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It's been a sliver under a month since UK ISP British Telecom was ordered to cut all ties to filesharing site Newzbin 2. Now, a European court decision deals a counter blow to media owners by denying their demands to hustle ISPs into tracking freeloading downloaders. Specifically, the court held that it was illegal to force an ISP to install and maintain a system filtering all of its traffic as it could infringe customer privacy rights. While the decision will prove unpopular in big-wig boardrooms, joe public will no doubt be pleased with the court's upholding of both net neutrality, and of course not having to shred quite as many strongly worded letters from his or her ISP.It's been a sliver under a month since UK ISP British Telecom was ordered to cut... more
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https://www.iardc.org/newrules2010.htm
The op-ed is being written due to multiple requests for ideas about what to include in ethics complaints against Mr. Steele. This list will be updated as frequently as is necessary to produce the most accurate list possible:
Preserving Integrity of Adjudicative Process
[12] Lawyers have a special obligation to protect a tribunal against criminal or fraudulent conduct that undermines the integrity of the adjudicative process, such as bribing, intimidating or otherwise unlawfully communicating with a witness, juror, court official or other participant in the proceeding
------Mr. Steele's firm has been using Mark Lutz to contact individuals in hopes that he will be able to threaten people into settling.
RULE 1.2: SCOPE OF REPRESENTATION AND ALLOCATION OF AUTHORITY BETWEEN CLIENT AND LAWYER
[10] The lawyer is required to avoid assisting the client, for example, by drafting or delivering documents that the lawyer knows are fraudulent
-----Mr. Steele's firm has sent out settlement letters with dates 4-5 years off and decietful statements that claim his firm has been unable to get in touch with certain individuals.
RULE 1.3: DILIGENCE
A lawyer shall act with reasonable diligence and promptness in representing a client.
[2] A lawyer's work load must be controlled so that each matter can be handled competently.
-----Mr. Steele appears to have started to lose track of some of his interactions with John Does, which means his work load is becoming unmanageable
RULE 1.7: CONFLICT OF INTEREST: CURRENT CLIENTS
Personal Interest Conflicts
[10] The lawyer's own interests should not be permitted to have an adverse effect on representation of a client. If the probity of a lawyer's own conduct in a transaction is in serious question, it may be difficult or impossible for the lawyer to give a client detached advice.
-----Mr. Steele paid for the creation of the software his firm uses to track Bittorrent traffic and he also pays the salary of the individuals who produce his evidence. Mr. Steele has a financial interest in his software producing guilty verdicts which means that he can not claim to be able to absolutely represent the interests of his client(assuming his client is interested in justice rather than merely blackmailing people out of money)
Identifying Conflicts of Interest: Material Limitation
[8] Even where there is no direct adverseness, a conflict of interest exists if there is a significant risk that a lawyer's ability to consider, recommend or carry out an appropriate course of action for the client will be materially limited as a result of the lawyer's other responsibilities or interests.
----Mr. Steele's need for his software to be effective/accurate results in a conflict of interest that inhibits his ability to consider the possibility that further investigation is necessary to determine whether or not the accused is guilty.
Nonlitigation Conflicts
[7]. Relevant factors in determining whether there is significant potential for material limitation include the functions being performed by the lawyer, the likelihood that disagreements will arise and the likely prejudice to the client from the conflict.
-------Mr. Steele is attempting to function as an evidence gatherer and prosecutor. His behavior will inevitably result in prejudice to his client
RULE 3.2: EXPEDITING LITIGATION
A lawyer shall make reasonable efforts to expedite litigation consistent with the interests of the client.
[1] Dilatory practices bring the administration of justice into disrepute. Nor will a failure to expedite be reasonable if done for the purpose of frustrating an opposing party’s attempt to obtain rightful redress or repose. It is not a justification that similar conduct is often tolerated by the bench and bar. The question is whether a competent lawyer acting in good faith would regard the course of action as having some substantial purpose other than delay. Realizing financial or other benefit from otherwise improper delay in litigation is not a legitimate interest of the client.
