The Pirate Bay Moves to Counter Swedish Wiretapping Law
The Pirate Bay is adding encryption to its Web site in order to counter a new Swedish law that allows wiretapping of Internet and phone traffic.
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24.6.2008 Pirate Bay copyright infringement trial begins, founders plead not guilty
Today marked the first day of the criminal copyright infringement suit against The Pirate Bay that was initiated in Sweden one year ago by Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, Sony BMG, EMI, Universal, Metro Goldwin Mayer and 20th Century Fox.
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16.2.2009 Financial Times comments on Moore's law; Xbox 360
Hey there, everypeoples. Cesar here (back from break). A buddy at work sent over a very interesting Financial Times editorial (requires registration) called "The future is here - and it works." A very optimistic peice, the author talks about the simultaneous exponential growth of processing power - Moore's Law, the rapid drop in price, and specifically, what this could mean for our daily lives.
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1.1.2006 AT&T to start sending copyright warnings
AT&T Inc., the nation's largest Internet service provider, will start sending warnings to its subscribers when music labels and movie studios allege that they are trafficking in pirated material, according to an executive.
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28.3.2009 Microsoft to blast Google for its copyright policy
Microsoft Corp. is set to launch a blistering attack on rival Google Inc. on Tuesday for what the software giant argues is the Web search leader's "cavalier" approach to copyright protection.
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6.3.2007 MSN Soapbox reopens with copyright filtering
Today sees MSN Soapbox return to a public beta after having closed back in March. The reason given for the closure was that Microsoft needed time to deliver a technological solution to resolve the piracy issues that have plagued other user-generated video sites such as YouTube.
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2.7.2007 Microsoft confirms no Copyright Cop on Zune
We have seen some chatter in the blogosphere over the last 24 hours around a couple of posts speculating about what Zune may or may not do in terms of putting content filtering features directly into the Zune family of devices in future releases.
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8.5.2008 Pirate Bay Bloodied but Unbowed
The once Swedish-based Bittorent site The Pirate Bay claims the problems many visitors have noticed on the resurrected piracy hub are the result of a glut of new users, rather than recent troubles with police.
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7.6.2006 Pirate Bay: We're not going to pay our fines
Remember that recent Pirate Bay verdict? The one in which the four founding members of the website were convicted with a year long jail sentence and a $3.6 million fine?
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22.4.2009 The Pirate Bay To Bring Back OiNK
The Pirate Bay is currently working on an OiNK replacement in an attempt to bring the hundreds of thousands of music albums back online that disappeared during the raid. The replacement will be released within a week and on the BOiNK.cd domain.
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26.10.2007 Half of charges against Pirate Bay dropped
Only into its second day, the criminal copyright infringement case against file sharing site The Pirate Bay has already begun to crumble.
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18.2.2009 Controversy over new Pirate Bay Facebook feature
The Pirate Bay has added a small, but significant feature to their website which will almost certainly prove to be controversial.
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31.3.2009 The Pirate Bay making over €20,000 a day
The file sharing site The Pirate Bay are set to be making over $25328 a day, with single day advertisements costing €20,000.
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16.7.2006 Microsoft tools keep bad Office files at bay
Microsoft released a pair of tools on Monday that help protect computers from Office 2003 files containing malicious software code.
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23.5.2007 Pirate Bay to offer cheap, unlogged VPN
Back in July 2008, torrent tracker The Pirate Bay announced plans to encrypt the Internet. That hasn't happened yet, but they plan to offer a VPN tunneling service to the public starting April 1.
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24.03.2009 The Pirate Bay found guilty, jail & $3.6 million fine
The Pirate Bay, notorious for providing BitTorrent files of all things copyrighted and illegal have lost a trial in Sweden today.
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17.4.2009 First Microsoft Genuine Office Validation Download on Download Center
Microsoft has posted the first Office download which has Genuine Office Validation (not required yet). It is sounds.exe the download enables sound in Office 2000,XP and 2003.
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28.4.2006 Download Windows 7 MUI Language Packs - Official 32-bit and 64-bit Direct Download Links
Microsoft has released MUI (Multilingual User Interface) language packs for Windows 7 RTM. The Windows 7 language packs is available via Windows Update as optional update for Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise editions only.
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28.8.2009 Download Firefox 1.0.7
Firefox 1.0.7 was just released today. It's said that the only updates for this minor version change are security related.
