Handling DMCA notices is probably one of the most effortful tasks of a BitTorrent site admin. In order to lighten this load, and to please copyright owners, snarf-it.org introduced a “delete it yourself” (DIY) service.
On Snarf-it.org we read:
A couple of days ago we received this email from Microsoft asking us to remove about 200 [...]
A heartbreaking tale about a pig that invents his very own DRM to protect the powers of the magic box he found. Inspired by the harsh Anti-Piracy campaigns targeted at kids.
The Pig and the Box is about a pig who finds a magic box that can replicate anything you put into it. The pig [...]
Is the MPAA is losing the “war on piracy”? Hollywood lost 6.1 billion according to reasearch by the MPAA, 75% higher than they expected.
Although The DVD sniffin Dogs “Lucky and Flo” help a little bit, the pirates are on the loose. The MPAA claimes “major victories” in their war against piracy but if you [...]
Sealand is on fire. The self-proclaimed safe haven for everything that’s forbidden elsewhere suffered from a fire, probably caused by a generator.
Firefighters attacked the fire from a ship, but it is unknown if they succeeded and what the damage is.
Sealand and it’s hosting company havenco have no regulations concerning copyright, patents, libel, restrictions on [...]
The Pirate leaders are quite talkative today. First the US Pirate leader, now the leader of Sweden’s piratpartiet.
Two weeks ago, in the aftermath of the Piratebay raid, the US equivalent of the Swedish pirate party “piratpartiet” was founded.
Sweden again. The Filesharing debate continues, and the Pirate’s vote might be an important one in the upcoming election. Justice minister Thomas Bodström is flirting openly with filesharers, while the Pirate Party is getting bigger and bigger.
Lars Ilshammar, an information-technology historian who recently suggested Sweden to impose a fee similar to the one proposed in [...]
The US now has its very own Pirate Party. The party is founded by Brent Allison, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Georgia, inspired by the Swedish pirate party “piratpartiet”.
The pirate party has three issues on its agenda, one of these is to reform copyright law:
The official aim of the copyright system has always [...]
Rasmus Fleischer form the Swedish pro-piracy organization Piratbyrån gave a talk at the Reboot8 conference., he discussed copyright issues and Piratbyrån thoughts and vision.
The Reboot8 conference is “a journey into the interconnectedness of creation, participation, values, openness, decentralization, collaboration, complexity, technology, p2p, humanities, connectedness and many more areas”.
The Grey Commons
Intro
There has been a lot [...]
A couple of weeks ago we reported that BitTorrent.org is still indexing a lot of copyrighted material. Although they made a deal with the MPAA to ban illegal content, their policies do not differ from sites like Mininova or Torrentspy.
BitTorrent spokeswoman Lily Lin confirmed to TorrentFreak
Our MPAA arrangement is strictly about taking down links [...]
The Hong Kong movie industry won a case against four local ISP’s, making BitTorrent pirates easy targets. ISP’s must identify their customers if they download illegal material.
According to Hong Kong Cable TV the ISP’s have three weeks to comply. The movie companies demanded the user info belonging to 49 IP addresses, but it’s likely [...]
