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Dropbox is getting ready for a big move, getting close to the release of the Dropbox 1.0 desktop client. While the version number would imply big changes, the update is minimal for those running the beta Dropbox 0.8 versions.Dropbox 1.0.0 RC is now available for download and should be considered a fairly stable relea... |
6 December 2010
10:17 GMT |
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The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized more than 70 domain names in a move to fight online file-sharing and counterfeiting. Users visiting any of the domains are redirected to a page notifying them that domains have been seized by US authorities.TorrentFreak, a blog dedicated to all things BitTorrent-relat... |
29 November 2010
06:37 GMT |
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For all the grandstanding and threats, there have only been a few copyright infringement cases brought against individual users that have gone to court. One of the best known ones is that of Jammie Thomas-Rasset who has been accused of sharing 24 songs over Kazaa. In what is now her third trial, she has once again lo... |
4 November 2010
11:26 GMT |
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LimeWire has been shut down after the New York company lost a four year long lawsuit with the Recording Industry Association of America, having been found guilty of massive copyright infringement. Make sure you check out this story on the effects of the Limewire shutdown.Users of the LimeWire client software on Wind... |
27 October 2010
06:20 GMT |
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Without the shadow of a doubt, we're heading towards a cloud-dominated world at top speed, but before we actually get there (something that won't happen for at least a couple of years), we'll get to enjoy all sorts of intermediary solutions, such as the N-Transfer box developed by telecom carrier NTT J... |
19 October 2010
01:49 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay appeal started off today without too much drama and with only three of the four defendants present. The defense attorneys asked for the charges and damages to be dropped, while the prosecutors asked for the initial verdict to be upheld. Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm did not attend as he is s... |
28 September 2010
10:56 GMT |
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Apple has released an express security update for all Mac users running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, including Server users, addressing a single issue that could result in a remote attack accessing AFP shared folders without a valid password.Over at the Support / Downloads area of its web site, Apple discusses Security Up... |
21 September 2010
04:49 GMT |
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The official Android client for the Dropbox online file storage and sharing service has been updated once again. The new beta version brings several enhancements, as well as some bug fixes.One of the main new features introduced by the latest release is an option which allows users to share files from other app... |
17 September 2010
03:35 GMT |
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Police have raided sites in as many as 14 European countries in a file-sharing investigation. The operation is the culmination of several years of investigation. Several individuals were arrested and computers seized.One of the inadvertent victims of the raid may have been the Pirate Bay which is currently unavailabl... |
7 September 2010
13:39 GMT |
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Dropbox, the company behind the service with the same name, has released an updated version of its application for BlackBerry handhelds. The fourth beta of the mobile client for the popular online file storage and sharing service brings several improvements as well as bug fixes. The main issues solved by the latest r... |
1 September 2010
09:07 GMT |
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Bump, an iOS app that makes file sharing as simple as bumping two phones together, has received a major update which adds a revamped calendar module, instant connecting to Facebook, LinedIn and Twitter, a new chat feature that allows users to keep sending stuff without another bump, and unlimited photo and contact sh... |
27 July 2010
08:36 GMT |
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In the US, there have been only two file-sharing cases involving individuals that have actually gone to court. In both of these cases, the individuals were found guilty of copyright infringement and were ordered to pay ridiculously high statutory damages to the music industry. Now, in both cases, the judges have lowe... |
10 July 2010
07:16 GMT |
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Internet piracy is as rampant as it has ever been and millions of people turn to peer to peer networks or various sites to get their hands on the movies, music or software that they want. The phenomenon is complex, but one of the big reasons people turn to file sharing is the convenience and not necessarily the price... |
6 July 2010
10:45 GMT |
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Transmission, the popular BitTorrent client, has been promoted to version 2.0.0 Beta 1, adding "Local Peer Discovery" for finding peers on the local network, optimizations, a new Compact View replacing the Minimal View, the ability to allow trackers to be pasted into the Create Window, and more. According to the rele... |
24 May 2010
06:49 GMT |
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The infamous BitTorrent indexer and search engine the Pirate Bay is currently down after its bandwidth provider was hit with an injunction forbidding it to provide access to the site. The injunction is the latest step in Hollywood’s battle with the site. The ISP, CB3ROB, which operates CyberBunker decided to pl... |
