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BitTorrentSpanish Court Declares P2P Link Sites, File-sharing LegalAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on March 15, 2010 - 11:21am.
Madrid
- A Spanish court has upheld its previous finding that a site aggregating links
to downloads on file-sharing networks does not infringe copyrights,
TorrentFreak reported.
tags: Law | Lawsuits | P2P | Music | Copyright | BitTorrent | eDonkey | Spain | ElRincondeJesus.com |
Among Oscar Hopefuls, "District 9" Most Popular on BitTorrentAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on March 8, 2010 - 7:39am.
 Los Angeles
- Among Oscar contenders for Best Picture, "District 9" is the
most-popular film on BitTorrent file-sharing networks, having racked up 12.6
million downloads to date, according to a survey of trackers compiled by
TorrentFreak. "Avatar" was second with 11.3 million downloads,
followed by "The Hurt Locker" (7.9 million); "Up" (5.4
million); "Inglorious Basterds" (5.38 million); "Precious"
(4.9 million); "Up in the Air" (4.86 million); "A Serious
Man" (3.8 million); "The Blind Side" (1.85 million); and
"An Education" (683,000 downloads).
tags: P2P | Reports | Movies | BitTorrent | Oscars | Research | Avatar | TorrentFreak | District 9 |
Twitter Scam Sought User Passwords via Torrent SitesAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on February 3, 2010 - 8:02am.
New York
- Twitter has disclosed a plot to gain access to some of its users' passwords
and accounts, using fake BitTorrent file-sharing sites and forums, The Wall
Street Journal reported.
"Lost" Hawaii Beach Screening Camcorded, Leaked OnlineAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on February 2, 2010 - 11:01am.
Los Angeles - A preview
screening of the first hour of the premiere episode of the new season of ABC's (NYSE: DIS)
"Lost," held recently on a beach in Hawaii, was camcorded by an attendee and is
now available for download on the BitTorrent file-sharing network, TorrentFreak
reported.
Microsoft Sues Lithuanian BitTorrent Site for $43 MillionAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on January 28, 2010 - 7:44am.
Redmond, Wash.
- Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against LinkoManija,
reportedly the largest BitTorrent file-sharing tracker site in Lithuania,
TorrentFreak reports.
Authorities Raid Home of EliteBits File-Sharing AdminAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on January 25, 2010 - 12:32pm.
Los Angeles
- The home of the operator of EliteBits, a BitTorrent file-sharing tracker
site, was raided on Friday by a representative from a Danish court accompanied by
several representing anti-piracy agency Antipiratgruppen, TorrentFreak
reported. The admin, known as "Laeborg," told TorrentFreak that the
men who came to his house informed him that his bank account was traced from
donations made to EliteBits. The men took screenshots of his computer of staff
profiles, and lists of top downloaders and uploaders -- and also asked for the
user database.
Electronic Arts' "Mass Effect 2" Leaked Online Before ReleaseAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on January 25, 2010 - 10:37am.
Los Angeles - Days before its official release, video game publisher
Electronic Arts' (NASD: ERTS) "Mass Effect 2" was uploaded to file-sharing
networks and has since been downloaded over 300,000 times, TorrentFreak
reports.
Report: "Star Trek" is "Most-Pirated" Movie of 2009Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 21, 2009 - 8:30am.
 Los Angeles - The most-downloaded movie of 2009 on
BitTorrent file-sharing networks was "Star Trek," which racked up
over 10.9 million downloads, according to a list compiled by TorrentFreak from
BitTorrent trackers and other sources. In second place was "Transformers:
Revenge of the Fallen" (10.6 million), followed by "RocknRolla"
(9.4 million); "The Hangover" (9.2 million); "Twilight"
(8.7 million); "District 9" (8.3 million); "Harry Potter and the
Half-Blood Prince" (7.2 million); "State of Play" (7.4 million);
"X-Men Origins: Wolverine" (7.2 million); and "Knowing"
(6.9 million).
Demonoid BitTorrent Tracker Back OnlineAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on December 14, 2009 - 1:19pm.
Los Angeles
- Demonoid, a popular BitTorrent tracker used for sharing of media files, has
come back online after experiencing a serious hardware failure back in
September, TorrentFreak reports. "We are currently testing the newly
written code. More downtime is hopefully not necessary, but might be a
possibility. Welcome back, we missed you!" reads a note on Demonoid.com. The
Canadian Record Industry Association (CRIA) has made repeated attempts to shutter
Demonoid, including legal threats against the company's hosting providers that
briefly knocked the site offline.
The Pirate Bay Permanently Shutters File-Sharing TrackerAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on November 17, 2009 - 8:41am.
 Stockholm, Sweden - Marking "the end of an era,"
the operators of file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay on Tuesday shut down their
BitTorrent tracker, which grew over six years to become the largest hub for
finding copyrighted materials for download in the world, TorrentFreak reported. "Now that the
decentralized system for finding peers is so well developed, TPB has decided
that there is no need to run a tracker anymore, so it will remain down! It's
the end of an era, but the era is no longer up2date," the Pirate Bay
wrote on its blog. "We have put a server in a museum already, and now the
tracking can be put there as well."
