Comcast to Stop Hampering File-Sharing

Under pressure from federal regulators, Comcast Corp. reversed its stance over hampering online file-sharing by its subscribers and promised Thursday to treat all types of Internet traffic equally.

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Windows only: We've talked about ways to portscan your computer before, but if you're looking for a simpler solution to secure your connection, free utility MyPorts shows you what open ports are being actively used and which may be unnecessary.

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Today marks the end of an era, as The Pirate Bay team announces that the world's largest BitTorrent tracker is shutting down for good.

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It's been more than two months since the popular semi-private BitTorrent tracker Demonoid went offline due to hardware problems, but the site's full return is now imminent.

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It has been many weeks since the popular semi-private BitTorrent tracker Demonoid went offline. The site's owner claimed the downtime was due to hardware issues and warned of the loss of both torrents and user data.

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With more than half a million visits a day, EZTV is the leading TV-torrent release group. It therefore comes as no surprise that rumors and confusion spread when the site went offline earlier this week.

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Instead of switching on the TV, several million people use BitTorrent clients to catch up with their favorite TV-shows. The leading TV-torrent distribution site EZTV has more than doubled its visitors in a year, and there is no sign that this growth will stop anytime soon.

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After an earlier decision failed to reach its objective, this week a Brazilian court made an unprecedented ruling against file-sharing clients.

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After Australia's Senator Stephen Conroy's plans to filter the Internet earned him the title of Internet Villain of the Year, today there is more chin-scratching over the plans.

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Demonoid remains one the most popular BitTorrent sites on the Internet, despite a fairly colorful and turbulent past. Sadly its thousands of users could soon find themselves without their favorite site, as technical difficulties are set to cause possibly extended downtime.

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Black Internet, the Pirate Bay's largest bandwidth supplier, just shut down the notorious BitTorrent tracker after a court ordered it to pay a fine of 500,000 kroner ($70,800). Since about 9:30am PT, the site has been inaccessible.

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Last week, the Portuguese Ministry of Culture decided to shut down or block 28 file-sharing sites. The original complaint came from local anti-piracy outfit MAPiNET.

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What Have You Illegally Downloaded and Why?

Since confession is good for the soul, I'm going to come forward and admit that I'm an illegal downloader. Yes, I am. I don't download music, rarely download movies, but I will download tv shows.

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If you're of the mindset that what you do with your BitTorrent client is your business and not that of people snooping, sniffing, and prying at your packets along the way, ItsHidden offers free VPN server to anonymize your activity.

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Encrypts messages with a secret key and then distributes pieces of it across random nodes so that as peers leave the swarm it gradually degrades over time, allowing users to regain control over data stored on the web like Facebook PMs, e-mails to others, and even simple posts.

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Internet Service Provider Exetel is considering a ban on peer-to-peer network traffic during the first two hours of its 'off-peak' period, should users continue to set their P2P downloads to go off at the very second the provider's off-peak period starts.

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In our 'behind the scenes' series TorrentFreak tries to peel away some of the mystery surrounding BitTorrent sites and the people who run them.

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In a few days time Global Gaming Factory is supposed to have gathered millions of dollars in funding so they can acquire The Pirate Bay. But according to Wayne Rosso, the former CEO of Grokster who was involved with GGF recently, this is unlikely to happen.

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The world's most high-profile file-sharing website the Pirate Bay faces a new volley of legal action.

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It's been less than a month since many feared the BitTorrent world would collapse due to a $7.8m investment in The Pirate Bay. Since then OpenBitTorrent has come along to largely take its place, backed up by PublicBT to spread the load.

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The RIAA have finally declared DRM dead for music, according to all-things-BitTorrent weblog TorrentFreak.

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After Global Gaming Factory (GGF) announced its intention to buy The Pirate Bay, the public was left wondering what the site's future would look like.

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Stephen Fry has admitted illegally downloading House, the hit US show that stars his former comedy partner Hugh Laurie.

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The MPAA has previously been critical of the negative effect it says BitTorrent has on the movie industry, but a recent experiment in a Norwegian movie theater shows that it might actually be of use to them.

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The listed software company, Global Gaming Factory X AB (publ) (GGF) acquires The Pirate Bay website, one of the 100 most visited websites in the world and the technology company Peerialism, that has developed next generation file-sharing technology.

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According to gaming company Global Gaming Factory X, it is in the the process of acquiring The Pirate Bay for $7.8m (SEK 60 million).

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