… recently reported how Ohio University spent more than $75,000 on the CopySense … BitTorrent, let’s start there. Torrents are non-sequential downloads (illustration), that take ‘random’ (generally rarest first of what’s … If it could, then we would simply see a resurgence in passworded RAR files being torrented, with the passwords posted either on the …
September 26th, 2008
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Lately we’ve seen quite a few new sites that let you download torrents to their servers. Not just the traditional seedbox providers, … a watch list, to downloads torrents based on specific keywords, as soon as they are available. In addition, the site has lists of the …
September 5th, 2008
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Love her or loathe her, Indiana Gregg has managed to become a minor net celebrity … it aims to be an online jukebox, mixed in with a music download service, maybe something like Jamendo. Ms Gregg’s husband, music … that. The name (Kerchoonz) appears to be derived from the word Gregg used whenever she talked about the Pirate Bay making money , …
August 30th, 2008
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The music industry’s position is clear, every download is a lost sale and there is no such animal as ‘piracy is … a copy of a CD and gone out of their way to spread the word about us. That recipient has then bought both a ticket to see us and a CD …
August 26th, 2008
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… you visit the TinySong website, all you will see is a large search box. When you enter a search term the site … as it enables users to create playlists, add favorites, download tracks, and includes all of the other features Grooveshark offers. … with a social network on top of that (yes, a lot of buzzwords). All you need is an Internet connection, and you’re hooked up to one of …
August 23rd, 2008
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… things first. Remember the single mother-of-two in the news this week who picked up a £16,000 fine for … we have seen documents where Davenport claim that Logistep download a full copy of each game in every case. At the time, we thought that … on for these cases never tried to defend themselves, the word “bully” seems more appropriate than …
August 21st, 2008
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… at TorrentFreak we get a few emails each week announcing the arrival of new BitTorrent sites but there are so many, we can’t possibly write about … to find out, hopefully this post will help them get the word out.
For those that want advice on how to avoid bad torrents in the …
August 9th, 2008
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… funny business at times, but the rhetoric is often extremely predictable. So when something unexpected happens it can knock you off your … owned by IGN, selling games over the Internet as protected downloads. Game code is modified to prevent the standard retail DRM from …
July 18th, 2008
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Recently we wrote about the exchange of emails between vocalist Indiana Gregg and Peter … IP addresses… you name it, if it’s out there and can be downloaded, it’s being virtually stolen from under your nose.
So, why is … have a hunch that this will CHANGE.
Aww, now there’s a word “CHANGE”.
Well, let’s talk about CHANGE for a moment. The torrent …
July 4th, 2008
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… organizations and companies don’t like it that their material – be it music, movies, games or software – are … linking to the album “Woman At Work”, but the request was worded in an unfortunate way which appeared to betray a lack of legal … and has not been authorised to be released as an illegal download.
Of course, it didn’t take long before Peter Sunde, aka brokep, …
June 25th, 2008
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… bill, dubbed the ‘Canadian DMCA’ has not been popular with many of those it will … even more important, uploaders, and to an extent, downloaders too (certainly those on torrents), will now be liable. While in the … in the proceedings.
This is a change from the previous wording, which gave the court latitude to drop that $500 to as low as …
June 12th, 2008
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