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Download Fasterfox 0.7.9
Prefetch Links - Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with Firefox's unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing.
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Skype 2.0 download
Everybodys favourite free PC-calling software has just reached version 2.0. Skype now comes with free video calling (assuming two existing webcams) but also updates its older features.
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7.1.2006 WindowBlinds 5 download
Customize the look and feel of Windows XP with WindowBlinds. It's a Windows utility that enables users to personalize nearly every aspect of the Windows graphical user interface. It can "skin" your title bars, push buttons, Start bar, radio buttons, and nearly every other part of Windows.
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8.1.2006 IE 7 Beta 3 Now Download
Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Beta 3 has been designed to make everyday tasks easier, provide dynamic security protection and improve the development platform and manageability.
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29.6.2006 MEMM 2.1 available for download now!
It's a Microsoft Excel Add-In with a collection of functions which can be useful in an Enterprise environment based on Microsoft Windows operating systems. The main functions are based on retrieving information from Active Directory, modifying Active Directory and getting information from computers through WMI. Although there are more free tools available nowadays (like ADModify), it can be quite convenient to perform certain tasks directly in Excel.
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20.7.2006 Safari 3.2.1 Download
The problem was almost instantly isolated and confirmed as incompatibility with third party software. Apple has now issued a new Safari update, for both Mac and Windows users, which delivers “stability improvements,” according to the Cupertino, Calif.-based Mac maker.
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25.11.2008 3 x DOWNLOAD Windows XP
DOWNLOAD Windows XP 9 IN ONE with service pack 2,
DOWNLOAD Windows XP Professional 64 Bit,
DOWNLOAD Windows XP Professional 32 Bit
This is Windows XP Unofficial Download page.
Windows XP is designed for businesses of all sizes and for home users who demand the most from their computing experience, Windows XP Professional delivers the new standard in reliability and performance.
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DOWNLOAD QUAKE 4 + Screenshots
Almost a decade ago, in 1996, Quake was first released. It brought with it a revolution in PC gaming. Actually, it was the first game in FPS genre that was really worth belonging there. It began the Epic that is the Quake series. The original game had both Single Player and Multiplayer and both were good.
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DOWNLOAD WindowBlinds Enhanced 5.0
WindowBlinds is a program that allows you to
completely change the look and feel of Windows to however you want it to look like. WindowBlinds allows you to completely customize your desktop look by changing the style of title buttons, bars and toolbars.
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7.12.2005 FireTune v1.0.9 Download
FireTune for Mozilla Firefox v1.x was developed for an easy and fast optimization of your browsing experience with Firefox. It is based on a collection of popular and well working optimization settings used and tested by the experts.
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14.12.2005 Download ICQ 5.04
ICQ Lite has all the essential features of the full version of ICQ. You can message people, exchange files, send SMS messages, do voice chat, and meet people. It also includes multilingual support, the ability to save your chat histories, and a typing indicator that shows when a contact is typing you a message.
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22.12.2005Danish Pirate Bay Block Breaks EU Law
Last week a Danish court ordered the ISP “Tele2″ to block its customers access to The Pirate Bay. The decision heated the debate on ISPs
Internet filtering, and it now turns out that filtering traffic to The Pirate Bay is actually illegal according to European law.
In last
week’s court ruling it was concluded that “Tele2″ had assisted in copyright infringement because they give their customers access to
The Pirate Bay, thereby copying copyrighted material in their routers. It reads: “The telephone company’s dissemination of access to the
www.thepiratebay.org entails the transmission of copyright protected material through the companies routers.”
A crucial factor in the
ruling is thus that the ISP commits copyright infringement in their routers when they allow access to The Pirate Bay. An absurd claim of course, and
even more serious, it opposes the Infosoc Directive, that formed the basis of the Danish copyright law.
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14.02.2008Sweden targets The Pirate Bay
Sweden's public prosecutor Hakan Roswall plans to charge the Pirate Bay's organizers with accessory and conspiracy to break copyright law,
which could lead to fines or up to two years in prison. The charges will be filed in a district court on January 31. The Motion Picture Association of
America and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry are among those who have called for action to shut down the site. No copyright
material is stored on Pirate Bay's servers. The Pirate Bay only manages torrent files, which contain the information needed to download film or
music files from others. That has not stopped copyright sentences before. As TPB grows, it is only a matter of time before they fall, and when they
do, it will be a huge blow to piracy. But it won't be a deadly blow.
