Stories about P2P

Pirate Party hosting Pirate Bay torrent site from “underground bunker”
It’s a match made in P2P heaven as Sweden’s Pirate Party plays host to lawsuit-prone The Pirate Bay – with servers located in a former Cold War bunker in Stockholm!
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New piracy trial: AFACT to appeal iiNet verdict
The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) today said it would appeal the Federal Court's judgement against the group in its internet piracy case against iiNet.
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Legal action forces Mininova to nuke its Torrent seeds, goes legit
BitTorrent supersite Mininova has deleted its massive torrent seed database and will now support only legal downloads through its content distribution service.
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Office 2010 Beta 2 leaks onto BitTorrent
Microsoft will release the public beta of its next-gen Office suite on Wednesday but it’s already landed on popular BitTorrent file sharing sites.
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BitTorrent hub pushes ahead with next-gen file sharing network
While the stoush continues over The Pirate Bay, fellow Torrent hub IsoHunt is rolling out its own ‘social file sharing’ project.
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Game developer asks pirates nicely to stop
One video game developer is working to combat piracy by asking pirates nicely.
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Windows 7 Release Candidate leaked to BitTorrent
Ahead of this week’s expected debut for the Windows 7 ‘release candidate’, it seems that the RC1 edition – labelled Build 7100 – has already hit the BitTorrent network
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Pirate Bay operators jailed
A court in Stockholm has found the four founders of The Pirate Bay BitTorrent site guilty of providing access to copyright works over BitTorrent.
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Aussie movie pirate faces court; walks free
Despite worldwide attention, a 26 year old Australian man has got off a movie piracy charge with little more than a slap on the wrist from Blacktown Local Court.
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Underbelly 2 episodes hit the net
Channel 9 is making Underbelly 2 available for download on the web straight after each episode airs.
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Ethical Trojan blocks Bittorrent sites
A fake keygen for pirated software tries to stop you pirating anything at all by blocking out popular Torrent sites. Hollywood probably loves it. Perhaps they even programmed it.
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CHRISTMAS SHOCK: Australian government to trial P2P filters
The Rudd government didn't tell voters before the election, but now it has revealed it will filter illegal P2P transfers at a government level as part of its ISP filtering plan.
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iiNet piracy case starts in Federal Court
iiNet says it will vigorously defend itself against AFACT's claims that it authorised piracy among its users, but the case looks set to be a long battle.
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Why iiNet will probably lose the piracy lawsuit
A look at the Copyright Act suggests the movie and TV industry have an unfortunately strong case against iiNet. PLUS: Read the court documents yourself.
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SCAPEGOAT: iiNet sued over BitTorrent piracy
Internet service provider iiNet is being sued by seven Hollywood movie studios for failing to disconnect users who allegedly swapped pirated movies via BitTorrent.
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