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Mininova’s Death of a Thousand Cuts

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

A Dutch court has ordered Mininova, a popular torrent search Web site, to remove all torrents linking to copyrighted content from its Web site within three months, or it will face hefty fines. Dutch anti-piracy organization Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland (BREIN) filed a lawsuit against Mininova that resulted in the judge’s ruling. Torrents are a terrific [...]

D’oh! Prosecution Stumbles Badly in Pirate Bay Trial

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

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I think we all can agree that The Pirate Bay makes much of its living off of piracy. Well, if it wasn’t for the apparent ineptitude of Swedish prosecutors in the trial against the site, we might have that set in stone legally. Not so fast. According to TorrentFreak, the prosecution’s weak evidence will lead to [...]

Windows 7 Beta 1 Leaks Via BitTorrent

Monday, December 29, 2008

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If you cannot wait for Windows 7 to make its public debut sometime next month, you can get on BitTorrent now and download it. The next generation operating system has appeared on the P2P service as an ISO file. The build number is 7000, which is believed to be the one which will get the “Beta [...]

The T-List: iPhone Tethering, BitTorrent Blockage, Phones in Flight

Friday, August 1, 2008

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Today’s big stories involve what you can and can’t do with PCs and phones. BitTorrent over Comcast? Okay. iPhone tethering? Not okay. Skype on a plane? On its way to not being okay. List starts after the jump…