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Pirate Bay founders get post-Sweden election appeal date
Court says wait ’til leaves turn brown The Pirate Bay appeal finally has a tentative autumn 2010 date set for the founders of the infamous BitTorrent tracker website.… ?
Continue reading »BitStalker Can Monitor Pirate Bay Torrents for $13 p/mo
Researchers create BitStalker, an efficient “active probing strategy” for finding copyrighted material on large BitTorrent tracker sites, but fact that the research was funded “in part” by PolyCipher, an ISP consortium, should make some nervous about what it plans to do with it. Researchers from the University of Colorado have published a new technique for fighting the distribution of copyrighted material on BitTorrent . Current monitoring employs passive methods that are prone, as we all know, to a variety of errors and false positives .
Continue reading »Anti-Piracy Group Seeks Laws to Expose BitTorrent Pirates
Last month it became apparent that investigations by music industry group IFPI were leading to raids against file-sharers conducted by the Swedish police. All of those arrested were allegedly identified as major file-sharers due to their use of Direct Connect. With millions of individuals using BitTorrent and a relative handful using Direct Connect (DC), many wondered why this smaller group were considered worth of police attention.
Continue reading »Tribler releases new version with distributed channel subscriptions
Tribler just released a new beta of its Bittorrent client with a new feature that the researchers behind the project have dubbed P2P moderation. The idea in a nutshell is that users can aggregate channels and content and distribute them through DHT. From the official announcement: “In Tribler V5.2 every user can start their own “Channel” to publish torrents.
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