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0 RIAA's Main Anti-Piracy Partner Appears Clueless About BitTorrent

Earlier this year, the RIAA dumped its longterm anti-piracy partner MediaSentry and hired DtecNet instead. MediaSentry had lots of problems in terms...

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0 uTorrent Market Share Is Up but Vuze and Bittorrent.com are Struggling

Bittorrent is currently a huge market on the internet. Tribler P2P research team at Delft University of Technology has reported the current...

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0 Vote: What's Next for The Pirate Bay?

The proposed Pirate Bay sale appeared all but dead Thursday, leaving unanswered questions about the BitTorrent tracker's future. Will it turn into an...

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0 Label That Embraces BitTorrent Upset About Lawsuits Against Useful Services

The freakbits guys have a nice interview up with Dutch indie record label Beep! Beep! that has all the music from all of its artists available via...

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0 BitTorrent Goes Social with Hexagon.cc

Though the drama around one of the biggest torrent trackers out there, The Pirate Bay, still hasn’t subsided, most of the users are turning elsewhere,...

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0 Pirate Bay Sale Approved

Sure, the Pirate Bay was shut down by its ISP two days ago but the story is far from over. After several false-starts, the Swedish company Global...

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0 Shareholders Approve Pirate Bay Purchase

Shareholders of a Swedish-based software concern agree to purchase The Pirate Bay. Pending financing for the $8.5 million transaction, the deal sets...

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0 Court Castrates Mininova, The Pirate Bay Alternative

BitTorrent file sharing suffered another setback on a global scale Wednesday when a Dutch-based court ordered Pirate Bay rival – Mininova — to remove...

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0 Defiant Pirate Bay Crew Evokes Churchill

After a day of internet cat and mouse with Swedish censors, The Pirate Bay is back online. In a victory speech of sorts, the crew evokes one of...

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0 The Final Curtain Falls for The Pirate Bay

We knew it, you knew it, everyone knew it: as soon as news of the sale broke, it was quite obvious that the Pirate Bay as we know it will be no more....

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0 So Long, and Thanks for All the Loot: The Pirate Bay Goes Offline (For Now)

Black Internet, the Pirate Bay's largest bandwidth supplier, just shut down the notorious BitTorrent tracker after a court ordered it to pay a fine of...

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0 Court Tries to Kill Pirate Bay — Cat-and-Mouse Game Begins

A Swedish court orders the Swedish ISP hosting The Pirate Bay to block public access to the world's most notorious BitTorrent tracker. Founders and...

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0 IT IS HERE: A Fully Functional Copy of The Pirate Bay

Goodbye, Pirate Bay. Hello, Pirate Bay. A couple of days ago we wrote about a very special torrent, which contained a copy of the entire Pirate Bay...

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0 P2P and BitTorrent Not Welcome in Antarctica

If you’re residing in Antarctica, chances are you are an employee of the United States Antarctic Program (USAP). If so – and according to the letter...

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0 Download The Pirate Bay…From The Pirate Bay

There’s a cool torrent available on The Pirate Bay, one of the last cool torrents you’ll encounter on the site (as it’s due to close in a couple of...

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0 Key Pirate Bay Cofounder Jumps Ship

Peter Sunde, known online as brokep, resigns from 5-year-old notorious BitTorrent tracker. Sunde's departure suggests that the proposed $7.7 million...

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0 Pirate Bay Buyer Says Deal Nearly Done

The buyer of The Pirate Bay says the $7.7 million deal is expected to close Aug. 27. The announcement ends speculation that the move to purchase the...

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0 Studios Demand Court Shutter Pirate Bay

Three months after the four founders of The Pirate Bay are convicted of facilitating copyright infringement, Hollywood studios ask a Swedish court to...

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0 Kazaa Goes Legit - But It Will Fail

Not too long ago, after the demise of Napster, Kazaa became synonymous with P2P file sharing. After a number of costly lawsuits and failed attempts to...

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0 LSU Starts Fining Students For File Sharing; But Seems Quite Confused About It

P2P Blog points us to the news that Louisiana State University (LSU) is starting a program whereby it will fine students $50 for unauthorized file...

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0 Vuze: Bittorrent Media Player That Lets You Download and Stream from the Internet

Vuze is a handy piece of kit that lets you stream or download videos from the internet. Similar to services already available such as MegaVideo, only...

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0 The Pirate Bay's New Owners: Service Providers Will Pay Us, We'll Pay Users

One of the things that got a lot of attention with the announced sale of The Pirate Bay to GGF was the claim that the new owners would launch new...

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0 After Sale, Can Pirate Bay Survive?

The Pirate Bay, the world's most notorious BitTorrent tracker, is likely to be lucrative for its new Swedish owners, Global Gaming Factory X AB. The...

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0 Is Piracy Also Increasing The Quality Of New Movies?

We recently wrote about how the singer of the popular band the Fleet Foxes felt that unauthorized file sharing has improved the quality of new music,...

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0 Pirate Bay retrial over judge bias denied

An appeals court in Sweden ruled Thursday against the possibility of a retrial in the Pirate Bay case, despite accusations the trial judge was biased...

