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torrents
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Torrent Users Chowed 1.4TB Of Cape Town’s Free Wi-Fi In January
11 Mar 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
It seems people have been taking advantage of the City of Cape Town’s free wi-fi hotspots. Download your movies at the library like normal people, man.
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This New App Is Basically Netflix For Pirates
11 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Arrgh! To be a pirate and sail across the ocean of torrented movies and series has never been easier using this new app, Popcorn Time. Described as the “Netflix for pirates,” it allows you to stream torrents immediately and serves as an easily navigational platform. Legal? We highly doubt it.
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Who Illegally Downloads The Most Music In The World?
18 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Across the globe, there’s scarcely a person, with Internet access, who has not illegally downloaded at least one song. More often than not it’s actually an entire album, and it’s usually not the first, nor the last time. Knowing this, Musicmetric collected data from around the world and compiled a report that reveals which countries are responsible for illegally downloading the largest amount of music.
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Internet Archive Adds 1 000 000 Legal Files To World’s Store Of BitTorrents
08 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Internet Archive is a totally, incredibly wonderfully awesome place. It is a vast digital library offering “free universal access to books, movies and music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages.” It’s what the Internet is for. Now it’s even easier to download these files as they have teamed up with BitTorrent.
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Pirate Bay Founders Will Be Going To Jail – Final Appeal Rejected
02 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
It’s been a long road for Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström, the three founders behind the popular file-sharing site, The Pirate Bay. They were sentenced to time in prison in 2009, and although the sentences have been reduced, their final appeal has been lost. This means they are most certainly going to jail on charges of copyright infringement.
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Swiss Study Finds Illegal Downloading Doesn’t Actually Hurt Copyright Holders
05 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In the wake of a worrying shift towards censorship of the internet, this is sort of comforting. A recent study conducted by the Swiss government has found that illegal downloading doesn’t necessarily negatively impact copyright holders, as many downloaders end up purchasing the products anyway – and “illegal” downloading is therefore remaining legal in Switzerland.
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Google Now Censoring The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, & Other File-Sharing Services
24 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google seems to be dabbling in the censorship game too, these days. They’ve added sites like The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, and 4Shared to their “blacklist”, which doesn’t prevent the pages from showing up if searched for, but does prevents the names of sites appearing in their Instant and Autocomplete services.
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