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A group led by former Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde is forming to develop a peer-to-peer-based alternative to today's ICANN-controlled DNS system, according to a blog posted on Tuesday. A tweet on Sunde's account dated Nov 28 said: "Alternative dns root is step 1. Step 2 is the new DNS system that is in the making. It's not advanced, it's p2p and more secure." The tweet generated a fair amount of interest according to Sunde and he has posted a follow up post on a blog called "P2P DNS" stating:
"We haven't organized yet, but trying to. The background for this project is that we want the internet to be uncensored! Having a centralised system thatcontrols our information flow is not acceptable.
By using existing technology for de-centralisation together with already having a crew with skilled programmers, communicators and network specialists, an alternative system is not far away. We're not going to re-invent the wheel, we're going to build on existing technology as much as possible.
There will be a press release shortly with more details."A group led by former Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde is forming to develop a... more
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Best Movies Ever reports that Despicable Me and Inception are the top pirated movies this week.Best Movies Ever reports that Despicable Me and Inception are the top pirated movies... more
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In another blow to online file-sharing, a Swedish appeals court upheld on Friday the copyright convictions of three of the four founders of The Pirate Bay--perhaps the world's most well-known and notorious file-sharing Web site.
The court agreed with last year's ruling, which found Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundstrom guilty of helping Pirate Bay users break Sweden's copyright law. However, it revised the ruling to decrease the defendants' jail sentences and increase the amount they must pay in damages.
The lower court had sentenced the men to a year in prison and set damages at about 30 million Swedish kronor ($4.2 million). The new ruling raises the damages another 16 million kronor and cuts Neij's sentence to 10 months, Sunde's to 8 months, and Lundstrom's to 4 months, based on each man's individual activities with The Pirate Bay.
A fourth Pirate Bay founder convicted by the lower court, Gottfrid Swartholm Warg, will get a separate ruling later, owing to the fact that illness prevented him from participating in the appeals trial.
Still up and running, The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent search engine that helps online file sharers locate pirated copies of films, music, games, software, and other digital content. It's been celebrated by some as a heroic kick in the eye to corporate copyright owners who, these people believe, have priced content unfairly and whose policies have hampered the creative commons.
The copyright owners see it differently and view such sites as nothing more than aids to outright theft. In the U.S., they claim illegal file-sharing has cost jobs and hurt the economy, an argument that may influence debate over a bill now before Congress that would let the government shut down sites accused of aiding piracy.
That bill, and this latest ruling, are not the only threats to file-sharing. Last month, a U.S. judge ordered the company that operates the long popular file-sharing software LimeWire to disable the software's file-sharing and searching capabilities. The software, however, has reappeared much as it was before.
On Friday, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry issued a statement about the Pirate Bay ruling.
"Today's judgment confirms the illegality of The Pirate Bay and the seriousness of the crimes of those involved," said Chief Executive Frances Moore. "We now look to governments and [Internet service providers] to take note of this judgment, do the responsible thing, and take the necessary steps to get The Pirate Bay shut down."
Some say The Pirate Bay's troubles signal the coming of the end of file-sharing piracy.
"In two years, this type of piracy will be over. After a ruling like this and all the pioneers start to get older and have children and families, piracy won't occur to this extent," Monique Wadsted, an attorney representing American record companies, told the Swedish news agency TT.
Others, however, scoff at that notion.
"The judgment has no meaning for file sharing. It has continued to increase from year to year and the technical capabilities continue to develop," Christian Engstrom, a member of the European Parliament representing the Pirate Party, which is devoted to reforming laws regarding copyright and patents, told the TT agency.
As of this writing, lawyers for the Pirate Bay founders have not yet said whether they will appeal this latest ruling to the Swedish Supreme Court. The defendants' argument has been that The Pirate Bay doesn't engage in illegal activity; it's merely a search tool that can be used for legal or illegal activities, with that choice being left up to the users themselves.
