Being in college is mostly about torrenting things. You learn and flirt and imbibe and have a much more awkward time doing it than you thought you would, sure, but your time is predominantly spent torrenting movies and music and other stuff that doesn’t belong to you. And here are the 50 colleges that do it the most. More »
Gottfrid Svartholm, co-founder of the once-popular torrent tracker The Pirate Bay, is still being held in jail for at least two more weeks because he is suspected of hacking into a Swedish IT company. At first, he was arrested for not appearing for his jail sentence, and was then deported to Sweden from Cambodia.
Once Svartholm touched down at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport in Sweden, local authorities immediately detained him due to a suspicion of him being involved in the hacking of Logica, a Swedish IT company that works with local tax authorities. However, since Svartholm hasn’t yet been charged officially in the Logica case, he could only be held in jail for a few days.
Then again, Svartholm will be stuck in jail for at least two more weeks, thanks to request put in by Prosecuter Henry Olin, who insists that Svartholm remain detained while the investigation into the Logica hack continues. To prevent the Pirate Bay co-founder from interfering with the investigation, Svartholm is not allowed to have visitors and is being denied access to newspapers and television.
Two other Swedish citizens were also arrested and put in jail under suspicion of being involved in the Logica hack as well. One of the suspects was a member of the group that founded The Pirate Bay back in 2003. Both suspects have since been released. Svartholm denies any involvement with the Logica hack.
In related news, The Pirate Bay website seems to be down. Whether or not this is a permanent shut down is still to be known.
[via TorrentFreak]
Pirate Bay founder still in jail without any charges is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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America, land of the free and home of the torrenters, apparently. Musicmetric, an analytics company, tallied up all the torrenting that happens across the world to find out which country is the biggest pirate and the United States of America is an unsurprising number one. Good job, guys! More »
Fans of the torrent-juggling desktop client can now get their downloads direct to their mobile device, because uTorrent’s launched a beta app for any Android device running version 2.1 or higher. It’s currently free, with RSS support, fully adjustable upload and download speeds and the ability to play games in the background as you wait for your files. There’s currently no limit on download sizes either — just so long as you can stomach the data charges.
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Watch out pirates, you may not be as anonymous as you think, especially if you upload to the Pirate Bay. Researchers have recently published a tool that lets you get all kinds of data, including location, about some of the most prolific accounts. More »
uTorrent is one of the world’s most popular BitTorrent clients, with most users preferring it over other solutions due to its lightweight operation and low memory footprint. BitTorrent Inc has slowly been adding new features into the client, upsetting some users in the process, but the latest change will no doubt be controversial. TorrentFreak reports that adverts will soon be integrated into the client that will should generate significant amounts of additional revenue for the company.
BitTorrent Inc took to the uTorrent forums yesterday to make the quiet announcement, indicating that adverts will be added to the client in a coming update within the next few weeks. Specifically, the company will offer featured torrents at the top of the torrent list, allowing artists and studios to promote their content to a huge number of users: around 125 million, according to TorrentFreak
The adverts will have several tiers. The first will promote any new features or services from BitTorrent Inc. The second will come from “offer partners,” which might include security products or privacy services, while the third will advertise independent artists. Anyone using the updated version of uTorrent won’t be able to turn offers off, however, instead only being able to skip any unwanted ads.
BitTorrent Inc says that the change won’t affect users privacy, but offers will be targeting based on IP address locations. As always, the company is trying to find a balance between offering free software and generating a healthy income, although TorrentFreak has been informed by a source that current revenue falls between $15 and $20 million, with the company “backed by millions in venture capital.”
Upcoming uTorrent update will feature adverts is written by Ben Kersey & originally posted on SlashGear.
