P2PViNE / Published

PtN Invite Application Open Again For Two Days Only

filesharefreak — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:23:19 UTC

It’s that time again for PtN to recruit new members! After some recent downtime, PtN has returned true to form. A recent message at PtN suggests the external invite application will run for roughly 48 more hours before closing up for an undete

7 Vote(s)

Mininova Denied Rectification From Dutch Government

Stuart — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:23:15 UTC

Recently a committee of the Dutch Parliament published a report on copyright legislation in which it made several false accusations against the Dutch-based BitTorrent site Mininova. The Mininova team were insulted by the report and demanded a public

8 Vote(s)

Hackers Undermine Piracy Evidence With Hadopi Router

Stuart — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:23:15 UTC

Yesterday we reported that a provision in the revamped French “3 strikes” bill will allow for the punishment of ISP account holders for the copyright infringing actions of others. Now a group of hackers has set out to compromise WiFi rou

8 Vote(s)

Kazaa Uses RIAA Victim Jammie Thomas in PR-Campaign

Stuart — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:23:13 UTC

After the malware infested P2P client KaZaa sold its legacy, the new owners converted it into a legitimate business selling their music subscription service to the public. However, in a recent press release they quote a hacker who committed suicide,

8 Vote(s)

CakeTorrent Makes Torrent Downloading a Snap!

filesharefreak — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:35:59 UTC

As one of the more knowledgeable computer users among most of the people I know, I’ve had a lot of people ask me how to download things from the Internet, or how to use BitTorrent. After explaining to them what torrents are, how to install &#1

6 Vote(s)

French Senate Adopts Revamped a43 Strikesa4 Anti-Piracy Bill

Stuart — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:35:56 UTC

France's highest constitutional authority ruled in June that Internet access is a fundamental human right, killing the three-strikes provision in the so-called Hadopi anti-piracy legislation. Today the infamous anti-piracy bill is back and in its re

7 Vote(s)

TorrentBoy Returns for a New BitTorrent Adventure

Stuart — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:35:55 UTC

The TorrentBoy book series centers around a seemingly regular school boy named Wesley, who has a secret superpower. The adventures of TorrentBoy are inspired by BitTorrent and in the latest (free) book TorrentBoy gets caught in a fight between the i

6 Vote(s)

Your Chance to Redesign TorrentFreak

Stuart — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:35:54 UTC

It’s time for TorrentFreak to get a 2009 makeover so we can hang out with the fashionably cool guys and gals again. So we need your help. Are you a designer with experience coding stunningly beautiful, elegant and functional Wordpress themes?

8 Vote(s)

Judge Rules P2P Legal, Sites To Be Presumed Innocent

Stuart — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:35:54 UTC

After Spain virtually ruled out imposing a “3-strikes” regime for illicit file-sharers, the entertainment industries said they would target 200 BitTorrent sites instead. Now a judge has decided that sharing between users for no profit vi

8 Vote(s)

How to Pick The Fastest Torrents

Stuart — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:35:53 UTC

If you follow some basic rules BitTorrent is without a doubt the best way to share large files online. Interestingly, BitTorrent’s inventor Bram Cohen recently noted that torrents with more peers are not always faster. We give some pointers on

6 Vote(s)

21 New Private Trackers: July 2009 Edition

filesharefreak — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:52:21 UTC

June 2009 was a particularly good month for new private tracker startups. Nordic/Swedish trackers have rebounded nicely; also there are new music trackers, movie trackers and everything in between. Here are 21 of the best new torrent sites on the BT

7 Vote(s)

Free Download an iTunes Shot In The Arm For Moby

Stuart — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:52:17 UTC

Released on June 30th, Wait for Me is Moby’s ninth studio album. On April 15th fans got an early taster when Moby gave away “Shot in the Back of the Head” - a track from the album - for free. Now, according to Moby himself, that tr

8 Vote(s)

SnB Tracker Has Officially Launched: The Latest Gazelle

filesharefreak — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:02:23 UTC

Here at FSF, we’ve got the fast track to a cornucopia of brand-new private trackers. Some are still in beta, just waiting for the right time to open up to the masses. One such site that we’ve kept a lid on is SnB - a brand-new "gener

