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  • Pirate Bay Supreme Court appeal denied - prison ahoy!

    Pirate Bay Supreme Court appeal denied - prison ahoy!

    Founders still face jail time 1 February 2012 16:05 GMT

    The founders of Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström, have failed in a new attempt to have their jail sentences for criminal copyright infringement offences overturned. Sweden's Supreme Court will not grant them...

  • Super 8 pirate rip traced back to Howard Stern?

    Super 8 pirate rip traced back to Howard Stern?

    US shock jock in the picture 8 August 2011 9:54 GMT

    A DVD screener of Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams' Super 8 has started to appear on the 'net, which may not come as a surprise to many. However, what does is that the ripped pirate version of the film, seems to have the name of the source stamped...

  • Torrent honeytraps set up to lure pirates into copyright infringement lawsuits

    Torrent honeytraps set up to lure pirates into lawsuits

    Could file-sharing suit be extortion? 3 June 2011 14:59 GMT

    Last week, Pocket-lint brought you the news that the maker of The Hurt Locker has filed lawsuits against a record 24,583 people who, it claims, have infringed its copyright by downloading illegal copies of the movie. And that Voltage Pictures is seeking...

  • The Hurt Locker

    Hurt Locker chiefs gun for 24,583 file sharers in record breaking lawsuit

    BitTorrent case could take years to end 24 May 2011 13:30 GMT

    Makers of The Hurt Locker have broken a world record by filing lawsuits against 24,583 torrent site users for copyright theft. However, it could take up to a decade to find out the personal information of all of those sued.

    Voltage Pictures...

  • Copyright malware appears on Bittorrent

    Copyright malware appears on Bittorrent

    Demands cash for piracy violations 13 April 2010 16:17 GMT

    A nasty bit of malware is reportedly doing the rounds in the BitTorrent community, taking the form of a fake copyright violation notice that demands cash in exchange for the user not being sued.

    It directs users to the ICCP Foundation, whose...

  • uTorrent gets video streaming functionality. Software, P2P, uTorrent, Software updates, Home Cinema, BitTorrent 0

    uTorrent gets video streaming functionality

    Start watching before downloads complete 18 December 2009 13:01 GMT

    Popular BitTorrent client uTorrent has added a new bit of functionality that'll likely make filesharers very happy indeed. You can begin streaming video before it's finished downloading.

    Plenty of people use BitTorrent to watch television shows...

  • Demonoid returns to the web

    Demonoid returns to the web

    Bittorrent tracker back from the grave 14 December 2009 9:56 GMT

    Back in September, after suffering massive hardware issues, Bittorrent tracker Demonoid went down. But now, the site suddenly appears to be back online, accepting logins from registered users.

    An announcement on the front page reads: "Hello!...

  • Bittorrent protocol gets anti-throttling update

    Bittorrent protocol gets anti-throttling update

    Automatically avoids network congestion 2 November 2009 18:12 GMT

    A new version of the Bittorrent protocol is about to launch. Bittorrent is a distribution technique for online content that's used heavily by both legitimate software publishers (like Activision Blizzard) and illicit file sharing sites (like the Pirate...

  • FlashForward proves a hit on BitTorrent

    FlashForward proves a hit on BitTorrent

    Tens of thousands download new ABC show 25 September 2009 10:31 GMT

    FlashForward, a television show just launched in the US from the creators of Lost and based on the book by Robert J Sawyer, has proved a surprise hit on filesharing websites.

    At the time of writing, Mininova and the Pirate Bay are both displaying...

  • Piracy kiosk set up in Weimar, Germany

    Piracy kiosk set up in Weimar, Germany

    Bittorrent over Wi-Fi 15 September 2009 16:31 GMT

    Since the imminent closure of the Pirate Bay in its current form was announced, many have attempted to scrape the site of its contents to rebuild it elsewhere on the Web. However, one group of German fans of the filesharing site took it one step further.

  • Apple rejects uTorrent monitor app

    Apple rejects uTorrent monitor app

    Argues it would be used to infringe copyright 2 September 2009 10:59 GMT

    Apple has rejected an application that would allow users to control their Bittorrent downloads on their home computer from their iPhone. The reason? Because Bittorrent is "often used for the purpose of infringing third party rights".

    Developer...

  • Radiohead embraces torrents for music distribution

    Radiohead embraces torrents for music distribution

    New song uploaded to Mininova 17 August 2009 11:08 GMT

    Late last week, a new Radiohead song leaked onto the web called "These Are My Twisted Words". Today, the band officially announced the song on their "Dead Air Space" blog, which came with not only a link to the band's official web store W.A.S.T.E., but...

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    Illegal file-sharing drops dramatically

    Streaming sites boom 13 July 2009 9:27 GMT

    A survey of 1000 teenagers, undertaken in January this year, has shown that only 26% admit file-sharing at least once a month, compared to 42% in December 2007. Meanwhile, 65% of teens stream music regularly, with 31% of 14-18-year-olds listening to streaming...

  • OpenBitTorrent launches, aims at Pirate Bay refugees

    OpenBitTorrent launches, aims at Pirate Bay refugees

    Tracker launches with no indexing site 6 July 2009 10:10 GMT

    Since the Pirate Bay announced that it was selling out, many in the Bittorrent community have predicted the death of the filesharing community.

    Many others however, confidently predicted that the masses would just move to another tracker,...

  • Bittorrent users vow to go underground

    Bittorrent users vow to go underground

    Survey reveals 41% would just hide their sharing if warned 23 June 2009 13:17 GMT

    Filesharing news site Torrentfreak has announced the results of a poll that suggests that 41% of P2P users would "take steps to hide their identity" if they received a warning letter from an ISP.

    38% said they'd ignore the warning, but carry...

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