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Saturday, July 17th, 2010
Demonoid is without doubt one of the best known BitTorrent trackers on the Internet. Unfortunately, this Internet fame makes the tracker a target for numerous DoS (Denial of Service) attacks. Following one of the latest attacks Demonoid has decided to block many Taiwanese and Chinese IP-ranges. By Ernesto of TorrentFreak.
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
July 9 Update: A group of Argentinian hackers has managed to gain access to The Pirate Bay's admin panel through a security breach. On July 8, The Pirate Bay was working on a fix while the site was offline. Ernesto of TorrentFreak reports. [At the same time, Demonoid was also ...
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
While U.S. men and women put their lives at risk in Iraq, the MPAA has queried the military about the pirating habits of the soldiers stationed there. A declassified document from the United States Central Command confirms that the MPAA is fighting a war of its own in the Middle ...
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Thursday, May 13th, 2010
The MPAA, RIAA and other entertainment industry groups want people to believe that piracy is the result of people's greed and refusal to pay. A recent experiment by Wolfire Games sheds another light on this argument. Maybe fans have no access or means to pay. By Ernesto of TorrentFreak.
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
After resigning as The Pirate Bay's spokesperson, Peter Sunde was left with some extra time to spend on his side projects. One of these ventures is Flattr, a social micropayment system for people who share content on the Internet, which just launched in Beta. Ernesto of TorrentFreak reports.
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Last week The Pirate Bay confirmed it would shut down its tracker for good, instead encouraging the use of DHT, PEX and Magnet links. This move confounded many BitTorrent enthusiasts, who although wishing to adapt, were confronted with hard to grasp terminology and technology. As Ernesto of TorrentFreak says, time ...
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Zombieland co-writer Rhett Reese was shocked when he discovered more than a million people had downloaded his movie illegally on BitTorrent. The Hollywood writer has now penned yet another horror scenario, claiming that this achievement could very well prevent a sequel to the successful movie from being made. Report by ...
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Several of the largest BitTorrent sites including Mininova, The Pirate Bay and isoHunt have joined a coalition of file-sharing partners in an ambitious project to help filmmakers get their work out to the public. Founded by the director of Steal This Film, the VODO project debuts its first title on ...
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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
The Pirate Bay is going on a road trip through Europe, one they hope to end today in a former NATO bunker. After a move from Sweden to the Ukraine, The Pirate Bay has now arrived at CyberBunker, an ISP that can provide them with a facility that can resist ...
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Copyright laws were once written to allow content creators to protect their work, but at an increasing rate copyright is used to carefully extract money from file-sharers. Some tracking companies go as far as leasing copyrights, with the sole intent of setting up a 'honey pot' for pirates. By Ernesto ...
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