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20023915-93.html#ixzz16Quiqaq8In another blow to online file-sharing, a Swedish appeals court upheld on Friday the... more
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The team behind the popular torrent site The Pirate Bay has started to work on a new encryption technology that could potentially protect all Internet traffic from prying eyes. The project, which is still in its initial stages, goes by the name “Transparent end-to-end encryption for the Internets,” or IPETEE for short. It tackles encryption not on the application level, but on the network level, the aim being that all data exchanged on your PC would be encrypted, regardless of its nature — be it a web browser streaming video files or an instant messaging client. As Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij (a.k.a. Tiamo) told me, “Even applications that don’t supporting encryption will be encrypted where possible.”
Neij came up with the idea for IPETEE back when European politicians were starting to debate a Europe-wide move to DMCA-like copyright enforcement efforts, which were eventually authorized in the form of the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive in the spring of 2007. “I wanted to come up with something to make it harder for data retention,” said Neij. But he didn’t publish the initial draft proposal until early this month, when the discussion about privacy and surveillance online suddenly became urgent again. The Swedish parliament passed a new law in June that allows a local government agency to snoop on “the telephony, emails, and web traffic of millions of innocent individuals,” as the EFF’s Danny O’Brien put it. Neij promises that his new encryption scheme will be ready before the law takes effect next January.
IPETEE will likely be implemented as an add-on to operating systems like Windows and OS X. It will essentially do its work in the background, handling all incoming and outgoing IP traffic without any further interference from the user.
(M.A.L.)The team behind the popular torrent site The Pirate Bay has started to work on a new... more
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The personal details of thousands of Sky broadband customers have been leaked on to the internet, alongside a list of pornographic movies they are alleged to have shared online.
The list, seen by BBC News, details the full names and addresses of over 5,300 people thought by law firm ACS:Law to be illegally sharing adult films.
It appeared online following an attack on the ACS:Law website.
The UK's Information Commissioner said it would investigate the leak.
Privacy expert Simon Davis has called it "one of the worst breaches" of the Data Protection Act he had ever seen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11418962The personal details of thousands of Sky broadband customers have been leaked on to... 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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In April 2010 we had informed our readers how 1.5 MN. 'Hacked' Facebook profiles on sale in black market. Now according to latest BBC report : The personal details of 100 million users of social networking website Facebook are now freely available for download after they were leaked online.In April 2010 we had informed our readers how 1.5 MN. 'Hacked' Facebook... more
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Personal details of 100m Facebook users have been collected and published on the net by a security consultant.
Ron Bowles used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by the user's privacy settings.
The list, which has been shared as a downloadable file, contains the URL of every searchable Facebook user's profile, their name and unique ID.
Mr Bowles said he published the data to highlight privacy issues, but Facebook said it was already public information.
The file has spread rapidly across the net. On the Pirate Bay, the world's biggest file-sharing website, the list was being distributed and downloaded by more than 1,000 users.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10796584Personal details of 100m Facebook users have been collected and published on the net... 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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Black Internet’s relationship with The Pirate Bay has been far from smooth. Last year, the Swedish ISP bravely put its head above the parapet when it became a bandwidth supplier to the site, a move which has had several knock-on effects.
In August 2009, Stockholm’s district court ordered Black Internet to disconnect The Pirate Bay from the Internet or face fines of 500,000 kronor ($64,527). The ISP quickly complied with the ruling and the site temporarily went dark, but quickly reappeared with a new host.
The very next day following its decision to disconnect The Pirate Bay, Black Internet’s infrastructure was sabotaged with cost implications of “millions of kronor”. Although it was never proven, many believed that the attack and the blacking out of the world’s most famous BitTorrent site were connected.
After initially saying it wouldn’t appeal the district court’s decision, Black Internet changed its mind. “This is the first time in Sweden that an operator has been ordered to stop delivering Internet to someone. We want to know if it’s correct to do so,” said company boss CEO Victor Möller. The appeal was granted.
Last month the Svea Court of Appeals made its decision and for Black Internet the outcome was poor.
The Court ordered Black Internet to “stop providing Internet access to the TPB web site consisting of a web site including search engine and databasefunctions on which torrent files may be stored and a tracker.”
