Top BitTorrent and Music Download Sites Pushed Underground in the UK
Updated: 2013-10-30 09:22:09
Accessing major file-sharing sites through a regular search engine or browser entry will become much more difficult today for users in the UK. Thanks to action taken by the major labels of the BPI and elsewhere by the MPAA, none of the torrent sites listed in the top 10 at the start of 2013 will be available for direct access. File-sharing is being pushed back underground in the hope of starving its ecosystem of new UK recruits, but The Pirate Bay's PirateBrowser is pushing back.Source: Top BitTorrent and Music Download Sites Pushed Underground in the UK
There are fresh calls today for entertainment companies and Australian Internet service providers to reboot their stalled online piracy mitigation talks. Attorney-General George Brandis is driving the initiative and has written to the interested parties requesting their participation in a series of urgent roundtable discussions. It comes as no surprise that website blocking is high on the agenda, to the huge disappointment of the local Pirate Party.Source: Site Blocking on the Agenda for Fresh Aussie Anti-Piracy Action
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While in regular P2P file-sharing circles its generally accepted that individual users are sharing for love, not profit, there are some who see online piracy as a way to make money. Today TorrentFreak speaks with an extremely prolific pirate, who says he is making a decent living from uploading content to file-hosting sites and spreading links to popular streaming sites and around the web. For those using the big sites, chances are you're watching content he's uploaded.Source: Making Money from Movie Streaming Sites, an Insider’s Story
The season finale of Breaking Bad ignited passions lat month when it clocked up half a million unauthorized downloads in just 12 hours. Now the creator of the show has been speaking out, noting that while ultimately piracy is a problem, it's one that has helped the show become more popular with fans. That would certainly be a good estimate, since news figures from TorrentFreak point to a huge three million downloads of the season finale.Source: Breaking Bad Creator: Illegal Downloading Raised Brand Awareness
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With hundreds of millions of active users Xunlei is arguably the most used BitTorrent client in the world, albeit almost exclusively in China. But aside from delivering entertainment the company was recently found to be distributing malware to thousands of people through its services. The company, partly owned by Google, has fired the employees responsible and now offers an uninstaller to infected users. Source: Google-Backed File-Sharing Service Spreads Malware
This week BitTorrent presented itself as a forefighter of user privacy, determined to keep people safe from the prying eyes of three-letter agencies. While this may apply to some of the newer products the San Francisco company is developing, their flagship software is a privacy nightmare by design. Perhaps even worse, the fact that BitTorrent refuses to advertise VPN services to their users shows that privacy is not always high on the company's agenda. Source: BitTorrent Inc. Doesn’t Care About Your Privacy, Not Always
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