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Torrent Site Admin Sentenced to Five Months Prison
The case started two years ago when Rights Alliance filed a complaint against Tankaner, a Swedish torrent site. The alleged owner has now been sentenced to five months of jail in the somewhat bizarre trial. The 40-year old man was prosecuted for copyright infringement related to the illegal distribution of 32…
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BitTorrent releases Decentralised Voice and Text App “Bleep”
Data mining and user security is as important as ever, with the vast array of documentation leaks over the last 24 months leaving many bewildered by the intense surveillance of their private online data. BitTorrent has taken the golden opportunity to release its decentralised communication platform titled “Bleep”. The application…
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Everybody Can NAS, a Beginners Guide to OpenMediaVault
Introduction What is a NAS? NAS is the acronym for ‘Network Attached Storage’ and that is just what it is. Storage that is directly attached to your network, thereby allowing you to access its content from all your smart devices. In this article, I’ll take you along the road of setting…
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Pirating Fast & Furious Costs 33 Months of Jailtime
Pirating movies is wrong and illegal, nothing new in that. But it is quite rare that someone is caught and convicted considering the amount that gets pirated each day. The 25 year-old computer programmer Philip Danks has now learned the hard way that it can hit anyone and has just…
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BitTorrent Unveils Serverless Encrypted Chat App “Bleep”
The market is already flooded with instant messaging and chat applications: WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Kik, Skype, Google Hangouts….the list goes on. However, what do all those chat applications share? A centralised server system. That is something BitTorrent’s Bleep does not have. Their new alpha messaging service relies on fully encrypted…
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Oscar-Shortlisted Documentary Heads To BitTorrent For Promotion
When people here the words “BitTorrent” they typically think of piracy, and for a big proportion of all the news that surrounds the software, most people would be right in their assumptions. However, there are millions of perfectly legal files that get shared on BitTorrent networks, and (some) publishers see…
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Game of Thrones Held The Title Of The Most Pirated Show In 2013
HBO’s Game of Thrones is a very popular TV series, there is no denying that fact. We often get to hear exactly how popular this series is when it smashes all piracy records. Earlier this year we reported that Game of Thrones season 3 finale had become the top BitTorrent…
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BitTorrent’s Peer-To-Peer Chat Will Help Protect Your Identity
Privacy concerns easily made the biggest headlines this year, with NSA spying and well… every other government also spying on everyone else pretty much all the time, security breaches at major companies that effected millions of users and hacking being a bigger problem than ever, it’s easy to see why…
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BitTorrent Labs Reveal BitTorrent Chat Alpha – Encrypted P2P Messaging Service
If all the recent media coverage of government surveillance and companies handing over bulk data has got you worried then BitTorrent Labs could have something ideal for you. BitTorrent have developed their own chat service called BitTorrent Chat which is currently in alpha stages. The chat service using encrypted peer…
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‘BitTorrent’ Removed From Google Piracy Search Filter
Over the years we have seen many different steps being taken to help reduce piracy and Google have been central to much of it since it all began, which makes sense given their the biggest search provider and when people pirate files, they need to search for them. The words…
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BitTorrent Says It is Fed Up Of Association With Piracy
BitTorrent is getting a bit cheesed off with constantly being associated with piracy. It has stated that the recent game of thrones piracy record is not a BitTorrent piracy record and has nothing to do with BitTorrent because it happens outside the BitTorrent ecosystem. BitTorrent does not host the infringing content,…
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RIM allowing BitTorrent and µTorrent Remote on BB10
Blackberry confirmed that their BB10 powered devices will allow BitTorrent and µTorrent Remote apps. µTorrent Remote allows the user to add and manage torrents on their PC via their mobile devices and even allows the transfer of downloaded media from client to smartphone. BitTorrent Remote apps are available even on Windows…
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