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Spanish Filmmaker Arrested for Leaking Pre-Release Movies

Spanish police have arrested the winner of a Goya Awards (los Premios Goya), Spain’s main national film awards, on suspicion of uploading pre-release movies onto file-sharing websites, TorrentFreak reports. The alleged uploader of...

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Sunday, March 20th, 2011 Net News No Comments

Anonymous Operation Goya: anti-’Sinde’ law

p2pnet view P2P | Freedom:- Sunday, February 13, will be interesting for people in Italy and Spain. It’s the date set by Anonymous for OPERATION ITALY SURPRISE/SURPRISE— #OPITALY to let Italian president and...

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Friday, February 11th, 2011 Net News 1 Comment

BitTorrent’s “Backbone” Not That Strong?

Although millions of people benefit from the p2p file-sharing system,  according to some reports only few of them are actually responsible for sharing most of the content. A number of 55,000 streams of...

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Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 Net News No Comments

STUDY: 100 Responsible for 75% of BitTorrent Downloads

Researchers claim that minus "profit-driven top publishers" the amount of content shared would be reduced by as much as 40%, and that their removal by anti-piracy actions could significantly affect the popularity of...

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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011 Net News No Comments

Report: Spanish Minister Vows to Pass Site Blocking Anyway

A few days ago, we reported on the defeat of web censorship in Spain where ISPs would be mandated to block websites if the government ordered them to block them over copyright infringement....

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Monday, December 27th, 2010 Net News No Comments