Stories about File sharing

‘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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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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Microsoft Live Mesh comes to the Mac
Live Mesh, Microsoft's file sync technology has come to the Mac, but you'll need to be running the latest version of 10.5, and be comfortable using a Windows UI to use it.
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Azureus is dead, long live Vuze?
Azureus has gone the same way as Napster and Kazaa... though this time the RIAA wasn't involved; Azureus' makers pulled the plug themselves.
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