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Spanish Government Destroys P2P And Basic Freedoms
2:40AM Jesus Diaz | The Spanish Government, one of the last bastions of legal peer-to-peer file sharing, has approved a law that will obliterate some of the most basic human rights, like freedom of speech and due process. All in the name of money. More »
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2:36AM Jesus Diaz | Michael Fricklas is Viacom’s general counsel, the company’s top lawyer. I can’t tell if he actually felt bad when he said the above at a recent meeting with Yale Law students. I kind of feel an evil, dark smile inside. More »
Viacom Top Lawyer On Obliterating Peer-to-Peer Users
2:36AM Jesus Diaz | Michael Fricklas is Viacom’s general counsel, the company’s top lawyer. I can’t tell if he actually felt bad when he said the above at a recent meeting with Yale Law students. I kind of feel an evil, dark smile inside. More »
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More Tips For Torrenting Your Brains Out
10:35AM Matt Buchanan | Just about every BitTorrent trick you need to know that we haven’t shown you, Maximum PC covers in their BitTorrent guide, like remote management, rolling your own torrents and even getting somebody else to do the dirty work for you. More »
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µTorrent 2.0 Self Throttles So ISPs Don’t Have To…What?
4:15AM Danny Allen | This is weird: The next version of µTorrent, currently in beta, uses an updated version of the BitTorrent protocol that decreases your speed (usually uploads) when it detects network congestion. Will it slow downloads? Not necessarily…apparently. More »
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Pirate Bay Unplugged By Swedish Court (Already Back Again, Sorta)
4:15PM Danny Allen | Like a T-1000 that just won’t die, the Pirate Bay simply jumped servers after its ISP pulled the plug yesterday. Update: But the site bounced back (after some ups-and-downs overnight), and here’s an excerpt from their defiant (and funny) response. More »
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Surprise! The Pirate Bay’s Buyers Are Extremely Shady
3:30AM John Herrman | Heroically snatched from near-death by a mysterious, benevolent gaming company, the Pirate Bay had a rosy future laid out ahead of it. But hey, that company? They’re turning out to be kind of rotten and possibly fraudulent. More »
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How To: Use The Heck Out Of Usenet
4:00AM John Herrman | Usenet: Everyone’s heard of it, nobody uses it. This is ridiculous. Not only is Usenet a fantastic way to download—it’s not that hard to use. Here’s how to kick your torrent habit once and for all, with Usenet More »
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Five Pirate Bay BitTorrent Alternatives
5:20AM Matt Buchanan | The Pirate Bay we know and love, though still harbouring torrents for now, is going away. But that doesn’t mean BitTorrent is dead. Far from it. Here are five places to get your torrent on after it closes for good. More »
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Download The Pirate Bay’s Complete Archive With One Torrent
8:30PM Danny Allen | With the Pirate Bay set to close in the next few days, one anonymous user has compiled a single massive archive of all 873,671 torrent files hosted on its servers. More »
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