Here Come The Oscars DVD Screeners
It’s that time of year again. The time of year when despite increasing security measures backed up by threats of legal action, DVD screener copies of Oscar nominated movies start leaking on to the Internet.
Archive for November, 2009
NowTorrents Returns After User Complaints
Real-time torrent search engine NowTorrents has returned by popular demand. The owner has decided to put the website back online after hundreds of users wrote emails saying they much preferred the old NowTorrents to the new TorrentFly.
Interview With Dan Bull, Creator of Dear Lily and Dear Mandy
After the success of ‘Dear Lily’ and now sitting on the cusp of greatness with his sequel ‘Dear Mandy’, FreakBits caught up with Dan Bull for a quick chat, to find out a little more about this upcoming artist.
Filelist.org Disappears, Reappears as Filepost.org?
During the last month or so, the private tracker Filelist.org has been fairly unreliable due to downtime. Around a week ago something unusual happened to their DNS, but now it seems it may have returned under a new name.
9 Reasons Why Piracy Helps the Music Industry
The entertainment industry, as of late, has been more than vocal about the butthurt they have endured at the hands of dirty pirates who steal their music. What they don’t realize is that these people actually help them.
Is Lady Gaga a Man?
IsoHunt’s Gary Fung tipped FreakBits off on this noteworthy Google suggest. Hundreds and thousands of people are apparently wondering whether Lagy Gaga is a man, transvestite or hermaphrodite.
MPAA Targeted Wi-Fi Back Up
The city wifi system that was ‘shut down by the MPAA’ two weeks ago is back up. The Coshocton County courthouse based Wi-Fi system is up and running again after it was taken offline due to a single copyright infringement notice.
Scene-Base Admin Raided, Bailed
On November 12th, Private Tracker site Scene-Base went offline. The page replaced by a stern warning that the site was down, with a link to the IRC channel. The topic in the channel?
Indie Artist Profits From “Pay What You Like” Model
Norwegian one man army, Gisle Martens Meyer, recently released the Nebular Spool album Shul as a free download, but if you like, you can also pay for it. Gisle says he is making a reasonable amount of money from “free”.
Zombieland Director Hunts Down Pirates on Twitter
This week Zombieland writer/director Rhett Reese stated that illegal downloads on BitTorrent may prevent a sequel of the film from being shot. In addition, the filmmaker attacked several twitter user who claimed to have downloaded the film.
Docs.Torrent.Ro Returns as DocsPedia
Docs.torrents.ro has been one of the most respected e-learning BitTorrent trackers. The site closed earlier this year due to a financial crisis, but returns now under a new name.
Was Microsoft Right To Ban Pirates From Xbox Live?
During the last few days it became evident that Microsoft had initiated a mass banning of modified consoles operating pirated games on Xbox Live. But was it right to do so?
Musicslu Pledges New Sales Channel for Artists
New music site musicslu aims to give artists another avenue to sell their ‘warez’. Through pledging, it allows artists to sell their music for a price they deem fair, while allowing customers to purchase for a price they deem fair. Afterwards, the music is released under a creative commons license.
Single Movie Download Forces Wi-Fi Network Shutdown
A free Wi-Fi service said to be used by hundreds of people has been completely disabled after a complaint was made to the operating ISP by Sony Pictures.
Q&A: UK P2P – Lib Dem MP / Minister of State, BIS
A Liberal Democrat MP asked the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills several copyright related questions which received responses yesterday. They cover ’3 Strikes’, throttling and the impact of both.
Obama Petitioned to Reveal Secret Anti-Piracy Agreement
ACTA is a mysterious thing that no-one is really certain about. That lack of certainty is because of the lack of transparency around the negotiations. KEI wants that changed, and with an open letter-cum-petition, is calling on President Obama to stand up to his election promises, and make ACTA public.
Joss Stone Reveals Why Lily Allen Hates Piracy
Lily Allen, blah blah, piracy, downloading, It’s Not Alright, etc etc. Cutting through all the nonsense, comes a beautiful ray of light. Joss Stone says Lily hates piracy because she can’t sing.
Mandelson “Hoodwinked” On File-Sharing, Says MP
After earlier labeling throttling and disconnection measures against file-sharers as “futile”, Labour Party MP Tom Watson says that Peter Mandelson has been “hoodwinked” on piracy.
AntiCrack For iPhone Makes Promises It Can’t Keep
According to recent statistics, around 60% of all iPhone apps are pirated. Now a new system called AntiCrack claims to “completely eliminate” this risk. Not a chance.