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28.01.2008Reports: BitTorrent index SuprNova.org to rise again
SuprNova.org, a well-known
BitTorrent hub before being
forced to shut down three
years ago, is apparently
making a comeback.
An agreement was
reached that allows the
operators of The Pirate Bay to
use the domain name, according
to reports published Thursday
on blogs,
TorrentFreak
and
Slyck.com.
Like
The Pirate Bay, SuprNova
helped users locate BitTorrent
files of movies, TV shows, and
books. It's believed that a
large number of the files are
copyright copies and scores of
people from all over the world
download them in violation of
copyright law. Hollywood has
accused such sites of
encouraging piracy.
TorrentFreak
reported that the new SuprNova
will debut sometime in the
next week. The Pirate Bay
founders could not be reached
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03.08.2007Pirate Bay copyright infringement trial begins, founders plead 'not guilty'
Today marked the first day of the criminal copyright infringement suit against The Pirate Bay that was initiated in Sweden one year ago by Warner
Brothers, Columbia Pictures, Sony BMG, EMI, Universal, Metro Goldwin Mayer and 20th Century Fox...
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17.02.2009New Zealand Internet blackout protest against copyright law
Copyright infringement is wrong, but should people, schools, and hospitals have their internet connections and websites cut off due to accusations
of copyright infringement?
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16.02.2009The Pirate Bay trial and a tough new Swedish law
According to the Local, various members of the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) have taken the stand in the ongoing trial
against the Pirate Bay now unfolding in Sweden. At one point, John Kennedy, chairman of the IFPI, was silenced in the middle of his testimony by the
judge after Per E. Samuelson, defence attorney for the Pirate Bay, protested that Kennedy had drifted into giving what amounted to a "political
speech" on behalf of the recording industry.
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26.02.2009Half of charges against Pirate Bay dropped
Only into its second day, the criminal copyright infringement case against file sharing site The Pirate Bay has already begun to crumble...
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17.02.2009The Pirate Bay: The Site is Safe, Even If We Lose in Court
In an few hours from now The Pirate Bay team will probably be charged with aiding or facilitating copyright infringement. If they are found guilty,
they could receive sentences of up to 2 years in prison, but the site will remain online, no matter what. Last month, the Swedish authorities
announced that they were planning to press charges against 5 people involved with The Pirate Bay, stating that the 5 individuals will be charged with
“facilitating copyright infringement”.
Today, after nearly two years of collecting evidence, the prosecutor will officially
press charges. But, no matter what the outcome of the case, The Pirate Bay says that they’re here to stay.
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01.02.2008Further threats thrown at The Pirate Bay, owners unfazed
As if it couldn't get much worse for the The Pirate Bay, bit torrent tracker and generally swashbuckling group, it seems more "harassment" is
being thrown their way. Earlier on this year in April, the site's founders were found in breach of copyright law, in a landmark case which
sentenced some of them to prison, along with huge fines in damages at 4.5 million dollars. Following a series of lengthy court cases, which
reporters on Neowin have been following meticulously, another bout of accusations against the Swedish file sharing bandits has arisen.
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30.07.2009The Pirate Bay four get an appeal
The Swedish court has ruled that the Pirate Bay four will receive an appeal, scheduled for November 9, 2009. The Pirate Bay four were convicted of
"assisting in making copyright content available" through their website, The Pirate Bay. The ruling had put massive fines on the Pirate Bay four,
at $3.6 million ($905,000 each) in fines and face up to one year in prison each. Since the trial, the Swedish government has ruled the four
defendants "too broke" to pay for the damages. Instead the Swedish authorities started sending cease and desist letters to one of the Pirate
Bay's ISP, bringing the website down. The website was later restored within hours of the shut down.
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04.09.2009New RIAA Lawsuit Defense Tactic Challenges Copyright Law
Here's a unique defense to a Recording Industry Association of America file sharing lawsuit: Admit liability and challenge the law under which
you're being sued.
That's what a Bronx woman did Monday in New York federal court. Denise Barker is accused of file sharing eight
songs on the Kazaa network in 2004. If found liable, she faces fines under the Copyright Act of $750 to $150,000 per song.
