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ISPs Don't Have To Block The Pirate Bay, Court Rules
ISPs Don't Have To Block The Pirate Bay, Court Rules
Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:00 AM EDT
by Torrent Freak

The Pirate Bay does not need to be blocked by ISPs. That is what a Belgian court ruled. The Belgian anti-piracy lobbyist group has lost a historic court trail, making similar rulings in other countries more likely.

Anti-Piracy Group Stuns The World With Torrent Site Massacre
Anti-Piracy Group Stuns The World With Torrent Site Massacre
Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:00 AM EDT
by Torrent Freak

The Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN has already succeeded in shutting down 422 illegal websites this year. That makes BREIN one of the most active and successful anti-piracy lobbyists in the world.

Peter Sunde Banned From Operating The Pirate Bay
Peter Sunde Banned From Operating The Pirate Bay
Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:00 AM EDT
by Torrent Freak

The Swedish District Stockholm Court has ruled that Peter Sunde, former spokesman of The Pirate Bay, is banned from being involved in the site operations. Sunde is the third person to be banned from operating the site. The site remains online though.

Tenenbaum Damages Reduced from $675,000 to $67,500
Tenenbaum Damages Reduced from $675,000 to $67,500
Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:00 AM EDT
by Slyck

In the historic file sharing case of Tenebaum vs the music industry, a judge ruled that the $675 000 damages awarded to the RIAA for Tenenbaum's file sharing activity, is grossly excessive. The judge has reduced the total damages to $67,500.

File Sharing News Image Google Scores a Big Victory for BitTorrent Sites
Google Scores a Big Victory for BitTorrent Sites
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 8:00 PM EDT
by Torrent Freak

Google has been fighting to legalize Youtube for years now. The entertainment industry says it's not because of the copyrighted content submitted by users. However, the court has now sided with Google, simultaneously making BitTorrent sites legal.
File Sharing News Image The Pirate Bay Hacked, Users Exposed
The Pirate Bay Hacked, Users Exposed
Wed, 7 Jul 2010 8:00 PM EDT
by Torrent Freak

An Argentinian hacker successfully hacked his way into the Pirate Bay database. He gained full control over the torrents on the site and he was able to access the IP and email addresses of registered users.
File Sharing News Image Three Arrested In Connection With 'Darkside' File-Sharing Servers
Three Arrested In Connection With 'Darkside' File-Sharing Servers
Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:00 AM EDT
by Torrent Freak

Anti-piracy group Antipiratbyran notified police of two locations in Stockholm, Sweden where "scene" warez servers were located. The police raid resulted in the largest discovery of pirated software ever. The police also made arrests.
File Sharing News Image Facebook Uses BitTorrent, and They Love It
Facebook Uses BitTorrent, and They Love It
Thu, 24 Jun 2010 8:00 PM EDT
by Torrent Freak

According to Tom Cook, a Facebook systems engineer, BitTorrent technology is the most effective file transfer technology they have found to distribute system updates in their huge server park. BitTorrent has eliminated a lot of concerns they had before.

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    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 9:10 PM UTC
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    IMGboot Albums and Image Organizer Updated
    The image organizer has been updated. More images can now be shown on one page. http://imgboot.com/i...georganizer.jpg You can hover over an image...
    Mon, 12 Jul 2010 6:51 PM UTC
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  • Log in with your TORRENT Scan account
    Log in with your TORRENT Scan account
    You can now log into the community with your TORRENT Scan account...
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    Register your TORRENT Scan account
    A new major TORRENT Scan version has been released. TORRENT Scan Account You can now register a TORRENT Scan account. Any customizations you make...
    Fri, 2 Jul 2010 5:53 PM UTC
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TorrentFreak

  • Police Keep Their Word, Shut Down File-Sharing Sites
    Police Keep Their Word, Shut Down File-Sharing Sites
    Following high level talks with the IFPI and very public declarations on national TV, it recently became clear that Bulgarian authorities would start...
    Sat, 31 Jul 2010 3:25 PM UTC
  • Anti-P2P lawyers accused of copyright hypocrisy*
    Anti-P2P lawyers accused of copyright hypocrisy
    http://static.arstec...130-14269-f.jpg Have the copyright enforcers been caught with their hands in the cookie jar? The blog...
    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:08 PM UTC
  • U.S. Copyright Group 'Steal' Competitor's Website
    U.S. Copyright Group 'Steal' Competitor's Website
    The United States Copyright Group (USCG) has been all over the news in recent months. The lawyer group sued thousands of BitTorrent users who...
    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:17 PM UTC
  • uTorrent Web Now Available on iPad and Android
    uTorrent Web Now Available on iPad and Android
    After adding support for the iPhone last month, BitTorrent Inc. has now made the remote access 'Web' feature of its uTorrent Falcon client...
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 8:44 PM UTC
  • BitTorrent Releasers Are The New Kids On The Piracy Block*
    BitTorrent Releasers Are The New Kids On The Piracy Block
    For many years movies have been released onto the Internet, trickling down the so-called 'piracy pyramid' from elitist and private sites. Now...
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 1:01 PM UTC

