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Pirate Pay Targets Bit Torrent Movie Downloads
We’ve seen the RIAA try a number of different measure to counter the online piracy of blockbuster movies and music. These countermeasures have come in a variety of forms including taking legal action against file sharing websites or going after the end user directly. (...)Read the rest of Pirate Pay Targets Bit Torrent Movie Downloads [...]
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Microsoft backs torrent blocker
A system said to block bit torrent downloads is backed by a Microsoft fund, but experts dispute its long-term effectiveness.
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‘Game of Thrones’ Draws Torrent Piracy
As Forbes’ Andy Greenberg is reporting, HBO’s Game of Thrones is a huge hit in the file-sharing community, and is on track to be the most downloaded show of 2012. Accorrding to BitTorrent-tracking and analysis firm Big Champagne, the second …
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Netizens in torment over torrent sites takedown
Why this ‘Kolaveri di' over torrent websites, wondered computer geeks across the country as they woke up on Thursday morning to a rude shock – the popular sites sites for downloading movies, shows and songs had been blocked.
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Former BitTorrent exec says Pirate Pay is probably ineffective and illegal
You probably heard the news about a little Russian company that claims to have the silver bullet that will end BitTorrent piracy once and for all. The confusingly named Pirate Pay (I love a pun) claims that its technology can stop any torrent dead. Now the former VP of engineering at BitTorrent Inc, John Pettitt, [...]
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Microsoft Sets Sail With Russian Pirate Hunters
Today in international tech news: Microsoft backs Russian startup "Pirate Pay," which claims it can track and thwart illicit downloads around the globe. Elsewhere, Renren, China's Facebook equivalent, releases a lackluster earnings report, while Baidu, China's Google equivalent, enters the smartphone market -- and taps into the void left by the country's block of Google Drive.
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HBO'S 'Game of Thrones' Tops Pirated TV Rankings
The sword-and-sorcery epic is distributed in delayed fashion internationally and that may explain why so many are turning to the torrents for their GoT fix, TorrentFreak reports.
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Game Of Thrones Tops 2012 Piracy Charts, Copyright Wars Continue
The war against digital content piracy is looking more futile when considering the most recent piracy trends, facts, and figures.
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Russian start-up to kill peer-to-peer downloads
Russian based "Pirate Pay" could quickly find itself becoming the darling of the entertainment industry after claiming they are able to create a piracy free future.
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Unplugging: Bono vs. Paul McCartney
Money comes and goes, people live and die, lineups please or disappoint and bands form and break up. That’s just the cycle of music, wouldn’t you say? read more
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