Bittorrent articles

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  Counting Crows says file-sharing is 'the new radio station,' releases BitTorrent promo

  By Adi Robertson on May 14, 2012 06:42 pm + 22 comments

  Content creators have expressed mixed feelings towards peer-to-peer file-sharing, from vehement Continue reading…

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  O'Reilly Media's VP for Content Strategy thinks of piracy as just another marketing expense

  By Jeff Blagdon on May 7, 2012 05:31 am + 12 comments

  For content authors, obscurity is the real problem, while piracy isn't much more than an Continue reading…

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  NY magistrate judge: IP addresses not an effective way to identify alleged pirates

  By Bryan Bishop on May 3, 2012 10:24 pm + 18 comments

  Using IP addresses to track down and identify individuals accused of pirating copyrighted material Continue reading…

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  'Hurt Locker' studio returns to the courtroom with piracy suit against 2,500 new defendants

  By Adi Robertson on April 24, 2012 05:56 pm + 48 comments

  In 2010, The Hurt Locker received a laundry list of Academy Awards and other accolades, but the film Continue reading…

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  Torrent users freak out over shift from Xvid to x264, threaten to pirate elsewhere

  By Andrew Webster on March 4, 2012 04:04 pm + 148 comments

  Even pirates need rules, and a number of groups responsible for releasing pirated TV shows have Continue reading…

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  The Magnet Bay: file sharing site does away with .torrent files today

  By Jeff Blagdon on February 29, 2012 08:21 am + 22 comments

  Today is the big day — popular BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay is no longer hosting .torrent files, Continue reading…

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  Fully-fledged uTorrent app for Android in development, has no ETA

  By Dante D'Orazio on February 26, 2012 02:29 am + 48 comments

  We've all gone mobile since BitTorrent started bringing media and (ill-gotten) files to us in 2001, Continue reading…

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  The Pirate Bay will remove most torrent files on February 29th, magnet links taking over

  By Aaron Souppouris on February 13, 2012 07:12 am + 15 comments

  After announcing it planned to move away from the format last month, The Pirate Bay has today given Continue reading…

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  Torrent search engine BTJunkie closes its doors

  By Jamie Keene on February 6, 2012 06:35 am + 35 comments

  BitTorrent search engine BTJunkie voluntarily shuttered its service today, leaving behind only a Continue reading…

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  BitTorrent launches Share, a personal file-swapping service

  By Nathan Ingraham on January 5, 2012 04:48 pm + 34 comments

  If you're looking for a lightweight tool to share files of any size, the aptly-named Share might be Continue reading…