The data is encrypted so “don’t be alarmed” they tell visitors to their BitTorrent tracker site’s blog this morning. Brokep wrote in a blog posting on The Pirate Bay This morning that somebody had found a security hole on the BitTorrent tracker site, specifically in the blog section itself. ` Apparently he does know who [...]

Get-Torrent will help you “get torrents” alright, that and a mess of malware and spyware in the process. Somebody’s making big bucks out there and it’s coming at the expense of unsuspecting users who are no doubt new to the BitTorrent community. The people behind it herald it’s “5 star rating” as though it’s a [...]

In the early ’80s, the movie industry was entrenched in another war against technology. It was not file sharing that worried them but video copying. Sony had just unveiled the VCR, and the movie industry — certain that people would only use this new technology to copy and steal movies — tried to block it [...]

More tech-savvy students are using their computers as TiVos, downloading television shows to watch where and when they want. While most attention has been focused on the ease and frequency of downloading music or movie files, students who want a personal copy of their favorite TV shows as soon as possible are turning to BitTorrent [...]

Walt Disney, which on Tuesday said second quarter profits rose 27 percent, also offered analysts and members of the media an update on its iTunes sales totals during a conference call. For the quarter ended March 31, the entertainment conglomerate earned $931 million, or 44 cents a share, up from the $733 million, or 37 [...]

Charged in April 2005 for illegally uploading the movies “Daredevil,” “Miss Congeniality,” and “Red Planet” to BitTorrent tracker sites without a licence, he was originally sentenced to 3 months in jail. Using the screen name “Big Crook,” which probably wasn’t the smartest thing to do if one plans on keeping a low cover as they [...]

Somebody’s going to great lengths to tie the famed free-wheeling, file-sharing crew to far-right extremists, a claim which it not only dismisses as pure rubbish but, counters that it has “one political opinion – share your files, your culture.” The story really starts back on March 3rd of this year when somebody named “themaintruthdude,” apparently [...]

A 3-D technology developed to help NASA astronauts practice making repairs in space is set to revolutionize the way people watch movies by 2009, when a wave of live-action 3-D movies hit theaters. Just 18 months ago, “Chicken Little,” the first modern 3D movie, touched off a sensation among studio executives and theater chain owners [...]

Europe’s proposed satellite-navigation system, Galileo, will need more public funds if it is to be built. Hope is receding that a private consortium asked to run the system can end its infighting and meet a 10 May deadline to move the project forward. This is likely to mean European taxpayers stepping in to cover costs. [...]

Pundits, bloggers, and public intellectuals from across the political spectrum have spoken, and CNN is the first major network to listen: on Saturday, the company issued a media advisory announcing that “CNN debate coverage will be made available without restrictions at the conclusion of each live debate.” The network went on to say, “We believe [...]

The House of Representatives has amended the Free Flow of Information Act of 2007 to include provisions to protect bloggers from being required to divulge their sources under certain situations in the same way as journalists. Instead of requiring journalists to be tied to a news organization, the bill now defines “journalism” to focus more [...]

A version of the increasingly popular Linux operating system Ubuntu will be developed for use on net-enabled phones and devices. The Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded project aims to create the open source platform for initial release in October 2007. The operating system will be developed by members of the Ubuntu community, along with staff from [...]

Film piracy is so rampant in Canada that one of the world’s largest movie studios Monday banned advanced previews and radio promotions country-wide. Ocean’s Thirteen and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix were the first releases affected by the move. Warner Bros.’ Canadian arm cited a gap in the criminal code that prevents [...]

Bob Shedd, the man in charge of “Artist and Repertoire” for Revelation Records, an influential independent hardcore rock label, recently commented on surviving in a “post-file-sharing/post-Tower Records music retail landscape.” As music listeners increasingly choose digital MP3s over the standard physical CD format, record labels and artists are being forced to adapt or risk sliding [...]

The ever popular BitTorrent client server has released a new build for the BitTorrent community. Designed to use as little cpu, memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced client servers like Azureus, uTorrent is widely popular among users in the BitTorrent community. Here is the list of updates incorporated [...]

The NBA has quietly rolled out a new video download store that offers playoff games from this season and last. The NBA Download Store is open for business and offering single game downloads for $2.99, full playoffs for $79.99, and individual series for $12.99. Games are not permitted to be burned onto a DVD, and [...]

Pirates don’t just plunder. In Sweden, it seems, they also believe in sharing. As the world’s largest repository of BitTorrent files, ThePirateBay.org helps millions of users around the world share copyrighted movies, music and other files–without paying for them. That’s illegal, of course–at least it is in the U.S. But when Time Warner’s (nyse: TWX [...]

The widespread legal challenges that some experts have long predicted would dog Google’s YouTube appear to have arrived. On Friday, the Football Association Premier League, England’s most prestigious soccer organization, filed suit in New York against the massively popular video-sharing site, accusing it of enabling users to violate copyright law. On the same day, in [...]

Superman has the power to leap tall buildings. But leaping onto a cellphone screen is proving a little trickier. Warner Brothers recently created a six-episode series of short videos for mobile devices based on the popular Superman television show, “Smallville.” The episodes tracked the history of Oliver Queen, the “Smallville” billionaire mayor who, like Clark [...]

BEFORE he was extradited to the United States, Hew Griffiths, from Berkeley Vale in NSW, had never even set foot in America. But he had pirated software produced by American companies. Now, having been given up to the US by former justice minister Chris Ellison, Griffiths, 44, is in a Virginia cell, facing up to [...]