FILESHARING WEB SITE The Pirate Bay says it is almost ready to stop serving Bittorrents. We reported earlier that Pirate Bay is moving towards Magnet links and a post on its web site confirms the shift. The Pirate Bay will stop serving Bittorrent trackers ...
Peter Sunde, one of the co-founders of the infamous The Pirate Bay file-sharing search engine, argues that Big Content should start innovating and stop trying to use the courts and the law to put the genie back in the bottle.
It's that wait that correlates with a 7 pecent reduction in lower box office revenue overseas due to piracy made possible by BitTorrent. In contrast, in the U.S. they found no reduction in box office sales since the introduction of P2P file sharing.
They understand not the wisdom of SOPA [Julian Sanchez, Cato at Liberty]
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Pirate Bay captains Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström must finally walk the plank for their roles in running one of the biggest file-sharing sites on the Internet. Sweden’s Supreme Court denied on Wednesday the group’s ...
A community portal about File sharing with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: File sharing is the practice of making files available for other users to download over the Internet and smaller networks. Usually file sharing follows the peer-to-peer model, where the files are stored on and served by personal computers of the...more
A community portal about File sharing with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: File sharing is the practice of making files available for other users to download over the Internet and smaller networks. Usually file sharing follows the peer-to-peer model, where the files are stored on and served by personal computers of the users. Most people who engage in file sharing are also downloading files that other users share. Sometimes these two activities are linked together. P2P File sharing is distinct from file trading in that downloading files from a P2P network does not require uploading, although some networks either provide incentives for uploading such as credits or force the sharing of files being currently downloaded.