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TorrentFreak (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
For more than five years the largest BitTorrent tracker on the Internet has been been operated informally by a small group of friends. This will soon change as Global Gaming Factory takes over the ship to explore seas unknown. TorrentFreak caught up with Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde to review the past week’s events and to look ahead to the future. For more than five years the largest BitTorrent...
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Download Squad (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Filed under: Internet , P2P When the news came down a few days ago about The Pirate Bay being sold, the community reacted strongly. Despite pleas on the official blog for users to not abandon the site, it was inevitable that the 'betrayal' many users felt would lead to a flood of account deletions. To a number of P2P users, TPB is dead. After all, once GGF goes to work the site will likely be a hollow...
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P2P Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
News of the Pirate Bay's impending sale has worried file sharers around the world. Rights holders on the other hand seem to be somewhat optimistic, hoping that the deal will put an end to the world's largest file-swapping platform. But history has shown again and again that the demise of popular P2P sites and systems doesn't lead to less file swapping. On the contrary, the gap is oftentimes filled...
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OS News (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Time for another Week in Review. We had a fairly regular week this week, with the focus somehow being Mac cloners, The Pirate Bay, Mono, and Browsers were also in the spotlight this week with the release of Firefox 3.5, disagreements on the video tag codec, and talking about KHTML. Read more on this exclusive OSNews article...
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TorrentFreak (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Friday Jamie King, director of the Steal This Film documentaries, speculated here on TorrentFreak that the brand new OpenBitTorrent tracker could prove to be a replacement for The Pirate Bay if certain conditions were met. Now, just 48 hours later - has that dream already become reality? On Friday Jamie King, director of the Steal This Film documentaries, speculated here on TorrentFreak that the...
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The OG Diaries (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Did OpenBitTorrent just become The Pirate Bay 2.0? http://tr.im/qY51
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On This and That (Free subscription) | yesterday
Watched the South Park “Somalian Pirates We” episode – Season 13? Guess the life of a pirate must eventually die. To quote the pirate bay founders themselves from their blog “On the internets, stuff dies if it doesn’t evolve. We don’t want that to happen”. Or is it like bone thugs said “For the love [...]
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TechChuck (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The HTML 5 video element has the potential to liberate streaming Internet video from plugin prison, but a debate over which codec to define in the standard is threatening to derail the effort. Ars takes a close look at the HTML 5 codec controversy and examines the relative strengths and weaknesses of H.264 and Ogg Theora. The increasingly competitive browser market has at last created an environment...
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Dave Lucas (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Serena Williams raised a few chuckles in her press conference after winning the singles title by wearing a cheeky T-shirt. Shortly after regaining the Venus Rosewater dish from her elder sister – her 11th Grand Slam trophy – Serena changed into a shirt emblazoned with: "Are you looking at my titles?" More in " Top 10 fashion blogs " ... Picture cropped from ©AELTC...
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ProHipHop - Hip Hop Marketing & Business News (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Music industry news from Hypebot: The Michael Jackson Effect: an unprecedented spike in sales, concert promoter AEG discusses the cancellation and a commentary "The Music Industry, Michael Jackson & The Zombieconomy" Sony invested in digital distributor IODA Pirate Bay was...
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TechChuck (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
The Fail Whale, signalling TwitterTwitter downtime, is a source of frustration for many Twitter users; now you can take out your rage in a fun Flash game called Die Fail Whale . Andrew Conn , a 26 year old designer and developer based in Seattle, claims the game took 60 hours to create. He writes: Die Fail Whale is a first person shooter that integrates Twitter. The game is only 25 seconds long, and...
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Mashable (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
There were unknown lifeforms, #moonfruit, Firefox 3.5, and the sale of The Pirate Bay making social media news this week. From the shocking $7.8 million sale of the web’s pirating hub to the release of Firefox 3.5 and its killer features, social media events kept rolling in. There were also some insightful and useful resources that got people’s attention this week. If you’re interested...
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TechChuck (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
There were unknown lifeforms, #moonfruit, Firefox 3.5, and the sale of The Pirate Bay making social media news this week. From the shocking $7.8 million sale of the web's pirating hub to the release of Firefox 3.5 and its killer features, social media events kept rolling in. There were also some insightful and useful resources that got people's attention this week. If you're interested in gorgeous...
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TechChuck (Free subscription) | yesterday
IT management can be a single, big expense for medium- and small-businesses; it's an easy target to try to save money. Whether you have in-house IT help, you use offsite contractors, or even if you have a savvy employee who doubles as a help desk, just getting to an afflicted PC can be your biggest cost. Techinline Remote Desktop gives access through a browser and quick download so that even if you're...
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
After his speaking for the first time against the proposed Digital Crimes Bill, hugging Pirate Bay’s spokesman Peter Sunde, defending the use of open source software and inviting Internet users to chip in and contribute to his soon to be launched government social media initiative, the blogosphere concludes: "Brazilian president Lula da Silva is a nerd". Or is it just because 2010 is...
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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.