TorrentFreak (Free subscription) | yesterday
Most other sites would have thrown in the towel by now, but despite unprecedented pressure, somehow The Pirate Bay remains alive and in pretty good health today. As one door closes, the site morphs and adapts to find ways to stay open and possibly even stay legal. Is the site becoming more and more difficult to shut down?
No Rock And Roll Fun (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Today's Guardian business pages have an interesting but limited piece on Spotify this morning; one which contains two statistics which are supposed to be impressive but, erm, actually aren't. Number one: But last week the blogosphere was alight with speculation about Spotify's model, fuelled by reports in its home market that it paid Lady Gaga – through the Swedish performing rights society STIM...
Torrent Tricks (Free subscription) | yesterday
With Mininova Down, Where do you find all your Torrents NOW....?? Here are the alternative sites for Mininova, they may not be clean, But they do serve the purpose.(Keep that AdBlocker ON) 1. Monova 2. The Pirate Bay 3. ExtraTorrent 4. ShareReactor 5. BTjunkie 6. Torrentzap 7. isoHunt 8. yourBitTorrent 9. Fenopy 10. KickassTorrents
P2P Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The popular torrent-indexing site Mininova.org late yesterday took the drastic step of removing all but a few torrents in response to a copyright infringement lawsuit. Dutch rights group BREIN went to court against Mininova in June, and later that summer, the site was ordered to remove any links to infringing content and prevent any further uploads of such content. Mininova is still considering appealing...
Chris Boese's Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Link: Clay Shirky on Twitter and the social media revolution | Online Journalism Blog. For some reason, GritTV on my computer doesn't match audio to video very well, so besides looking like an out-of-sync old Japanese monster film, this is a terrific interview! The bit I really listened to and took the most away from is about three-quarters of the way through the interview, when Clay starts talking...
Techie Buzz (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Recently SceneTorrents a private torrent tracker had to shut down due to court cases. With the number of torrent trackers shutting down everyday, do you think the end of piracy is imminent? You might also like: RIP: Pirate Bay Tracker Shuts Down Alternatives to Mininova OpenBittorrent: An Open & Universal Bittorrent Tracker Mininova Deletes Illegal Torrents, Goes Legal
World Of Technology (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
All it takes is a little loss in the legal arena, and boom! Mininova, the world's largest BitTorrent site, has removed all torrents except those that were uploaded through its Content Distribution service. That service allows producers and artists to easily publish and distribute their content through Mininova for free. Basically, this decision means everything not legal and legitimate is now gone...
Thoughts from the Sidelines (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The days when one could simply download all the illegal content one wanted to one’s computers have long gone. With The Pirate Bay going under, other sites thought they could profit from the extra traffic coming their way. Lots of Pirate Bay fans have had to revert to other means ...
T3.com News (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Mininova is the latest bit torrent site to remove pirated material from its website page after a Dutch court ruled that the site remove all links to illegal content. - 50 Top tech sites and services to bookmark now The site has now gone legit and followed the example of Pirate Bay, Suprnova, Napster and many more before it. It will now only be allowed to offer links to official licensed files. Tim...
PC World (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Mininova, one of the largest peer-to-peer file-sharing sites next to The Pirate Bay, has now removed most of its links to copyrighted content.
dot.life (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
As the Digital Britain bill starts to make its way through Parliament , the row over its controversial measures against unlawful file-sharers is getting ever more heated. Supporters in the music and movie industries are rejoicing that something is at last being done to protect artists whose property they say has been stolen, while critics of the bill say it represents a fundamental attack on the rights...
Bigmouthmedia (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
File sharing website Mininova has removed all links to illegal torrent downloads, to comply with a court order. According to the BBC, the Netherlands-based company was issued with a court order three months ago, demanding that its website remove all links to copyright-protected material. The Mininova site now only hosts links to 'featured content,' which consists solely of licensed files that are...
Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Goes legitimate following Dutch court ruling Mininova, one of the bigger Bittorrent filesharing sites on the Web, has shut down every single "infringing" torrent in its index and pledged to go legitimate. All torrents have been removed, except the ones that were uploaded through its content distribution service which allows artists to put their own content up. The decision follows a court...
Unit1 (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Filed under: Internet, P2P Just one week ago, The Pirate Bay permanently shut down its BitTorrent tracker. Now, in the wake of a civil dispute in the Netherlands, Mininova has removed all of the ‘useful’ torrents from its search listings. Just like that — no more films, anime or TV for you! For five years, since [...]
Unit1 (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Filed under: Internet, P2P The Pirate Bay’s torrents have gone forever and Mininova’s turned legal. With the dams shattered you can be damn sure that other sites will now follow in their footsteps and shut down — or go legal. But you — and the draconian piracy lobby groups — should be well aware by now that [...]
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walkout | 08/04/2009
Like everyone else I’ve been reading, talking to friends and thinking about this for the last couple of days. What I’m about to say is the result of that — my own opinion and nothing more. Let’s start with a great fact: that, as Rasmus Fleischer of Piratbyran points out , the entire Pirate Bay could fit on a single USB stick. This got me thinking: what if someone was to simply scrape and copy all The
barney1 | 04/17/2009
why do people choose the piracy options? i guess things are now moving closer to lock down for piracy as the sword of damocles hangs over them, but don't steal, go open source where ever and when ever you can and support legal individual peoples expertise.
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