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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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The U.S. Copyright Group (USCG) has been all over the news in recent months. The lawyer group sued thousands of BitTorrent users who allegedly file-shared motion pictures belonging to their clients, including the Oscar-winning Hurt Locker. However, it turns out that USCG are not copyright purists either, as they have blatantly copied the website of a competitor without permission.
http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-copyright-group-steal-competitors-website-100730/The U.S. Copyright Group (USCG) has been all over the news in recent months. The... more
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An IFPI-affiliated anti-piracy group has announced that it has gathered evidence on dozens of file-sharers and will shortly hand it to the police. The group says it will hand over the results of its investigation into large scale file-sharers to the authorities this month and warns that the law allows those convicted to be jailed for up to 4 years
While TorrentFreak tends to concentrate on the events surrounding the BitTorrent protocol, there are dozens of other ways to share files on the Internet.
One of those methods is known as Direct Connect, a hub-based ‘shared folder’ type system. Direct Connect hubs are more difficult to access than regular torrent sites but once in, users tend to share their entire collections, be they music or movie based. The index of all this material is shared between the users of the hub to show what is available and files can be accessed whenever the ‘owner’ of them is online. They can prove an absolute gold mine of data.
http://torrentfreak.com/police-to-receive-evidence-against-large-scale-file-sharers-100721/An IFPI-affiliated anti-piracy group has announced that it has gathered evidence on... more
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After their former hosting provider received an injunction telling it to stop providing bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, the worlds most resilient BitTorrent site switched to a new ISP. That host, the Swedish Pirate Party, made a stand on principle. Now they aim to take things further by running the site from inside the Swedish Parliament.
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-to-run-tpb-from-parliament-010702/After their former hosting provider received an injunction telling it to stop... more
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Voltage Pictures and the US Copyright Group are teaming up to sue "tens of thousands" of P2P users who downloaded the film The Hurt Locker illegally. A lawyer from the group confirmed the studio's plans to the Hollywood Reporter Wednesday, noting that the scope of this lawsuit is much more far-reaching than the copyright group's past pursuits.
The Hurt Locker, like many other Hollywood films, was leaked onto BitTorrent months before its official release in theaters. It wasn't a particularly high-grossing film—it only made $16 million—but it did end up winning six Oscars. Undoubtedly, the film's early leak online combined with the relatively low earnings is part of the reason Voltage and the US Copyright Group decided to sue. The lawsuit has not yet been filed, but the firm expects it to happen later today.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/05/hurt-locker-torrenters-prepare-to-be-sued.arsVoltage Pictures and the US Copyright Group are teaming up to sue "tens of... more
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Most BitTorrent sites operate in the shadows, with operators who rarely speak in public and guard their identities closely. Mininova is not one of those sites and in a new interview, company directors reveal a little more about running one of the world’s biggest BitTorrent sites. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/free-stuff/343-torrent-sceneMost BitTorrent sites operate in the shadows, with operators who rarely speak in... more
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Seeding fake files on BitTorrent is nothing new and the practice has been carried out by anti-piracy groups and malware spreaders for a long time. While many of them choose to use various open and public BitTorrent trackers, others are setting up their own trackers. We take a look at an easy way to find out more about them.
http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-quickly-investigate-a-fake-bittorrent-tracker-100220/Seeding fake files on BitTorrent is nothing new and the practice has been carried out... more
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Millions of people use BitTorrent to share files every day, but only a small percentage actually understand how BitTorrent works and appreciate why it is such an efficient way to share large files. A simplified but insightful visualization helps to shed some light on the inner workings of the BitTorrent client.
http://torrentfreak.com/how-and-why-bittorrent-works-a-visualization-100217/Millions of people use BitTorrent to share files every day, but only a small... more
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The up and coming torrent indexer KickassTorrents has launched a new search trends feature. Users can use it to browse through the most popular search phrases for any given day or month to find out what’s wanted by other BitTorrent users. Some interesting trends and old habits are revealed by the new feature.
http://torrentfreak.com/kickasstorrents-reveals-bittorrent-search-trends-100215/The up and coming torrent indexer KickassTorrents has launched a new search trends... more
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The operators of MooZar, a new service set to launch at the end of February, believe they have the solution to the file-sharing piracy ‘problem’. Illicit downloaders can apparently go to their site, pay some money and feel happy in the knowledge that they’ve supported the artist. Controversially, there are suggestions they won’t get sued either.
