Having recently returned from Norway , where I was impressed at the optimism and the willingness to embrace new technologies and services, it's disappointing to read the following story (found via brokep ) of a Norwegian band who recently released an album on their own label and decided to put it up on The Pirate Bay themselves, as more and more indie labels are doing. Except... the band members are...
The Escapist : News : The Pirate Bay Shuts Down They straight-up pulled an Obi-Wan. They were struck down, and now they live forever. In a nutshell: Instead of having individual sites supply trackers to help share files, the Pirates have switched over to a distributed network system (DHT) that turns the world into one giant tracker. This effectively makes the Pirate Bay immune to lawsuits regarding...
The Pirate Bay made headlines earlier this week with yet another dramatic announcement, this time that the notorious BitTorrent site's tracker has been officially shut down. But the move won't impact downloading, site admins explained on a blog. Trackers are no longer needed to facilitate BitTorrent transfers, the blog entry explained, because decentralized extensions of the P2P protocol are mature...
According to a report today from Expressen.se and translated by TorrentFreak , blockbuster star Lady Gaga made a measly $167 USD (SEK 1150) from the STIM (Swedish Performing Rights Society) after her song "Poker Face" was played one million times via Spotify over a 5-month period. Spotify, the digital music service seen by some as the best chance the labels have to slow down piracy, appears...
Google Chrome OS is a lightweight computer operating system devoted to using the internet. (Check the Video to learn more) Although it is set to have a publicly available stable release during the second half of 2010, probably in a netbook, a version of it is already available for download via ZeroSec. Continued... Instructions for running on VMware 1. Create a new Virtual Machine. 2. Select OS Linux/Ubuntu....
Hackers got into the research organization for climate change, and have posted them on line... The UKTelegraph tells why this is such a bombshell : emails such as this one that denies there was a medieval warming period: ……Phil and I have recently submitted a paper using about a dozen NH records that fit this category, and many of which are available nearly 2K back–I think that...
This week The Pirate Bay confirmed it would shut down its tracker for good, instead encouraging the use of DHT, PEX and magnet links. This move confounded many BitTorrent enthusiasts, who although wishing to adapt, were confronted with hard to grasp terminology and technology. Time for some explaining.
Windows only: Most people use torrent sites like Mininova or The Pirate Bay to search for torrents online, but free program TorrentFetcher lets you search straight from a desktop program and quickly start the transfer in your BitTorrent client of choice. Torrent sites offer a lot of information about the torrents they have available, but sometimes you just don't want to navigate to the site and look...
Got any suggestions for the 3 Count. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Hollywood Takes OpenBitTorrent’s ISP to Court First off today, now that The Pirate Bay’s tracker has shut down, though in its case to force users to use decentralized methods of downloading, the movie studios have turned their attention to other prominent trackers including [...]
Post updated with Megaupload download links with Chrome OS for VMWare and VirtualBox. Mark Renouf has compiled a VMware hard disk image of Chrome OS for testing out in your virtual machine environment: This is a ChromeOS image converted to VMware .vmdk file. It was built from instructions provided on the ChromiumOS developers site: http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/building-chromium-os/build-instructions...
Unveiled yesterday, Google Chrome OS is now available for download on The Pirate Bay! In fact, Google did not directly give an executable file, but the sources of its OS enough are enough once compiled to have a .vmdk image file. With this it is possible to test this OS on PC or Mac via [...]
Wow, that was fast. Google Chrome OS was only unveiled today, and it's already compiled as a VMWare image, ready for download via torrents and gdgt. Techcrunch also has a tutorial for setting it up. [ Pirate Bay , gdgt , Techcrunch ]
The use of peer-to-peer networks for sharing files has come under fire during recent months, including the dismantling of Swedish BitTorrent site Pirate Bay, but it turns out even members of Congress need to be kept in check over their file-sharing practices.
In an important (but surprisingly poorly publicised) decision two weeks ago a Norwegian court dealt a blow to music industry attempts to force ISPs to police their users, holding that Telenor was under no obligation to block access to The Pirate Bay . An English translation of that decision is now available ( PDF link ) and makes interesting reading. One particularly significant portion of the ruling...
Pirate Bay, the popular tracking service for torrents on the Internet, has announced that they're shutting down their file-sharing servers -- but that doesn't mean they're out of the file-sharing business entirely. The move is most likely a way to get out from under the legal complications attached to connecting users with illegally uploaded movies, music and other data, but as usual, the Pirate Bay...
Despite all the fever pitch hype surround the recent Global Gaming Factory buying The Pirate Bay and turning it into a legal service TMV has discovered that it is now highly unlikely the purchase will ever occur. TMV has learned that the Swedish bankers quoted by GGF as investing in the venture, clearly stated they would not be proceeding with any investment. TMV obtained a leaked email sent to many
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