Austria now has its very own pirate party. Initially the communist party KPÖ presented itself as the national Pirate Party, but it appeared that not all pirates wanted to be associated with the communist ideals.
The Austrian Pirate Party is planning to participate in Austria’s national elections this October and has three main points:
1. Copyright reform: [...]
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 [...]
Podtropolis, the popular “Ipod” torrent site had to close its doors a couple of weeks ago. Podtropolis had financial problems and wasn’t able to pay the bills.
But it looks like things changed for the better. Gary from Isohunt.com came to the rescue…. At Podtropolis we read:
Well, I just hate good community and nice design going [...]
A weekly returning chart listing the most popular BitTorrent movie downloads.
Ranking
Movie
Seeds / Peers
1 (1)
Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest
49,594
2 (2)
Superman Returns
48,032
3 (3)
Nacho Libre
47,431
4 (7)
The Devil Wears Prada
45,267
5 (4)
Click
43,289
6 (5)
Cars
42,081
7 (8)
Eight Below
41,890
8 (10)
The Break-Up
39,639
9 (6)
X-Men: The Last Stand
39,323
10 NEW
Failure To Launch
39,309
The data is collected by Big Champagne, the numbers [...]
The popular BitTorrent client Azureus received funding by BV Capital, a company that previously supported del.icio.us and peerflix.
Azureus is currently implementing a “content layer” where commercial downloads will start to appear. Users will be able to search for certain keywords, or browse through the available content by tags.
Azureus is downloaded almost 2million times every [...]
In days of yore, when the corporate record labels wanted air-time for one of their tunes, they’d fire CDs at every DJ and his brother.
But not any more.
That’s because they’ve found a clever, new ‘high tech’ way of getting the music out.
It’s called Kazaa, the self-same p2p file sharing application used by many, if not [...]
Shawn Hogan, CEO of Digital Point Solutions is sued by the MPAA for downloading a movie over BitTorrent. The MPAA wants to settle the case for $2,500, but Hogan rather spends $100,000 on legal fees, than giving in to the MPAA’s scare tactics.
Hogan says:
“$100,000 in legal fees is a small price to pay to challenge [...]
The Piratebay openly supports the war against Ladonia, a micronation located in the south of Sweden. Yet another political statement by those fearless pirates.
TPB supports an initiative by the AFCI to help the Ladonians in their quest for internet connectivity.
The AFCI demands:
* No copyright laws!
* Internets [...]
Filesharing is getting more popular in Japan according to a recent survey by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ). 3.5 percent of the Japanese Internet users is actively using p2p software to share files, compared to 2.7 percent last year.
Pirates are popular these days, Pirate Parties are popping up like mushrooms, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is leading the BitTorrent movie download chart, and became the fastest film ever to go beyond $300 million in Canada and the US.
so sing along..
You are a Pirate!
WoW!
P2Pnet owner Jon Newton is facing a libel suit filed by Kazaa CEO Nikki Hemming. To help Newton with his legal fees, Toronto based singer/songwriter Neil Leyton has written a song about the situation, and has organized a fundraiser for August 5th at the Rivoli, with fellow Fading Ways Music label-mates Aceface, as well as [...]
