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RIAA Anti-Piracy Partner Clueless About BitTorrent
torrentfreak.com - 28 days ago
RIAA Anti-Piracy Partner Clueless About BitTorrent
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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 ...
uTorrent 2.0 To Elimininate The Need For ISP Throttling
torrentfreak.com - 25 days ago
uTorrent 2.0 To Elimininate The Need For ISP Throttling
— torrentfreak.com — 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 ... (more) uTorrent 2.0 To Elimininate The Need For ISP Throttling

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Court Orders The Pirate Bay To Delete Torrents
torrentfreak.com - 10/23/2009
Court Orders The Pirate Bay To Delete Torrents
— torrentfreak.com — In an attempt to ensure that Dutch citizens can’t access The Pirate Bay, BREIN took three of... the tracker’s founders to court. The anti-piracy outfit won the case and Fredrik, Gottfrid and Peter were ordered to block Dutch users, a decision they ... (more) Court Orders The Pirate Bay To Delete Torrents

Comments vote down Mashable! found this 10/23/2009found this
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 28 days ago
Seeing how they run from the Pirate Bay
— latimesblogs.latimes.com — 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 ... (more) Seeing how they run from the Pirate Bay

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Techdirt:  RIAA's Main Anti-Piracy Partner Appears Clueless About BitTorrent

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RIAA's Main Anti-Piracy Partner Appears Clueless About BitTorrent
Techdirt — ... . The problem? The report appears to be based on a nearly comical misunderstanding of how BitTorrent works. TorrentFreak details numerous basic mistakes in the report, nearly all of which suggest the claims made by DtecNet have little, if anything, to do with reality. Considering that DtecNet is going to be leading the charge for the RIAA in any future lawsuits and various "three strikes" plans, the fact that it doesn't seem to understand how BitTorrent works suggests problems ahead. ...

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