5 Vote(s)

Streets of Blood Premieres Worldwide on BitTorrent

Stuart — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:02:19 UTC

Streets of Blood, an action thriller featuring 50 Cent, Val Kilmer and Sharon Stone saw its worldwide DVD premiere last week on BitTorrent. In just a few days the film was downloaded by half a million people, good for a third place in this week&#821

8 Vote(s)

The Pirate Baya4s Founders Sail On

Stuart — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:02:19 UTC

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

8 Vote(s)

PackMe.IN - The New Ratioless Packs-Only Tracker

filesharefreak — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:56:04 UTC

PackMe.IN (also known as PiN or The Donkey) is a pack tracker which aims to become the largest pack repository in the BitTorrent community. What’s a "pack tracker" you ask? One that carries nothing but packs; such as music discographi

5 Vote(s)

TorrentLeech.org Invites Available Again On IRC

filesharefreak — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:56:04 UTC

It’s been about four months since TorrentLeech offered open invites through IRC, but they’re doing it again right now. Aspiring new members currently have approximately 4 hours remaining to get in on the action. See, that’s why you

7 Vote(s)

OpenBitTorrent Tracker Muscles In On The Old Pirate Bay

Stuart — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:55:54 UTC

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 late

8 Vote(s)

P2P Collection Costs Man Huge Fine, Suspended Sentence

Stuart — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:55:53 UTC

A man who downloaded 12,591 music tracks, 426 movies and 16 full TV-series has been sentenced in France. The police searched the 55 year-old’s house in connection with an unrelated matter and stumbled across his collection. The man was sentenc

6 Vote(s)

Limewire Gets More Serious About BitTorrent

Stuart — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:37:22 UTC

Despite BitTorrent being the leading file-sharing protocol for several years already, Limewire is still the most installed P2P application on the market. Even though most of Limewire’s users only use the Gnutella network, the application has c

6 Vote(s)

The True-HD 720p XviDHD Blu-Ray Rips at IPT & PTM

filesharefreak — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:19:26 UTC

Back in November we reported that the new Blu-Ray rips (BRRip and BDRip) are in Hi-Def (HD). In fact, most of these are in 720×304 (or similar resolution), which indeed qualifies them as superior to regular 700 MB XviD codec releases - albeit t

5 Vote(s)

Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data: The Pirate Bay Lives On

Stuart — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:33:42 UTC

Responses have been overwhelmingly negative to the news that The Pirate Bay will soon be sold to Global Gaming Factory. But what if there is a method to the apparent Pirate Bay madness — one that, as Peter Sunde has hinted, could actually be g

6 Vote(s)

BREIN Demands $70,000 Per Day Penalty For Usenet Community

Stuart — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:33:30 UTC

Earlier this year, anti-piracy outfit BREIN demanded the closure of Usenet community FTD. After negotiations between the pair came to nothing, BREIN declared FTD a criminal operation prompting FTD to take legal action against BREIN to clear their na

7 Vote(s)

TorrentReactor Users Suffer Rootkit Attack

Stuart — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:58:47 UTC

With millions of pageviews every day TorrentReactor.net is ranked in the top 5 of all torrent sites in terms of traffic which makes it a lucrative target for malicious attacks. The site is currently suffering from a serious security breach resulting

8 Vote(s)

Mininova Demands Rectification from Dutch Parliament

Stuart — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:55:51 UTC

Last month a working group of the Dutch Parliament published a report in which they made various suggestions on how to deal with online piracy. In their analysis they made several false accusations against the Dutch based BitTorrent site Mininova, w

6 Vote(s)

ExtraTorrent.com - A Rising Star on Public BitTorrent

filesharefreak — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:54:18 UTC

The timing couldn’t have been any better for ExtraTorrent.com. In the wake of shocking news that rocked the P2P community with The Pirate Bay selling out and even removing its tracker from public torrents; and Mininova filtering out illegal co

7 Vote(s)

A Glimpse at The Pirate Baya4s Uncertain Future

Stuart — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:29:28 UTC

After Global Gaming Factory X announced that it intends to buy The Pirate Bay for $7.8 million, the CEO of the company bombarded the press with his revolutionary plans for the site. By paying both the copyright holders and file-sharers the company a