-----Mr. Steele's firm has made repeated attempts to delay the legal process in hopes of leaving defendants in limbo so that his firm will have additional time to extract settlements
RULE 3.4 Fairness to Opposing Party and Counsel
(a) A lawyer shall not:
(1) (a) unlawfully obstruct another party's access to evidence or unlawfully alter
(d) in pretrial procedure, make a frivolous discovery request or fail to make reasonably diligent effort to comply with a legally proper discovery request by an opposing party;
-------Unfortunately, Mr. Steele's firm is managing to exploit a legal loophole which allows them to conceal evidence during the pre-settlement period. If his firm was filing an actual lawsuit, it would be required to show the evidence to the accused before demanding a settlement. This is the by product of the same corrupt legal system that allowed the corrupt(imo) Judge Howell to rule on copyright cases despite her well known ties to the RIAA
RULE 4.1 Truthfulness in Statements to Others
In the course of representing a client a lawyer shall not knowingly:
(a) make a false statement of material fact or law to a third person
-----The letters that include inaccurate dates and false statements about contacting individuals=blatant lies
RULE 4.3 Dealing With Unrepresented Person
The lawyer shall not give legal advice to an unrepresented person, other than the advice to secure counsel, if the lawyer knows or reasonably should know that the interests of such a person are or have a reasonable possibility of being in conflict with the interests of the client.
----I personally consider calling someone up and telling them that if they don't settle they will have to spend a lot more money and spend a ton of time in court to be the equivalent of providing legal advice. Advice which would be in violation of this rule
RULE 5.5 Unauthorized Practice of Law;Multijurisdictional Practice of Law
(a) A lawyer shall not:
(a) practice law in a jurisdiction in violation of the regulation of the legal profession in that jurisdiction;, or
(b) assist a another in doing so.
--------Assuming the aforementioned issues can be validated, then Mr. Steele's employment of Brett Gibbs in California would violate this rule
RULE 7.3: DIRECT CONTACT WITH PROSPECTIVE CLIENTS
(a) A lawyer shall not by in‑person, live telephone or real-time electronic contact solicit professional employment from a prospective client when a significant motive for the lawyer's doing so is the lawyer's pecuniary gain, unless the person contacted:
(1) is a lawyer; or
(2) has a family, close personal, or prior professional relationship with the lawyer.
---------There have been multiple reports that Mr. Steele has shown up to porn conventions in order to try to drum up new clients. He workshttps://www.iardc.org/newrules2010.htm
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(No pic from the web because John would probably try to find the copyright owner and sue me)
The article discusses the porn copyright lawsuits that are being filed by John Steele of wefightpiracy .com Steele | Hansmeier PLLC. Mr. Steele is best known for his 1-800-DIVORCE ads and family law firm in Chicago. What I find interesting about the article is how it mentions that Steele and his partner spent $250,000 developing software to track illegal Bittorrent activity. He also assures people in the article that his software appears to be flawless as it has never had a false positive so far. I guess that this is just the digital age, but I find it strange how an attorney is being allowed to sue people based on data coming from software that he needs to work so he can get a return on his investment. Seems like a conflict of interest. Or rather, a blatant violation of due process. Mr. Steele does not charge for his services, which means he needs the software he paid to make to consistently produce evidence that will result in a payday. The accuracy of the evidence is irrelevant, since he and his employees maintain exclusive control over it.
The "evidence" he sends to people is a printout which lists one's IP address and ISP. The same evidence is what was placed into a spreadsheet and submitted to ISPs to get the mailing addresses of subscribers. One's IP address and ISP name is publicly available information, so the evidence he submitted is half verifiable and half potentially made up. I contacted him and requested the name of his software and explanation of how it works. He said he is not required to prove anything to anyone. I have a feeling he is using proprietary software so he can try to toss out trade secret arguments in hopes of avoiding an investigation into his spreadsheet producing software.
An IP address can be manipulated and/or hijacked but he does not want to explain whether or not his software takes that into consideration. Alot of bad software can end up on a person's computer when searching the web, especially free porn sites. So what we have is a guy using his custom unproven software to sue people for $3,000 or more dollars for allegedly downloading a single porn film. I'm not sure how he justifies that price, especially since a person could sign up for pay sites that offer full access to 1000s of videos for usually about $1 per day. I realize that porn studios are struggling, but suing people for choosing to watch your video over the plethora of free porn on the internet is no way to attract customers. If someone rips an entire site, that could justify the fine. However, if a person happens to come across one of your films, watches it, and then decides that the chance to get hundreds more videos just like it for $20 a month....you have a new customer. A ten second clip will never win a person over. (You might be losing members, but that is probably because a lot of people are struggling and a porn membership simply is not as important as the electric bill or food or water or rent.) Or, you can go with John Steele who can generate a list of IP addresses who he can demand thousands of dollars from. He said his software has never been wrong. Trust him, he's a lawyer
http://www.koreaherald.com/lifestyle/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20101124000596
An individual disputing Mr. Steele's claim that his software has never had a false positive.(The use of flawless in the title should not be considered a direct quote.). He/she states that his mother is being falsely accused. In the above article, Mr. Steele even tries to joke about the possibility of a false positive: "“All you have to do is sue a priest who’s never owned a computer and this is a major PR problem,” he said. (the link to the article is directly above this so don't try to sue me John):
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/es6uw/my_mom_got_a_letter_from_an_attorney_today_about/
I would think that if the reddit article information is accurate, then threatening someone into paying you $3000 in order to make "evidence" from software you claim is flawless in terms of producing the desired result(guilty every time....I mean it always catches actual criminals[sarcasm in case someone needs clarification])(why pay $250k for it if it wasn't? You would lose money that way) disappear would mean you are committing blackmail. Of course, lawyers have their own rules sometimes.....
