File sharing

The Pirate Bay has hit back over allegations by the RIAA that it is the worst file-sharing site on the planet by saying the music association “is no longer in charge”. The RIAA has decided enough is enough with The Pirate Bay and has criticised its move from a US domain to a Swedish one. “The Pirate Bay is a blatantly illegal file-sharing site, proud that it’s an online bazaar of every conceivable US copyrighted work, found criminally responsible by its own country’s legal system and...Read Full Story

Peter Sunde is one of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay; for anyone who is not aware, this is one of the largest file-sharing websites available online. It is run out of Sweden, and for anyone who has completely had their head dug in the sand, has been under fire for copyright infringement.  They were even put on trial in 2009 and found guilty. In a new blog article on Wired , Sunde discusses how evolution works in all areas except the entertainment industry. He writes about how the...Read Full Story

The RIAA and The Pirate Bay are at it again. Both groups have fired at each other over blogs that paint each other in a negative light. Let’s watch the fireworks, shall we? Mitch Glazier, Senior Executive VP of the RIAA wrote a blog post titled, “The Pirate Bay: Exhibit A For Why Foreign Rogue Websites Must Be Effectively Addressed.” In the blog post, he details the recent convictions of the founders of The Pirate Bay that we reported on. He also says that the Web site’s move to an .se...Read Full Story

RIAA/IFPI Explored Possible Lawsuit Against Google For Not Ranking iTunes Above Pirate Bay. ( Techdirt ) Is Megaupload "a lot less guilty than you think? ( ars ) ICM has not renewed the contracts of three literary agents in what appears to be a larger pending downsizing that will likely include the music and film divisions. ( The Wrap ) MORE: Twitter Begins Self-Serve Ad Sign-Ups , Offers $100 In Free Advertising. ( TechCrunch ) NPR rolls out music streaming app for iPad...Read Full Story

torrentfreak.com — The RIAA has responded to The Pirate Bay's decision to change its domain name from .org to .se. The torrent site made the switch to prevent a seizure by US authorities, and according to the music industry group this is a clear indication that tougher laws are needed to deal with 4 hr 2 min ago View in Crawl 4Read Full Story

Ares is a no cost, open source peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing application produced in 2002. Users of Napster or LimeWire will find Ares a very similar software, except it is free. The concept behind P2P is basic: share your files and get to download files from other people. Ares initially worked under the Gnutella system, however its developers opted to break away and form a new network, naming it Ares Galaxy. It began well for Ares. Ares was tidy and it was powerful. Restrictive systems...Read Full Story

BTjunkie, the torrent website has obviously been shaken up by the FBI takedown of Megavideo and Megaupload . The owners have decided to shutdown the website to avoid getting caught in the same way. After the high profile SOPA and PIPA acts were shelved , it seems that their legacy is that pirate and torrent sites are firmly in the authorities firing line. It also seems like other BitTorrent website owners might be considering following BTjunkie’s lead because it looks like America has more...Read Full Story

The complete contents of The Pirate Bay is now only through a file Download of 90 MB. A user has written a script to make this possible. This reports geek.com. Pirate Bay user has scanned the entire site allisfine with a self-penned script. This he got he magnet links and reactions from the filtered results. [...] Read Whole Post-> DownloadSiteRead Full Story

The founders of controversial BitTorrent search site The Pirate Bay have been denied a Supreme Court appeal in Sweden, meaning that the prison sentences and fines they were handed in November 2010 will stand – but it seems there’s still a chance they may avoid jail. As TorrentFreak and The Local report, Sweden’s Supreme Court’s decision to deny an appeal on the ruling was announced this morning. This means that Pirate Bay founders Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Carl Lundström and Gottfrid...Read Full Story

It seems the Pirate Bay’s legal drama has finally come to a end in Sweden where the Supreme Court today turned down the site’s final appeal. At the center of the case are the file sharing site’s founders Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström who have been battling Swedish prosecutors for a number of years now. After they were convicted of facilitating copyright infringement. The trio was initially sentenced to prison. They appealed the ruling in 2010 and though they failed to overturn...Read Full Story