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Online file sharers buy a lot of legitimate music

Although the Recording Industry Association of America would have you believe that people who connect to online peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks are the worst criminals on the face of the...

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The Pirate Bay is now hosted anonymously in the cloud

Even with the entertainment industry laser-focused on it, lawsuits and fines being handed out, and police raids grabbing its servers, The Pirate Bay (TPB) continues to stay online serving its users....

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The Pirate Bay runs on 2500 Watts and 500GB of storage

Last week The Pirate Bay (TPB) made a big change to its infrastructure that saw it move all operations into the cloud. Instead of owning all the servers used to operate its service,…

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Verizon sued for blocking mass p2p lawsuits

In recent years, a great number of Internet users have found themselves on the receiving end of a file-sharing lawsuit, but now it’s Verizon that’s in the crosshairs. A coalition of three adult…

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BBK BitTorrent box brings P2P to your HDTV

A little company called BOL has unleashed the first ever BitTorrent-certified set top box. At its core, the BBK BitTorrent Box is an Android networked media player — and similar to the hundreds…

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BitTorrent Surf performs torrent discovery and downloading inside Google Chrome

For years, uTorrent has been one the smallest, simplest apps available for managing torrent transfers. BitTorrent is always looking for ways to improve its peer-to-peer software, however, and has set...

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BitTorrent preps secure, private Dropbox alternative called Sync

BitTorrent Sync is coming, and it’s going to offer a very different take on multi-device file synchronization than what current apps like Dropbox, SkyDrive, and SugarSync do. Sync shoves aside the...

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Gears of War: Judgement leaks, torrent appears for download

It’s an all too common occurrence: just as a video game is being manufactured ready for launch a version of the game leaks and appears for download in torrent form. And today it…

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Bittorrent Live beta delivers P2P broadcasting to all comers

It’s no secret that Bram Cohen thinks that most peoples’ perception of BitTorrent is far too narrow. He’s got to be thrilled, then, about the fact that his company’s new peer-to-peer live streaming…

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The Pirate Cinema creates art from torrent traffic

It’s an open secret that BitTorrent makes up a large segment of internet traffic. People all over the world are torrenting legal and copyrighted content 24-hours a day. A new art installation seeks…

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Time Warner blackout results in massive CBS piracy spike

CBS and Time Warner Cable are in the middle of a nasty little spat over retransmission fees, and consumers are caught in the middle. Time Warner has dropped all CBS channels until the…

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McAfee promises $100 Decentral dongle will enable NSA-proof chats

John McAfee is working on a $100 device called Decentral that will allow you to chat with your contacts in complete secrecy. Plug it in, and you’re joined up to a sort of […]

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IsoHunt returns to the web 13 days after $110 million MPAA victory

The MPAA recently scored what looked like a major victory over BitTorrent indexers when IsoHunt founder Gary Fung agreed to shut the site down and pay up — to the tune of $110 […]

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The Pirate Bay is building a platform to defeat Net censorship once and for all

The Pirate Bay has proven to be a resilient beast over the past several years, switching domains and seeking amnesty inside the halls of the Swedish Pirate Party’s offices. Now they’ve started work […]

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Clever pirate adds Bitcoin miner to Watch Dogs torrent

With the imminent release of any high profile video game, there inevitably are a number of pirate copies made available through torrents on peer-to-peer networks. Choosing to download one of these...

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Torrent site Demonoid returns after nearly two years offline

Torrent trackers come and go on the internet. They are, by their very nature, ephemeral and prone to unexpected closure. The loss of Demonoid was a significant blow to people who like to […]

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Why Google Chrome thinks uTorrent is malware

If you’ve tried to download uTorrent in the last few days and you’re a Google Chrome user, you may have noticed something alarming: Chrome seems to think that uTorrent is malware. Wonder what’s […]

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Halo Online gameplay video reveals fast-paced Halo 3-like experience

Microsoft and 343 Industries are busy developing a Russia-only free-to-play Halo experience called Halo Online. However, the game has already leaked and work is underway by modders to remove the...

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Aurous the “Popcorn Time of music” is already being sued

Just a few days ago, a new P2P app called Aurous burst onto the streaming music scene. Some called it “the Popcorn Time of music,” which is exactly the kind of talk that […]

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uTorrent now lets you pay $5 to ditch the ads

uTorrent might not have the geek cred it once did, but it still has millions of users. Now BitTorrent has come up with another way to make money off those users. Years ago, […]

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