(One last important point I forgot to point out:
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Steele said the porn industry is trying to avoid the highly publicized mistakes the music industry trade group, the Recording Industry Association of America, known as RIAA, made in its fight against piracy. Among other things, he said his firm’s software has so far had no “false positives” like those that gave the recording industry black eyes."[In my opinion, what he probably really means is that everyone has cracked under his threats so far.]
-from the fully cited KoreaHerald article
Take note of the fact that the article states that the RIAA's methods utilized for searching for pirates occasionally resulted in false accusations. The RIAA spent $58 million going after pirates and only made 2% back(http://gizmodo.com/#!5587306/the-riaa-spent-58-million-suing-file-sharers-got-2-back)
Mr. Steele and his partner spent about $250k in developing the software that is the basis for their evidence. They must have quite the programming team to be able to make flawless software for .004% of the cost of the RIAA's lengthy campaign)
I should point out that Mr. Steele's settlement letters tend to start out with "our agents noticed illegal activity on an IP address associated with you(not exact quote since there might be a copyright on the letter)." Our agents is the equivalent of saying our employees. People he pays to find evidence for him, have apparently never made a mistake so far. Mr. Steele even includes an assumption of guilt towards the bottom: "While it is too late to undo the illegal file sharing associated with your IP address, we have prepared an offer to enable our client to allow both parties to avoid the expense of a lawsuit."
Basically, we have a lawyer who is saying you are guilty because my employees say you are, so pay me or else
In the comment section below are some links and information about the tactics of Mr. Steele and other attorneys engaged in mass letter "blackmail" campaigns. Before anyone decides to settle, I recommend reading some of it. Unfortunately, there are lawyers looking for a quick pay day on both sides of many cases so informing oneself is often times the best route. The courts seem to be protecting Mr. Steele and his extremely questionable methods, so I sincerely suggest requesting a jury trial if you have the means. Despite Mr. Steele's client demanding one in one of his complaints, Mr. Steele would have quite the uphill battle arguing any of these cases based on merit
Lastly, it is worth mentioning that Mr. Steele files the exact same complaint every time. I just reviewed Lightspeed Media Corporation v. Does and the wording and formatting is identical to Hard Drive Productions v. Does. He uses a form settlement letter and a form complaint, and then tries to pretend like he isn't just fishing for cas h
NOTE1: Anyone can PM me anytime if you would like some suggestions as to how to address issues with Mr. Steele.
NOTE2: New John Steele address:
Prenda Law Inc.------------Prenda Law of Chicago---Steele Law(John's divorce firm)
1111 Lincoln Rd----------- 161 N Clark St.-------------161 N Clark St.
Suite 400---------------------Suite 3200------------------Suite 3200
Miami Beach-----------------Chicago-----------------------Chicago
33139-------------------------60601-------------------------60601
Phone: 305-748-2102-----Ph.:312-880-9160-----------Ph.:312-893-5888(No pic from the web because John would probably try to find the copyright owner and... more
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Florence And The Machine are signed by Universal
From today two of the UK's biggest music labels are releasing singles for sale as soon as they are played on the radio. In a move to tackle the problem of piracy Universal and Sony Music will start their "On Air, On Sale" policy.Usually songs are played on radio and TV to drum up hype and interest for up to six weeks before they are released for sale. But this practice has gradually become redundant as wen impatient music lovers now go online to listen instantly to new music and often (ehem) illegally download the songs.With this new policy, the record companies hope that fans will be encouraged to buy the song rather than get a pirated copy as they can get hold of a good quality track straight away.This move follows the success of the X factor in selling the winner's single immediately after the final.Universal Music UK Chairman David Joseph said that the changes are being made because "We live in an immediate world."In his statement he said:"On Air, On Sale is good news for any music fan and exciting for our artists who can now go into the studio knowing they don't have to wait weeks or sometimes months to see the music they have created go on sale."
