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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. -
Big Content staff are Big Pirates
Hacks from Torrentfreak discovered BitTorrent pirates at nearly every major entertainment industry company in the US, including Sony Pictures Entertainment, Fox Entertainment and NBC Universal. -
Pirate Party hits out on Scottish sentencing of filesharing woman
Inspector Knacker of the Ayr Yard found 7439 digital music files and 24243 karaoke files on computer equipment moved from her home. They also allegedly found that Ms Muir was part of "a network" where users could share and download music, although it is not clear if that just meant BitTorrent. -
Hurt Locker goes for dubious award
The cunning plan seems to be to sue everyone who ever downloaded the movie and according to court records that is 24,583 BitTorrent users. -
Lawyers go for giant Expendables P2P lawsuit
More than 23,000 file sharers will likely get notified they are being sued for downloading the Expendables, in the single largest illegal-BitTorrent-downloading case in US history. -
Judge rules IP address not necessarily evidence
District Court Judge Harold Baker has committed to what TorrentFreak describes as a "landmark ruling". It could pave the way for similar actions in the huge wave of BitTorrent lawsuits in the US. -
This is the sad story of a P2P defendant
Last year US Copyright Group filed a federal lawsuit against 4,577 anonymous Internet users accused of sharing the film Far Cry through BitTorrent. The whole process was pretty rubbish and federal judge Rosemary Collyer forced the US Copyright Group to drop most of its lawsuit targets in December 2 -
Android developers form anti-Google alliance
Others have already begun taking to the blog to tell people of their woes. One developer who goes by the name of Rich wrote: "I have written more than 18 Android apps, including Port Scandroid and aBTC, the Android BitTorrent client, and the official ‘This American Life’ application. -
Google blocks piracy terms in instant search
Unsurprisingly those affected are not pleased. "There’s no reason for Google to throttle search results for our trademarks, including BitTorrent, µTorrent and torrent. -
BitTorrent is not the main source of digital piracy
There appears to be a shift away from BitTorrent sites as the best method of pushing pirated software and movies. -
BitTorrent forms partnership with Taiwanese research institute.
BitTorrent is getting cosy with a Taiwanese research institute. -
Terror police crack down on P2P sites
Gizmodo has found out that the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been seizing domains of BitTorrent sites and sites associated with counterfeit goods.
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