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 Windows 7 Milestone 2 M2 available on Torrent Websites
Windows 7 Milestone 2 is the next stage in the evolution of Windows Vista's successor.
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14.7.2008 Windows 7 Build 7201 Available on Torrent Rapidshare
Hype of the RC2 leak is increasing rapidly the time i m writing 503 peoples were active on a single thread over sevenforums.
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3.6.2009 Windows 7 M1 build shows up on various torrent sites
It was only a matter of time..
Not too long after Microsoft had released a developer build of the Windows 7 Milestone 1 release to a select few, review and opinion pieces started to leak onto Windows enthusiast sites by OEM employees or their beneficiaries.
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26.1.2008 Australia to test blocking all P2P and Bit Torrent traffic
Australia has been known to have high levels of censorship. It should come as no surprise to those in the land down under that the government is planning to filter P2P and Bit Torrent traffic in live pilot tests.
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23.12.2008 Microsoft: Don't Download Windows 7 Interim Builds from Torrent Trackers
Leaked builds of Windows 7 available for download via torrent trackers have been accompanying the development of the next iteration of Windows since the operating system was in Milestone 1 stage.
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16.4.2009 Is your copy of Windows genuine?
How to Tell helps you verify that your Microsoft products are genuine.
To begin, choose the product category that best describes your Microsoft product. On the following product category page you will be able to select your specific product and the method by which you acquired it to learn more about genuine Microsoft products.
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Windows XP SP3 RC2 Leaked and Available for Download on Torrent Websites
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 has been leaked and is available for download on torrent websites. Three days after releasing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 to manufacturing, Microsoft launched another development milestone of XP SP3.
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13.2.2008 Download Windows 7 Build 6956 VHD Image via BT Torrent
Windows 7 beta (or beta 1) is possibly been released in January or February 2009 which Keith Comb has even mentioned in a comment on his TechNet blog (has since been removed) that “we (Microsoft) are targeting to have the DVD’s in the materials from 1/13/2009 on”.
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5.12.2008 New Windows XP SP3 Beta Build 3205 Leaked to Torrent Trackers
The latest build of Windows XP SP3 Beta has been leaked to Peer-to-Peer file sharing networks. Following the availability of Release Candidate 0 for Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn as well as the first fully-fledged beta for Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Microsoft also dropped another beta version of the third and final Service Pack for Windows XP.
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11.10.2007 Windows Vista Copy Protection Cracked
More than a year after Windows Vista was introduced, hackers have finally developed a clean crack of Windows Vista.
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5.3.2008 Fancy a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate for FREE?
A little bird has informed me of an official Microsoft hosted survey in which the winner(s) will receive a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate after simply filling out a 4 question survey.
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30.6.2009 Windows 7 testers to get free copy from tomorrow
Last week Microsoft had a change of heart and decided to go back on what they had previously said by offering testers on the Windows 7 technical beta program a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate, in reward for their efforts in testing the new operating system.
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5.8.2009 Did Microsoft copy Mac OS for Win 7?
Yesterday there appeared an interview with a Microsoft group manager who claimed that Microsoft copied the “Mac look and feel in terms of graphics” in Windows 7.
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12.11.2009 Windows 7 Beta 1 Build 7000 DVD ISO Image Torrent and NamiPan Download
f indeed the Windows 7 initial first beta release will have the build version number of 7000, the DVD ISO image of the 32-bit (x86) Windows 7 6.1.7000.0, 7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso, has been leaked to Internet.
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26.12.2008 Blu-ray BD+ Copy Protection Cracked!
It would seem that there's absolutely nothing out there, no type of copy protection system that can resist the hard efforts of ingenious "security researchers", especially when the respective system is designed to protect valuable multimedia content (namely, movies).
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31.10.2007 Throw a Windows 7 house party and get a free copy
Microsoft is looking for some Windows 7 fans to throw launch parties between October 22-29.
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3.9.2009 Want Windows 7 for 50 Percent Off? Order an OEM Copy
Missed out on the early preorder discounts? Popular retailer Newegg.com has listed the OEM prices for Windows 7, which will be offered at less than half what Microsoft will charge for a retail copy.
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26.9.2009 Vista SP1 RTM Slipstream (Integrated ) DVD ISO Image - Leaked to Torrent Websites
hile Microsoft continues at a slow pace toward the general availability of Windows Vista SP1 RTM, the service pack has already slipped through the company's fingers, so to speak.
