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Earlier this year, TorrentFreak reported on computer science student, Juan Jose Carrasco Colonel. The 26 year-old resident of Bonar, Spain, ran two eD2K file-sharing link sites known as Elitelmula and Etmusica. Both were closed some months ago after action by music and anti-piracy group SGAE ...
Other
The rookie BitTorrent indexer KickAssTorrents has been growing steadily since early 2009, but in the last few weeks the site has seen a surge in daily visitor numbers thanks to the BitTorrent client, Vuze .
Unlike most other BitTorrent applications, Vuze has a search feature that returns ...
Online
BitTorrent
In file-sharing terms, Spain currently has among the most relaxed laws of leading European countries. The country is believed to have some of the highest rates of online sharing of music and movies and currently it is perfectly legal, providing no money is made directly from infringement, to ...
Mobile
By allowing its users to access millions of songs for free, the music streaming Spotify has revolutionized the music industry by handing them a potential competitor to illegal downloading.
Unfortunately, the labels themselves are not as enthusiastic as most users are, as they doubt the ...
Online
This week there are four newcomers in the top 10 including ‘Gamer,’ which ended up as the second most downloaded movie on BitTorrent this week.
The data for our weekly download chart is collected by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the ...
Online
BitTorrent
Last week, details finally emerged concerning the Digital Economy Bill. In a nutshell, the bill aims to turn elements of Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report into law.
Internet users will face being monitored by the music and movie industries, and their ISPs forced to pass on ...
Software
Bill Gates
Sponsored by Novell, openSUSE is a free and Open Source operating system, based on Linux. Following in the footsteps of Ubuntu, OpenSUSE recently decided to include Transmission as the default BitTorrent client.
However, the addition of Transmission to openSUSE was not straightforward. Since ...
Online
BitTorrent
Linux
In August, Swedish artist and composer Magnus Uggla launched a scathing attack on the owners of Spotify . After discovering that Sony BMG is a shareholder and receiving virtually no cash from his music being played there, he withdrew his tracks from the service and stormed away, declaring ...
Hardware
The Pirate Bay’s recent confirmation that they had closed down their tracker since DHT and Peer Exchange have matured enough to take over, was coupled with the news that they had added Magnet links to the site. This news has achieved its aim of stimulating discussion, but has also ...
Online
BitTorrent
The Pirate Bay
Today Lord Mandelson will present the Digital Economy Bill which will include measures aimed at reducing illicit file-sharing. Yesterday parts of the bill leaked out , revealing that the legislation could lead to jail terms for file-sharers and unprecedented powers handed to private ...
Software
Bill Gates
Over the past months the UK government has tried to tackle the issue of online piracy. This has resulted in a proposal from Lord Mandelson, who plans to disconnect alleged file sharers without any judicial process.
Tomorrow the exact text of the bill is expected to be made public, but ...
Other
The trial continues in the copyright infringement case of AFACT – representing several Hollywood studios – and Aussie ISP iiNet (multiple links to all our earlier coverage can be found here , here , here and here )
The case progressed in the Federal Court today, with iiNet barrister Richard ...
Online
BitTorrent
Mininova , founded in January 2005, grew out to become one of the most successful torrent sites with millions of daily users.
The site has grown steadily over the years and continues to do so, despite a setback in court this summer. In fact, today the 10 billionth torrent file was downloaded ...
Online
After the news broke that The Pirate Bay owners would sell the site to Global Gaming Factory, an independent tracker OpenBitTorrent (OBT) was launched. Due to its public nature, OBT was seen by some as a possible replacement for The Pirate Bay tracker.
Even though the sale never went through, ...
Online
The Pirate Bay
BitTorrent
On Monday, we reported that after noticing the iconic Pirate Bay logo had no commercial protection, a Swedish company took the first steps towards hijacking it for their own.
“The idea is to sell USB drives using this brand,” said Sandryds Handel spokesman Bengt Wessborg.
“We saw that it ...
Online
The Pirate Bay
Public torrent have their critics, who mostly comment that they’re slow, unverified or unreliable. Only the latter is down to the tracker itself – the others are down to peers and sites.
Often public or open trackers are heavily loaded and operated on a shoestring budget, either ...
Online
BitTorrent
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In the fall of 2003, a group of
friends from Sweden decided to launch a BitTorrent tracker
named ‘ The Pirate Bay ’. It soon became one of the largest BitTorrent trackers on the Internet, coordinating the downloads of more than 25 million peers at its height. Despite this success, The Pirate ...
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There is a great divide between artists on how music piracy should be addressed. On the one hand there are the Lily Allens who believe that tough anti-piracy legislation will increase their profits, while others including Radiohead and Moby think that the RIAA and other lobbyists should stay ...
Online
RIAA
This week there are three newcomers in the top 10 including ‘Funny People,’ is the most downloaded movie on BitTorrent this week.
The data for our weekly download chart is collected by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the ...
Online
BitTorrent
The Internet has many great and well-known trademarks. There can hardly be a web user anywhere in the world who has never seen the red, yellow, blue and green of Google’s logo, and millions every day skip past the same-colored staggered lettering of auction site, eBay. Those very same ...