9 Vote(s)

Suspicions of Insider Trading Surround Pirate Bay Buyers

Stuart — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:29:28 UTC

Shares in GGF rose dramatically yesterday on the news that the company is set to acquire The Pirate Bay. However, about a week ago equity marketplace Aktietorget shut down trading of GGF’s stock after unusually large trading volumes led to a r

8 Vote(s)

BitTorrent On Your TV For Less Than $90.00

Stuart — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:28:35 UTC

Numerous BitTorrent-enabled TV devices are jostling for position next to your TV these days, but a new entrant to the market attracts the eye not because of what it has, but for what it doesn’t. CinemaCube is a BitTorrent-enabled set-top box t

6 Vote(s)

Digg and Mininova Team Up to Seed Bruno

Stuart — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:04:07 UTC

The latest Digg Dialogg stars none other than Brüno, the über-famous Austrian model and host of the Funkyzeit fashion and celebrity show. To make sure that Brüno’s interview is well-seeded at all times, Digg has teamed up with Mininova.The lat

7 Vote(s)

Pirate Baya4s Peter Sunde Discusses the Sitea4s Future

Stuart — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:04:07 UTC

On the day that The Pirate Bay announced that they will be sold to a commercial company for $7.8 million, Tomas Wennström secured an audio interview with TPB spokesman Peter Sunde. The interview is of great interest but raises even more questions as

7 Vote(s)

The Pirate Bay Will Decentralize Its Operations (Updated)

Stuart — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:04:07 UTC

Alongside the news that The Pirate Bay will sell shares on the Swedish stock market come some other significant changes. The site itself will decentralize and stop hosting and tracking torrents. Instead, The Pirate Bay will use a third party tracker

8 Vote(s)

The Pirate Bay Sold To Software Company, Goes Legal

Stuart — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:04:05 UTC

According to gaming company Global Gaming Factory X, it is in the the process of acquiring The Pirate Bay for $7.8m (SEK 60 million). The acquisition is scheduled to be completed by August and will see the site launch new business models to compensa

6 Vote(s)

The Swedish Invasion: The Return of the Nordic Trackers

filesharefreak — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:20:39 UTC

Don’t count the Swedes out just yet. While Antipiratbyrån’s late-April scare tactic forced more than just a handful of private sites to either close up shop entirely or legalize/remove torrents - Sweden has rebounded en masse, stron

6 Vote(s)

MediaDefender Virus Scam Targets Torrent Site Users

Stuart — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:20:32 UTC

During the last few days a virus scam targeting torrent site users has reappeared. Internet users receive an email informing them they have been monitored by anti-piracy company MediaDefender on various torrent sites. Although a log file is included

7 Vote(s)

10 years after Napster, online pirates alive and well - USA Today

Xilo — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:27:43 UTC

10 years after Napster, online pirates alive and wellUSA TodayA file-sharing fine against a Minnesota woman that mushroomed from $220000 to nearly $2 million last week is just ...and more »

2 Vote(s)

Featured Forum: PTInvites.com Open For Registration

filesharefreak — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:26:16 UTC

Looking for a fresh torrent forum serving up invites? PTInvites.com is a lesser-known private tracker invite forum that’s managed to keep a low profile. Starting up as early as last August, PTI began very privately but only this year has taken

6 Vote(s)

ISPs Doubt Accuracy of Anti-Piracy Evidence

Stuart — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:26:10 UTC

Lawyers ACS:Law and their anti-piracy partners Logistep are currently harassing around 6,000 alleged file-sharers, demanding £665 from each to make threats of legal action go away. In yet another blow to their tenuous claims, ISP association ISPA s

9 Vote(s)

Automated Legal Threats Turn Piracy Into Profit

Stuart — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:51:13 UTC

Piracy watchdog Nexicon has found the ultimate way to turn piracy into profit for the fresh copyright holders added to their clientele. They offer alleged file-sharers the chance to settle for $10 per downloaded song or an equal amount for a pirated

7 Vote(s)

Pirate Baya4s YouTube Competitor is a4Coming Soona4

Stuart — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:31:31 UTC

The Pirate Bay team has continued developing its video streaming site - which will open up to the public within 5 years. On The Video Bay users can share video clips without having to worry about getting them taken offline due to copyright violation

9 Vote(s)