Looks like NIN’s frontman did his music “stealing” at the same place as the rest of us, but didn’t it actually make better music fans of us all? Many of us are well aware of just how hip Trent Reznor is in terms of his love for music and how he puts his audience and [...]

Aims to be the community that OiNK’s Pink Palace was, a PRIVATE TRACKER with a great music selection, but based in Sweden. Waffles.fm is a new PRIVATE BitTorrent tracker scheduled for launch at midnight PST tonight. It promises to be based off of the recently shuttered OiNK’s Pink Palace, a loss many music fans like [...]

Ashwin Navin says that the ISP’s networks weren’t implemented to take into account their users becoming media distributors. There’s an interesting new interview on The Post with BitTorrent Inc.’s President and CEO Ashwin Navin in which he gives his take on the whole Comcast BitTorrent throttling affair and the future of traffic using the BitTorrent [...]

I’m not sure how newsworthy this is, but indefinitely gave me a chuckle as I’m sure it will for you as well. Jammie Thomas, the first person to go trial over illegal file-sharing and who unfortunately lost, is doing all she can to try to come up with the $200,000 judgment against her. It seems [...]

One of BitTorrent’s most senior pirates speaks out in an in interview for a German blog and what he has to say may cause some concern over at BitTorrent Inc. In Berlin to check out the Oil of the 21st Century conference this past weekend, Brokep over at The Pirate Bay was interviewed by the [...]

Fears de facto legalized file-sharing if people are made to pay a fee to cover its effects and thereby theoretically immune from charges of stealing. Misery makes for strange bedfellows as they say, and the miserable state that the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), much like the music industry here to the south of our [...]

The Infrastructure for Resilient Internet Systems (IRIS) will solve technical problems with existing P2P networks such as Gnutella and KaZaA and speed up searches and information transfer over the internet. P2P isn’t always a dirty acronym it seems with news that the US government – that’s right the Feds – is currently funding the development [...]

What to use instead of Oink? Brokep from The Pirate Bay lays down a nice list of music related BitTorrent tracker sites to use while the dust settles from the recent closure of the once great “Pink Palace” known as OiNK. Last week were trying times for music fans in the BitTorrent community after a [...]

Wants ISPs to do it voluntarily, but if fails will enact laws to get them to comply. In an interview with the BBC, Lord Triesman, the parliamentary Under Secretary for Innovation, Universities and Skills, said intellectual property theft would no longer be tolerated. In the wake of recent UK crackdowns on sites like OiNK and [...]

Speaks out for the first time on IRC and in an interview with the Telegraph about his arrest, the merits of the case against him, and what former users can expect in the future. . It’s been 3 days now since Alan Ellis, the 24yo admin of OiNK was busted, and the site’s servers seized. [...]

A list of great TVLinks alternatives that allow you to watch your favorite TV shows free online. UPDATE: Check out Zeropaid’s directory of TVLinks With TVLinks down and out for the foreseeable future, I’ve taken the time to compile a list of alternatives so you can continue getting your fix of free TV shows and [...]

Admin was apparently arrested for suspicion of supplying property with a registered trademark without permission, making the case even more confusing. Many have wondered how it was possible that TVLinks was busted recently when it all did was merely list links to pirated content and never actually hosted any material. The Federation Against Copyright Theft [...]

Debuts on BitTorrent tracker sites everywhere more than a week before its official release date. The much anticipated crime film “American Gangster” has appeared on BitTorrent trackers sites everywhere, and early reviews say the movie’s just as good as the all the hype made it out to be. Directed by Ridley Scott of “Aliens” and [...]

“10/23 Never Forget” has a communique from the Admin who says he’s “out and ok,” and sports a collection of videos ranging from the actual raid itself to to fan art appears online to remember the BitTorrent community’s favorite music site and how much it will be missed. It’s been a long day for music [...]

New measure would add 2 cents to the cost of every legal music download. The Copyright Board of Canada has approved a proposal by the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) to levy a tax on every digital music download sold online. The tax would amounts would be as follows: Permanent [...]

Not sure how much good it will do, but its worth a try. Many of you I’m sure are aware that TVLinks was recently busted by UK police and that the site’s admin, a 26yo from Chelteham in the UK, was arrested. Well, now an online petition is circulating to show some support for the [...]

Servers in Amsterdam were raided, and the 24yo site admin was arrested in the UK. It’s a sad day in the BitTorrent community for the OiNK, everybody’s favorite place to get music, has been shut down. British police arrested a 24yo man in Middleborough on suspicion of being the site admin, while Dutch police simultaneously [...]

Probably the most popular video streaming site around has been busted by UK authorities. It’s a sad day for streaming video fans everywhere as news has been reported that TVLinks has been shut down and the owner, a 26yo man from Chelteham in the UK, was arrested. Update: TVLinks alternatives Update#2: TVLinks to Return ‘Soon?’ [...]

Surprises everyone and makes clips from every show dating back to 1999 available and free to watch.. Comedy Central announced yesterday that is has launched a new site devoted to “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” fans. The new site features video clips from every episode dating back to 1999, the year Jon Stewart took [...]

Gives students another reason to live off campus. Still savoring its win in the courtroom against Jammie Thomas in the first ever file-sharing lawsuit to go to trial, the RIAA announced yesterday that it had begun a 9th round of pre-litigation settlement letters targeting college campus piracy across the country. This latest round is part [...]