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Net tightens on patent trolls
Aiken agreed technologies such as BitTorrent are "anonymous and stealthy tools" that allow for large scale copyright infringement. But some of the people listed had unsecured IP addresses, others allowed only downloading and prohibited uploading, while others still were associated with institutional -
Pirate Bay co-founder running for European Parliament
The fact that he is facing a prison sentence for his involvement with BitTorrent doesn’t seem to concern him very much. He has been fighting the sentence for a while and if he gets elected things might get very interesting indeed. -
British ISPs block more torrent sites
A high court order has spurred top ISPs to block three of the largest BitTorrent sites. -
Comcast hijacks browsers for Big Content
What is more likely to happen is that VPN providers and BitTorrent proxies will make a killing. Real pirates know how to avoid detection. -
Big Content loses Demonoid pirate case
Mexican authorities raided the house of a Demonoid operator and one person connected to the BitTorrent tracker was later jailed. -
MPAA claims Megaupload shutdown was "massive success"
The MPAA claimed that the Megaupload shut down massively disrupted file sharing and this carried over to linking and BitTorrent sites. -
US jury to test IP address as proof of hacking
Judge Michael Baylson, of the Pennsylvania District Court, said that the accused claimed BitTorrentdoes not work in the manner the plaintiff alleges. -
Leaked report shows Big Content's cunning plans
The IFPI said that there are two times of illicit content. These are the heresy of "content held on users' computers" and distributed via P2P networks such as BitTorrent, Gnutella, DirectConnect, eDonkey and Ares. -
Porn lawyer ploy turned over by court
A lawyer working on behalf of a porn studio, who was using the legal system to squeeze cash out of BitTorrent users, has lost his appeal against sanctions. -
Big Content readies writs against more BitTorrent sites
The letter said that action against The Pirate Bay was great but that the job still isn't finished, and that other similar BitTorrent sites exist which provide facilities where internet users can illegally download recorded music and illegally make it available to other internet users. -
Comcast sticks two fingers up at Big Content
According to Ars Technica, Comcast is miffed that it has been given shedloads of BitTorrent lawsuits in the United States and is refusing to comply with court-ordered subpoenas. -
Pirate Pay hopes to kill Pirate Bay
A Russian based outfit "Pirate Pay" claims to have come up with some software which can kill off the distribution of copyrighted works on BitTorrent. -
Big Content loses Aussie show trial
According to the Sydney Morning Herald,the court observed that iiNet "had no direct technical power" to prevent its customers from illegally downloading pirated content using BitTorrent or any other popular protocol used to share files online. -
Judge rules file sharing is not a "conspiracy"
The litigators are trying to get around the fact that judges aren't happy with allowing mass lawsuits, so what they are doing is taking one internet user to court but using that lawsuit as a pretext to subpoena other defendants who had participated in the same BitTorrent swarm. -
US Big Content nearly banned from pirate "fishing exhibitions"
A US judge poked at a wasp's nest when he appeared to rule that Big Content mass-lawsuits violate BitTorrent users' right to anonymous speech. -
Movie industry unaffected by Bittorrent
Academic research has poured cold water on Big Content's claim that it is suffering from piracy caused by BitTorrent. -
IFPI music piracy claims labelled 'ludicrous'
“It is also claimed that BitTorrent users are down, but they would likely have just gone to MegaUpload, from which they will probably now return. They are not getting rid of piracy through tough laws they are just moving it around. -
Pirate Bay abandons torrents for magnets
The infamous Pirate Bay replaced the current default torrent download links with magnets after a decade. It had already shut down its tracker in November 2009. The outfit claims that BitTorrent trackers have been made redundant by technologies such as DHT and PEX.
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