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Pirate Bay’s Tour Bus to Become Court Case Press Center
Last year The Pirate Bay and the Bureau of Piracy bought themselves a bus, painted it up in suitable pirate-style livery and embarked on a European tour. Now, with the trial of The Pirate Bay just a...
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Great Moments in P2P History - 2008
So what can be said about the year 2008 in file-sharing? It’s been a long year for the P2P community. While there were no earth shattering events on the scale of 2006’s raid on The Pirate Bay, there...
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P2P (peer-to-peer) is the nature of the Net, Tribler: BitTorrent and Beyond
P2P (peer-to-peer) is the nature of the Net. You can fight that, or you can embrace it. Here in the US, the mainstream entertainment business has mostly been fighting it. Hollywood and its phone and...
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Economy Profits From File-Sharing, Report Concludes
Commissioned by the Dutch government, a recently published report concludes that file-sharing has a positive effect on the economy, both on the long and short term. A massive 30% of the Dutch...
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Controversy as Google ads appear on IsoHunt
IsoHunt is one of the world’s largest BitTorrent sites. For quite a while the site has been displaying Google ads through Ask.com. Today there is controversy, as several large companies found out that...
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Italy to follow French 3 Strikes Model for P2P
After high-level discussions on the piracy situation in 2008, the Italian government has announced the signing of an agreement which will see it collaborate with the French on the issue. Of concern to...
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All major Canadian ISPs slow down P2P traffic
Net neutrality really is the hot topic at the moment. After the FCC slapped Comcast for slowing down BitTorrent users, Canada is now looking into the network management practices of its ISPs. And...
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Numbering The Days Until BitTorrent Dies
This blog poster, really thinks BT will die, don't think so though You may be familiar with BitTorrent. It's the protocol used by various software applications that allow you to find and download...
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‘Lost’ Most Pirated TV-Show on BitTorrent
The fifth season of the hit series ‘Lost’ premiered on U.S. television with two brand new episodes last week. With close to two million downloads for both episodes in only a few days, it leads this...
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The Pirate Bay Gets Ready for Court Case
On February 16th 2009, the trial of The Pirate Bay will start in Sweden. Details of the case have been scarce thus far, but one of the witnesses for the prosecution will be a police officer who got a...
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Pirate Bay trial verdict reached: guilty!
Download the occasional film or album through file-sharing Torrent sites? Get ready for things to change. The four co-founders of the notorious Pirate Bay site have been found guilty by a Swedish...
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Do you share? Then go...to jail.
Piratebay.org trial will set a precedent and many file-sharing sites will be shut down, says Andrey Mikhayilyuk, editor-in-chief of Zhelezo computer magazine, but says it is impossible to stop sharing...
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UK ISP Karoo stops cutting off file sharers after first offense
As we keep hearing more and more the music and movie industries have cut back on suing individuals for file sharing and instead started putting pressure on ISPs to do the work for them. added by:...
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Kiosk of Piracy: An Offline Copy of The Pirate Bay
In the past weeks the Pirate Bay has been ripped, copied and rebuilt by avid file-sharers, guaranteeing that the site’s legacy will be preserved no matter what. The people behind the Kiosk of Piracy...
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MPAA Propaganda Hits 60 Minutes
The MPAA scored a victory last night when millions of people tuned in to CBS’s 60 Minutes. The ‘investigative’ news magazine ran a propaganda piece on movie piracy yesterday, allowing the MPAA to...
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MPAA forces entire town offline for single illegal download
,Industry organizations like the MPAA and RIAA are notoriously ruthless when it comes to protecting their copyrights and fighting piracy added by: northrunnnercano6 0 comments
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Warner Bros. Thinks P2P Gets Unfairly Vilified
At a recent roundtable discussion, Warner Bros. technology director Ethan Applen commented on BitTorrent and P2P’s bad reputation in the entertainment industry. Applen said that P2P is not the bad guy...
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Fresh ACS:Law file-sharing lists expose thousands more
The personal details of a further 8,000 people alleged to have shared music or films illegally have appeared online. link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11425789 added by: Kristena 0 comments
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‘Dead Drops’ - anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in...
‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You...
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Megaupload file-sharing site shut down
Megaupload, one of the internet's largest file-sharing sites, has been shut down by officials in the US.The site's founders have been charged with violating piracy laws....
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