It appears that the official Shareaza website has been hijacked by some scammers, who are promoting some sharing software which is filled to the brim with adware and spyware. Such scams are common but...
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After recently claiming that it is illegal to rip your own CDs, nobody really thought that the industry would go after people....but it looks like they have! A Slyck forum post is showing the details...
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Torrentfreak has compiled a list, via the notoriously poor Alexa ratings, of the most popular torrent sites in 2007, which contain no real suprises whatsoever. Unsuprisingly Mininova heads up the...
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Filed in archive DRM
by Jordan Grodecki on December 28, 2007
Slowly but surely the music industry is switching to DRM free download services, and Warner have become the 3rd of the big four music labels (EMI, Vivendi, Warner, Sony BMG) to offer them. Previously...
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The IFPI, that company we all know and love, has come up with another slightly insane plan to destroy everything that looks like it may have once thought about sharing a file. They claim that Europe...
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A "media tracking company" which goes by the name of BigChampagne has come out with a remarkable and slightly unbelievable statistic. They claim that over one third of people (36.4% if you...
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Hi all. Just posting a little update to wish you all a Merry Christmas, or alternatively Happy Holidays if you do not celebrate Christmas. I hope you have all had a good day with your family and that...
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In yet another one of those rather predictable surveys about P2P, it has been revealed to everyone that, Japan, a modern, technology filled country, has embraced sharing with open arms. As this...
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After the extraordinary ruling last year that Torrentspy had to keep logs of everything that users did on it's site, with a judge ruling that archives of what was currently in the RAM of servers...
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Filed in archive Fun
by Jordan Grodecki on December 21, 2007
As if there wasn't already enough ways to break the law by downloading and uploading content; the creator of blubster and Piolet, both fairly small P2P networks, has invented a new application,...
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Okay, okay, it's not that they just use iTunes, it's that they actually BUY things from it! Who would've thought it? People buying things from one of the original online music shops, on...
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That's South Koreans, not those from the North, nobody really knows what they get up to due to their delightful style of government. However, back to relevent news; a study from the Korean Film...
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Beginning tommorrow, the 64 min long mini sequal to Jackass 2, cleverly titled Jackass 2.5, will be released for free on the internet. It will be available for 2 weeks completely free of charge...
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Filed in archive Video
by Jordan Grodecki on December 13, 2007
Jerome Bixby, an independant film maker, who has just released his latest sci-fi feature, "The Man From Earth", is exactly the person who somoene would expect to be deadset against P2P....
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The good ol' RIAA has come out in yet another breif stating that any MP3 files, even those ripped from their own personal CDs, are classed as "unauthorized copies". These so called...
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The People's Republic of China has taken the somewhat extraordinary step of completely banning US films from cinemas in the country. Well, actually, they haven't officially taken this step,...
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America has been looking into ways to crack down on pirates further, and have come up with a new peice of legislation which they want to make law. "Prioritizing Resources and Organization of...
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The Songwriters Association of Canada has come up with a pretty cool new idea to do with filesharing (no duh, what else is going to be posted on this blog?). They are calling for the legalization of...
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