BitTorrent Inventor Cohen Working on Live P2P StreamingAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 17, 2009 - 11:41am.
Los Angeles
- Bram Cohen, developer of the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol, is currently
working on technology that would bring live streaming to the platform sometime
next year, TorrentFreak reported. "I think there's a very large market for
live [streaming] in general, and to date no one has proven that a p2p solution
can meet the real-world requirements for being an acceptable live solution. I
intend on changing that," Cohen told TorrentFreak.
Apple Rejects BitTorrent Monitoring Application for iPhoneAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on September 1, 2009 - 11:37am.
Los Angeles
- Apple (NASD: AAPL) has rejected an application submitted to its App Store for the iPhone
and iPod touch that can remotely control a user's BitTorrnet file-sharing
client, TorrentFreak reported. The rejection of uTorrent's uMonitor application
by Apple means the developers will make it available through the Cydia store,
for owners of jailbroken iPhones. "We've reviewed µMonitor and determined
that we cannot post this version of your application to the App Store at this
time because this category of applications is often used for the purpose of
infringing third party rights. We have chosen to not publish this type of
application to the App Store," the company wrote in an email to the
developer.
Judge: MPAA Hasn't Proven Isohunt Users Broke U.S. LawsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on August 27, 2009 - 9:18am.
San Francisco - A federal
judge said Wednesday that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) had
not proven that users of Isohunt, a search engine providing links to files on
BitTorrent file-sharing networks, are violating U.S. copyright law, CNET News.com
reported.
Dutch Court Orders Mininova to Remove Infringing LinksAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on August 26, 2009 - 8:56am.
 Utrecht, The Netherlands - A Dutch court has ordered
BitTorrent tracker site Mininova to remove all links to copyrighted materials
within three months, or else face fines of up to $7.1 million, TorrentFreak
reported. The site was sued earlier this year by Dutch anti-piracy agency
BREIN, which asked the court to compel Mininova to install a copyright filter.
Copy of Pirate Bay Uploaded to BitTorrent; Clone Site LaunchedAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on August 20, 2009 - 8:57am.
Stockholm,
Sweden - A
21.3GB file containing all of the nearly 900,000 .torrent files available at
file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay has itself been uploaded to BitTorrent, and
re-launched in working form at a new site called BTArena.net, TorrentFreak
reported. An anonymous user is said to have created the copy of the entire
contents of The Pirate Bay, which contains links to bits of music, movie,
software and other files available for download from computers worldwide.
tags: P2P | Music | Movies | Copyright | BitTorrent | The Pirate Bay | Global Gaming Factory | BTArena |
Torrage Offers BitTorrent File Storage ServiceAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on August 7, 2009 - 10:15am.
Los Angeles
- Torrage this week launched what's being called the first hosting service for
.torrent files, the bits of media files used to share files using the
BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol, TorrentFreak reported. Both individual users,
and large torrent index sites like Suprnova and EZTV have begun to use the
service, which itself does not provide any search function, but instead provides
a unique URL for uploaded .torrent files. Torrance
is currently hosting "hundreds of thousands" of torrents, the report
said.
Owner of U.K. BitTorrent Hub FileSoup ArrestedAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on August 4, 2009 - 11:19am.
London - The owner of
FileSoup, a veteran BitTorrent file-sharing hub that predates The Pirate Bay,
has been arrested during a raid on his U.K. home by anti-piracy group FACT,
TorrentFreak reported.
The Pirate Bay Acquired for $7.8 Million; Will Go LegitAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 30, 2009 - 5:11am.
Stockholm, Sweden - Swedish software firm Global Gaming
Factory (GGF) announced on Tuesday that it has paid $7.8 million to acquire
notorious file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay, and will turn the site into a
legitimate business that compensates copyright holders. Under the term, the
operators of The Pirate Bay -- who were recently found guilty of copyright infringement,
sentenced to a year in prison and ordered to pay fines totaling $3.9 million --
will receive half of the payment in cash and half in GGF shares.
tags: Deals | P2P | TV | Music | Movies | Sweden | Acquisitions | Copyright | BitTorrent | The Pirate Bay | Global Gaming Factory | Peerialism |
Spain Copyright Lobby Abandons 'Three-Strikes' P2P PolicyAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 23, 2009 - 9:29am.
Madrid - Copyright owners
in Spain
have accepted that the government will not implement a
"three-strikes" policy that would disconnect repeat file-swappers,
but are still interested in pressing measures that would reduce Internet speed,
Billboard reports.
BitBlinder Promises Free, Anonymous Surfing & BitTorrentAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 12, 2009 - 9:55am.
Los Angeles
- A new service called BitBlinder aims to provide free, anonymized Web surfing
and use of the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol, TorrentFreak reports. The
service provides free, anonymized surfing and downloading to users who agree to
share bandwidth that may be used by the system to facilitate sharing be fellow
BitBlinder users.
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