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  • 200,000 BitTorrent users sued since 2010

    Since the beginning of 2010, a whopping 200,000 BitTorrent users have been sued in mass file-sharing lawsuits by copyright trolls, according to TorrentFreak.

  • Aussie filmmakers to premiere local film on ABC iView

    While many Aussie filmmakers are still struggling to reach a local audience who are often disengaged with traditional mediums of broadcasting, one new series has used Web generated content in an attempt to overcome such challenges.

  • BitTorrent to put its stamp on Taiwanese electronics

    BitTorrent will work with a Taiwanese research institute to develop a certification scheme for local consumer electronics makers who want to put its filesharing applications in their products, a world first for the popular high-speed file-sharing protocol, the research institute said on Friday.

  • BitTorrent for beginners

    Comcast wants to kill it, your next wireless router will probably have it built-in, and you can use it to download the entire GeoCities archive. BitTorrent has come a long way since its public release on July 2, 2001, but unless you're a regular media pirate, you probably haven't used it much. Read on to find out how it works and to clear up a few common misconceptions about it.

  • Geocities archive to be released via BitTorrent

    It was about a year ago that Yahoo!-hosted Geocities sites started going offline. For the majority of Internet users, this event was met with little fanfare; Geocities had long gone out of fashion as a free web host and been replaced by sites like Myspace, Facebook, Wordpress, and more recently, Tumblr.

  • AFACT: iiNet stops spam, why not The Pirate Bay?

    The copyright enforcement arm of a string of film studios has told a Federal Court hearing today that Internet service provider iiNet had authorised customers to download illegal movies partly by not “stopping” the infringements.

  • iiNet braces for AFACT appeal

    Have you ever received a letter from your Internet provider for downloading something you shouldn’t have? Like a movie or an album?

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