Florence And The Machine are signed by Universal
From today two of the UK's... more
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The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), with the cooperation of Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN, has quietly shuttered 12 torrent websites in the U.S. and at least 39 sites abroad by filing copyright violation complaints with the sites’ hosting providers.
The names of the sites themselves remain unknown; so far, however, the major players seem to be unaffected.
The specific URLs are not being released because frequently the affected sites will spring up elsewhere online under a different TLD (e.g., TorrentMovies.com becomes TorrentMovies.info). Releasing the names of the sites would make it much easier for users to find their new URLs in the future.
This news, while interesting and concerning, is a far cry from the 70-plus sites shut down by the Department of Homeland Security last November, the culmination of a brewing crackdown effort.
Some torrent and file-sharing sites, including RapidShare, have even taken to hiring lobbyists of their own. A company spokesperson told Mashable recently, “Given the fact that the U.S. government is currently undertaking great efforts to fight copyright infringements on the Internet, our having a voice in Washington could be beneficial for us as well as for the U.S. government.”
According to TorrentFreak, BREIN “has (temporarily) disabled more than 1,000 torrent sites in The Netherlands, and they are now helping the MPAA towards doing the same in the U.S.”
In a BREIN release, the organization stated that it helped the MPAA take down around 29 sites last year; and earlier this month, it shut down 39 sites in the Netherlands for the MPAA, as well.
BREIN also conducts these anti-piracy “stings” in 11 other countries, including Germany, France, Britain and Canada. Its director, Tim Kuik, said in the statement (via Google Translate), “There will be new sites, but we take them down fast so they cannot grow.”
http://mashable.com/2011/01/27/mpaa-shuts-down-50-torrent-sites-in-global-sting/The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), with the cooperation of Dutch... more
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Google’s war against torrents is being kept quiet. No announcements. No press releases. You will only find the story in blogs that are carefully watching.
In essence, Google is removing keywords from their Suggest and Instant results so that they are no longer recommended when people start typing them. If you continue all the way through on a term such as “BitTorrent,” Google will offer the results. Reluctantly. They won’t help you out at all, even if you type all the way to the “n.” Try typing in “BitTorren” without the last “t” into Google.
Apparently, they have no idea what you’re talking about.
It’s their search and they’ve made their choice. The funny part is that something as relatively harmless as downloading torrents is considered taboo on Google, but there are plenty of other more harmful searches that Google is all too willing to recommend…
http://www.techi.com/2011/01/google-censorship/Google’s war against torrents is being kept quiet. No announcements. No press... more
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Three weeks ago the US Government seized 82 domains as part of Operation in Our Sites 2. The authorities claimed that the actions were targeted at websites that were involved in the illegal sale and distribution of counterfeit and copyrighted goods. However, the seizure application that was made public today suggests that the seizure of the BitTorrent meta-search engine Torrent-Finder rested on painful mistakes.
The seizure of 82 domain names by The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was making headlines across the Internet in November. In particular, the seizure of the BitTorrent meta-search engine Torrent-Finder was seen as a particularly controversial move.
Torrent-Finder’s owner Waleed Gadelkareem was genuinely surprised by the actions of the US authorities and said earlier that he is determined to fight the seizure. He suspected that the authorities had made a mistake and hired a lawyer to help him with the legal proceedings.
Torrent-Finder’s lawyer David Snead called the seizure “a stretch of the law,” and today it became apparent just how far the law was stretched by the authorities. The application for the seizure warrant was just sent to us by Torrent-Finder’s owner and on first reading several painful mistakes stand out.
To start off the affidavit shows that the authorities worked closely with the MPAA, and the movie industry lobby group is cited multiple times to confirm various claims. In addition, a highly disputed MPAA study is used to signify the severity of movie piracy, despite the fact that it was called into doubt by the Government Accountability Office just a few months ago.
The general description of Torrent-Finder and the four music linking sites that were included in the affidavit are not completely accurate either. The sites are described by Homeland Security’s Special Agent Reynolds as being among the most popular of their kind, but in the case of Torrent-Finder.com we can easily list a few dozen BitTorrent sites that have more visitors.
> This investigation has identified five linking, cyberlocker or Bit torrent websites that
> are among the most popular such websites on the internet for distributing illegal
> copies of movies, television shows, software and music files.
