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… from rightsholders, this week an investigation run by Icelandic police culminated in raids against suspected BitTorrent site … and closure of the site. Earlier this year, the Icelandic torrent site Istorrent.is finally lost their 3 year copyright battle …
… said. “In particular, we would welcome Sweden copying Iceland‘s Modern Media Initiative, something that the Pirate Party also …
… written in again, pointing us to a photo gallery of the Icelandic volcano eruption last month that was published on Fox News. Like …
At TorrentFreak we keep a close eye on the DMCA takedown requests that are received by search engines such as Google and Yahoo. These are usually sent out by music and film companies but last week we saw them being joined by the Gawker Media-owned weblog G …
… the site was forced to go offline. The site only allowed Icelandic IPs to connect to the tracker and it was by far the largest and most famous private BitTorrent tracker in Iceland. The local anti-piracy lobby had also started to take notice of the …
… before the site was taken offline. The site only allowed Icelandic IPs to connect to the tracker, and it was by far the largest and most famous private BitTorrent tracker in Iceland. Its popularity didn’t go unnoticed with the local anti-piracy lobby …
… from SMÃÃS on the ongoing investigation on TVB (Icelanders only) and Torrent.is, two Icelandic BitTorrent trackers. “Me and an administrator at TVB were pondering …
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