17 May 2010
10:35 GMT |
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According to the Boy Genius Report, iPhone OS 4.0 has a new File Sharing feature that allows one to transfer and sync files directly between the iPhone and a computer. Other new findings are detailed in the report, including media player widgets, some changes to multitasking, and an orientation lock built in the soft... |
6 May 2010
03:01 GMT |
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The controversial Digital Economy Bill has passed through the House of Lords, one of the UK Parliament's chambers, and will now go before the House of Commons, where it is expected to be rushed through before the general elections in the country. The bill has seen some of its most controversial portions amended,... |
16 March 2010
07:19 GMT |
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Spain is becoming the last bastion of common sense when it comes to peer-to-peer and file sharing, at least until the big media companies get their own way and change the law in the country altogether. Torrentfreak, the ever-vigilant blog focusing on BitTorrent and file-sharing issues, points to a recent lawsuit in S... |
15 March 2010
10:46 GMT |
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Two of the most popular P2P (peer-to-peer) file-sharing clients for Mac have received maintenance updates, which users are advised to download and install, to enhance the reliability and stability of their preferred program. The updates to LimeWire and Transmission for Mac are free, as are the original applications t... |
15 March 2010
07:47 GMT |
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The developer of one of the most widespread peer-to-peer file sharing applications, LimeWire, has partnered with AVG Technologies to protect its customers. The software company has licensed the AVG Anti-Virus SDK engine and integrated it into the commercial version of its product.LimeWire is a Java-based cross-platfo... |
12 March 2010
10:20 GMT |
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The 17-years-old free fighting championship seems to have put its foot in the door regarding online piracy. In a two-month span, UFC filed two major lawsuits against a bar owner from Boston (early January 2010) and Moazzam Gandu, the owner of Rage-Stream.net (mid-February 2010).After a tumultuous career in which pira... |
26 February 2010
09:18 GMT |
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The Internet as we know it may not be the same even a year from now, at least, if the current secret negotiations between the US, EU and several other countries turn out to be successful, as it looks very likely they'll be. The Internet changes all the time, it's part of its nature, mostly though, it's... |
22 February 2010
11:38 GMT |
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Transmission 1.90 final was released this week. With the release of Transmission 1.80 final, developers added support for magnet links, and trackerless torrents. Version 1.90 now adds display information for all selected transfers in the inspector's tracker and peer tabs, a filter to the message log, small inter... |
18 February 2010
09:47 GMT |
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With millions of blogs under its supervision, verifying that everything that gets posted on Blogger, complies with policies or with the law can be a daunting task. Add to this the whole copyright, fair use, DMCA debacle and you've got a situation that inevitably leads to problems. After several music blogs were... |
11 February 2010
09:23 GMT |
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The fight against illegal file-sharing is relentless, though surprisingly pointless at the same time. In another win for common sense, a Norwegian appeal court is standing by an earlier decision and has ruled that ISPs can't be forced to block sites, the Pirate Bay in this case, based on the wishes of private g... |
11 February 2010
06:41 GMT |
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Every once in a while the Australians get it right when it comes to the Internet. Not exactly renowned for their 'forward-thinking' approach, the Aussies have plans to implement a mandatory filter to keep out anything on the web that isn't 'appropriate', this latest news from Down Under is a... |
4 February 2010
10:51 GMT |
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Illegal file-sharing is at the heart of a growing dispute in a number of countries around the world, but the UK has been taking center stage lately. A controversial 'three-strikes' law is now going through Parliament which would potentially kick alleged illegal file sharers of the internet for repeated offe... |
29 January 2010
10:17 GMT |
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There aren't that many file-sharing cases that went to trial, just two in the US in fact, but the ones that have tend to go on forever. Last week, the judge presiding in the RIAA versus Jamie Thomas-Rasset case significantly lowered the damages ordered by the jury in the last round of the trial, from $1.92 mill... |
28 January 2010
09:09 GMT |
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Regardless of the controversy surrounding BitTorrent, it remains one of the most widely used internet technologies and millions of people use it everyday. It is also one of the heaviest network applications out there and there have been plenty who have criticized the protocol and the apps that use it for 'hoggi... |
27 January 2010
10:42 GMT |
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EU has pledged to keep an eye on UK ISP's Virgin Media latest plan to monitor illegal file-sharing traffic on its network following a complaint from human rights organization Privacy International. The European Commission said it would monitor how the ISP deploys the software it would use for deep-packet inspect... |
