As I sat down this morning to begin working on a few small news items, Torrent Freak had dropped a bomb on my RSS: the Pirate Bay has been sold for just under $8 million US.
Swedish gaming giant Global Gaming Factory X will become the new owners, and The Pirate Bay as you and I [...]
There are a few widely-accepted ways to anonymize your browsing or torrent activity, but they all have their drawbacks. TOR is free, but it’s poor etiquette to use it for torrents and put a strain on the bandwidth of the nice folks who run TOR servers. Not to mention that it’s incredibly, stupefyingly slow. You [...]
Apple has done it again, this time wielding the ban hammer on Maza Digital’s Drivetrain, an iPhone app that allows a user to remotely control his or her Transmission downloads.
What gives, Apple? According to the notice sent to Maza, “This category of applications is often used for the purpose of infringing third party rights. [...]
Many of you are probably already downloading your torrent files directly to an external hard drive. Looking for a slick, portable client for torrenting on the go with your drive? Vuze has a new app for that.
Called Vuze to Go, the version makes use of Ceedo’s application virtualization and costs $9.99. Because of the way [...]
Things in the P2P world continue to change in the wake of the Pirate Bay trial. Today, Mininova announced a new feature designed to make the removal of copyright-infringing works easier for users of their content distribution service.
Mininova’s content checker utilizes a third-party recognition system, and the crew hopes that it will allow artists and [...]
There’s more than one way to skin a cat. Today’s cat: starting torrent downloads on your computer from a remote location!
The first two options require 1) your home machine’s address and 2) a forwarded port on your router. If you’re on a dynamic IP connection like me, a DDNS updating service like Dyndns.org [...]
Despite the founders of The Pirate Bay saying they thought a not guilty verdict would be handed down, the Swedish judge presiding over the Pirate Bay trial felt differently. Today, Peter Sunde, Frederik Neij, Gottfried Svartholm, and Carl Lundstrom were each found guilty and sentenced to one year in prison and fined $905,000 each.
The [...]
While most of you responded that laws like IPRED won’t stop you from downloading whatever it is you download from torrent trackers, you may change your minds if Swedish law enforcement agencies keep doing what they’re doing.
Two arrests have been made in connection with Operation Carbonite, an cooperative effort involving law enforcement agencies from the [...]
It’s no secret that P2P traffic makes up a huge percentage of the total traffic on the Internet. Also no secret is that fact that some portion of that traffic is used for nefarious purposes like downloading movies that haven’t been released or software that Microsoft doesn’t want you to have yet.
Yesterday, the IPRED era [...]
It’s no April Fools’ prank. On April 1st - the same day that Sweden’s Draconian new intellectual property legislation (IPRED) goes into effect - the Pirate Bay will debut their new IPREDATOR VPN service.
Where IPRED aims to make it easier for copyright holders to get their hands on ISP log files to investigate suspected transgressors. [...]
