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Vuze has been updated to version 4.3.0.2 for Mac OS X, adding support per-url config for http seeds and the max_speed setting, and other changes. Vuze is similar to uTorrent, a popular BitTorrent client mostly used by PC owners. According to the release notes for Vuze 4.3.0.2, the new features include Core - support... |
20 November 2009
06:40 GMT |
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The music business is changing and there's nothing that anyone can do, including the huge music labels, to stop that. However, while the record labels try to cling on to their dying business model, yet another study shows that those who download music illegally are also the ones who spend more on it. A lot more,... |
2 November 2009
08:48 GMT |
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A confidential report from the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct of the United States House of Representatives was leaked on peer-to-peer file sharing networks. The document contained details about the investigations of thirty house members and some of their aides.The Committee on Standards of Official Condu... |
2 November 2009
06:28 GMT |
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The Pirate Party is starting to pick up steam all over the world with several regional organizations on their way to follow the party's success in its country of origin, Sweden. Standing for a copyright and patent law overhaul and better privacy rights, the Pirate Party has also managed to get a good following i... |
28 September 2009
06:47 GMT |
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Pirate Bay admins have offered open public support for the new lobbing group formed to help Black Internet fight against a court decision that obligated it to disconnect the Pirate Bay tracker from its Internet connection in mid-August. Black Internet, Pirate Bay's former ISP, has gained much public support afte... |
19 September 2009
05:13 GMT |
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LimeWire X, the free, peer-to-peer (P2P), file-sharing app for Mac OS X has reached version 5.3.4, adding core improvements and tweaks. LimeWire X uses the Java platform to locate files, as well as share files, and it is one of the few P2P, file-sharing solutions of its kind for the Mac. LimeWire X is compatible with... |
17 September 2009
06:04 GMT |
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µTorrent, a popular BitTorrent client now available for Mac OS X as well, has been updated to version 0.9.2 beta. The software follows the rules of a protocol such as HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol). BitTorrent can be used to deliver any type of file. However, BitTorrent is purely a content-distribution meth... |
16 September 2009
09:43 GMT |
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After huge positive reactions in the Swedish press and Government officials, Black Internet, Pirate Bay's ISP, will mount an appeal to the court ruling, which forced it to cut the internet connection for the renowned tracker. At first, Black Internet's CEO, Victor Möller, announced that due to a lack o... |
15 September 2009
10:38 GMT |
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Finally, someone in Facebook has read their Terms of Service and made up their mind about how they should feel about file-sharing services implementing features for their website. After going back and forward in recent days, Facebook announced LimeWire representatives that they would block LimeWire's new feature... |
12 September 2009
04:04 GMT |
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A group of open-source developers have taken P2P tracker development to another level. A little Python application called Atrack could easily transform the Google Apps Engine into a powerful low-cost, low-memory, low-bandwidth bit-torrent tracker, TorrentFreak reports. Designed by default to use Google's App eng... |
11 September 2009
10:38 GMT |
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A BBC radio show has recently investigated and proved the fact that some interpretation errors in surveys taken in the UK have led to a hugely exaggerated number of P2P file sharers. The British Government was planning to use this figure in issuing some P2P banning / limiting laws across the UK's territory in th... |
10 September 2009
10:31 GMT |
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Transmission, a BitTorrent client similar to Vuze, or uTorrent, has received a new update recently, bringing the piece of software to version 1.75b1. Transmission is open source, while most of the code is licensed under the GNU General Public License, with select code licensed under the liberal MIT License. The progr... |
8 September 2009
06:19 GMT |
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LimeWire X is a free, peer-to-peer (P2P), file-sharing client for Mac OS X. It uses the Java platform to locate files, as well as share files, and it is one of the few P2P, file-sharing solutions of its kind for the Mac. LimeWire is compatible with all major platforms and running over the Gnutella Network. The relea... |
4 September 2009
06:19 GMT |
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Evenflow Inc., the maker of Dropbox, has issued an update to its sync & backup app, improving column view, adding a more reliable overlays/context menu integration, and fixes to a couple of Finder crashes. According to the development team behind Dropbox, column view should properly display overlays over quicklook p... |
4 September 2009
05:57 GMT |
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TorrentFreak reports that Ukrainian-based BitTorrent tracker Demonoid is facing some huge hardware problems that will certainly result in some downtime for its users. Demonoid admins have admitted to having serious problems with a lot of components ranging from system memory, hard-drives and power circuits.It seems t... |
4 September 2009
04:15 GMT |
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Fear is what drives innovation, and after the latest frights in Gary Fung's day-to-day illegal existence, Hexagon.cc is what came out. Having been sued by many music and film companies, and later pursued by the police, the founder and creator of the IsoHunt torrent tracker has revealed his new project, Hexagon.c... |
3 September 2009
05:41 GMT |
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Studies have shown in the past that file sharers also make good customers for the media companies, not that it has changed anything in the way the big companies approach the issue. Still, one more can't hurt, so here's yet another study that has found that users that engage in file sharing also purchase mor... |
