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The Pirate Bay Interrogations
via TorrentFreak by Ernesto on February 05, 2008
During the two year investigation into The Pirate Bay, several people connected to the site were questioned. The Swedish police allegedly used some of the harshest (Jack Bauer like) interrogation tactics to get them to talk, with surprising results.When The Pirate Bay was raided back in 2006, three men were brought in for questioning, and the interrogations continued in the months that followed....
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TorrentFreedom Offers 100% Anonymous and Unrestricted BitTorrent
via TorrentFreak by enigmax on February 07, 2008
With a militant style more associated with the crew of The Pirate Bay, TorrentFreedom promises to put the user back in control, by offering a new BitTorrent-optimized, zero-logging, 100% anonymous VPN service, guaranteed to punch a hole through throttling ISPs. Be quick for a free account!Born out of the VPNTunnel Project, the TorrentFreedom ‘manifesto’ is an interesting document,...
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Mininova Launches Music Torrent Streaming
via TorrentFreak by Ernesto on February 08, 2008
The popular BitTorrent site Mininova just released a set of new features, including music torrent streaming. The new music streaming feature uses a Java applet developed by BitLet, which is easy to use and compatible with all Java-enabled browsers.With the new music streaming feature users can listen to individual music tracks, streamed from .torrent files. It is integrated in the featured...
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Record Label Quits, Uploads Albums onto The Pirate Bay
via TorrentFreak by Ernesto on February 09, 2008
Dependent Records, an independent record label from Germany recently decided to shut its doors and upload all its albums onto The Pirate Bay. Interestingly, a year ago the the CEO of the label mentioned piracy as one of the main reasons why they decided to quit.Nonetheless, a few days ago Dependent records’ CEO Stefan Herwig decided to upload all the albums from his label -which mainly features...
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Anakata of The Pirate Bay Speaks Out on TV
via TorrentFreak by enigmax on February 10, 2008
As the trial of ‘The Pirate Bay Four’ comes ever closer, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, aka ‘Anakata’, speaks out on TV news. Dubbed by the report as the brains behind The Pirate Bay, Gottfrid is said to run a site that is ‘the scourge of the film and music industries’. “It’s not stealing, morally or legally” he said.Now that the Pirate Bay trial is drawing ever closer, more and more...
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New and Promising BitTorrent Sites
via TorrentFreak by Ernesto on February 13, 2008
BitTorrent’s popularity is still growing, and new sites are launched every day. Unfortunately it is impossible to feature all the new sites here, so we decided to post a selection of BitTorrent sites that look promising, or offer something new.PizzaTorrentPizzaTorrent is a meta-search engine, inspired by the enormous success of another site we introduced last month, YouTorrent. The site has a...
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Demonoid Tracker Is Back, Will the Site be Next?
via TorrentFreak by Ernesto on February 18, 2008
It has been three months since the popular (semi)private BitTorrent tracker Demonoid went offline. Since then, there has been a lot of speculation about its future, and many feared that the site would never return. Totally out of the blue, however, the tracker is now responding again.The frontend of Demonoid is still hosted in the US, together with the popular Subdemon forums. Interestingly, the...
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EU Invests $22 Million in Next-Generation BitTorrent Client
via TorrentFreak by Ernesto on February 19, 2008
A few weeks ago we reported that the EU Greens launched a pro-filesharing campaign named “I Wouldn’t Steal”. In a continued effort to support the development of P2P technology, the European Union has now invested $22 million in the development of an open-source BitTorrent client.The team behind the social BitTorrent client Tribler is responsible for the core P2P technology for the project,...
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