Aside from the fact that describing the site as one of the most popular of its type is a bit misleading, the core issue is whether Torrent-Finder is indeed a site which use is to distribute illegal copies of movies and music.
To make his case, agent Reynolds characterizes Torrent-Finder as a linking site, which generally “collect and catalog links to files on third party sites that contain illegal copies of copyrighted content, including movies, television shows, software and music.” This description doesn’t really seem to apply to Torrent-Finder.com.
Torrent-Finder does not catalog or collect any files, it simply allows people to search several torrent search engines or indexes. Also, these other torrent search engines do not host any copyrighted material either, but only torrent files that may or may not point to copyrighted content.
Another claim from Homeland Security’s Special Agent Reynolds is that the news section on the site was another indication that Torrent-Finder was aiding criminal copyright infringement. He describes it as follows:
> I was able to view posts by the user “Torrent Finder,” including “Top 10 Most Pirated
> Movies on BitTorrent,” “Piracy in The Music Industry,” “The First Episode of ‘The The
> Walking Dead’ Leaks to BitTorrent,” and “Piracy domain seizure bill gains support.”
This is interesting to say the least, because all these articles from the news section are in fact copies from articles that came from TorrentFreak and other sites. Torrent-Finder used our site as a news source and shared the articles with the users of the site.
> From reviewing these posts by the user “Torrent Finder,” I learned that the above -
> referenced postings contained links and information to pirated movies including
> “Wall Street Never Sleeps,” “The Social Network,” “Red,” and other movies.
This appears to be another painful mistake. Not only have two of the four articles nothing to do with pirated content, the ones that do are news items that do not link to torrent files or any copyrighted files. A screenshot copy of our “Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent” article is nevertheless included as evidence in the affidavit.
Ironically, the “Piracy domain seizure bill gains support” article comes from CNET and covers the COICA law that would grant US authorities the power to seizure domains, in a similar fashion to what they did with Torrent-Finder.
The seizure application then continues to describe how the Torrent-Finder site works, and the “Downloads of Infringing Content via Torrent-Finder.com” is particularly interesting. Here, Special Agent Reynolds described how the site can be used to download torrent files from external sites.
Although the description itself is fairly accurate, the same section would also apply to every other search engine including Google and Bing. Downloading torrents via Torrent-Finder involves exactly the same steps as downloading torrents via a web search engine, nothing more nothing less.
Another part of the affidavit that stands out is the fact that the proposed seizure has not been carried out properly. According to the affidavit, the authorities should present the warrant to both the registrar (Godaddy) and the registry (Verisign). The registrar would then have to replace the domain name’s technical and administrative contacts with that of the authorities, but this never happened.
Although we’re not legal experts, in our opinion there were enough mistakes made in the affidavit to warrant an appeal against the seizure and get the domain transferred back to the original owner. In order to achieve this, Torrent-Finder’s owner is willing to put up a fight.
“My concern now is to get back my domain. Not because I do business with it, but because it was the first domain I bought and the first idea that I developed. It has been mine since then and I WILL NOT give it away because the USA government is testing a new bill,” Waleed said, referring to the COICA bill that would make such domain seizures standard procedure.
In the coming days Waleed and his lawyer will consider what steps to take next, and we expect that this will not be the last time we report on this unique case.Three weeks ago the US Government seized 82 domains as part of Operation in Our Sites... more
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have just confirmed the seizure of 82 domains as part of Operation in Our Sites 2. The authorities claim the actions were targeted at websites that were involved in the illegal sale and distribution of counterfeit and copyrighted goods, but fail to explain why a BitTorrent meta-search engine was included.
http://torrentfreak.com/us-government-responds-to-domain-seizures-ignores-the-big-question-101129/The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have... more
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One of the most interesting leaks of the year has just occurred with the appearance of the first 36 minutes of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 on dozens of BitTorrent sites. The upcoming Harry Potter film will have its worldwide premiere later this week, but not before hundreds and thousands of people have grabbed a copy of an extended preview on BitTorrent.
Gotta love those file sharers...always a few steps ahead
http://torrentfreak.com/latest-harry-potter-film-leaks-on-bittorrent-before-theater-premiere-101116/One of the most interesting leaks of the year has just occurred with the appearance of... more
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Thanks to Google people have all the world’s knowledge at their fingertips. Simply type in a few words and the search engine usually returns hundreds of thousands of related websites – some background info on your favorite musician for example, or the latest blockbuster that just premiered. But, what’s that torrent thing Google keeps suggesting?
http://torrentfreak.com/whats-that-torrent-thing-google-keeps-suggesting-101113/Thanks to Google people have all the world’s knowledge at their fingertips.... more
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The Gnutella-based download client LimeWire has ceased all its operations after a U.S. federal judge granted a request from the RIAA. Limewire was ordered to disable all functionalities in the current application to prevent users from sharing copyrighted material. The verdict is expected to have an unprecedented impact on the P2P file-sharing landscape.
