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Millions of File-Sharers Hide Their Identities Online

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:53:36 +0000

As pressure from anti-piracy outfits on governments to implement strict anti-piracy laws increases, millions of file-sharers have decided to protect their privacy by going anonymous. In Sweden alone an estimated 500,000 Internet subscribers are hiding their identities. Many more say they will ...

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Seeing how they run from the Pirate Bay

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:57:25 +0000

Just how big is the Pirate Bay among illegal downloaders? A new report by DtecNet , a Beverly Hills-based firm that tracks online piracy, found that transfers via the Bit Torrent protocol -- the most popular file-sharing application -- fell nearly 80% after TPB's Swedish Internet service ...

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RIAA Anti-Piracy Partner Clueless About BitTorrent

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:38:41 +0000

In January we introduced DtecNet as the RIAA’s new evidence collecting outfit, replacing MediaSentry whose evidence gathering techniques have been highly criticized by experts. The Danish company is not limiting its services to the RIAA though. It is also working with an Irish ISP to ...

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Pirate Bay Founders Found Guilty: One Year Jail Sentence, Likely To Appeal

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:05:10 +0000

A Swedish court has found the four men behind the infamous Swedish BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay guilty of assisting copyright infringement. Each has been sentenced to one year in jail. Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and millionaire donor Carl Lundström ...

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Pirate Bay Founders Banned From Running The Site

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:43:00 +0000

In August the bandwidth supplier to The Pirate Bay was ordered by a court to disconnect the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker from the Internet. Within hours the site had relocated to a new host, which immediately received similar threats. After periods of downtime, the Pirate Bay eventually ...

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Google opens OneBox music service

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:53:27 +0000

Search giant Google has entered the online music market with a new service for finding and buying music online. OneBox is an alliance with music sites Lala and MySpace-owned iLike. The US-only service allows people to search using song titles, artists or using snippets of lyrics and will also ...

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TaffyBox Combines BitTorrent Search And Web Download

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:28:17 +0000

An email announcing TaffyBox hit our inbox this morning. It’s yet-another-BitTorrent service, but there’s a hook that makes it a really nice choice for the casual BitTorrent user – easy search combined with a Java applet BitTorrent client for downloading. There are other ...

TorrentFreak found this 11 days ago on techcrunch.com

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uTorrent 2.0 To Elimininate The Need For ISP Throttling

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000

ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years already. Although the true reasons for this are not always clear, some ISPs have argued that a high number of BitTorrent connections are slowing down other applications and traffic. In early 2007, when network neutrality was still a ...

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