Livestreams are great and all, but they’re all subject to a terrible reality: the more people who want to watch, the more likely it is the stream goes down. BitTorrent’s P2P streaming service BitTorrent Live stands to change all that by actually drawing strength from the crowd, and it’s here to start shaking up the scene. More »
The website and ecosystem known as The Pirate Bay are known for their involvement in the uploads and downloads of countless files across the internet and the legal ramifications of their involvement with said files – and this week they’ve moved to North Korea. Or so they say they did this month. In fact what they’ve done is to – so they say – set up a ruse to capture the attention of the public so that they public can become more aware of the fact that anyone can tell them a lie.
The Pirate Bay’s announcement about moving their servers to North Korea existed right up on their homepage’s front page. From there they showed a lovely North Korean set of sails on their own branded pirate ship, proceeding to tell the world that North Korea – of all places – invited them to host their servers and become a new beacon of freedom. But it was not to be.
Down on The Pirate Bay’s Facebook page, the team has shown the world that they’re “in it for the lulz”. Speaking for TPB, users Winona, Winnie, and Winston Bay have spoken up about how creating a ruse such as the one they’ve executed this week proves that they “don’t run TPB to make money.” They also call out the RIAA (cleverly re-named MAFIAA in the statement) for being a “profit hungry idiot”.
“We’ve hopefully made clear (once again) that we don’t run TPB to make money. A profit hungry idiot (points at MAFIAA with a retractable baton) doesn’t tell the world that they have partnered with the most hated dictatorship in the world. We can play that stunt though, cause we’re still only in it for the f***** lulz and it doesn’t matter to us if thousands of users disband the ship.” – TPB
Of course the fun didn’t end there, the team continuing by calling out none other than the readers and the users – all of us, that is – for not calling them out when they announced such an absurd notion as moving to North Korea.
“We’ve also learned that many of you need to be more critical. Even towards us. You can’t seriously cheer the “fact” that we moved our servers to bloody North Korea. Applauds to you who told us to f*** off. Always stay critical. Towards everyone!” – TPB
So that pins it, in the end. We now live in a world where we cannot trust any company to speak the truth about their own organization – or it may just be that we’re not going to be able to read anything the team at The Pirate Bay publish from this point forward without a large grain of salt. That sounds reasonable – as does remembering that anyone could make a mistake in this fast-paced online publishing world of ours.
How do you feel about the situation?
Pirate Bay North Korea move slightly exaggerated is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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It looks like The Pirate Bay has set sail for another country, and a country none of us would have expected. North Korea has taken The Pirate Bay in, and has even offered it virtual asylum. It was only last week when The Pirate Bay was forced from its home in Sweden due to the threats the Swedish Pirate Party received from a local anti-piracy group. TPB was then provided shelter in both Norway and Spain.
It turns out that The Pirate Bay was actually in talks with North Korea for a little while. An insider from TPB stated, “We’ve been in talks with them for about two weeks, since they opened access for foreigners to use 3G in the country.” While TPB isn’t exactly situating itself in North Korea, it will be using North Korea’s network to provide its services to the rest of the world.
This comes only a few days after Norway was forced to let go of The Pirate Bay. The pirate party in Norway began receiving threats from local anti-piracy groups to shut down its services, similar to what Sweden’s Pirate Party had to face. By being offered virtual asylum by North Korea, it will be very interesting to see what anti-piracy groups will due in attempt to shut down the site again.
The Pirate Bay, and many others, believe that this is a truly ironic, seeing as the United States is known as a place of freedom and North Korea is known as the opposite. TPB hopes that it will bond with North Korea, and maybe someday convince the government to allow its people to utilizes its full services. This is an interesting turn of events, and we’d love to see how this new relationship will turn out for The Pirate Bay.
