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Arrested Development illegally downloaded 100,000 times in first day
- Netflix recently launched another exclusive on its video streaming service, this time bringing back a classic from the early 2000s, the critically acclaimed sitcom Arrested Development. Fifteen new episodes launched on May 26 and they are already quite popular on…
The Pirate Bay moves to the Caribbean, remains alive
- While many of us can appreciate the irony of 'The Pirates of the Caribbean', you can be sure that the site's search for a safe haven is hardly walking on the beach singing with a bottle of rum on one…
Game Dev Tycoon tries to teach pirates a lesson with a healthy dose of irony
- We’ve chronicled several different approaches that game developers are taking to curb piracy such as releasing free-to-play titles with in-game purchases or requiring a game have an always-on connection but Greenheart Games’ recent approach with Game Dev Tycoon is by…
McAfee patents anti-piracy filter
- A recent patent published by McAfee describes what amounts to an anti-piracy system. Titled "Detect and prevent illegal consumption of content on the internet", McAfee's approach would employ a centralized blocklist-style system to issue warnings for -- or entirely block…
'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 video streaming protocol to be free for users, publishers
- As we noted earlier this month, Bram Cohen hopes his BitTorrent Live protocol will prove to be a major disruptor for the streaming media business. Today, Cohen shared that BitTorrent Live -- despite its possible patent encumbrance -- will be…
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…
Censoring file sharing sites isn't effective at curbing piracy
- Research from Boston’s Northeastern University suggests that shutting down known pirate domains is not an effective method for curbing illegal file sharing. Instead, copyright owners should focus their efforts on blocking a site’s ability to process payments from a credit…
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…
PC and Xbox 360 versions of Black Ops 2 leaked to torrent sites
- PC and Xbox 360 versions of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 have been uploaded to torrent sites a full week ahead of the game’s scheduled launch. Some retailers in Europe reportedly broke the street date and sold copies before…
Hosting company XS Networks held responsible for torrent site activity
- A ruling recently handed down by the Court of the Hague has set a potentially game-changing precedent for future rulings against hosting companies and their customers. The court determined that hosting provider XS Networks is responsible for paying damages to…
AT&T to launch six-strike anti-piracy plan Nov 28, leak shows
- Leaked internal training documents indicate AT&T is gearing up to launch a six-strike anti-piracy initiative on November 28. This may not prove to be much of a surprise for readers who caught headlines earlier this year regarding an impending graduated response supposedly…
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…
Demonoid operators arrested in Mexico, Anonymous vows revenge
- Fresh details emerging this week have helped answer some ongoing questions about the orchestrated takedown of Demonoid. Knocked offline by a DDoS attack on July 24, early reports suggested that the torrent tracker's downtime would be somewhat temporary, pending repairs…
Demonoid shut down by Ukrainian authorities following DDoS attack
- Demonoid, the Internet's largest combined BitTorrent site and tracker, has been shutdown in one of the biggest BitTorrent-related busts in recent times, according to TorrentFreak. ColoCall, the Ukrainian datacenter who hosts Demonoid, was forced to relinquish Demonoid's data to local…
Full version of Windows 8 leaked to file sharing sites
- The final version of Windows 8 has leaked onto the Internet just one day after Microsoft made the upcoming operating system available to OEM partners. The leaked copy is an “N” version of Windows 8 which means it doesn’t include…
TPB fines to be used to fight more piracy cases, not refund artists
- After a lengthy legal battle, last February the founders of The Pirate Bay were ordered by the Swedish Supreme Court to pay $675,000 to music labels in order to compensate artists who lost out on royalties due to piracy. Except…
TPB blockade makes no difference, says ISP XS4ALL
- Despite European courts forcing ISPs to block access to The Pirate Bay, the move has had little impact on the internet's most well known, longest-running torrent website. In fact, according to a blog post by one of Europe's largest ISPs, XS4ALL,…
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.
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