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BitTorrent activity drops in markets where Netflix is available
- The best way to combat piracy isn’t legislatively or criminally, but by coming up with an alternative that makes it easy to consume the content at a fair price. That according to Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos, who says…
'Game of Thrones' season premiere sets new piracy record
- Game of Thrones was the second most downloaded show in 2011 behind Dexter before earning the top spot last year. And if preliminary figures from last night’s season three premiere are any indication, HBO’s hit series could very well earn…
BitTorrent Live uses P2P to make broadcasting easier, cheaper
- BitTorrent has officially taken the wraps off a new broadcasting service that draws its main strength from its namesake peer-to-peer protocol, so the video stream becomes more and more stable as more people tune in -- instead of the other…
The Pirate Bay says move to North Korea was a hoax
- Apparently April Fools’ Day comes a month early if you run the world’s largest torrent website. Earlier this week a number of media outlets (TechSpot included) reported that The Pirate Bay had left their Swedish homeland and had been granted…
The Pirate Bay lands in North Korea, granted virtual asylum
- Late last month The Pirate Bay vacated its Swedish homeland after local anti-piracy group Rights Alliance threatened to sue Piratpartiet for supplying bandwidth to TPB. After a week sailing the high seas for a new home, the torrent site has…
Controversial 'six-strikes' copyright alert system launches in US
- The "six-strike" warning system that aims to curb illegal downloads in the U.S. is set to go live today after missing its scheduled launch in November. AT&T, Cablevision, Verizon, Time Warner Cable, and Comcast are all on board with the…
BitTorrent launches file-delivery service SoShare, offers up to 1TB transfers for free
- BitTorrent has announced the public beta launch of SoShare, a file delivery service that will take on the likes of YouSendIt, DropBox and others by allowing file transfers up to 1TB in size. The company says it is targeting creative…
"Cam" movie pirate issued record 5-year prison sentence
- Four members of prolific illegal file sharing group iMAGiNE have been ordered to serve prison terms after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit copyright infringement. The group's leader Jeramiah Perkins, 40, managed to receive the longest sentence ever handed to a…
Demonoid's tracker flickers to life, website remains dark
- Prominent semi-private torrent tracker Demonoid is once again showing signs of life, although the website itself remains a lifeless cadaver. What this means for Demonoid is anyone's guess, but during the site's 2009 sabbatical, the website returned just weeks after its…
MegaUpload now set to relaunch as mega.co.nz
- After Kim Dotcom was denied the possibility of resurrecting MegaUpload as Me.ga, the controversial figure blasted the U.S. and Vivendi for their opposing views and global reach. Dotcom added that Mega was well-prepared for this contingency however, with a number of…
Man fined $1.5 million in damages for sharing 10 porn movies
- A Virginia man, Kywan Fisher, who was accused of sharing 10 adult movies via BitTorrent is being asked by an Illinois Federal court to pony up a whopping $1,500,000 in damages. The stiff judgment is the largest amount ever awarded…
The U.S. music piracy rankings: Gainesville (FL), New York, Los Angeles top the list
- In spite of the growing number of well-promoted music subscription services available on the U.S. market like Spotify, Rdio, Amazon, iTunes Match, among others, music piracy remains a fact of life for many.
Digital Music Index report reveals the top 10 BitTorrent countries
- Musicmetric just released the first edition of the Digital Music Index, a report claiming to be the most in-depth study ever conducted on the digital music landscape. The DMI looks at a plethora of metrics including the popularity of licensed…
Researchers: Your IP is logged within 3 hours of downloading a torrent
- A computer security researcher and his team have discovered what they describe as massive monitoring of BitTorrent download websites by copyright enforcement organizations, security companies and government research labs. Tom Chothia from the University of Birmingham, UK, further noted that…
BitTorrent says upcoming uTorrent update will feature ads
- Popular torrent client uTorrent has gone through significant changes since it was acquired by BitTorrent in 2006. Launched in September 2005 as a minimalist, resource-friendly and free application for downloading torrents, is has evolved over the years to do far…
BitTorrent Torque web app turn browser into a file-sharing hub
- The company behind the popular torrent downloading software uTorrent has announced a new project called BitTorrent Torque, an alpha release set of tools that can be run from HTML5-compliant web browsers like Google Chrome, turning them into a fully-fledged file-sharing hub. …
Man fined $7,000 for sharing 'WordPress for Dummies' via BitTorrent
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Robert Carpenter of Poughkeepsie, New York has been ordered to pay $7,000 in damages for sharing a copy of "WordPress All-in-One For Dummies" on BitTorrent. Carpenter was part of a mass filing by publisher John Wiley & Sons last October that included 27 John Does...
PayPal freezes VPN provider's account, spooked by BitTorrent
- TorGuard, a VPN service provider, was recently given the cold shoulder by PayPal for providing BitTorrent-related services. Upon discovery of TorGuard's relationship with BitTorrent, PayPal abruptly froze the company's account, preventing the virtual network provider from sending or receiving payments…
Boxopus pushes torrent downloads directly to your Dropbox, skips desktop clients
- Update: Well, that didn't take long. Dropbox has banned Boxopus over piracy concerns.
Comcast refuses IP lookups, calls anti-piracy case a 'shake down'
- Comcast may be complicating the lives of copyright holders everywhere by rejecting recent requests made to link subscriber information to IP addresses. In an ongoing legal kerfuffle with AF Holdings, adult film publisher and plaintiff, Comcast requested an Illinois district…
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