If you’ve got to go, go out with a powerful political statement.
Friends of TorrentSpy,
We have decided on our own, not due to any court order or agreement, to bring the Torrentspy.com search engine to an end and thus we permanently closed down worldwide on March 24, 2008.
The legal climate in the USA for copyright, privacy […]
Ah, so-called “piracy” to test government-funded research. Convergence is a beautiful thing.
The popular BitTorrent site Mininova is currently Beta testing BitTorrent powered video streaming. The new streaming feature allows users to watch videos instantly, streamed from .torrent files.
The Open Source “swarmplayer” which is used for the video streaming service is developed in collaboration with the […]
First, the bad news: the admins of The Pirate Bay are being charged with assisting copyright infringement by US big media companies. “Assisting”, eh? Guess the fat cats can’t nail them on actual copyright infringement when they don’t actually host the content.
Now, the good news: Whether or not the charges prosper, The Pirate Bay will […]
TorrentFreak lists the top 10 most torrented movies and TV shows based on downloads at Mininova.
Movies
1 Transformers (569,259)
2 Knocked Up (509,314)
3 Shooter (399,960)
4 Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End (379,749)
5 Ratatouille (359,904)
6 300 (358,226)
7 Next (354,044)
8 Hot Fuzz (352,905)
9 The Bourne Ultimatum (336,326)
10 Zodiac (334,699)
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One disgruntled Hulu user opines that the only way Hulu makes sense is if NBC CEO Jeff Zucker works for The Pirate Bay. Turns out the converse is true: pirates work for TV execs. Here’s an eyewitness account from CBC Web Producer Guinevere Orvis.
Tech-savvy consumers have been boldly declaring that piracy can help and not […]
When Michael M. Belmont, a.k.a. M dot Strange, heard that his recently released animated movie We Are The Strange had been leaked onto torrent sites, he immediately fired up his email client. But he didn’t send out DMCA takedown notices to stop the unlicensed distribution of the movie he had worked on for three years. […]
Any developer working on Hollywood-backed online video services had better watch his back. Apparently, Hollywood treats developers the same way it treats actors: string them along, get what you want, toss them away. That’s why this hacker is betraying his Hollywood masters.
Promises of Hollywood fame and fortune persuaded a young hacker to betray former associates […]
It’s amazing how you can make total fools of the Motion Picture Association of America simply by reminding them that the global market is bigger than America. After a US court orders torrent search engine TorrentSpy to violate their users’ privacy and hand over user data for a silly MPAA fishing expedition, TorrentSpy simply cuts […]
When the MPAA ordered Swedish State Secretary Dan Eliasson to have the Swedish police raid The Pirate Bay last year, he ended up with egg on his face. Ministerstyre, when a politician pressures another government agency to take action, is a serious crime in Sweden.
Apparently, the Swedish police has found what they think is a […]
Most documentaries about file-sharing are made by offline video producers who fear for their livelihoods. That’s why the 2006 online-only documentary Steal This Film by was such a breath of fresh air. Reflecting the increasingly participative nature of online video, Steal This Film II will include submitted video statements. If you’d like your “15 frames […]
A look at the fast rising online video industry
Written by Mike Abundo [email] for b5media.
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