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BitTorrent’s Trying Hard To Get Friendly With The Entertainment Industry
Torrenting, it’s the tool of thieves and pirates, right? The evil protocol no honest person should ever dare touch? Not quite, but it’s got that reputation with some, and it’s trying hard to shake it. According to BitTorrent’s executive director of marketing Matt Mason, they plan to take it all the way in the other direction and get into legal content distribution.
Demonoid Tracker Back Online After Earlier Attacks
After the Ukrainian government’s assault on the Demonoid torrent tracker three months ago, we’ve heard not a peep out of it. Many thought it was down for good as a present to the US from the Ukraine, but lo, two days ago, the tracker began to rise from the ashes from whence it had been cast. Demonoid’s back, baby!
How 10 Porn Movie Downloads Cost One Man $1.5 Million
Poor Kywan Fisher just wanted to have his fill of lonely entertainment. He downloaded 10 of Flava Works’ adult movies, hooking them up to BitTorrent in the process; what a mistake that turned out to be. He’s just been ordered to fork out a cool $US1.5 million for the privilege, the largest damages fine ever awarded, in one of only a handful of piracy cases that has actually made it to court. Don’t mess with the porn barons.
Which Is The Most Pirate-Friendly College In America?
Being in college is mostly about torrenting things. You learn and flirt and imbibe and have a much more awkward time doing it than you thought you would, sure, but your time is predominantly spent torrenting movies and music and other stuff that doesn’t belong to you. And here are the 50 colleges that do it the most.
Google Is Now Censoring The Pirate Bay In Search Results
Back in January, Google bowed down to corporate monoliths and started censoring “piracy-related searches” containing terms such as “BitTorrent”, “torrent” and “RapidShare” so that they won’t appear on Google’s autocomplete and instant search results. The Pirate Bay is the latest to be added to the list.
Every Time You Torrent, Feds Log Your IP In Just Three Hours
Those of us who have downloaded pirated music, video or ebooks using a BitTorrent client have probably had their IP address logged by copyright-enforcement authorities within three hours of doing so. So say computer scientists who placed a fake pirate server online — and very quickly found monitoring systems checking out who was taking what from the servers.
