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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 »Music Biz Hopes To End Piracy By Tempting ISPs With Millions
Around seven years ago when pressure was first starting to form against the then-fledgling BitTorrent scene, attitudes were pretty much as they are now. “They’ll never stop it, we’ll always find a way,” cried the masses grabbing music, movies and software for free, and few disagreed. Of course, there will always be a way to acquire media free of charge, the last few decades have shown us that.
Continue reading »SXSW 2010 on BitTorrent: 3.35 GB of Free Music
Since 2005 the SXSW music festival has published thousands of free tracks from participating artists. For some of the previous editions, SXSW itself has offered torrents for the artist showcases, but since 2008 this task has been delegated to the public. Since all of the MP3s are available for download on the festival’s site, it only takes one person to get a torrent up and running.
Continue reading »Charles Nesson, scourge of the labels, now must pay them
Joel Tenenbaum, the second P2P defendant to take his case to trial in the US, may never pay the $675,000 judgment currently filed against him—but someone on his legal team will soon be paying something . Judge Nancy Gertner has ruled that both Tenenbaum and his lawyer, Harvard Law’s Charles Nesson, are “jointly and severally liable” for some fees incurred by the RIAA during the trial. The ruling comes after the defense team inexplicably posted the very songs at issue in the case to the Internet, and Nesson posted a public link on his blog for anyone to download them.
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