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4.3.2008 Turn a counterfeit copy of WindowsXP into a free Vista license!
Perhaps you have bought a license of WindowsXP Home, Pro or Media Centerd Edition 2005 from your local dealer and afterwards it turned into a counterfeit while trying to validate it through WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) program.
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29.4.2006 Vista RTM Evaluation Copy Desktop Watermark Patch
Hi there people, here's a little guide on how to get rid of that stupid "evaluation copy" watermark in the bottom right corner of your Windows Vista RTM. Some may not see it yet, but believe me it will show up after a few reboots.
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14.11.2006 Windows 'patent tax' pegged at $21.50 per copy
Windows users on average pay $21.50 to line the pockets of third party software developers such as Sun Microsystems, Novell and Alcatel-Lucent, according to a calculation by the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC).
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16.4.2007 Fancy a free copy of Office 2010 and a laptop to run it on?
Microsoft is looking for family, student or home business users of their successful Office suite to participate in the beta program for Office 2010.
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23.6.2009 Microsoft makes a u-turn, Windows 7 testers to get free copy
In a surprise turn around, Microsoft announced today that Windows 7 technical testers will be receiving a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.
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30.7.2009 Prevent 1.0 - Stop Unauthorized Copy, Delete, Move & Change of Settings
I am sure everyone has faced the situation where either their friends, colleagues, family member of kids renaming, deleting important files or changing settings like wallpaper, screen resolution etc. this is typical with younger sibling.
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17.9.2009 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Download 64-bit Windows 7 6801 Pre-Beta ISO Microsoft.Windows.7 64Bit.Build.6801.DVD-WinBeta Torrent
Other than 32-bit edition of Windows 7 Pre-Beta build version 6801 that has been leaked to the Web for free download via torrent, the 64-bit edition of Windows 7 Pre-Beta with build tag 6801, which is also been distributed to attendees during the PDC 2008, has been leaked to Internet, and can be downloaded via fully seeded torrent.
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30.10.2008Study: DSL Continues to
Outpace Cable
DSL penetration continues to
increase and close to half of
all broadband users use the
technology in the United
States, the DSL Forum said
Tuesday. From June 2005 to
June 2006, 46 million new DSL
subscribers were added
worldwide...
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20.09.2006Verizon Drops New DSL Fee
Bowing to pressure from both
the Federal Communications
Commission and irate
customers, Verizon says it has
decided not to impose a new
fee on DSL subscribers that
would have negated any savings
from DSL being exempted from
the Universal Service Fund...
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31.08.2006EarthLink Launches 'Freestanding' DSL
Consumers who wish to
subscribe to DSL Internet
service without paying for
telephone service have a new
option, at least in certain
areas. EarthLink's
Freestanding DSL runs $14.95
for 1.5Mbps of bandwidth and
$19.95 for 3.0Mbps...
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10.07.2007Windows 7 leaks to Web, pirates downloading
Leaked copies of Windows 7 hit the Internet only hours after Microsoft Corp. handed out a preview build to developers last week, according to searches
at several BitTorrent-tracking sites. The notorious Pirate Bay site, for example, first noted the 32-bit version of the upcoming operating system on
Oct. 29, just one day after Microsoft unveiled Windows 7 to attendees at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. A 64-bit edition was
posted the following day.
As of midday Sunday, with several copies of Windows 7 available, downloading was brisk. One 32-bit torrent listed
on Pirate Bay showed more than 1,400 "seeders," the term for a computer that has a complete copy of the torrent file, and close to 5,300
"leechers," or computers that have downloaded only part of the complete torrent. The 32-bit torrent installs a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate, according
to users commenting on the site.
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03.11.2008Verizon to bump up its DSL speeds to cable levels
With its FiOS rollout not exactly moving at lightning-fast speed, the company announced it was rolling out faster DSL service in about 400
communities...
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09.01.2008Trojan, distributed over torrent, blocks torrent sites
A trojan named Troj/Qhost-AC, has been spotted on torrent sites labeled as a keygen for popular software. But in a strange surprise, the trojan would
modify the users host file, rather than generating a key, changing popular torrent web sites like, The Pirate Bay, Suprbay (The Pirate Bay forum) and
Mininova, the two most popular torrent sites on the internet to 127.0.0.1, making it impossible to visit these sites. The Trojan caused pop-ups on
users screens and played a sound file saying "downloading is wrong". The Trojan didn't install any other spyware or malware onto the victims
PC, other than blocking the three web sites, something that many users thought was strange.