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0 Pirate Bay Retrial Denied

A Swedish appellate court rules there will be no retrial in the Pirate Bay case amid accusations the trial judge was biased against the four founders...

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0 How to Jailbreak your iPhone to OS 3.0

Now that iPhone's new OS 3.0 is available with all its nifty features like spotlight search, copy and paste, push notifications and maybe one day MMS...

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0 Entertainment Industry Pushes To Make Mininova Useless

Mininova, the latest BitTorrent search engine to raise the ire of the entertainment industry is currently engaged in a court battle with BREIN, an...

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0 Yet Another Study: 'Pirates' Are Actually Industry's Best Customers

We've already seen a bunch of nearly identical studies, but it's worth pointing out that there's yet another study coming out this week that says that...

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0 Music Labels Want Pirate Bay Shuttered

The recording industry wants to add new fines to the $3.6 million levied against the four co-founders of The Pirate Bay. The four face a one-year...

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0 Pirate Bay Defendants Add New Bias Charges

The Pirate Bay defendants lob new ethics charges, accusing a Swedish court of purposely choosing a judge who would convict the founders of the world's...

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0 PUMP Is A Great P2P Video Application, And Then Some

File-sharing service VIPeers has released an upgraded version of it's peer-to-peer media discovery and sharing tool PUMP, as reported on TechCrunch...

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0 Unintended Consequences: P2P 'Warning' Law Could Impact Browsers, FTP

We discussed recently how entertainment industry lobbyists have been pushing this story about how P2P software needs to be regulated to prevent gov't...

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0 Maybe The Pirate Bay Should Just Pay Hollywood For All The Advertising It's Done

While The Pirate Bay ruling is now quite tainted, and about to go through at least an appeal if not a full retrial, it seems that the entertainment...

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0 Comedian Louis CK Gets BitTorrent Content Removed By Asking Nicely

A reader, who prefers to go by the name Angry Young Man, points us to an interesting set of comments on a torrent of a recent stand up comedy...

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0 The Pirate Bay Found Guilty

A Stockholm district court found the operators of infamous BitTorrent tracking site the Pirate Bay guilty today of assisting in copyright...

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0 In carcere i Pirati della Baia

Il giustizialismo si abbatte di nuovo sulla rete. Stavolta a farne le spese sono quelli di The Pirate Bay, il sito di base in Svezia che indicizza...

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0 Jail Time Shuts Down The Pirate Bay Joke Machine

The Web's ferocious defenders of file sharing just can't grasp the idea that the four operators of The Pirate Bay are facing jail time for running a...

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0 Pirate Bay Verdict: What Happened, What’s Next

The founders of The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent tracking service, are now facing jail time and a hefty fine. A Swedish court found Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid...

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0 As Court Prepares Shackles For The Pirate Bay, Other Torrent Sites Are Ready To Replace It

Despite some early fumbling by the prosecution, a judge in Sweden handed down a guilty verdict today in the case against The Pirate Bay, the popular...

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0 The Pirate Bay Trial: Guilty As Charged

If you’ve been following The Pirate Bay trial, you know that the verdict is due today. Unfortunately for the Pirate Bay Founders, and quite...

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0 Mininova helps musicians monetize their BitTorrent downloads

Everyone has pretty well heard of that other BitTorrent site but even though it might be one of the largest BitTorrent sites on the web Mininova is...

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0 BitTorrent Site Mininova Makes It Easier To Sell Scarcities With Downloads

A bunch of folks have been sending in the news that popular BitTorrent site Mininova is now making it much easier to monetize your own BitTorrented...

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0 RouteNote Partners with Bittorrent Site to Distribute Live Music Sessions

Over at RouteNote (a free digital music distribution service) they have started to offer some of their artists live session videos via bittorrent...

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0 Download The Peoples String Foundation - Red Dress Woman in Black via Bittorrent

RouteNote has been lucky enough to partner with Mininova to offer some of our video content to the 100 million people who use the site every month....

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0 Miro 2.0: What if Boxee and iTunes Had a Love Child?

The Participatory Culture Foundation just released version 2.0 of Miro, the open source online TV application formerly known as Democracy Player. Miro...

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0 50+ New Tools for Torrenting

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0 Silence Is Sexy win a prize for their free album!

Silence Is Sexy just won the Interactive Award 2009, at the Eurosonic/Noorderslag festival in the Netherlands. This prize acknowledges 25.000 album...

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0 How Canada Fought Bad Copyright Law: Showing Why Copyright Law Matters

You may recall, just about a year ago, there was suddenly a bunch of news over the possibility of Canada introducing its own version of the US's...

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0 TorrentAds: Advertising Purely in P2P

As we’ve all learned, BitTorrent traffic has grown so large over the years that it has created enormous worry in the media world about lost revenue....

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0 RefSeek is Google For Students and Scientists

Google used to be a great tool for researchers, but then it got swarmed by billions of links from companies who are trying to sell you something....

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0 China Says: If You Must Infringe On Copyrights, Use Baidu

Many people have noted over the years that with all of the effort that China has put into its Great Firewall, the country hasn't done much of anything...

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0 Why Paid P2P Might Be Dead

Before the current economic crisis landed with a thwack on our plate and ensured that few would escape the beast unscathed, I was really long on...

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