[via Torrent Freak]
Pirate Bay flees to North Korea for freedom’s sake is written by Brian Sin & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Not too long ago, BitTorrent launched a little project called Sync, which provides practically unlimited “cloud” storage. Now the professional sharers are rolling out yet another service called “SoShare” which promises to let you easily send huge files to friends and coworkers with little to no hassle. Up to a whole terabyte at the click of a button. More »
BitTorrent announced last month that it was working on a file-syncing app dubbed Sync, and it’s now debuted a public beta of a somewhat complimentary file-sharing service called SoShare (previously announced in an alpha state as simply Share). The hook with SoShare is that it will let you send huge files (up to 1TB) for free in a single data transfer, which is handled through the BitTorrent browser plug-in. What’s more, while you’ll of course have to sign up for an account to send the files, the recipients of the file don’t necessarily need an account themselves; you can simply make a public link available or send an email notification (they will need the browser plug-in though). Those files will remain active for 30 days unless you choose to have them expire sooner. Hit the source link to sign up for the beta if you’re interested in trying it yourself.
Filed under: Internet
Via: The Next Web
Source: SoShare, BitTorrent Blog
Do you sense that? Winter is indeed coming this spring as HBO’s Game of Thrones will start its third season starting March 31. Seeing as we’re over a month away from Game of Thrones’ premier, HBO has started the hype train with a new 40 second preview.
The preview HBO published on the official Game of Thrones YouTube page is titled “Chaos” and highlights a number of important characters we were left with at the end of the show’s second season. Each character’s face is highlighted for a few seconds as Petyr Baelish describes the nature of chaos. “Chaos isn’t a pit,” he says. “Chaos is a ladder.” (more…)
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Everybody’s got their grand plans to put an end to piracy. Cable providers are instituting 6-strikes policies against alleged infringers, and the FBI, they like to take down sites like MegaUpload. But that doesn’t mean they don’t torrent, themselves. TorrentFreak dug up a little list of what’s been being pirated from FBI IPs. More »
Cloud backup services are popping up everywhere these days, with even BitTorrent now jumping onto the cloud craze. BitTorrent has announced a new cloud backup service it calls Sync, and though it of course has plenty of similarities with other cloud services out there, Sync offers a couple key differences. By using Sync, you’re actually using BitTorrent’s servers to transfer files from one device to another.
This has a number of benefits, as it means you won’t be subject to size restrictions like you are with other services. One of the major headaches with services like Dropbox and SkyDrive is that you’re limited in how much you can have in your synced folders – for Dropbox, for instance, you get 2GB of free space, and that runs out quick when you’re trying to sync multiple video files at once. Once you’ve hit that cap, you’ll need to shell out some cash if you want more space.
That’s not a major complaint, as these are companies that exist to make money after all. BitTorrent’s Sync, on the other hand, is free to use. You won’t have to worry about limits on the amount you can transfer from one device to another, which probably sounds like a Godsend to those who constantly have to rely on cloud services to move files between devices.
As cool as it sounds, there’s one slight problem: BitTorrent Sync isn’t available to use just yet (unless you love pre-alpha testing). It’s currently in the testing stages, but it shouldn’t be more than a few months before Sync is available to BitTorrent users. What do you think of this new cloud service from the people behind BitTorrent?
[via NBC News]
BitTorrent announces cloud storage and sharing service Sync is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
Mega has been stealing the spotlight when it comes to new cloud storage services, but it’s actually usability has been sort of crappy at launch. Meanwhile, in Kim Dotcom’s gargantuan shadow, BitTorrent is trying it’s hand at “cloud” storage too with BitTorrent Sync, and it just might be the Mega that Mega wants to be. More »
BitTorrent has announced that it’s working on its very own file-synchronization app — and it’s already looking for a limited number of test subjects for its pre-Alpha stage. So far, the premise is to offer identical copies of your files on all machines, all sounding pretty similar to how you use iCloud, Skydrive or Dropbox, although there would be no cloud-caching. According to GigaOM, files will be protected by 256-bit encryption, with native test apps for Mac, Windows and Linux (alongside NAS integration) already in testing. There’s no mobile version just yet, but BitTorrent has stated that it’s “committed to mobile across the board,” and, well, it’s still pre-Alpha. If you’re up for trying another file sync service, the company is recruiting willing participants over at the source.
Filed under: Software
Via: TNW
Source: GigaOM, BitTorrent
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