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06.01.2009Office 2010 Has Leaked!
The Technical Preview of Office 2010 has officially leaked! WZor.net uploaded a torrent a few hours ago for both the x86 and x64 versions of the
new Office suite.
Without further ado, I present:
Microsoft Office 2010 (x86)
AND
Microsoft Office 2010 (x64)
The x64
torrent doesn't seem to be very active at the moment, but over time, as it gains more seeders, hopefully it will pick up. We were achieving speeds of
up to 1000kbps during our download of the x86 version, so the torrent is going strong... That is, until the rest of the world picks up on it...
Download quickly!
While you eagerly await the end of your download, check out a screenshot gallery from WZor as well (the version pictured
in the screenshots is the x64 version).
The links in this article were obtained from WZor's homepage, http://wzor.net/indexx.html
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16.05.2009NetZero to Offer DSL Broadband
United Online, which owns the
NetZero and Juno brands, made
its first moves into broadband
on Thursday, announcing it
would offer DSL service via
infrastructure leased from
Verizon...
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17.11.2006Australia to test blocking all P2P and Bit Torrent traffic
Australia has been known to have high levels of censorship. It should come as no surprise to those in the land down under that the government is
planning to filter P2P and Bit Torrent traffic in live pilot tests. Senator Conroy went on the record saying "technology that filters peer-to-peer
and Bit Torrent traffic does exist and it is anticipated that the effectiveness of this will be tested in the live pilot trial". It is a drastic
step to filter out all P2P and Bit Torrent traffic as it assumes that those channels are only used for piracy. One example of legitimate use is the
popular online game World of Warcraft.
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23.12.2008"txtor" tool circumvents basic torrent blockers
To the frustration of many students and other avid torrent downloaders, some universities and ISPs have been known to block the download of .torrent
files in an effort to curb illegal file sharing. This quick and dirty method of filtering Internet content is usually done through the use of a proxy
server that will look for a torrent mime-type in the file or, even simpler, the file extension itself. Although this method seems almost too simple to
take seriously, enough admins have found it effective enough to justify its use.
That's why a group of developers launched
txtor today, a site that makes it possible to download .torrent files as if they were text
files. As the site explains, from the user perspective, the service functions very simply. Plug in the URL of a torrent file, and it's translated to
a text file for you to download. For a moderately more technical explanation, the site merely takes the file and changes the mimetype and extension,
then spits it back out at you as a text file in order to bypass proxy-level torrent file blocks. Then, all you need to do is change the file extension
back from .txt to .torrent and open it up in your favorite torrent client. Based on our testing of txtor, we can say that the tool works exactly as
advertised.
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28.09.2007Analysts: Cable broadband growing faster than telcos and DSL
The current growth of DSL in the US remains less compelling than that of broadband cable, say the latest industry surveys. What may be more
compelling, though, is that cable is now overtaking telcos...
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04.09.2008Controversy 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. The new feature is a
link provided on each torrent page which allows users to post the link to the particular torrent onto their Facebook profile. Friends can then begin
to download the particular torrent straight from their Facebook page, assuming a torrent client is installed. Many websites allow their users to do
the very same thing – even Neowin allows its users to submit news articles to Facebook; however the controversy lies in just what users will be
sharing, with the use of this.
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30.03.2009AT&T Cuts DSL Prices to
$12.99
AT&T has lowered the cose
of its entry-level DSL service
to $12.99 USD per month, the
lowest price for high-speed
Internet offered by any
carrier. Speeds of up to 1.5
megabits per second would be
standard, but for an
additional $5 per month users
can upgrade to a speed of 3
Mbps...
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04.02.2006Covad, Verizon Settle DSL Line
Spat
Covad and Verizon settled
their differences on
Wednesday, with Covad
announcing it would drop an
antitrust suit against the
company. The company also said
it had reached a deal with MCI
to become a preferred provider
for MCI's DSL service.
Verizon has also agreed to
drop a countersuit against
Covad...
