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Forget SOPA: Copyright owners must build a better BitTorrent

While copyright owners test the legal limits of website takedown processes and push legislation greatly expanding powers to limit file sharing on the open Internet, a company that helps corporations protect intellectual property...

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Monday, January 9th, 2012 Net News No Comments

RIAA: Someone Else Is Pirating Through Our IP- Addresses

Over the past week we’ve had fun looking up what governments, Fortune 500 companies, and even the most dedicated anti-piracy groups download on BitTorrent. All we had to do is put their IP-addresses...

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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 Net News No Comments

Get Angry (Birds) for Free

Angry Birds game is definitely an all-age-friendly ‘time-waster’ and Intel AppUp center seems to know that as they have included a free copy of the game with the download of their application. So...

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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 Net News No Comments

Top BitTorrent Trackers Face Major Downtime

For nearly a week the two largest BitTorrent trackers on the Internet have been mostly offline. With the recent DDoS attacks at BitTorrent sites in mind, some feared that both OpenBitTorrent and PublicBitTorrent were...

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Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 Net News No Comments

German rapper: Good music doesn’t have to be afraid of file sharing

The admins of the German Rapidshare link forum Leecher.to were probably a little uneasy at first when they recently received a letter from a record company in regards to a pre-release leak. The label...

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Friday, July 17th, 2009 Net News No Comments