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Resident Evil Degeneration: BitTorrent Blockbuster
torrentfreak.com - 12/12/2008
Resident Evil Degeneration: BitTorrent Blockbuster
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‘Resident Evil: Degeneration’ is the first CG animation film inspired by the popular video game. Although it skips most US theaters and is scheduled to be released on DVD no sooner than late December, it has been downloaded on BitTorrent close to a million times already - in just ...
Top 10 Most Pirated Games of 2008
torrentfreak.com - 12/6/2008
Top 10 Most Pirated Games of 2008
— torrentfreak.com — As 2008 is slowly moving toward its end, we start taking a look at the most pirated... titles in various categories. First up are games. As expected, Spore is by far the most downloaded game on BitTorrent, in part thanks to the DRM that came with the ... (more) Top 10 Most Pirated Games of 2008

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techcrunch.com - 12/15/2008
Bad Times For BitTorrent: $17 M Financing Undone, Valuation Plummets
— techcrunch.com — File sharing service BitTorrent has undone its $17 million financing from earlier this year, we’ve learned from... an investor in the company, and that money (or what’s left of it) has been returned to investors DCM , Accel Partners and DAG ... (more) Bad Times For BitTorrent: $17 M Financing Undone, ...

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Virgin Media to dump neutrality and target BitTorrent users • The Register
theregister.co.uk - 12/16/2008
Virgin Media to dump neutrality and target BitTorrent users • The Register
— theregister.co.uk — Exclusive The UK's second largest ISP, Virgin Media, will next year introduce network monitoring technology to specifically... target and restrict BitTorrent traffic, its boss has told The Register . The move will represent a major policy shift for the ... (more) Virgin Media to dump neutrality and target BitTorrent ...

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NewTeeVee — ... Over at TorrentFreak’s list of Most BitTorrented Movies, Resident Evil: Degeneration was No. 1 with a bullet. The CG film inspired by the video game won’t even be shown in U.S. theaters, but it has racked up more than a million downloads. New is the name of the game on the list this week as Degeneration was joined by fellow first-timers Open Season 2, Wild Child and Eagle Eye. ...

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