Even though the ISP is no longer servicing The Pirate Bay, the scope of this injunction appears to be broader than first thought. Not only must it never host the site, it must also stop the rest of its regular customers from accessing The Pirate Bay, making it the first ISP in Sweden ordered to block the site.
“We have chosen to block traffic into and out of the IP addresses that are using the Pirate Bay,” said Black Internet’s Victor Möller. “We made a decision on our assessment that this was the only way to live up to the Court of Appeal’s decision.”
Although being precise is difficult, Möller estimates that the block affects many thousands of businesses and individuals, many of which are keen to reestablish links with the site.
“They are looking for more tips and advice on getting past this block,” notes Möller. “There seems to be a great need to reach the Pirate Bay.”
TorrentFreak is awaiting comments from both Black Internet and Hollywood lawyer Monique Wadsted and will update this article with that information as soon as it arrives.
Update: Court of appeals judge Ulrika Gustavsson Stenbäck has been speaking with Swedish media and has stated that Black Internet’s interpretation of the injunction has gone too far.
“The decision meant no general duty to supervise over what people do online, or a general duty to stop someone from getting into the Pirate Bay. It is clear in our decision. Our decision relates only to Black Internet not providing internet access [hosting] to The Pirate Bay.”
It seems at this stage that Black Internet is blocking The Pirate Bay but doesn’t have to.Black Internet’s relationship with The Pirate Bay has been far from smooth. Last... 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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The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, ‘Shutter Island’ tops the chart this week followed by ‘Alice In Wonderland’. ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ completes the top three.
Soooo once again the most pirated movies are the ones making the most money at the box office! but i thought piracy was killing the industry?? nope, it's corporations big fat dirty greed again!
http://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-pirated-movies-on-bittorrent-100405/The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, ‘Shutter Island’ tops the... more
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Following a lengthy legal procedure the Court of Bergamo has once again ruled that Italian ISPs have to censor their networks and prevent customer access to The Pirate Bay. Millions of Italian Internet users will be denied access to the popular torrent site in an attempt to prevent copyright infringement.
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-to-be-censored-in-italy-again-100207/Following a lengthy legal procedure the Court of Bergamo has once again ruled that... more
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In May 2009 the Dutch copyright enforcement organization BREIN started a civil procedure against Mininova, the worlds largest torrent sharing site, demanding it starts filtering torrent files pointing to copyright protected works from its platform.
In August Mininova lost and the judge ruled that, although not directly responsible for any copyright infringement, it was lawfully ordered to remove all torrents linking to copyrighted material within three months, or face a penalty of up to 5 million euros.
Today, according to TorrentFreak, Mininova made it happen. The site has removed all torrents except those that were uploaded through its content distribution service. This means that only approved uploaders can share torrents through the site.
Mininova confirm the action in a post saying:
“Unfortunately the court ruling leaves us no other option than to take our platform offline, except for the Content Distribution service. According to the verdict (Dutch link) we have to prevent uploads of torrents to Mininova that refer to certain titles or to similar-looking titles. We’ve been testing some filtering systems the last couple of months, but we found that it’s neither technically nor operationally possible to implement a 100% working filter system. Therefore, we decided that the only option is to limit Mininova to Content Distribution torrents from now on. We are still considering an appeal at this moment.”
Where do we go from here? Mininova may still appeal the decision but the costs involved and unlikely success will probably leave the millions of Mininova users looking for a new HQ.
Many might believe with the demise of The Pirate Bay and now Mininova, this might mean the beginning of the end of Torrents and file sharing as we know them, but with limited current offerings and absurd restrictions, file sharing won’t just go away, not until the industry begins to modify their business model to align themselves with their customer’s needs.
File sharing will evolve and continue to thrive, no matter how many lawyers, judges and rulings you throw at it.
Mininova launched in January 2005 as a successor to the (at that time very popular) Suprnova.org. Based in the Netherlands, the founders also run a recently created video sharing site Snotr.
http://thenextweb.com/2009/11/26/torrents-mininova-legal/In May 2009 the Dutch copyright enforcement organization BREIN started a civil... more
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In rather shocking news this morning, The Pirate Bay (TPB) has shut down its torrent tracker. The search engine remains, but instead of dishing up torrents it will instead serve as a magnet-link repository.