ZeroPaid

  • ZeroPaid Interviews the Free Software Foundation
    ZeroPaid Interviews the Free Software Foundation
    http://www.zeropaid....-brown_crop.jpg Open source has been in the media for quite some time whether directly or indirectly. With ACTA leak and the...
    Sat, 31 Jul 2010 6:51 AM UTC
  • Kiwi "3-Strikes" Critics Compare Internet to Phone, Electricity
    Kiwi "3-Strikes" Critics Compare Internet to Phone, Electricity
    http://www.zeropaid....d-flag_crop.jpg Members of Internet NZ and the Creative Freedom Foundation tell New Zealand Commerce Select Committee that it...
    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 8:46 PM UTC
  • uTorrent Web Now Supports iPad and Android
    uTorrent Web Now Supports iPad and Android
    http://www.zeropaid....web-174x200.jpg Makes controlling BitTorrent downloads on the go even easier and more convenient. After having introduced...
    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 7:28 PM UTC
  • RIAA Defends Spending $17M to Collect $391,000
    RIAA Defends Spending $17M to Collect $391,000
    http://www.zeropaid....iaa-200x198.gif Say that tax returns draw a conclusion of its sue-em-all strategy that is “inaccurate and highly...
    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:32 AM UTC
  • HADOPI Says It's Ready to Enforce Three Strikes Law
    HADOPI Says It's Ready to Enforce Three Strikes Law
    http://www.zeropaid....2001_07_122.jpg It was September 24, 2009. France had adopted their three strikes law. While rights holders were happy that a...
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 9:40 PM UTC

Slyck

  • Steam Experiment IP Addresses Listed in Massive BitTorrent Lawsuit
    Steam Experiment IP Addresses Listed in Massive BitTorrent Lawsuit
    Remember the Val Kilmer hit "The Steam Experiment"? It's also known as "The Chaos Experiment". This mega blockbuster broke...
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 1:12 PM UTC
  • Starcraft II and BitTorrent Don't Mix
    Starcraft II and BitTorrent Don't Mix
    The original Starcraft existed in a PC world far removed from the computer environment that exists today. Dial-up, Windows 95, and 15" CRT...
    Wed, 28 Jul 2010 5:28 AM UTC
  • Newzbin Reinstates Credit System
    Newzbin Reinstates Credit System
    Newzbin.com has two membership types - basic and premium. The basic version allows for free searching and a degree of participation on the site, The...
    Tue, 27 Jul 2010 2:07 PM UTC
  • NewsLeecher Inches Closer to Version 4.0
    NewsLeecher Inches Closer to Version 4.0
    With all the hub-bub going on with BitTorrent and LimeWire - the lawsuits, the criminal prosecutions, the multimillion dollar injunctions - it's...
    Tue, 27 Jul 2010 7:15 AM UTC
  • Still No Agreement on Massive BitTorrent Lawsuit Campaign Letters
    Still No Agreement on Massive BitTorrent Lawsuit Campaign Letters
    On July 2nd, the Judge presiding over the Achte/Neute vs John Does (all 4,577 of them) denied the defense's plea to prevent combining all of...
    Thu, 22 Jul 2010 2:28 PM UTC
  • More Time Needed in Massive BitTorrent Lawsuit Campaign*
    More Time Needed in Massive BitTorrent Lawsuit Campaign
    On March 18, 2010, the US Copyright Group filed a copyright complaint against 4,577 unnamed defendants. These alleged file-sharers were suspected of...
    Wed, 21 Jul 2010 5:50 AM UTC

P2P Blog

  • Porn stars turn to YouTube to stop P2P piracy
    Porn stars turn to YouTube to stop P2P piracy
    The adult industry's Free Speach Coalition has produced a PSA that sorta looks like the MPAA's anti-piracy commercials used to look like some...
    Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:22 AM UTC
  • 25 percent think its okay to share music, movies and software
    25 percent think its okay to share music, movies and software
    Those Germans: 25 percent of all krauts believe its okay to download unlicensed copies of music, movies or software, according to a new survey...
    Tue, 27 Apr 2010 6:22 PM UTC
  • Get your Leechpack invites here
    Get your Leechpack invites here
    Remember Leechpack, the cloud downloading service that makes it possible to download files via Bittorrent, Rapidshare, Megaupload and a number of...
    Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:40 PM UTC

