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Politics & Law

Judge Understands BitTorrent, Kills Mass Piracy Lawsuits

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Michael Sauers

In the U.S. roughly half a million people have been sued for sharing copyrighted files in recent years, but filing of mass-lawsuits is not getting…

Politics & Law

How one band dealt with piracy

Posted on December 23, 2013December 29, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Update 12/29/13: Sadly, this has turned out not to be true. In the case of Iron Maiden, still a top-drawing band in the U.S. and…

ebooks

Unpublished Salinger Books Leaked to Private File-Sharing Site

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Michael Sauers

File-sharing sites and platforms of all kinds can be goldmines of unusual information and today fans of writer J. D. Salinger will be the ones…

Internet

Securely sync your content with BitTorrent Sync

Posted on April 23, 2013April 24, 2013 by Michael Sauers

BitTorrent Inc. has opened up its Sync app to the public today. The new application is free of charge and allows people to securely sync…

Libraries

New York Public Library Blocks The Pirate Bay

Posted on March 20, 2013March 20, 2013 by Michael Sauers

NYPL uses filters. Fine. I’m not going to have that argument. But it looks like they block “Peer-to-Peer File Sharing” as a category. Why? A…

video

Please help, for just dollars a month

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Michael Sauers

Netflix Relief Fund with Jason Alexander from Jason Alexander

Mistake Shows Need for Clear Communication in Piracy Discussions

Posted on July 2, 2008 by Michael Sauers

Let’s say that I download the last episode of the recent season of Lost via BitTorrent. It’s not yet available on DVD and I get…

Understanding Anti-Piracy Enforcement

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Michael Sauers

TorrentFreak has a great post explaining some of the most common misconceptions about anti-piracy enforcement today. They are: There have been very few actual legal…

One bielyon dollars!

Posted on May 9, 2008 by Michael Sauers

Ok, I exaggerate a little but this is getting a smidge ridiculous. The MPAA is demanding $15.4 million from The Pirate Bay to "cover the…

BitTorrent without the hassles

Posted on July 2, 2007 by Michael Sauers

I’ll stick with Azureus as it allows me to do many things to control my Torrents but for those not willing to put in the…

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