Tag: bittorrent

Skivbolag i england planerar aktioner mot torrentsiter

Music Labels Prepare Action To Block Major BitTorrent Sites | TorrentFreak

Following their legal action against The Pirate Bay, which resulted in a High Court order against some of UK’s largest ISPs, the record labels of the BPI are now preparing to target other leading torrent sites. Framing discussions around having The Pirate Bay blocked, the group is polling its members and affiliated groups to find out if they have any connections to a range of torrent sites including Demonoid, ExtraTorrent, H33T and TorrentReactor.

Brokeps nådeansökan

Nådeansökan — Copy me happy

Idag har jag skickat in min nådeansökan. Här är en kopia (den kommer ändå komma ut senare via media misstänker jag).
Det finns stänk av rättshaveri i det. Men det är så det är. Jag tror inte på min chans att få nåd, jag vill mest få ett undertecknat brev från staten om att de ignorerar sina misstag.

Storskalig attack mot bittorrent trafiken?

Cert.pl rapporterar att det finns en stor mängd trafik via μTorrent-nätverket: CERT Polska » An Anomaly in the μTorrent network

En stor mängd av trafiken verkar vara felaktig, något som kan användas för att störa riktig trafik.

De har även lite funderingar på om denna aktivitet är laglig:

Anomaly through it’s nature (large share in daily network traffic) produces visible disruption in IT systems and large amount of our false-positive high-level alerts is a good proof. In terms of Polish law, European Convention on Cybercrime and U.S. Codes (and probably many other sources of domestic law) legality of process producing the anomaly is questionable.

Den allmämna misstanken är att denna trafik, om den är medveten, kan härledas tillbaka till underhållningsindustrin, som står att vinna mest på om bittorrenttrafiken störs. Det som är intressant att fundera på är om man bör använda olagliga metoder för att, som privat organisation, bekämpa olaglig, och till viss del, laglig verksamhet…

Album som läcks innan skivsläppet säljer bättre

New Study Says Leaked Albums From Popular Artists Lead To More Sales | Techdirt:

TorrentFreak alerts us* to an interesting new research paper from Robert Hammond, an assistant professor at North Carolina State University, looking at the direct impact on sales when albums are leaked early online. The study is pretty thorough in trying to separate other factors and isolate the actual causal impact. It’s a bit of an extrapolation to claim that the study says “file sharing boosts music sales,” as I don’t think the paper actually goes that far. It seems to suggest, however, that for popular artists, having an album leaked appears to lead to a small, but significant, increase in sales. The impact is not seen for newer or less-well-known artists.

* BitTorrent Piracy Boosts Music Sales, Study Finds | TorrentFreak

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The Guardians lista på 20 “Internet freedom fighters”

Bra lista:

  • Rickard Falkvinge
    Founder, the Pirate party
  • Birgitta Jonsdottir
    MP, The Movement, Iceland
  • John Perry Barlow
    Co-founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Jacob Appelbaum
    Advocate, Researcher and Developer, Tor project
  • Julian Assange
    Editor-in-chief, WikiLeaks
  • Ada Lovelace
    Computer programmer
  • Richard Stallman
    Founder, Free Software Foundation
  • Sir Tim Berners-Lee
    Inventor of the world wide web
  • Professor Sebastian Thrun
    Founder, Udacity
  • Anons
    Legion, everywhere
  • Bram Cohen
    Chief Scientist, BitTorrent
  • Linus Torvalds
    Chief architect, Linux
  • Lawrence Lessig
    Founder, Creative Commons
  • Alex MacGillivray
    General counsel, Twitter
  • Dr Susan Landau
    Cybersecurity researcher, Guggenheim Fellow
  • Jimmy Wales
    Chairman, Wikimedia foundation
  • Peter Sunde
    Co-founder, Pirate Bay
  • Clay Shirky
    Writer, assistant professor at New York University
  • Aaron Swartz
    Programmer, activist
  • Heather Brooke
    Journalist and activist

The Guardian’s Open 20: fighters for internet freedom | Technology | guardian.co.uk