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• Leaked Windows 7 Release Candidate hits the Web

  Pirated copies of the Windows 7 Release Candidate have leaked to file-sharing sites, according to several reports on the Internet and searches of BitTorrent trackers.

• Pirate Bay crew gets the hook

  Despite big fines and prison time, the Pirate Bay four remain defiant. And even if Hollywood manages to sink these Bit Torrent trackers, there's an entire fleet waiting to take their place.

• The Pirate Bay four found guilty

  The four people involved in running The Pirate Bay, one of the most widely used BitTorrent trackers for music, movies and software, have been found guilty by the Stockholm district court of being accessories to crimes against copyright law. The court handed down its verdict on Friday morning.

• Pirate Bay adds feature to share torrents on Facebook

  The world's most notorious search engine for audio and video content on the Web has added a feature that links it with the popular social-networking site Facebook.

• Pirate Bay founders to launch new service

  The founders of widely used BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay are getting ready to launch IPREDator, a network service that makes people online more anonymous by using a VPN (virtual private network).

• Norwegian state TV sets up BitTorrent tracker

  The Norwegian state broadcaster NRK has decided to set up its own BitTorrent tracker, and it also plans to offer content through this form of distribution, it said on Sunday.

• Police arrest BitTorrent tracker operators in Brisbane

  The Australian Federal Police (AFP) yesterday arrested and charged two Brisbane men with money laundering offences linked to a BitTorrent tracker site. A $54,000 bank account belonging to one of the men was subsequently frozen.

• BitTorrent: Register report on protocol change is 'nonsense'

  BitTorrent has slammed a report in The Register that suggests a planned protocol change could threaten the stability of the Internet.