Electronic Frontier Foundation

FileShareFreak

  • The World of 'Warez Networks' Explained
    The World of 'Warez Networks' Explained
    We’ve written plenty of posts on warez forums and release blogs here at FSF, but one aspect to direct download links we’ve neglected to...
    Mon, 26 Jul 2010 4:35 PM UTC
  • Torrent Forums Merge: Tracker-Invites.us Allies With TrackeReactor
    Torrent Forums Merge: Tracker-Invites.us Allies With TrackeReactor
    Big news from the filesharing subculture of torrent invite forums, Tracker-Invites.us has formed an alliance with TrackeReactor.com. Due to the...
    Wed, 21 Jul 2010 6:40 PM UTC
  • TorrentInvite - Tracker Forum Now Open for Registration
    TorrentInvite - Tracker Forum Now Open for Registration
    If memory serves correct, it’s been ages since TorrentInvite.com publicly announced an open registration to acquire new members for an extended...
    Sat, 17 Jul 2010 5:14 PM UTC
  • RapidShare Links Vanish on Blogs, Warez Forums*
    RapidShare Links Vanish on Blogs, Warez Forums
    Who says piracy doesn’t pay? Try telling that to professional uploaders on warez forums and release blogs who are now boycotting RapidShare en...
    Sun, 11 Jul 2010 2:25 AM UTC
  • 20 New Private Trackers: July 2010 Edition
    20 New Private Trackers: July 2010 Edition
    These monthly editions of ‘new tracker’ articles take a considerable amount of effort to write, let alone research. Not that FSF has a...
    Tue, 6 Jul 2010 5:42 PM UTC

Ars Technica

AfterDawn

  • Android app developer denies stealing user info
    Android app developer denies stealing user info
    http://i.afterdawn.c...2010.jpgEarlier this week a company called Lookout showed how several Android wallpaper apps were accessing user information,...
    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 9:14 PM UTC
  • Samsung to introduce Android tablet this quarter
    Samsung to introduce Android tablet this quarter
    http://i.afterdawn.c...sung-0-logo.jpgSamsung has said it will introduce a tablet this quarter running Google's Android operating system, joining...
    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 7:46 PM UTC
  • Alternative iPhone app store, OpenAppMkt, opens for business
    Alternative iPhone app store, OpenAppMkt, opens for business
    http://i.afterdawn.c...pmkt-logo4.pngA web based alternative to the iPhone app store called OpenAppMkt opened today. Instead of native iOS apps, it...
    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 7:15 PM UTC
  • RIM to reveal BlackPad tablet in November?
    RIM to reveal BlackPad tablet in November?
    http://i.afterdawn.c...go.gifAccording to BusinessWeek, RIM is preparing to release its still unconfirmed BlackPad tablet in November.Earlier in the...
    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 7:01 PM UTC
  • Microsoft's tablet future has 'job-one urgency'
    Microsoft's tablet future has 'job-one urgency'
    http://i.afterdawn.c...-logo.gifDuring his company's latest quarterly earnings conference call, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke about the...
    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 6:38 PM UTC

From the blogs

  • The Cost of Piracy | BHBodeezy
    The Cost of Piracy | BHBodeezy
    The Cost of Piracy We speak to authorities on video-game piracy -- including everyone from well-known game hackers to anti-piracy officials -- to...
    Sat, 31 Jul 2010 8:23 PM UTC
  • Our country is strong regulation in the field of new media piracy ...
    Our country is strong regulation in the field of new media piracy ...
    In recent years, according to “crack down on piracy and protecting intellectual property” of the national strategic requirements, our levels of...
    Sat, 31 Jul 2010 8:17 PM UTC
  • Ethics of Online Music File Sharing | eHow.com
    Ethics of Online Music File Sharing | eHow.com
    Already facing lost revenue from the decline of record stores in the 1990s, the music industry decried file sharing as online piracy. Musical groups...
    Sat, 31 Jul 2010 6:03 PM UTC
  • Sony Adds Cinavia DRM Protection in as Automatic PS3 Download ...*
    Sony Adds Cinavia DRM Protection in as Automatic PS3 Download ...
    Recently PS3 has come out with this new update that automatically downloads and installs this program called "Cinavia" which protects...
    Sat, 31 Jul 2010 5:59 AM UTC
  • US-ASEAN Back Piracy Move as Foreign Investors Return | Pattaya ...
    US-ASEAN Back Piracy Move as Foreign Investors Return | Pattaya ...
    The US-ASEAN Business Council is allegedly ready to support the proposed removal of Thailand from Washington's Priority Watch List (PWL) for...
    Sat, 31 Jul 2010 4:35 AM UTC


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