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Shinjiru is an Internet service provider (ISP) from Malaysia that succumbed to pressure from the Government last month and consequently shut down the web pages of several BitTorrent trackers. Although most of these sites are now up and running as if nothing ever happened, TorrentFreak has discovered that Shinjiru is ... |
21 July 2008
10:14 GMT |
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One of the largest criminal music piracy cases in the United States has ended with 25-year old Barry Gitarts being convicted of copyright infringement. The man, who was part of the so-called Apocalypse Production Crew, was found guilty by a jury last week in the Eastern District of Virginia. The APC was an online pir... |
28 May 2008
08:34 GMT |
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The Canadian Recording Industry Association, also known as CRIA, decided to take attitude against the growing number of BitTorrent services in the country and requested Moxie Colo, a local BitTorrent hosting service, to shut down four websites. According to TorrentFreak, the anti-piracy group has also demanded the ho... |
28 May 2008
04:38 GMT |
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Mininova, which is said to be the most popular BitTorrent website on the Internet, has just reached a new milestone as it passed 5 billion torrent downloads. The announcement comes after only one week since BREIN, a Dutch anti-piracy group, said it planned to file a lawsuit against Mininova because it provided links ... |
27 May 2008
02:43 GMT |
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MPAA started the battle against pirate websites a few years ago; in the recent few months, the results of its impressive campaign have come to life. After the $110 million fine received by TorrentSpy, the Motion Picture Association of America recorded another win against Cinematube and Showstash, two websites also ac... |
23 May 2008
06:54 GMT |
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The Icelandic copyright organizations that sued the country's largest BitTorrent tracker suffered another defeat after the court decided that there were no legal grounds in the case against the service. According to Ben Jones of TorrentFreak, the administrators of the website plan to reopen it on May 16, althoug... |
12 May 2008
05:23 GMT |
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MVGroup, a torrent tracker that has nothing to do with illegal material or copyrighted content, has gone offline due to what seems to be the error of the anti-piracy group that requested the host to shut down the servers. According to TorrentFreak, the BitTorrent website went offline a few days ago and it's stil... |
23 April 2008
04:25 GMT |
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Yesterday we reported that the source code of the popular MMO game Eve Online was leaked to a torrent website, following one user's attempt to prove to the developers at CCP that the security of the game itself is not good enough. Today, a CCP rep talked about the problem and explained why this leak can not affe... |
16 April 2008
13:06 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay, the BitTorrent website which has been longly criticized for the content published on its page, prepares to release a complaint in order to demand for compensations from IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), an organization supposed to defend music artists' copyrights. To b... |
16 April 2008
04:43 GMT |
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Demonoid was one of the most popular names on the BitTorrent websites industry, with an impressive number of daily users that helped the page grow up. Although all these aspects predicted a successful future for the website, it was 100% different from what the administrators were expecting: Demonoid got shut down aft... |
14 April 2008
16:56 GMT |
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The fight against the BitTorrent websites encouraging and enhancing the download of pirated content is famous now and it seems there are signs of success. Although the reasons for doing this were not explained too well, YouTorrent, one of the most appreciated BitTorrent search engines, is now getting more legal than ... |
14 April 2008
04:34 GMT |
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It's well known the fact that media companies around the world have started a powerful campaign against the BitTorrent websites that encourage and enhance the distribution of pirated content, so such a piece of news shouldn't amaze anybody. However, when hearing about another BitTorrent service that bit the... |
7 April 2008
17:41 GMT |
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Whatever you do, do not download Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows 7 from torrent trackers. Or anything else for that matter. Users that are looking for a free ride via peer-to-peer networks are at risk of getting a tad more than they bargained for, explained Billy McCourt, SophosLabs Security Researcher. McCourt... |
27 March 2008
15:39 GMT |
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Well, this is something to consider as a great possibility for iPhone users! A P2P client for the Apple phone. Now, don't rush to find the source just yet. Read on and see how exactly it works (if it does at all) and what the risks are."Today, the insanely brilliant iPhone Hacker core announced a preliminary ver... |
3 March 2008
04:37 GMT |
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AMD's errata-free quad-core Opterons are slated for official unveiling in April this year, eight months later than the original release date. It was supposed to hit the market in September, but a translation lookaside buffer bug kept it away from the retailers' shelves. Although the company announced that t... |
4 February 2008
03:00 GMT |
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Windows Vista Service Pack 1, not to mention Windows Vista RTM, and Windows XP Service Pack 3 are out, and Windows 7 is in! That's right, Windows 7. There is a veritable frenzy over the next edition of the Windows operating system, as it appears that Microsoft has already shipped an early development milestone t... |
29 January 2008
12:35 GMT |
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First of all, I chose to name the group of hackers 'Robin Hood', because they acted just like the famous hero: they stole the BitTorrent website's money and donated them to a Sikhi portal. Now, let me tell you the whole story: the hackers managed to steal the password of an administrator of the BitTorr... |
7 January 2008
10:00 GMT |
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We all know the authorities struggle to shut down the BitTorrent websites and reduce the amount of pirated content they suspect these services distribute every day. But closing them is not always a disaster for the BitTorrent services. The best example is represented by The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent technology that ma... |
27 December 2007
10:30 GMT |
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The fight against the BitTorrent services, which have been accused for distributing or for supporting the distribution of pirated content, made a new victim. Demonoid, the BitTorrent service that was first closed in November, is still unavailable and it seems that a resurrection is not yet possible. In case you misse... |
27 December 2007
09:22 GMT |
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It's a well-known fact that consumers who are looking to distribute pirated content on the web are usually attracted by BitTorrent because it offers high download and upload speeds and reliable connections. Because of that, the amount of the pirated content distributed through BitTorrent grew up a lot so the par... |
10 October 2007
04:34 GMT |
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Botnets are a serious threat to Internet Service Providers and not only to them. As this is the year of the bot in cyber-security, it's a clear thing that all security experts are trying to tackle this problem. And what the botnet creators or herders or whatever you wish to call them fear most is, of course, the... |
28 September 2007
06:27 GMT |
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The fight against the torrent trackers distributing or boosting illegal material on the Internet is now making new victims. After two top players, TorrentSpy and Demonoid, were shut down, IsoHunt also bites the dust but only partially. The founder of the technology announced that IsoHunt becomes unavailable for the U... |
27 September 2007
04:00 GMT |
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The time has arrived. A time for authorities from all around the world to join their forces and start an offensive against the pirated content and the torrent trackers. After TorrentSpy kept the front page of the newspapers for several weeks, Demonoid is now brought in the spotlights as the BitTorrent tracker was una... |
26 September 2007
05:06 GMT |
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Google indexes all kinds of files, no matter their format and provides one click access to them through the search engine results page. That's why Google tends to become a real download source as the users found simple ways to save almost any type of file available through the search engine. The torrent files ar... |
10 August 2007
09:56 GMT |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, the latest book concerning the famous hero, is about to be released in this weekend in several corners of the world. But the very addicted fans now have an alternative. The latest J. K. Rowling's creation was leaked on the Internet by a user who managed to obtain a US editio... |
18 July 2007
04:14 GMT |
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Google is a search engine that allows you to find anything on the Internet, no matter the format, the type or the content. That's why you're also able to find free torrents and download them straight from Google without having to find alternative sources. The torrent is quite a useful way to download anyth... |
4 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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These days, BitTorrent is the most popular P2P (peer-to-peer) file distribution protocol. Whether you want to share some files or you just want to get your hands on the latest Linux distributions, then you must use a BitTorrent client. There are many BitTorrent clients for Linux, starting with the old and classical... |
9 March 2007
09:04 GMT |
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