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.
If an entity is being threatened with extinction it has two options: evolve, or die. The Pirate Bay has chosen the former, shutting down its BitTorrent tracker and moving instead to a decentralized DHT system.
The Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay is refusing to die. It’s been the largest and one of the most popular torrent trackers in the world for a few years now. But its notoriety and ability to taunt copyright owners meant trouble was never far away.
The Pirate Bay’s legal woes came to a... Read Full Story
Do you know how BitTorrent works? I mean, really know the technology behind it? Even if you’re not all too familiar with it, you probably know that it requires a tracker – a computer that coordinates the distribution of a file within the network.
But the trick is, it doesn’t – not anymore. Two technologies called DHT and PEX enable trackerless BitTorrent; in the simplest of terms, the BitTorrent technology has evolved to the point where trackers are no longer necessary for operation. Thus... Read Full Story
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
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
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 Court of Appeals in Sweden has overturned on Tuesday a landmark peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing verdict allowing music labels and movie studios to look into Internet Service Providers’ (ISP) records for the identity of users who allegedly violated copyright laws.
Under the so-called “Ipred Law,” a Swedish lower court has earlier ruled in favor of music industry and allowed the companies to look into ISP records to reveal the identity of copyright infringers. The decision was made on... Read Full Story
