Archive for the 'P2P and Filesharing' Category
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
Yesterday and without warning, US authorities resumed “Operation In Our Sites” seizing several domain names associated with copyright infringement and counterfeiting. Today, yet more domains were added to the growing list. TorrentFreak caught up with one site owner who told us that while they were taken by surprise by a “pointless” seizure, they’ll soon be back.
Source: ICE Seizes More Domains Today, Admin Says “We’ll Be Back”
Posted in Anti-Piracy, DOJ, Hot Off The Press, ICE, P2P and Filesharing, Re1ease.net | Comments Off
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Exactly a week ago, French anti-piracy company Trident Media Guard experienced a security breach after they failed to properly secure their servers. As reports begin to surface that TMG intend to sue the alleged ‘hacker’, the target of their intentions informs TorrentFreak that having backed themselves into a corner, the company will not take legal action against him.
Source: Anti-Piracy Outfit Will Not Sue Hadopi ‘Hacker’
Posted in Anti-Piracy, Bluetouff, CNIL, Hot Off The Press, P2P and Filesharing, TMG | Comments Off
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Fetch.io is a brand new all-round media storage service that allows users to download torrents to a remote server at blazing speeds. When finished the files can be shared with friends or streamed online. In addition to BitTorrent, it also supports fetching files from RapidShare, Megaupload, Hotfile and other cyberlockers. As part of a beta test Fetch.io currently offers 20GB of storage and 40GB of bandwidth completely free.
Source: Download, Stream and Share Torrents With Fetch.io
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
A new Internet traffic trends report released by the Canadian broadband management company Sandvine reveals that BitTorrent traffic is on the rise globally. More than half of all upstream traffic during peak hours in North America and Europe now comes from BitTorrent. The report further signals that the shutdown of LimeWire killed traffic generated by the Gnutella P2P network.
Source: BitTorrent Traffic Surges After LimeWire Shutdown
Posted in BitTorrent, P2P and Filesharing, sandvine | Comments Off
Monday, May 16th, 2011
An American science fiction writer is trying to get his hard-copy out-of-print books online and to that end he’s actually using illicit sources to build his stock of eBooks. However, he thinks that some of his books are so obscure that pirates have overlooked them, and he’s offering a prize to anyone that can provide them. TorrentFreak has found one, anyone up for the rest of the challenge?
Source: File-Sharing Call to Arms: Sci-Fi Writer Needs Pirate Books
Posted in P2P and Filesharing, Walter Jon Williams | Comments Off
Saturday, May 14th, 2011
When it comes to using physical force to resolve conflicts, there are few who do that better than the elite fighters of the SAS, the British Special Air Service. But an ex-SAS soldier, who has successfully exchanged his gun and explosives for pen and paper, believes the solution to book piracy lies not in head on conflict, but the art of persuasion.
Source: Ex-SAS Soldier Avoids Conflict in Book Piracy Battle
Posted in e-books, P2P and Filesharing, Piracy | Comments Off
Monday, May 9th, 2011
One of the UK’s largest ISPs has today launched a new set of network-level security features aimed at protecting subscribers’ children and their computers. While reports of HomeSafe’s ability to block access to viruses, pornography and violent content has been widespread today, it also has another trick up its sleeve – the blocking of BitTorrent and other file-sharing sites.
Source: TalkTalk HomeSafe Blocks BitTorrent Sites
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Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Homeland Security’s ICE unit is not happy with a Firefox add-on that allows the public to circumvent the domains seizures carried out during the past several months. In an attempt to correct this ‘vulnerability’ in their anti-piracy strategy, ICE have asked Mozilla to pull the add-on from their site. Unfortunately for them Mozilla denied the request, arguing that this type of censorship may threaten the open Internet.
Source: Homeland Security Wants Mozilla to Pull “Domain Seizure” Add-On
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Sunday, April 17th, 2011
In recent years the file-sharing world has become more diverse than ever before. Torrents, streaming and cyberlockers have all entered the mainstream with millions of users. Tube+ is a newly launched website that brings most of these sharing platforms together. Backed by The Pirate Bay, there is little doubt that this file-sharing platform will not only pique the interest of many Internet users, but that of Hollywood too.
Source: The Pirate Bay Plugs Hybrid File-Sharing Platform
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Sunday, April 17th, 2011
In recent years the file-sharing world has become more diverse than ever before. Torrents, streaming and cyberlockers have all entered the mainstream with millions of users. Tube+ is a newly launched website that brings most of these sharing platforms together. Backed by The Pirate Bay, there is little doubt that this file-sharing platform will not only pique the interest of many Internet users, but that of Hollywood too.
Source: The Pirate Bay Plugs Hybrid File-Sharing Platform
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