Kim Dotcom to Google, Twitter, Facebook: I Own Security Patent, Work With Me Kim Dotcom has announced that he is the inventor of the so-called two-step authentication system and has a patent to prove it. The Megaupload founder says the security mechanism, which has just been introduced by Twitter, is being used by U.S. companies [...]
uTorrent Serves Over 5 Billion Ads Per Month uTorrent parent company BitTorrent Inc. reports that the new advertising option in the popular BitTorrent client generates billions of ad impressions per month. Although users initially revolted against the idea of making uTorrent ad-supported, the new stats show that not too many of them turned the feature [...]
RapidShare Fires 75% of its Staff After “Rogue Site” Revamp Bites RapidShare is fighting through a crisis after a massive downturn in business forced it to fire three-quarters of its workforce, an insider has revealed. After being labeled a “rogue site” by the U.S. Government, in 2011 the file-hosting service reportedly burned through half a [...]
Fighting Censorship, Proxies Gear Up to Unblock More Torrent Sites Earlier this week TorrentFreak received information to suggest that the recording industry is planning a fresh trip to the UK High Court to have even more torrent sites blocked at the ISP level. If they’re successful there will only be one torrent site from the [...]
Pirate Bay Domain Registrar Assists Copyright Infringement, Prosecutor Claims The organization responsible for Sweden’s top-level domain is facing court action after refusing to disable or seize two domains operated by The Pirate Bay. The Internet Infrastructure Foundation, the body that administers the .SE TLD and engages in projects to better the Internet, now faces a [...]
Sweden Wants to Jail Pirate Bay User to Strengthen Anti-Piracy Enforcement A Swedish Pirate Bay user who was accidentally caught sharing 57 movies during a friend’s house search will face prison time if the authorities get their way. The man was previously ordered to pay a fine, but the prosecutor has now submitted the case [...]
ISPs Protest Mass BitTorrent Piracy Lawsuits to Protect Innocent Subscribers Verizon, AT&T, Time Warner and Cox are appealing a district court decision ordering them to reveal the identities of 1,058 subscribers accused of pirating movies on BitTorrent. The ISPs point out that their subscribers may not be the individuals who downloaded the copyrighted files in [...]
FileServe Hit With $1,000,000 Movie Piracy Lawsuit File-hosting service FileServe has been sued by the production company behind the independent movie American Cowslip. In a lawsuit filed at a federal court in California the movie producers accuse FileServe of several copyright infringement related charges and are demanding more than a million dollars in damages. Source: [...]
TOP 5 reasons to use TorGuard’s VPN service You must have asked yourself: why would I pay this company for their VPN? I do not needed. How could I go so far without it? Well, let me tell you just a couple of reasons why you should use our premium anonymous VPN service. But, before [...]
Demonoid Resurrected? An Interview With the Admins of D2.vu Yesterday the torrent world lit up with news that Demonoid had somehow been resurrected under the new domain D2.vu. However, the site was quickly taken offline by its host in the U.S. who claimed that it was serving up malware. With the site now back online [...]