TPB cites that the concept of the BitTorrent tracker is dead. "There is no need to run a tracker any more" says their blog. Long-live DHT and PEX -- dynamic, decentralized torrenting technologies!
What this actually means for you and I -- the implications -- is that you need to make sure you have an updated torrent client, like uTorrent or Azureus. Something that supports DHT and PEX. Most of you will already have these technologies enabled by default -- you just don't know about them. In fact, even with this rather dramatic announcement, you probably won't realise any difference in your download speeds.
Piracy will continue as normal, don't worry.
It's simply the end of an era. Perhaps more interestingly, TPB have been talking to other tracker owners and torrent-download sites. They're pushing for everyone to move away from trackers and towards decentralization.
Whether this is simply a 'viva la piracy!' move, or a more sinister strategy by their new owners remains to be seen.
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/11/17/ding-dong-the-torrents-dead-pirate-bays-tracker-closes-down/In rather shocking news this morning, The Pirate Bay (TPB) has shut down its torrent... more
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By Mike Johnston
This week, when I saw Jamin and Kiowa Winans of Double Edge Films sending out excited messages on Twitter to the effect that their movie Ink had been ripped and uploaded to Pirate Bay I was intrigued. I guess I was just sort of programmed by negative publicity to see sites like Pirate Bay as a bad thing. On the other hand, once I thought about it, I could certainly see the exposure potential of putting a project in front of the 140 million users of bittorrent sites worldwide. So I put my show up on Pirate Bay to see what would happen. In two days views of the show on its home page tripled.
It is more tricky for a movie though, since a movie is much more of a one shot deal than a weekly TV show. Most people will see a film once, maybe twice if they really like it and maybe buy the DVD if they really, really like it whereas a TV show needs to attract and hold repeat viewers. From that perspective the major studios and probably most indie filmmakers see a pirated film as lost revenue and so bittorrent remains pretty much unexplored territory in relation to positive outcomes.
Kiowa and Jamin on the other hand seem to be approaching the issue from a different perspective. I wanted to get their views on what is happening with their film and spoke to Jamin about it.
Click on the link at the top of the story to continue reading.By Mike Johnston
This week, when I saw Jamin and Kiowa Winans of Double Edge Films... more
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(Pictured above - INK packs the house at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on June 10th, 2009)
We just had Jamin and Kiowa on our Film Courage radio show this past week. Their interview has shattered all records for our show from most listens, most downloads, and most page views. All of this in it's first week online. I believe it is a MUST listen. It is an in-depth case study on the money it took to make INK, their decision to retain the rights to their film and self-distribute and even highlights their deals with Blockbuster and Netflix.
Here is the interview: Jamin Winans and Kiowa Winans on Film Courage (Get interview link at website - Pericles)
So now, just two days away from wide-release on NOVEMBER 10th, 2009, on iTunes, Amazon, Netflix, Blockbuster (they even have Region 0 DVD's where it can be seen anywhere in the world) the pirates come thieving.
This news has been sinking in all day. On one side it absolutely infuriates me and on the other I am completely overjoyed...
Read The Rest at The link:
http://filmcourage.blogspot.com/2009/11/piracy-is-it-good-thing-jamin-winans.html
Pericles Lewnes
Indie Film Curator
@loopmovie
@pretentiousfilm(Pictured above - INK packs the house at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on June... more
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With support from the three largest BitTorrent sites and many other well known file-sharing partners, the VODO project offers a novel distribution platform for indie filmmakers. Today VODO presents its second release, the world premiere of In Guantanamo, a critical film about the U.S. detainment facility in Cuba.
http://torrentfreak.com/in-guantanamo-premieres-on-bittorrent-091106/With support from the three largest BitTorrent sites and many other well known... more
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The Stockholm District Court has taken action against two founder members of The Pirate Bay. Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij are now banned from operating the site and will have to pay fines of $71,000 each if they continue. This, despite the fact that they nor the site remain in Sweden.The Stockholm District Court has taken action against two founder members of The... more
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