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29.12.2005Popular Torrent Site Suprnova Set to Return
Popular torrent site The
Pirate Bay says it will
relaunch Suprnova.org, one of
the most popular BitTorrent
sites on the Internet and
target of the ire of the MPAA...
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03.08.2007ThePirateBay owners may face prison time
ThePirateBay owners, Hans Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundströmare set to appear in court on Monday and could
face two years in prison and a fine as high as $180,000 fine each. The four owners of the very popular public torrent web site face charges of
copyright infringement. The servers are located out of Sweden and out of reach of law enforcement, meaning the site will likely stay online if the
owners go behind bars. ThePirateBay is known for hosting torrent files linking users to movies, software, games and other types of copyright material
that is illegal spread among users using P2P protocol and a BitTorrent client.
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14.02.2009Steal This Film 2 hits File Sharing Networks
Steal This Film 1, which was downloaded nearly 3 million times, has now been succeeded officially (as the sequel premiered and was ironically leaked
last month) by none other than Steal This Film 2. By producing this video, the League of Noble Peers, which features many prominent individuals from
the BitTorrent community, has the goal of “ bringing new people into the leagues of those now prepared to think 'after intellectual
property', think creatively about the future of distribution, production and creativity .” For those still confused, Steal This Film is a
series documenting the movement against intellectual property. The films discuss piracy culture as well as raids against file sharing websites. In the
spirit of piracy, the movie is completely free for download.
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30.12.2007Telstra foreshadows 100Mbps DSL
Telstra has raised the prospect of being able to deliver up to 100Mbps using DSL technologies over its existing copper pair network using a technique
known as dynamic spectrum management (DSM), which is just becoming commercially available.
However to achieve its full potential
DSM would require every copper pair in a multipair cable to be operated and managed by one DSL operator. The way DSL in Australia operates today each
ISP either has total dedicated access to a copper pair (the unbundled local loop or 'naked DSL') or else connects that copper pair to its own DSLAM
while Telstra, or another operator uses the lower end of its spectrum to deliver a standard telephone service.
Telstra's chief
technology officer, Hugh Bradlow, told Telstra's investor briefing on 1 November that "In order to be able to support increasing speed demand,
we're working on a range of technology platforms that will allow us to scale into that future world...We've got copper solutions, cable solutions
and fibre solutions. In the copper environment, we have ADSL2+ covering 57 percent of Australia's 8.5 million homes, but we're already working on
the next two generations of copper based technology, VDSL2 and dynamic spectrum management, both of which will increase the speeds by doubling, so
that the copper technology has the potential to get up to 100Mbps."
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02.11.2007Worldwide broadband prices drop 20% in less than a year
UK analysis firm Point Topic has just released its new set of worldwide broadband figures, and the news is encouraging: broadband is getting cheaper,
fast. Prices have fallen by 20 percent just in 2008, and the year's not even over with yet.
Although the average worldwide costs
paid each month by users of DSL and cable connections are almost identical now, the price per megabit is not. Around the globe, DSL remains far more
expensive for the speed you get, but it has also shown the greatest drop in price. Between the first and third quarters of 2008, DSL dropped from $25
per megabit to $18 per megabit.
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07.11.2008TorrentSpy, isoHunt to filter copyrighted content
It is being reported that
isoHunt, another US-based
torrent search engine that has
been battling against the
movie industry for some time,
also plans to use the
hash-based system to filter
pirated content from its
search results. With
FileRights, studios need to
submit the file's name and
hash code to automate the
takedown process, however,
hash codes can be altered and
files renamed, so the outcome
of this filtering tool remains
to be seen.
The
popular public torrent tracker
TorrentSpy, currently in the
middle of a legal battle
against copyright owners, has
decided to give in and start
showing some level of good
faith in the fight against
piracy by adding a content
filtering tool called
FileRights.
Pressure
is building on TorrentSpy
after a judge recently ordered
the search engine to log user
activity to be handed as
evidence. The company stated
that it doesnt keep any logs
and therefore cannot produce
any, but a judge has ruled
that the necessary information
is already stored temporarily
in server RAM and they just
need to record it. TorrentSpy
is still fighting this ruling
with the help of the EFF and
the Center for Democracy &
Technology. However, they
appear to have abandoned the
fight over filtering, hoping
to prove to the courts that
they have no desire to incite
infringement...
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