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BitTorrent for everyone
Setting up uTorrent on your server solves a lot of problems and lets you trigger downloads from anywhere so they’re ready when you need them.
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How to rip anything: get legal content via torrents
The BitTorrent protocol lets you find and download massive (and small) files from the internet – here’s how to do it and where to get legal torrents.
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How to choose the right BitTorrent client for Linux
BitTorrent is a popular way to distribute content on the web — but which clients for Linux suit your needs the best?
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A pirate's treasure trove? WD TV Live Hub review
A network media player with a difference, but you may need to be a little patient in order to fill this up with all your favourite content.
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2-0: iiNet wins film industry's piracy appeal
Signalling a possible end to one of the most contentious techno-legal stoushes of recent times, the Full Federal Court of Australia today dismissed AFACT's appeal.
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Crowd-funded thriller could be studios’ worst nightmare
Sydney filmmakers try to raise $135,000 to fund production of thriller flick – and then give it away on BitTorrent. Will it flop? Or will it have studios screaming in horror?
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Australia to get its own Hulu-style VOD service?
Australians may soon have access to streaming TV shows Hulu-style through a new start-up from a couple of former industry heavyweights.
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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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ISP snooping law would make piracy lawsuits AFACT of life
A proposal to log your every move online would not only violate your privacy, but provide the missing link for studios to sue file sharers within an inch of their lives.
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ABC premieres new Dr Who on iView ahead of TV broadcast
In a bid to promote its IPTV catch-up service the ABC screens the first episode of the new Dr Who series on iView tonight, two days before it airs on ABC TV.
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‘Scareware’ scam bluffs BitTorrent users into paying bogus fine for violating copyright
Malicious software scans a hard drive for .torrent files, fires up a “copyright violation alert” and stings innocent users for an on-the-spot US$4,000 fine.
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Appeal won’t stop illegal downloads: iiNet
iiNet this afternoon rejected a renewed legal challenge by a coalition of film and TV studios as "disappointing and frustrating", adding it would not stop piracy.
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AFACT v iiNet: it's like an episode of The Wire
It came to me the other night, when I was watching The Wire, that the drug trade it focuses on are very similar to that of the online copyright infringement struggle.
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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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Windows 7 gets tough new anti-piracy checks
The latest raft of Windows 7 patches will bring one that rings home to Microsoft more often to check your copy is legit.
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