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There was quite a bit of news bytes floating around recently concerning popular BitTorrent site Demonoid which was recently shut down, as the authorities cited that to be a gift to the US. Well, it seems that more developments have happened since then, where a trio of Demonoid domains have gone up for sale, just a couple of weeks after it was taken down in a coordinated, concerted effort. The site is based in Ukraine, and a trio of its domains – demonoid.me, demonoid.com, and demonoid.ph, can now be purchased on domain marketplace Sedo. (more…)
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Popular torrent site Demonoid shut down as gift to the United States, Demonoid brought down by a severe DDoS attack,
Chalk another one up for the governments waging this anti-piracy war we keep hearing so much about, as Ukrainian authorities have taken down Demonoid. The raid on Demonoid’s servers comes after the torrent tracking giant suffered a large-scale DDoS attack a few days before, and it seems that the US may have been involved in some way. Reports say that Anti-Cyber Research Affairs of Kiev conducted the raid on Demonoid host ColoCall, copying all of the information on Demonoid’s servers before shutting them down.
“Investigators have copied all the information from the servers Demonoid and sealed them,” an anonymous ColoCall source tells Ukrainian newspaper Kommersant “Some equipment was not seized, but now it does not work, and we were forced to terminate the agreement with the site.” The source said that Demonoid’s owners – who remain unnamed and are thought to be operating out of Mexico – had backups stored with ColoCall, but the fact that they haven’t used any of them yet suggests that Demonoid has been closed for good.
This raid on Demonoid’s servers coincides with a US visit by Deputy Prime Minister Valery Khoroshkovsky. In his first visit to the United States, Khoroshkovsky apparently discussed copyright infringement (among other topics), though USTR spokesperson Carol Guthrie tells Ars Technica that Demonoid wasn’t specifically mentioned during the meeting. Regardless of whether or not it was, the Ukrainian government seems happy to stand by the US as it attempts to bring file sharing sites down.
Demonoid did what it could to avoid prosecution in the Ukraine by denying access to anyone with a Ukrainian IP address, but that doesn’t seem like it was enough. It’s unclear if Demonoid will return eventually, but we have a feeling it will end up much like MegaUpload. To put it simply, don’t expect Demonoid to be up and running again anytime soon, if ever. Stay tuned, because this definitely isn’t the last we’ll hear of governments taking down file sharing sites.
Demonoid taken down by Ukrainian authorities is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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It’s a scene right out of Tron: right upon the release of the final version of Microsoft’s new operating system Windows 8, it’s leaked to the web. Is it a sign of the times that an illegal download of one of the most widely anticipated operating systems in recent memory is available almost as quickly as someone could have accessed and uploaded it? Or should we be dismayed that in an age where information security is as much a hot topic as sharing is that we’ve got an immediate break?
You’ll find both real and fake versions of the final version of Windows 8 out on torrent and other sharing sites this evening. What you wont find is any certification or assurance from Microsoft that what you’re grabbing from the web is anything that’s not going to contain a virus. You’re certainly not going to find a download out there that Microsoft wants you to have right this moment as they’ve only pushed the software to hardware manufacturers right this minute.
Microsoft will not be comment on this situation as there’s really nothing to say. There’s always the warning that bootleg copies of their hero software are not the most fabulous things to be dealing with, of course. But what explanation can Microsoft give for this sort of incident? Maybe something like, “those responsible for the leak have been found, and will certainly be sacked.”
But here’s what we’ve got to take home from this situation: the actual final release of the software is coming on October 26th for the general public – that’s you. You can wait for that date, or you can grab yourself a new machine packed full of Windows 8 when OEMs ship out their new line of machines inside the next few months.
Have a peek at the timeline below for additional bits on how Windows 8 will be coming to your fingertips soon as well. And make the right decision: don’t steal it.
Windows 8 final build leaks instantly: should we have simply expected it? is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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While BitTorrent usually isn’t synonymous with legitimate music downloads, it looks like things are about to change. According to reports online, BitTorrent is now being used to distribute original music starting with a turntablist known as DJ Shadow. Every time someone downloads a free torrent of his tracks and installs the bundled software, he and the developer of the software will earn some revenue.
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By Ubergizmo. Related articles: BitTorrent Torque introduced, Pirate Pay is a Microsoft-funded startup that aims to kill illegal torrenting,
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