http://torrentfreak.com/moozar-aims-to-turn-pirates-into-paying-customers-100214/The operators of MooZar, a new service set to launch at the end of February, believe... more
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Despite efforts to prevent coverage of the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony from leaking online, the broadcast is widely available on BitTorrent, downloaded by thousands of people. Most of the downloaders are from the host country Canada, closely followed by the United States.
http://torrentfreak.com/olympics-opening-ceremony-hit-on-bittorrent-100213/Despite efforts to prevent coverage of the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony from... more
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Twitter is calling in the help of BitTorrent to deploy files across its many servers in a more efficient way. The project dubbed ‘Murder’ is based on the Open Source BitTornado BitTorrent client. Aside from assisting Twitter it is available to other developers at no cost.
http://torrentfreak.com/twitter-uses-bittorrent-for-server-deployment-100210/Twitter is calling in the help of BitTorrent to deploy files across its many servers... more
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As millions of people wait for the arrival of Christmas in just a couple of weeks time, the festivities have come early for BitTorrent fans. A few hours ago the mighty Demonoid fully returned and the good news is that there appears to be little data loss. Users are feverishly uploading fresh torrents right now.
http://torrentfreak.com/christmas-comes-early-for-bittorrent-demonoid-is-back-091213/As millions of people wait for the arrival of Christmas in just a couple of weeks... more
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Mininova, the largest torrent site on the Internet, has removed all torrents except those that were uploaded through its content distribution service. Mininova’s founders took the drastic decision after they lost a civil dispute against Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN, and were ordered to remove all infringing torrents from the site.
http://torrentfreak.com/mininova-deletes-all-infringing-torrents-and-goes-legal-091126/Mininova, the largest torrent site on the Internet, has removed all torrents except... more
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A few days ago we reported that Lady Gaga earned a measly $167 for more than a million plays on the music streaming service, Spotify. According to new information received from music industry insiders, it turns out that Spotify isn’t ripping off the artists, the labels are.
http://torrentfreak.com/spotify-isnt-ripping-off-artists-the-labels-are-091123/A few days ago we reported that Lady Gaga earned a measly $167 for more than a million... more
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The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, ‘2012′ tops the chart this week followed by ‘Gamer’. ‘Funny People’ completes the top three.
2012This week there are four newcomers in the top 10 including ‘Gamer,’ which ended up as the second most downloaded movie on BitTorrent this week.
The data for our weekly download chart is collected by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are DVDrips unless stated otherwise.
RSS feed for the weekly movie download char
http://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-pirated-movies-on-bittorrent-091123/The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, ‘2012′ tops the chart... more
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The Pirate Bay’s tracker closure has spurred several discussions about DHT, BitTorrent’s fallback technology for when central trackers are unavailable. According to some, DHT has some problems of its own. Novell, for example, decided to ship openSUSE with the BitTorrent client Transmission, but not before stripping DHT support.
http://torrentfreak.com/novell-strips-bittorrent-dht-technology-from-opensuse-091122/The Pirate Bay’s tracker closure has spurred several discussions about DHT,... more
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Piracy is without a doubt, truly evil. It doesn’t help the artists, it robs them of their rightful revenue and is such a poor basis for a business model, it’s unworthy of consideration. Of course, new streaming sites are miles better, offering a legal way to listen to free music. Hmm – Lady Gaga got a million plays on Spotify and earned $167.
http://torrentfreak.com/lady-gaga-earns-slightly-more-from-spotify-than-piracy-091121/Piracy is without a doubt, truly evil. It doesn’t help the artists, it robs them... more
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This week The Pirate Bay confirmed it would shut down its tracker for good, instead encouraging the use of DHT, PEX and magnet links. This move confounded many BitTorrent enthusiasts, who although wishing to adapt, were confronted with hard to grasp terminology and technology. Time for some explaining.
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrents-future-dht-pex-and-magnet-links-explained-091120/This week The Pirate Bay confirmed it would shut down its tracker for good, instead... more
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