Users of Swedish piracy utopia The Pirate Bay have reason to be nervous, post-Megaupload. It’s survived everything companies and cops have thrown its way, but you never know — so download this archive of every single torrent from The Bay. More »
LimeWire has been kaput as a file-sharing service since October, but that hasn’t stopped its legal woes. Now, after settling with the RIAA to the tune of $US105 million, the MPAA and a host of indie music labels have filed lawsuits against the company as well. Talk about beating a dead horse. More »
Things are changing since the Megaupload shutdown: QuickSilverScreen is no more, Filesonic and Fileserve users can only download files they’ve uploaded, and now, BTJunkie has voluntarily closed. More »
With the popular MegaUpload file sharing website shut down, several other online locker services, all of which have legal uses, are limiting their features or closing down entirely in an apparent effort to avoid MegaUpload’s fate: a forced shutdown by the United States Department of Justice, FBI and National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, and the arrests of its operators. More »
In what looks like a desperate preventive measure in reaction to the Megaupload shutdown, FileSonic has disabled all file-sharing capabilities and is now nothing more than a personal storage solution. It looks like the FBI’s scare tactic of going after the big fish in Megaupload is beginning to scare other file-sharing sites. More »
The FBI has shut down file-sharing web site Megaupload, arrested its executives, and called the site an “international organised criminal enterprise“. Even though there’s little doubt that Megaupload was host to some copyrighted material, it was also a great way to upload and share large files, like photo archives and video, and send them to friends without worrying about hosting, Dropbox quotas or overloaded inboxes. Now that it’s gone, here are some other great sites that let you share large files effortlessly. More »
I think I can still feel my fingers tingling after I played with a stereo hooked up to Ericsson’s new capacitive coupling technology, which uses the water in the human body to transmit data instead of cables or radio waves. More »
Ericsson’s new technology will allow you to transfer data between two gadgets by sending it directly through your body. The demonstrations of the technology are really cool, but what will it actually be good for in real life. More »
Sort of. The program — called “Share”, as mentioned in the headline — is built on the same BitTorrent protocol we all know very, very well. The process of sharing isn’t a stretch from what we’re used to — all the new program does is provide an interface more suited to the purpose of storing and retrieving cloud-based files. More »
Those nauseating RIAA hypocrites were caught illegally downloading $US9 million of TV shows. Now they are giving the same pathetic excuse given to them by the people they accused of pirating songs: “someone was using our IP address.” More »
