Archive for the 'Hot Off The Press' Category
Friday, April 29th, 2011
When trying to obtain elusive evidence to help formulate a legal strategy, most organizations tend to go through the court system. IFPI, the international music industry group, has just done it rather differently. When they needed a torrent site’s data recently they just called up their host, implied they might sue and then simply picked up the hard drives. Case in point, the Internet’s 10th biggest torrent site, LimeTorrents.
Source: IFPI Seizes Control of LimeTorrents Hard Drives
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Thursday, April 28th, 2011
Lithuania’s most popular torrent tracker Linkomanija has endured its fair share of copyright related troubles in the past, such as the multi-million dollar lawsuit launched by Microsoft last year. Nevertheless, there are also copyright holders with a more positive view towards the tracker. Today the local movie studio Iron Cat chose the site to become the official distributor of an upcoming movie.
Source: BitTorrent Tracker Becomes Official Movie Distributor
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Thursday, April 28th, 2011
In 2010, Russian authorities seized the domain of the country’s biggest BitTorrent tracker, Torrents.ru, in copyright related action. Now, just over a year later, police have swooped on its sister site, Pornolab – Russia’s biggest porn tracker – and seized its servers. With the recent demise of two other huge adult trackers, it’s possible that Pornolab was the largest adult torrent site in the world.
Source: Police Raid Russia’s Largest Porn BitTorrent Site
Posted in DEMONOID, Hot Off The Press, Legal Issues, Pornolab, rutracker, Torrents.ru | Comments Off
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Tomorrow a week will have passed since Sony took its Playstation Network completely offline. The company has given only the most token of updates in that time and in the meanwhile the rumor mill has been churning. However, new information has surfaced which points to Sony’s action being prompted by an unprecedented piracy threat.
Source: Playstation Network Shut Down To End Piracy Free-For-All
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
After similar action against The Pirate Bay, an Italian court has today ordered all ISPs to block subscriber access to another major BitTorrent site, BTjunkie. The public prosecutor described BTJunkie as one of the most prominent havens for pirated media and the authorities further blame the BitTorrent site for the failure of the Italian pay-per-view TV-station Dahlia TV, which shut down due to financial problems last month.
Source: Italian Court Orders All ISPs to Block BTjunkie
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Monday, April 18th, 2011
The Pirate Bay has just launched a new survey in collaboration with the Cybernorms research group at Sweden’s Lund University. As part of a sociology study they hope to find out more about the motivations people have to share files, with the ultimate goal of influencing and shaping more sensible laws regarding copyright issues and the Internet in general.
Source: The Pirate Bay Joins Academic “Cybernorms” Research Group
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Monday, April 18th, 2011
The Pirate Bay has just launched a new survey in collaboration with the Cybernorms research group at Sweden’s Lund University. As part of a sociology study they hope to find out more about the motivations people have to share files, with the ultimate goal of influencing and shaping more sensible laws regarding copyright issues and the Internet in general.
Source: The Pirate Bay Joins Academic “Cybernorms” Research Group
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Saturday, April 16th, 2011
Just two weeks ago, Hobo With a Shotgun was a relatively unknown Grindhouse-style movie but within a matter of days was riding high on BitTorrent networks and even broke into The Pirate Bay’s Top 10. Now it’s blasted into the iMDb’s weekly chart at No.9 – that’s up from No.252 in just a week.
Source: Pirate Blockbuster Hobo With a Shotgun Blasts Into iMDb Top 10
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Saturday, April 16th, 2011
Just two weeks ago, Hobo With a Shotgun was a relatively unknown Grindhouse-style movie but within a matter of days was riding high on BitTorrent networks and even broke into The Pirate Bay’s Top 10. Now it’s blasted into the iMDb’s weekly chart at No.9 – that’s up from No.252 in just a week.
Source: Pirate Blockbuster Hobo With a Shotgun Blasts Into iMDb Top 10
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
During March, Sumerian Records boss Ash Avildsen made the news on a couple of piracy-related occasions. First, he orchestrated a hoax to trick BitTorrent users into downloading a fake band promo, then later got serious with a YouTube broadside against music piracy. As Sumerian gets ready to launch their own music store, TorrentFreak has discovered that they have Long John Silver’s skeleton in the closet.
Source: Record Label Boss Is a Former Notorious Warez Scene Pirate
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