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BitBlinder is the first service that allows BitTorrent users to hide their activity. There have been other solutions in the past such as using Onion Routers, but those solutions have not been very effective for BitTorrent traffic. BitTorrent is a great file-sharing tool. However, let’s not...

Not a lot of movies are released exclusive to Bittorrent. The American Prince is the latest movie, or shall we call it documentary, that is exclusively distributed this way. What probably makes it even more interesting is the fact that it was produced by well known director Tommy Pallotta who...

Back in April we reported about the free file-hosting service Rapidshare’s collaboration with German authorities, disclosing personal data of its users to record labels. Rapidshare was criticized among other things for the fact it had never actually made it clear for its users what kind of...

Three judges are currently reviewing the judge that handled the Pirate Bay trial to discover if he was biased or not. No decision has yet been made but the New York Times and several other publications report inaccuracies and plain wrongs that claim otherwise. Time to get the facts straight...

“The enemies of copyright have really done a good job at creating the false premise that the interest of copyright holders and the interest of society as a whole are antagonistic, and they always talk about the need for balance.” Thus spoke Motion Picture Association of America employee and...

One of the UK's largest ISPs says that the "free ride" is over for popular Web services like video streaming, which are building "very profitable business models" by using ISP pipes. In BT's view, it's time for streaming video to pay up for better service. Major UK Internet provider BT opened...

Japan is hopping smartly to it on behalf of Vivendi Universal (France), Sony (Japan), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US). Five teenagers, all site admins on the One Touch BB, “were brought in for questioning by the police last week, including one 13-year old who was given juvenile...

Bollywood, wrestling, anime, B-movies, art-house cinema, Asian action flicks and porn, lots and lots of porn — whatever you’re into, there’s bound to be a private torrent tracker for it somewhere. These private BitTorrent communities often work by invitation only and try to stay under the radar...

Fleet Foxes’ self titled album was considered by Pitchfork and many other music critics to be the best album of 2008. Interestingly, Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold says the band could not have made the album without the inspiration he got from the hundreds of albums he pirated over the...

A court in Germany has found that accidental file sharing is not a crime. In this case, it involved a guy using file sharing software, where he didn't realize that anything he downloaded was automatically shared. For that reason, he was found not guilty of sharing the same content. Of course, as...

Perhaps no video gaming company has had more trouble with the gaming community when it comes to things like DRM than EA. The company received tons of negative publicity for its aggressive and annoying DRM found in the release of Spore (which did little to nothing in actually slowing the...

A group of people in the UK have been arrested after they allegedly put their own music on the iTunes Music Store and Amazon, then purchased it with stolen credit-card numbers. Police say they made 19 tracks and put them up in the shops, then spent about $750,000 on the music, grabbing about...

Norway’s data protection department has indicated that ISPs must delete all personal IP address-related data just 3 weeks after collection. The instruction, initially given to two ISPs but applicable to them all, means that it will be incredibly difficult to take action against file-sharers...

While the entertainment industry dreams of booting heavy P2P users from ISP networks (ignoring the fact these are potential customers), ISPs don't want the extra cost of playing content babysitter. ISPs like citing a 2008 UK study that claims 72% of P2P users would stop with just a warning, or a...

Given the chance, the games industry will whine ad nauseum about the evils of software piracy, but the recent success of The Sims 3 shows that illegal downloading isn’t necessarily bad for business. Electronic Arts is boasting that The Sims 3 is a hit, with 1.4 million units sold in the first...

Three decades after Saturday Night Fever shot to the top of the charts, Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees is lending his voice to the fight for artists' rights in the age of digital piracy. "It's not a very healthy atmosphere in the music business at the moment," Gibb, who heads the International...

France's controversial attempt to crack down on internet pirates by unilaterally cutting off internet access was dealt a severe blow after the country's highest court ruled that the draconian legislation violated human rights. The Constitutional Court said on Wednesday that the so-called...

Earlier this week Mininova and the Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN fought out a civil dispute in court. In broad terms, BREIN demanded a copyright filter but an in-depth look at their demands reveals that they also suggest the BitTorrent site to block torrents tracked by The Pirate Bay and ban...

This week police and anti-piracy groups moved to close down a very large BitTorrent tracker. With 250,000 users, Snowtigers was possibly the largest French tracker. According to reports, police arrested 10 members of staff and seized more than 20 servers, after the military assisted in locating...

With the Pirate Bay verdict in hand, the music industry lobby group IFPI are threatening the hosting providers of torrent sites to take down everything BitTorrent related, or else. While some have complied with these demands, the Swedish web host Portlane refuses to do so and uses commercial...