A few months ago the RIAA asked a New York District Court to shut down the world’s most installed file-sharing application, LimeWire.
The record labels argued that the Gnutella-based download client might have caused billions of dollars in lost revenue and that it’s therefore one of the largest threats to the music industry’s revenue. Today, RIAA’s request was granted by a federal judge.
According to the injunction, Limewire “intentionally encouraged infringement” by Limewire users, it is used “overwhelmingly for infringement” and it knew about the “substantial infringement being committed” by its users.
http://torrentfreak.com/limewire-loses-court-battle-with-riaa-shuts-down-101026/The Gnutella-based download client LimeWire has ceased all its operations after a U.S.... more
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DtecNet has been one the world’s leading anti-piracy monitoring companies for some time. Utilized extensively by the international music and movie industries to track users on BitTorrent and other file-sharing networks, the company has its base in Denmark. That now appears set to change with news that DtecNet has been sold to US anti-fraud and brand abuse company, MarkMonitor.
http://torrentfreak.com/leading-anti-piracy-outfit-sold-to-us-fraud-and-brand-protection-firm-101214/DtecNet has been one the world’s leading anti-piracy monitoring companies for... more
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With Hulu and iTunes and torrents, it's easy to forget that your home probably already has a dedicated television-watching device! That's why this rings so true, except for the bit about Cops, which should be Man vs. Food instead. [PennyArcade]With Hulu and iTunes and torrents, it's easy to forget that your home probably... more
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In a rare interview session two of the MPAA’s top executives gave an interesting insight into the movie industry’s view on copyright in the digital age and the anti-piracy hunt that accompanies it. The pair say that their organization will continue to fight against copyright infringements, but admit that piracy will never be completely defeated.In a rare interview session two of the MPAA’s top executives gave an interesting... more
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Streaming capabilities have been added to BitTorrent via the Tribler client, and more recently uTorrent. Thus far the implementation of these technologies into major websites has been lacking. That position changed this week as the Wikimedia Foundation partnered with P2P Next to use BitTorrent-powered streaming for their video content.
http://torrentfreak.com/wikipedia-adds-bittorrent-powered-video-100929/Streaming capabilities have been added to BitTorrent via the Tribler client, and more... more
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A film set to be released for free via BitTorrent has been denied a listing in the Internet Movie Database. The Tunnel is currently in production and despite pleas from the makers, IMDb won’t allow it on their site. The creators of this horror movie believe that because they have shunned an official distributor and chosen a BitTorrent model instead, this has put them at a disadvantage with the Amazon-owned site.
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-only-horror-movie-denied-imdb-listing-100929/A film set to be released for free via BitTorrent has been denied a listing in the... more
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This week the controversial French three-strikes anti-piracy law Hadopi went live. Copyright holders are currently in the process of sending out tens of thousands of IP-addresses of alleged infringers to Internet service providers, and this will increase to over a million in a few weeks. The ISPs have to hand over the identities of the associated accounts to the authorities within a week, or face a fine of 1500 euros per unidentified IP-address
http://torrentfreak.com/france-starts-reporting-millions-of-file-sharers-100921/This week the controversial French three-strikes anti-piracy law Hadopi went live.... more
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Following in the footsteps of The Pirate Bay and the successful BitTorrent distribution platform Vodo, uTorrent has now embraced an artist of their own. Starting today, all new uTorrent downloads will be bundled with the latest album from PAZ, an up and coming musician who hopes to achieve stardom through BitTorrent.
http://torrentfreak.com/utorrent-backs-artist-bundles-album-with-new-downloads-100816/Following in the footsteps of The Pirate Bay and the successful BitTorrent... more
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A recent Net Neutrality proposal from Google and Verizon has dominated the news this week, with opponents claiming that the deal would kill Net Neutrality on wireless (cellular) networks. What hasn’t been mentioned thus far, however, is that BitTorrent and other types of evil traffic have already been banned for years by Verizon, AT&T and others.
http://torrentfreak.com/verizon-and-att-ban-bittorrent-on-wireless-networks-100813/A recent Net Neutrality proposal from Google and Verizon has dominated the news this... more
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