29 August 2009
05:46 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay sale is going ahead as planned, at least that's what Hans Pandeya, CEO of Global Gaming Factory X, the company that plans to buy the torrents site, is saying. Another big step in the process was made yesterday as GGF's shareholders approved the deal. Now, Pandeya tells us, it should take abou... |
28 August 2009
05:12 GMT |
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The developers of one of our favorite desktop apps have confirmed something we’ve been waiting for a very long time – the Dropbox iPhone client has been submitted to Apple for approval. If the Dropbox team hasn’t, by any chance, slipped inappropriate content in the app’s “public” f... |
27 August 2009
11:51 GMT |
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Mininova has lost a lawsuit filed by the Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN and the judge ordered the torrent site to remove all infringing content within three months. While the court didn't hold Mininova responsible for the illegal content linked to on the site, it believed that the torrent aggregator could ... |
26 August 2009
09:11 GMT |
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Handled by developer Eric Petit, Transmission is a BitTorrent client similar to Vuze, or uTorrent. The piece of software is open source, while most of the code is licensed under the GNU General Public License, with select code licensed under the liberal MIT License. Transmission boasts a simple, intuitive interface ... |
25 August 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Transmission is a BitTorrent client similar to Vuze, or uTorrent. The software is open source, while most of the code is licensed under the GNU General Public License, with select code licensed under the liberal MIT License. The program offers a simple, intuitive interface designed to integrate tightly with any OS. ... |
20 August 2009
09:56 GMT |
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United States Government officials have issued a letter to all United States Antarctic Program (USAP) employees, informing of a stricter application of the internal IT usage rules, regarding P2P and online gaming. Personnel stationed in any Antarctica-based location owned and ran by the US will face penalties w... |
19 August 2009
08:05 GMT |
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While US officials are bent on taking a hard stance against illegal file sharing, with courts awarding millions in damages left and right for a handful of shared songs, other countries are more lenient and have more proportionate penalty systems. As such, a man in Finland found guilty of sharing music online was orde... |
19 August 2009
06:57 GMT |
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The future doesn't look very bright for illegal file sharers, at least in the US, after two high-profile cases have seen record statutory damages awarded to the RIAA – damages that the US Department of Justice believes are constitutional, defending the $1.92 million in damages Jammie Thomas-Rasset now has ... |
17 August 2009
04:15 GMT |
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Though some might want to believe that file sharing, especially for music, is becoming less of a problem and that legitimate services are replacing illegal ones, new data from a UK Music-backed study shows that, at least in the UK, unlawful music sharing is as much of a problem as always with 61 percent of young peop... |
11 August 2009
11:34 GMT |
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With the date of the Pirate Bay sale getting closer the legal troubles have increased and the site is being attacked in court rooms in several countries. One such lawsuit recently ended in the Netherlands with the site being asked to shut down in the country and given a 10-day window to do it. That window would have ... |
10 August 2009
10:55 GMT |
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The team behind one of Softpedia’s favorite freeware apps, Dropbox, has updated its blog with a rather interesting story on how people can use the cross-platform software to their advantage. As some of you may know, Dropbox is an online backup and sharing solution for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux that comes in b... |
7 August 2009
10:35 GMT |
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Considering the upcoming Pirate Bay sale and all of the events this year, from the one year in prison sentence and the $3.6 million fine in Sweden to the recent banning of the site in the Netherlands, it may not be such a big surprise that the site's founder and spokesman, Peter Sunde, has decided to resign and ... |
4 August 2009
10:24 GMT |
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Most of the time when you hear about a lawsuit between a bittorrent site and a copyright holder the latter is suing the site on various claims of infringement and illegal activities. IsoHunt, based in Canada, though, decided to take the first step and sue the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) to determin... |
3 August 2009
08:25 GMT |
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In another case of outrageous damages awarded to the recording industry, a Boston student has been ordered to pay $675,000 for illegally sharing 30 songs with the file-sharing, peer-to-peer application Kazaa. The verdict came after only three hours of deliberation from the jury, once the defendant, Joel Tenenbaum, ad... |
1 August 2009
07:22 GMT |
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Despite doubts from the media and many experts and a recent series of events that cast a serious shadow over the deal, it looks like the plan to acquire the Pirate Bay is going ahead as planned, with the Global Gaming Foundation announcing that the final purchase will happen on August 27. Not only is the deal alive, ... |
31 July 2009
11:51 GMT |
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During a hearing in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, P2P intelligence company Tiversa informed that the location of a Secret Service safe house, to serve the presidential family in case of emergency, had been leaked onto the Gnutella network. In response, Congressman Edolphus Towns, repre... |
30 July 2009
