Pirate Bay Putting on SSL to Ward Off Snoop Burn
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FCC Hearing: Comcast Uses Hacker Techniques
Today is an important day for network neutrality, as the FCC’s Broadband Network management hearing has been discussing Comcast’s attempt to slow down BitTorrent traffic. One of the panelists said Comcast uses “hacker techniques” to manage their network.
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EU Invests $22 Million in Next-Generation BitTorrent Client
A few weeks ago we reported that the EU Greens launched a pro-filesharing campaign named "I Wouldn't Steal". In a continued effort to support the development of P2P technology, the European Union has now invested $22 million in the development of an open-source BitTorrent client.
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Cable and telcos side with Comcast in FCC BitTorrent dispute
The RIAA, Big Cable and the telcos are lining up back Comcast and oppose FCC "neutrality" oversight over network management, but Sony, Vonage, and other want the FCC to make sure the playing field stays fair
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Demonoid Tracker Is Back, Will the Site be Next?
It has been three months since the popular (semi)private BitTorrent tracker Demonoid went offline. Since then, there has been a lot of speculation about its future, and many feared that the site would never return. Totally out of the blue, however, the tracker is now responding again.
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Harvard Site Hacked and Then Leaked on BitTorrent
The Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences website has been hacked and now the content including server backups, full directory strucure, site databases an password files are now leaked on BitTorrent.
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Comcast PAID PEOPLE to cheer at FCC net neutrality hearing
Think Comcast's BitTorrent blocking is bad? At an FCC hearing at Harvard yesterday, Comcast secretly paid people to fill up seats and cheer for them. Too bad there's a photo!! Even reporters got blocked out of the event because it was too full. When no one agrees with you, all you can do is open your wallet. Unbelievable.
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Cashing In on Naive BitTorrent Users
BitTorrent sites are overloaded with ads for malware ridden BitTorrent clients and paid tutorials that promise to quadruple your download speed. They try to lure naive users into downloading their products with catchy phrases such as “Breakthrough Information Will Have You Downloading Torrents Up To 475% Faster”. It’s time to take them down.
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Dutch University Uses BitTorrent to Update Workstations
In the US, several universities have banned filesharing applications such as BitTorrent, mostly under pressure from the RIAA. A university in the Netherlands has taken a different approach. They use uTorrent to distribute software and OS updates across 6500 workstations, and end up saving a lot of time, money and resources by doing so.
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BitTorrent Throttling Company Sandvine Sees Sales Down 88%
Sandvine, manufacturers of BitTorrent throttling technology has seen its first quarter sales drop 88% in a year. After achieving 42,000% growth in 5 years, the company - best known for providing the technology which put Comcast into the spotlight recently - has seen its value plummet 42% in a single day.
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Anonymize BitTorrent Transfers with BTGuard
BTGuard is an easy to use proxy service that adds an extra layer of privacy to your BitTorrent transfers. The service is designed for BitTorrent users who don’t want their ISPs or any third party to log or throttle their IPs or traffic.
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The BitTorrent Legend Returns: I Am aXXo
During November last year we reported that the popular DVD ripper aXXo had decided to take a break and stop releasing new material for a while. It now seems that he is back in business. A few hours ago aXXo uploaded his first movie in months. He chose “I Am Legend”.
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tv-links.co.uk has a replacment in tv-links.cc
Back in october of last year we reported that one of the fastest growing websites on the internet tv-links.co.uk was closed down by officers from Gloucestershire County Council trading standards in conjunction with investigators from Fact and Gloucestershire Police. Could tv-links.cc be it's replacement with looking almost identical in design.
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