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May 30th, 2008

MPAA Dogs Hack Diggnation

If you need any more proof that the MPAA’s “antipiracy” attack dogs hurt innocent people, look no further than this. Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback reports that a denial of service attack — a cybercrime — that took down his business for two days was committed by none other than Media Defender, an MPAA “antipiracy” watchdog.
Revision3 […]

By Mike Abundo -- 3 comments

March 28th, 2008

RIP TorrentSpy

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 […]

By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment

March 21st, 2008

Mininova Tests Torrent Streaming

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 […]

By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments

January 31st, 2008

Pirate Bay Charged, Hits 1M Torrents

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 […]

By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments