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WikiLeaks, struggling to make ends meet, begs for donations
WikiLeaks —a wiki that made a name for itself by publishing anonymous, classified information—has been temporarily shut down due to its own budget crisis. The Sunshine Press, the nonprofit organization behind WikiLeaks, has decided to cease operations in order to “concentrate on raising the funds necessary” to keep the site going, and is begging for donations lest it be stuck offline forever. For those who aren’t familiar with the Sunshine Press, it was
Continue reading »In Guantanamo Film Premieres on BitTorrent
VODO , short for voluntary donation, has been a great success thus far. With support from several torrent sites including Mininova, The Pirate Bay and isoHunt, their first film was downloaded several hundred thousand times. Today the project releases the film ‘In Guantanamo’ which makes a worldwide premiere on BitTorrent.
Continue reading »FeedMyTorrents Closes In Face of Legal Threats
FeedMyTorrents (FMT) was a relatively new site that achieved an impressive level of popularity in a relatively short space of time. The site published RSS feeds for most popular TV show torrents – subscribing to these with a compatible client allowed those shows to be downloaded automatically as soon as they became available. The feeds were moderated by FMT staff to ensure a quality download.
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