04:28 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay sale, which left many questions unanswered and many people skeptical, looks a lot less likely now that Wayne Rosso, the former CEO of Grokster, decided to step away from the deal, after only two weeks. He was brought in to aid with the transformation of the site into a legitimate one and to broker the ... |
29 July 2009
04:46 GMT |
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Illegal file sharing services coming back as legit products is nothing new, though for the most part, they haven't exactly been an overwhelming success. Napster tried it and is still at it offering a legal, subscription-based music download service, the Pirate Bay is apparently doing something similar though det... |
20 July 2009
04:38 GMT |
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With the Pirate Bay being sold and new owner Global Gaming Foundation claiming the site will become legal and pay copyright owners, many are wondering how exactly the company intends to make the money necessary for the licensing. Most of the explanations have been vague but with the hiring of Wayne Rosso some details... |
17 July 2009
08:42 GMT |
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The Dropbox Team has issued an announcement to all users, including free account holders, notifying them of some changes and enhancements to the Dropbox service. Dropbox is cross-platform, meaning it works on PC and Mac. This way, you can install the software on both systems, feed Dropbox some files on one computer,... |
16 July 2009
08:39 GMT |
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A new survey from The Leading Question research firm has revealed that more young people are purchasing music downloads rather than procuring them from illegal sites. For the first time 19 percent of music fans are purchasing music legally compared to the 17 percent that download it from illegal file sharing sites. T... |
13 July 2009
06:07 GMT |
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While the aftermath of the Pirate Bay deal is just starting to be felt, some questions as to the future of the site and how the community will fare are already begging to be answered. Last week the torrent site announced it had been bought by Swedish gaming company Global Gaming Factory X AB (GGF) for about $7.8 mill... |
6 July 2009
06:46 GMT |
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LimeWire X is a free, peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing client for Mac OS X. It uses the Java platform to locate files, as well as share files, and it is one of the few P2P file-sharing solutions of its kind for the Mac. LimeWire is compatible with all major platforms and running over the Gnutella network. The latest ... |
3 July 2009
03:03 GMT |
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Another chapter is about to begin in Jammie Thomas-Rasset's fight with the RIAA. A couple of weeks ago the 32 year-old woman was found guilty of willful copyright infringement and was ordered to pay a record $1.92 million in statutory damages to the recording industry. One of the lawyers representing Thomas-Rass... |
2 July 2009
08:54 GMT |
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Global Gaming Factory X AB (GGF) announced the acquisition of torrent indexer and tracker site Pirate bay for a reported $7.8 million (SEK 60 million). Pirate Bay representatives have confirmed the news saying that the move shouldn't worry users and that the new leadership will continue to build on the principle... |
30 June 2009
05:28 GMT |
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The Swedish Appeal Court has ruled in the appeal filed by the Pirate Bay defendants accusing judge Tomas Norström of bias in the Pirate Bay case, which he presided. The defendants asked the court for a retrial on account of bias based on the fact that the judge was part of several pro-copyright groups, which was... |
26 June 2009
02:52 GMT |
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File-sharing site Rapidshare has been hit with a big fine of €24 million ($34 million) by the Regional Court in Hamburg, Germany, following a request by GEMA, a German copyright protection group acting on behalf of 65,000 composers and other music industry parties. The court also forbid the file-sharing site fro... |
24 June 2009
10:24 GMT |
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Online storage services became very popular in the last year or so... especially the ones that offered substantial free storage. Canonical and Mandriva also announced recently that they would offer such services for their operating systems in the next months. To be honest, Ubuntu One from Canonical seems very promisi... |
19 June 2009
08:06 GMT |
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Transmission, the popular BitTorrent client for Mac OS X, has received a new update packing fixes and improvements. Cross-platform changes, Mac-specific fixes and improvements to GTK+ and Daemon are noted in the changelog. Transmission is a BitTorrent client much like Vuze, or uTorrent. The software is open source, w... |
17 June 2009
05:00 GMT |
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Opera has finally shed some light on how exactly it plans to “reinvent the web” following its mysterious press release last week. Today the Norwegian company announced its latest product, Opera Unite, which aims to make every computer a web server, allowing users to share content stored on their personal ... |
16 June 2009
09:52 GMT |
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Gnutella Network has updated its popular P2P file-sharing client for Mac OS X, LimeWire X. The latest version of the software, LimeWire X 5.2.2 Beta, brings both enhancements and fixed bugs. LimeWire is free to download and use for as long as you want. Skim through the list of changes below to learn what’s new... |
12 June 2009
10:47 GMT |
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The infamous “three strikes” law, which provides that illegal file sharers have their Internet connection cut off after three warnings, has seen a major setback in France. The French Constitutional Court has rejected a proposition that would give a newly created government agency the authority to disconne... |
11 June 2009
05:35 GMT |
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The request for a retrial in the Pirate Bay case, after allegations of bias on the judge's part, is being reviewed by the Svea Court of Appeal. The Stockholm District court, which handled the case, argued yesterday that the judge's affiliation with several pro-copyright groups didn't interfere with his... |
9 June 2009
04:44 GMT |
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