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...
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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.
The closure of the Pirate Bay this summer led to a temporary 300 percent increase in the number of file-sharing websites, as users created sites to replace the Swedish BitTorrent tracker, according to security company McAfee. Following a Swedish court order in August, one of the Pirate Bay's main ISPs, Black Internet, was forced to stop servicing the file-sharing site. The site was down for a day, before finding a new connection to the internet. McAfee said in a report on Monday that file... Read Full Story
The number of new piracy sites on the web has tripled in the third quarter, despite prosecution of the owners of the controversial Pirate Bay file-sharing web site, according to security software maker McAfee .
McAfee said it detected a 300 percent jump in the creation of file-sharing sites in the quarter. Some observers expected piracy to abate after the torrent site The Pirate Bay lost a legal battle in Sweden.
But piracy sites have multiplied, as has the amount of malware attached to... Read Full Story
OK, so we are all too familiar with the Pirates of the Indian Ocean and their increasing attacks on container ships and now personal yachts. The British government, in particular Business Secretary Peter Mandelson, is seeking to shut down Internet Piracy in the form of illegal downloads. Peter Mandelson recently announced his plan to crack down on people who persistently download illegal content, stating they will be cut off from the net if they continue downloading content. &zs;𝔦&ref; Your Ad Here... Read Full Story
The owners of Swedish filesharing website The Pirate Bay will seek a retrial after a Dutch court temporarily banned its activities in the Netherlands, their lawyer said on Monday. "We will file a summons by August 25" before the district court in Amsterdam, lawyer Ernst Louwers, acting for The Pirate Bay founders Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde, told AFP. The men wanted a new trial so that they could present their side of the story, he explained. On July 30, the court... Read Full Story
Music and movie industry groups scored a legal victory against The Pirate Bay after a Dutch court has ordered the Swedish peer-to-peer file sharing website to immediately remove all contents and links to materials and other files under copyright protection.
In its decision, a referral court in Amsterdam, Netherlands has order the Swedish online company to remove links of files owned by Netherlands-based recording and film groups, which is subjected to copyright protection of the government... Read Full Story
A Dutch court on Thursday temporarily banned Swedish filesharing website The Pirate Bay from operating in the Netherlands by granting an application brought by a copyright lobby group. A judge ordered three owners of the site to "cease infringing the copyright of the members" of Stichting Brein, a trade association which represents the Dutch recording industry. It had brought an urgent application for the ban at the district court in Amsterdam. For every day the ruling is ignored, the owners... Read Full Story
Hollywood studios are suing the popular Pirate Bay file-sharing website for moving pirated material even after its founders were sentenced for copyright crime, a lawyer said Tuesday. "We have filed a complaint against The Pirate Bay because they have not stopped their activities after they were sentenced to prison," the studios' Swedish lawyer Monique Wadsted told AFP. Hollywood studios Columbia, Disney, Paramount and others are asking for the website's founders -- Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid... Read Full Story
If you’ve been following the Pirate Bay drama , you know that this site will never be what it used to be. However, amidst all that hubbub and even after the (so far) unsuccessful sale of the site, the actual site remained operational.
Thus, many users who were there just for the torrents perhaps didn’t even notice that something is wrong. This is about to change. TorrentFreak reports that the Amsterdam court ruled that The Pirate Bay must remove all copyrighted torrents from the site... Read Full Story
A dozen Hollywood production companies have filed a new lawsuit against file-sharing Web site The Pirate Bay. Columbia Pictures, Disney Enterprises, Universal Studios and 10 others are demanding the site's operators be fined and prevented from distributing TV-series including "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives" and films such as "Batman." The Pirate Bay has remained in operation despite guilty verdicts in a copyright trial in Sweden earlier this year against the site's operators, Gottfrid... Read Full Story
A Swedish gaming group said Tuesday it would buy The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular filesharing sites, for 5.6 million euros (7.8 million dollars). The company, Global Gaming Factory (GGF), plans to begin paying copyright fees once the deal is completed. "The listed software company, Global Gaming Factory (GGF), acquires The Pirate Bay website, one of the 100 most visited websites in the world... The purchase (sum) amounts to 60 million kronor, consisting of at least 30 million... Read Full Story
