File Sharing News Archive
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Trojan Blocks The Pirate Bay and Mininova January 4, 2009 The trojan in question (Troj/Qhost-AC) identified by anti-virus company Sophos, is a rather unusual one. Aside from blocking BitTorrent sites, the trojan caused popups and even played a sound file saying that “downloading is wrong”. |
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Five File-Sharing Predictions for 2009 January 1, 2009 Granted, making predictions is easy. Being right is much harder, but I'm going to give it a try anyway. Please check back in a year and see how well I did, and feel free to share your own thoughts about what this year might bring in the comments. |
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Adult Torrent Sites Lose Ground to PornTubes December 30, 2008 Three years ago it was virtually impossible to stream adult content online - without a credit card that is. At that time, the member count of adult BitTorrent communities rose fast and hard, with some amassing hundreds and thousands of members. |
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Avoid Downloading Fake Torrents and Spam with Vertor December 28, 2008 The true power behind the best torrent sites are the moderators, since they are the ones who monitor all uploads and remove the bad apples by hand. Vertor.com, short for ‘verified torrents’, takes moderation a step further... |
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Comcast sued for not selling set-top boxes, CableCARDs December 26, 2008 A California woman filed a class action complaint against Comcast, charging that the company is using its monopoly power to keep her paying monthly rental fees for decryption hardware. |
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uTorrent Grows to 28 Million Monthly Users December 25, 2008 Despite its popularity, up until now little has been known about the number of regular users the client has. Based on data from PC Pitstop, we reported in April that uTorrent was installed on 11.6% of all PCs in Europe, compared to 5.1% in the USA. |
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RIAA's Happy Holidays eCard December 24, 2008 Christmas is a time for sharing, something the RIAA is not too fond of. Nevertheless, they sent out seasons greetings to a select group of people. |
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The Pirate Bay Launches Free Mobile Video Converter December 20, 2008 With the wide range of video formats out there, it can be quite a challenge to find a tool that can easily convert these to a format that is supported by your mobile device. |
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No more lawsuits: ISPs to work with RIAA, cut off P2P users December 19, 2008 The RIAA's large-scale litigation campaign is over. In its place comes a voluntary new "graduated response" agreement with American ISPs. |
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BitTorrent Crash Linked to Military Satellite Hack December 19, 2008 There can be no denying it, there is a definite link between BitTorrent and movies. The movie industry has been at war with the famous protocol from the instant it realized that its not just Linux distros it can effectively shift around the Internet. |
