… the file-sharing phenomenon continues unabated, more and more outfits are taking the … there are a growing number that operate in a legal gray area and/or prey on the likelihood that they will receive few … and the company behind delivering the ‘Crazy Frog’ ringtone, mBlox does not provide the content or schemes behind such SMS’s, merely …
January 27th, 2009
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… has been growing steadily. Unlike regular uploads, all files on the content distribution platform are both tracked and seeded by … co-founder of Mininova said in a response to the new milestone: “Content Distribution enables producers and artists to bring their work …
January 21st, 2009
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Last year, the band were working on their yet-to-be-released studio album “Tonight”. Like many other albums, however, a copy of … about the involvement of Web Sheriff and his threatening tone towards the site admins, or is it all orchestrated by the record label? We …
January 14th, 2009
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… torrents a day.
In 2008 the site passed several milestones, and in December Mininova broke a new record of 44.7 million unique …
January 5th, 2009
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… after four years of operation. After surviving ISP troubles in 2007, fresh legal action against the site gave the administrators no … owner’s home and place of work. The police left no stone unturned, taking away desktop computers, laptops, monitors, media, cameras …
December 21st, 2008
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… those that have been hiding under stone recently, here’s a summary. In a break from going after alleged games pirates, and what is being viewed by some as a cynical ploy to force ’settlement by embarrassment’, UK lawyers Davenport Lyons have started targeting …
December 1st, 2008
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… Pirate Bay its roots lead us back to Piratbyrån (The Bureau of Piracy), a pro-piracy organization which was founded in August 2003. Since there was no filesharing network in Sweden at the time, Piratbyrån decided to launch one, … popularity.
Last week the tracker reached another milestone, as it broke the 25 million peers mark. This effectively means that at any …
November 26th, 2008
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… week we reported that Torrentz was facing a hostile domain takeover. With a forged driver’s license, the impostor attempted to … emails back and forth, the hacker suddenly changed his tone. After Flippy reminded him that forging a US driver’s license is a serious …
November 16th, 2008
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… over the past 12 months, the number of peers more than tripled, to 25 million.
At the time of publication, The Pirate Bay tracks … failure, right around the time they reached the new milestone.
We asked Peter Sunde, co-founder of the site, how this huge surge can …
November 15th, 2008
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… that the news site defamed him by merely linking to articles he didn’t agree with. With the freedom of online speech at stake, the case … Canada would to all intents and purposes have been killed stone dead,” he said, while showing appreciation for the quality of his legal …
October 29th, 2008
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… reviewer at The Times called it a “misanthropic and foul-mouthed movie” containing “the first graphic … characters”. Hmmm, maybe not the first, but nevertheless the reviewer concludes “Like everything else in the film, a … previously in Norwegian language and features four stoners, five vegans, three mobsters and four hunters competing to free a …
October 25th, 2008
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