26 January 2010
12:07 GMT |
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The content industry's fight against piracy has had some very clear victories last year, though the war is far from over. In a landmark ruling, one 'pirate' was ordered to pay $1.92 million in damages to the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) for unforgivable crime of making 24 songs ava... |
25 January 2010
10:18 GMT |
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Anyone following the BitTorrent scene has been noticing some interesting developments lately and three new technologies in particular have stood out. A couple of them, DHT, PEX, are new ways of finding peers (users with copies of the file you want to download) without relying on the old BitTorrent tracker system. Th... |
19 January 2010
10:54 GMT |
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Sweden has been one of the leading countries when it comes to anything having to do with the Internet. It is one of the countries with best broadband deployment in the world and its citizens as well as the authorities have had quite a progressive view on how to handle the inherent changes brought by the web. Last ye... |
19 January 2010
07:01 GMT |
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In a decision that seems rare these days, common sense has prevailed in one illegal file-sharing case. The first person in the UK to go to court over file-sharing-related charges has been acquitted of the innovative 'conspiracy to defraud' the music industry, a turn-around of similar high-profile cases like... |
16 January 2010
05:15 GMT |
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France has been pushing forward with its plan to protect rights holders even at the expense of its citizens’ freedom online. Despite numerous setbacks, the so-called "three-strikes law" was supposed to go in effect starting January 1, 2010. This has been met with another delay as the law has failed to receive the ap... |
11 January 2010
10:43 GMT |
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Content creators are happy to argue the same rhetoric over and over again on how online piracy is raging havoc in the established industries and continue to ask for ever-increasing penalties for users guilty or just accused of illegal sharing. At the same time, the industry is happy to ignore actual hard numbers tha... |
11 January 2010
09:30 GMT |
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The music industry has been content with blaming everyone else for its lack of vision and has been issuing the same arguments over and over again without much proof on its part and without addressing the numerous critics. Many artists, even established ones, are starting to wake up to new opportunities and make the ... |
4 January 2010
10:02 GMT |
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Last year, the Internet began to be seen as a basic human right and some countries have instituted legal means of guaranteeing that the vast majority of their citizens have access to a quality Internet connection. Other countries, though, are going the other way, hindering their citizen's web use and in some ca... |
4 January 2010
05:21 GMT |
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It is the right of every company to defend its copyright. And so is the case of Hollywood studios that have been fighting the “good” fight since the Napster scandal first shed light upon the new phenomenon of P2P file sharing. At least in one moment of our lives we face an event in which our copy or legal... |
17 December 2009
02:58 GMT |
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A new beta release of Transmission 1.80 for Mac OS X is now available to the public. Currently at its third beta release, the P2P file-sharing (BitTorrent) client adds improved tracker announcement, less CPU-hungry encrypted handshakes to peers, German localization and more. A BitTorrent client similar to the popula... |
16 December 2009
10:02 GMT |
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A BitTorrent client similar to the popular Vuze, Transmission is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing application whose code is licensed under the GNU General Public License, with select code licensed under the liberal MIT License. The program boasts a simple, intuitive interface designed to integrate tightly with any O... |
11 December 2009
08:49 GMT |
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Transmission 1.80 Beta 1 is now available for free download for users of Mac OS X. A BitTorrent client similar to Vuze, Transmission’s code is licensed under the GNU General Public License, with select code licensed under the liberal MIT License. The program boasts a simple, intuitive interface designed to inte... |
7 December 2009
06:51 GMT |
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The developers of LimeWire X, the Mac version of the popular P2P, file-sharing client, have released a new beta version of the software, implementing open source contributor Gregorio Roper's Matching TigerTrees to SHA-1 patch to improve downloads. Besides the aforementioned addition improving downloads via the ... |
3 December 2009
10:14 GMT |
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The battle against “illegal file-sharing” is heating up, especially in Europe where it looks like the media lobbyists are well worth their fees. Several countries are planning or debating whether to introduce a 'three-strikes' system for file sharers, and recently, the UK has been the hotbed of... |
27 November 2009
09:21 GMT |
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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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