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µTorrent iPhone App Rejected, Heads Over To Cydia Common sense dictates that an IP address is just a number associated with a connection and not a human being. Copyright crusaders aren’t exactly known for loads of common sense and rationality. Thankfully, a New York judge has ruled that an IP address alone is not enough to pin illegal downloads on a specific person.
AFACT was never going to lie down quietly over its two consecutive court losses to iiNet over Internet piracy , and the result has just been handed down for its High Court appeal; AFACT’s appeal has been dismissed. Update: AFACT is now calling on the Government to take up the copyright fight.
The Pirate Bay, the largest torrent site on the internet, is no more. Or well, it’s not like it once was. As of this moment, they’ve taken down all torrent links on the website and will now only use ‘magnet links’.
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.
A porno house called Hard Drive Productions (obviously) has dutifully collected a swath of IP addresses associated with illegal downloads of its content. Now, as part of a mass lawsuit, the smut peddlers are petitioning for access to the names associated with those IP addresses.
A coalition of ISPs has proposed new rules for dealing with Australians thought to have downloaded copyrighted material. It has already generated a lot of controversy and discussion, but just how will the process work?
Google’s autocomplete blacklist has for some time stopped when terms like “torrent” or “rapidshare” were entered. Now a large number of popular torrent sharing sites have joined the blacklist as well.
As many of you know, it’s not uncommon for recent cinema releases to show up on torrent sites. What’s unusual here is that the watermark of the high-quality torrent Super 8 appears to point the finger at US satellite radio shock jock, Howard Stern.
Hey, remember the malware LulzSec reportedly left torrenters with their farewell release? Turns out it wasn’t a virus at all. Rather, experts at Kaspersky Lab, McAfee and Trend Micro determined it just looked like a virus. Meta lulz? [Ubergizmo]