Barker's attorney, Ray Beckerman, admitted the woman file shared and challenged the constitutionality of the Copyright Act, the law under which
the RIAA sued Barker and thousands of others. The fines the act authorizes for each download is unconstitutionally excessive and against U.S. Supreme
Court precedent, Beckerman said.
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30.07.2008Sweden formally charges Pirate Bay owners
As expected, the Swedish government charged the owners of Pirate Bay with copyright infringement of four applications, nine movies, and 22 music
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31.01.2008The Pirate Bay Moves to Counter Swedish Wiretapping Law
The Pirate Bay is adding encryption to its Web site in order to counter a new Swedish law that allows wiretapping of Internet and phone traffic. The
Pirate Bay is one of the most widely used BitTorrent trackers for music, movies and software.
"Many people have asked me what we're
planning to do, and the answer is 'A lot!'" spokesman and co-founder Peter Sunde wrote in his blog. "This week we're going to add SSL
to The Pirate Bay".
neowin.net - 24.06.2008
Pirate Bay trial closes, verdict in 45 days
After ten days of hearings, closing statements were heard in the Pirate Bay copyright infringement trial.
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Norway: Group takes ISP to court over The Pirate Bay
It seems the world is not yet finished in its attempt at wiping BitTorret search engine The Pirate Bay from the pages of internet history. According
to reports from PCWorld and MacWorld, a new trial begins today in which a group of copyright holders representing the entertainment industry have
taken a Norweigan service provider to court in a bid to have them block The Pirate Bay at the ISP level. In June this year, Telenor, the service
provider in question, received a petition for a temporary injunction from a group representing a number of copyright holders in an effort to have
Telenor block the site. To date, Telenor have refused to bar access.
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neowin.net - 13.10.2009
"Biased" judge: retrial for Pirate Bay Four?
According to the Local, it appears that Tomas Norström, the judge who presided over the case against the Pirate Bay Four, may have had a conflict
of interest which could have led to bias and an unfair trial. Peter Althin, lawyer for one of the Pirate Bay defendants, plans to demand a retrial on
the grounds that Judge Norström has over the years held membership in a number of organizations advocating for stronger copyright laws and with
ties to big media companies, including some represented in the case against the Pirate Bay.
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neowin.net - 23.04.2009
Copyright Office chief: I'm a DMCA supporter
There's still a lot of hatred out there for a controversial law known as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but don't count the U.S. Copyright
Office chief in that camp.
"I'm a supporter; I think it did what it was supposed to do," Register of Copyrights Marybeth
Peters said of the 1998 law at an appearance at the Future of Music Policy Summit here. "No law is ever perfect, but I remain a supporter."
The DMCA, among other things, dictates that "No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in
any technology, product, service, device (or) component" that is primarily designed to bypass copy-protection technology. For that reason, it has
long been unpopular among some hackers, programmers and open-source devotees--not to mention consumer groups that believe it unduly inhibits fair use
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winbeta.org - 18.09.2007
New Italian law may have unintentionally legalized MP3 sharing
A new copyright law in Italy making its way through Parliament seems to suggest that trading in MP3s would become legal so long as no profit is made
from its distribution...
betanews.com - 02.02.2008
The Pirate Bay must pay half of their fees now
The Pirate Bay is having a bad time after losing the court case about copyright infringement, and the threat of spending up to a year behind bars due
to the massive public torrent web site. The debt collectors now wants nearly half of the money owed (out of the $3.6 million US owed) soon, or
the four web site owners could face stiffer penalties. The owners behind The Pirate Bay may see bank accounts frozen if the money is not paid soon,
putting The Pirate Bay in a rough spot, especially if they cannot afford to pay their monthly server fees to keep the web site online.
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neowin.net - 14.05.2009
Pirate Bay Owners hit with legal action
In yet another stage of the ongoing legal saga between the film and music industries, the four owners of the popular torrent search engine have been
hit with another lawsuit for "Conspiracy to break copyright law". This suit directly targets the four owners, instead of the site itself, which
hosts none of the content, but links to .torrent files that allow users to download the content.
Co-founder Peter Sunde, and three others
could face up to two years in prison and a fine of 1.2 million kronor if convicted in this case. Many attempts have been made previously by the
industry to take down The Pirate Bay, but each has been defeated by the loose copyright laws that exist in Sweden. We can only wait to see how this
latest attempt to take down this giant of P2P bittorrent sharing pans out. Will it succeed at last, or be beaten down again?
neowin.net - 01.02.2008
