"Copyright Trolling" is a term used (by opponents of the practice) to describe copyright holders filing subpoenas to residential ISPs for the identities matched to IP addresses linked to content piracy. In this case, the piracy is often via BitTorrent networks, where peers can see each other's public IP addresses. Rather than filing suit after obtaining these identities, the content copyright holders attempt to extract settlements on the order of $2,000-3,000 from named ISP subscribers to avoid going to court. That's their plan anyway. The
recent (and ongoing) story of Prenda Law demonstrates how
turning the threat of copyright infringement lawsuits into a moneymaking venture (allegedly with a lawyer as both plaintiff -- through a shell company -- and counsel) can go very wrong for the "trolls"...
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posted by supercres
on Mar 11, 2013 -
57 comments
The Internet Archive is now offering over 1,000,000 torrents including our live music concerts, the Prelinger movie collection, the librivox audio book collection, feature films, old time radio, lots and lots of books, and all new uploads from our patrons into Community collections (with more to follow). ... BitTorrent is the now fastest way to download items from the Archive, because the BitTorrent client downloads simultaneously from two different Archive servers located in two different datacenters, and from other Archive users who have downloaded these Torrents already. The distributed nature of BitTorrent swarms and their ability to retrieve Torrents from local peers may be of particular value to patrons with slower access to the Archive, for example those outside the United States or inside institutions with slow connections. (previously) [more inside]
posted by Egg Shen
on Aug 8, 2012 -
41 comments
OneSwarm is a privacy preserving BitTorrent client that offers permissions for restricting access to shared content and sharing without attribution, with the anonymity being provided by fellow OneSwarm peers routing transfers.
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posted by jeffburdges
on Feb 6, 2012 -
13 comments
We've seen Nine Inch Nails before on
the blue, and the band's last two albums have been available for free online. Now there's more, in the form of a fan-produced DVD.
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posted by reptile
on Oct 24, 2009 -
17 comments
Wanna test if your ISP (or company or university) is blocking or throttling BitTorrent traffic? Want some tools to diagnose network problems in your "last mile" connection? Google to the rescue:
M-Lab! Predictably, with the recent
announcement and
publicity, the servers are now getting hammered. So post this?
You can help: Host a Glasnost server (tests for BitTorrent). *Results so far. Coming soon are apps to "Determine whether an ISP is giving some traffic a lower priority than other traffic" and "Determine whether an ISP is degrading the performance of a certain subset of users, applications, or destinations". Power to the People, bay-bee!
posted by spock
on Jan 29, 2009 -
58 comments
Alain Robbe-Grillet's
La Belle Captive, Andrzej Zulawski's 'comedy,'
My Nights Are Better Than Your Days, Carl Theodor Dreyer's
Vampyr, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's
Seance, Masahiro Shinoda's
Pale Flower, Seijun Suzuki's
Tattooed Life and
Kanto Wanderer, Lucio Fulci's
House by the Cemetery, Kinji Fukasaku's
Blackmail is my Life,
If You Were Young: Rage and
Legend of the Eight Samurai, five films by
Takashi Miike, the entire
Ring series, thirteen(!)
Zatoichi sequels, and
500+ other movies, streaming, online, free and legal. (Some links, NSFW)
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posted by broodle
on Nov 26, 2007 -
19 comments
Good Copy Bad Copy is "a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture," featuring Danger Mouse, Lawrence Lessig, Dan Glickman of the MPAA and others. The film's creators are releasing it free of charge, via Bittorrent.
posted by jbickers
on Aug 3, 2007 -
30 comments
Remember Napster? Well, it's returned to its roots and is
once again offering free music via a revamped
ad based web-site. But according to their
FAQ, you can only listen to any given song up to 5 times before you'll be asked to pay for it. Even though this equates to roughly 10 million free plays, in an age where BitTorrent is king, will this pay off for the company? Some say
no, as the catches that come with this new system are just too many. But (for the moment at least) the share market is saying
yes.
posted by Effigy2000
on May 1, 2006 -
38 comments
It turns out, in the PC game business,
no copy protection doesn't mean everyone pirates your game. This makes
some people angry. From the article:
"For example, we were quite disturbed to discover that the company that makes Starforce provided a working URL to a list of pirated GalCiv II torrents. I'm not sure whether what they did was illegal or not, but it's troubling nevertheless and was totally unnecessary."
via digg
posted by graventy
on Mar 11, 2006 -
25 comments
WeFunkRadio.com has 390 full shows available for download featuring the funk, underground hip-hop, and rare grooves that are so hard to find. BitTorrents are available for the
two most
recent shows and there's always the
audio stream and
podcasts coming at you fresh from Montréal's
CKUT radio.
posted by furtive
on Sep 16, 2005 -
16 comments
Capitalism and other kids stuff Four UK based socialists produced this hour long documentary in which some of the problems of capitalism are presented in a simplified, kindergarten model. Tought provoking, incomplete but NOT derailing into bipartisan hate for a change ..an hour well spent IMHO.
You can also DL it with
Bittorrent program.. a good reason to install it (5 minutes ) and witness how a distributed cooperative program such as Bittorrent can do wonders.
posted by elpapacito
on May 30, 2005 -
25 comments
If you are going to
SXSW next week, you might want to download the 2005 Showcasing Artist BitTorrent file that
CitizenPod has put together. It features over 750 high-quality songs; over 2 GBs worth of tracks from bands playing the festival. [via
OneLouder]
posted by Quartermass
on Mar 8, 2005 -
10 comments
LokiTorrent was a popular spot to get movies and they even
put up a fight against the recent crackdown, raising thousands in a legal defense fund. Today, it seems the MPAA won, forcing the owner to shut down. That's understandable and I'm not surprised, but they've gone a bit further than I expected, turning the site into a big scary ad against filesharing and warning that you're next. Even worse, the old owner is
turning the logs over to the MPAA, for them to go after folks.
posted by mathowie
on Feb 10, 2005 -
110 comments
Suprnova.org is back... with a vengeance?! It was just last week when suprnova.org, the most popular site online for finding BitTorrent downloads,
shut down their site. The MPAA and RIAA crowed, but it appears the celebration was a tad premature.
Suprnova's new site mentions
a special announcement tomorrow at 9 PM GMT on
NovaStream.org radio. Rumors suggest that it will introduce
Exeem, a decentralized, BitTorrent-driven software client that turns every user into a tracker, removing the requirement for a centralized site such as suprnova, while providing users with easy searchability, the
swarming powers of BitTorrent, and a network that is far harder to shut down.
posted by insomnia_lj
on Dec 29, 2004 -
73 comments
R.I.P. SuprNova Greetings everybody,
As you have probably noticed, we have often had downtimes. This was because it was so hard to keep this site up! But now we are sorry to inform you all, that SuprNova is closing down for good in the way that we all know it.
Apparently something went down last night that prompted this exit from the scene, a great loss indeed as suprnova was the
gold standard for bittorrent sites. From the inside I have also learned work on
exeem is being halted (any beta testers can verify?) trying to head off problems previously
seen here.
posted by gren
on Dec 19, 2004 -
146 comments
Blog Torrent is out, it's been under development for a while now by the good people at
Downhill Battle. It's a really simplified way of uploading files for the bittorrent network with an integrated client/server solution. Right now the client side is windows only, but the core functionality works with any client of course. Pretty neat.
posted by rhyax
on Nov 24, 2004 -
15 comments
