I was … Adventureland in the same sentence.”
It seems these keywords were being monitored by Hollywood studio Miramax, presumably to find out …
April 13th, 2009
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… Chris Zabriskie, a full-time musician whose career started roughly 8 years ago. Like many other … in fact. “No one should ever be upset that people are downloading their record for free. They’re listening to it. And chances are … fans will come out as the winners.
Zabriskie’s final words sum it up nicely.
“Bottom line: if you like something you listen to, …
March 14th, 2009
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Uploading fake files to file-sharing networks is nothing new. Older networks such as … and their partners like to upload fakes in order to waste downloader’s time and to monitor their activities. That said, there are others … as Domplayer, or sending the user ostensibly to get passwords to view the video, but in reality directing them to spammy sites. …
March 13th, 2009
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… up today was Kristoffer Schollin who spoke via telephone from Gothenburg University. He explained he is a … asked Wallis if there is any connection between illicit downloads and lost sales in the music industry. Contradicting the opinion of … files can be shared through MSN, Skype, through blogs like Wordpress or a website such as The Pirate Bay. The other party can then grab …
February 26th, 2009
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… scheduled witnesses are Magnus Mårtensson, a lawyer for the IFPI, Anders Nilsson of … he worked gathering evidence against The Pirate Bay by downloading various music albums via .torrent files he obtained from the site … to be like an average user.
Gottfrid: So in other words, you can’t check if the tracker was used?
Mårtensson: The tracker …
February 24th, 2009
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Legendas.TV is a popular Brazilian site offering subtitles for movies and TV shows, … site and defaced it. Popups on the site said “Live For Downloads” – when clicked, visitors were redirected to downloads on Mininova.
APCM announced it was “taking all measures” to get …
February 5th, 2009
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… describes itself as ‘the leading European provider of deep packet inspection solutions’. … is blind to encrypted archive files (e.g. password-protected ZIP files), and these are becoming more and more popular. … on eDonkey, for instance, may have the effect that the downloaded file is larger than the original, and the download never finishes. …
January 29th, 2009
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… a year later than planned, Fox’s new season of 24 will premiere on US TV tonight. Set … with Heroes, Lost and Prison Break, every episode is downloaded well over a million times. The show also has a reputation of leaking … intentional or not, is guaranteed to result in a surge of word of mouth promotion, and free promotion throughout the blogosphere. If …
January 11th, 2009
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… recent years, TV-shows have become increasingly popular on BitTorrent. While some watch the shows directly on their … BitTorrent client. Millions of people use BitTorrent to download TV-shows every week, so there are a lot of potential customers out there.
‘Whenever’ and ‘wherever’ are two words that are often heard when people explain why they use BitTorrent, and …
January 7th, 2009
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… is no secret that badly moderated sites are often filled with spam, spyware and worse. The true … takes moderation a step further – the site actually downloads every file, to check for viruses, DRM and other … 5000 were removed because they contained a virus or a passworded archive. In addition, the site’s moderators blocked another 14445 …
December 28th, 2008
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