Blog Profile / Freakbits
| URL : | http://freakbits.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Internet / File Sharing | |
| Posts on Regator: | 23 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.1 | |
| Archived Since: | February 25, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
The Pirate Bay Is Down, Back Soonish
The Pirate Bay has been inaccessible to millions of people over the last few hours, due to technical problems. There is no need to panic though, as the site is scheduled to be back online soon. When one of the larger torrent sites goes offline many users immediately assume the worst. A blockade from their [...] Article from: FreakBits
Breaking News: Playstation 3 Finally Hacked?
If this news turns out to be true, it’s the nightmare scenario Sony has been dreading. After thousands of experiments carried out by hackers around the globe, has the Playstation 3 finally been hacked? After years avoiding what some might feel is the inevitable, if videos are to be believed all signs are pointing to [...] Article from: FreakBits
RLSLOG Down, But Not Out
The world’s most popular release news site RLSLOG has been unaccessible for the past days. Previously, the site has been offline due to copyright threats, but this weeks problems are of another nature. Since we published about RLSLOG’s previous outages on TorrentFreak several times, people have been asking us about the current downtime that started [...]
The Complete Guide to Downloading Files from Usenet
What’s the first place you go to for downloading your files online? A torrent tracker? A client like Frostwire? What if I told you there was a way to do it in almost complete secrecy and it would max out your connection while doing so? Well, there is a way to do it, and it [...] Article from: FreakBits
The Most Popular MEP is a Pirate
The success last year of the Swedish Pirate Party in the European Parliament elections was considered a bit of a fluke by some. However when the votes were in, Christian Engström and Amelia Andersdotter were elected MEPs after the party collected over 7% of the vote. While Ms Andersdotter isn’t seated yet (as one of the [...] Article from: FreakBits
Brit Attempts Record Bittorrent Swarm Size
Records are made to be broken, or at least that’s the philosophy one UK man is taking. He wants to break the record for the most number of seeders on a torrent. The current record, as far as we’re aware, was set by an EZTV torrent and stands at around 124,000. Bittorrent is a scalable [...] Article from: FreakBits
Futurama Season 6 Debuts Early on BitTorrent
Tonight the highly anticipated sixth season of Futurama will debut on television, but tens of thousands have already downloaded the first two episodes via BitTorrent. The two leaked episodes come from a DVD-screener, possibll one that has been sent out to reviewers. Futurama’s sixth season is expected to last 26 episodes and will be broadcasted [...] Article from: FreakBits
Aston Kutcher Film Premier Cammed… by Kutcher
13 minutes of new film Killers was broadcast on the Internet during it’s premier. It’s no ordinary case of camming though, as the person responsible, the films star Aston Kutcher, is the one behind it.
Film star and Hollywood ‘Punkd master’ Aston Kutcher is in the spotlight again. While some might consider it one of his [...] Article from: FreakBits
Hitler’s DMCA Takedown Rant Gets Taken Down
In an attempt to protect their rights, Constantin Film has send out requests to take down all “Hitler rant” clips featuring a short clip from their movie Der Untergang. Among the target clips is a brilliant parody of the DMCA takedown requests. The maker of the DMCA parody has filed a dispute, arguing that his work [...]Article from: FreakBits
How To Avoid Spies On BitTorrent
Most anti-piracy outfits and other organizations that track BitTorrent users rely on information they obtain from BitTorrent trackers. This is an easy and convenient technique to gather info, but also one that can be circumvented.
Let’s assume you want to download ‘Steal This Film’ without being spied on by third parties that monitor the download. Impossible? [...]Show More Summary
Fear and Loathing in the Gaming Industry?
Are game developers avoiding the PC platform to avoid losing money to piracy? No, says Christopher Sundberg, co-founder of Sweden based Avalanche Studios and creator of “Just Cause” and the newly released “Just Cause 2?. However, the latter, unlike the former, will not be released for the PC. Sundberg released a statement last week saying: “We [...]Article from: FreakBits
Piracy Studies As a Spam Tool
Over the last years we’ve seen dozens of piracy surveys. Thousands of news outlets and blogs generally cover the results, which turned the subject into a cheap and effective way of spamming unrelated services.
This week, another insignificant survey was published, claiming that 82% of all Brits download illegally. However, what really cough out eye [...]Article from: FreakBits
Home Taping Is Killing Music – The Remix
UK artist Dan Bull, famous for earlier musical swipes at Lily Allen and the Digital Economy Bill, has teamed up with UK ISP TalkTalk to release a new song and video.
“We all know that the government’s disconnection proposals to deter illegal filesharing are daft and dangerous. And many would agree that the way many people [...]Article from: FreakBits
Why EMI Should Beat Pink Floyd
Over the last few years we have criticized the major music labels for their lack of innovation and their inability to adapt their business models to the digital era. Sometimes, however, we have side with a label instead of the artist.
We have been getting quite a few emails about the EMI vs. Pink Floyd rift [...]Article from: FreakBits
DRM Woes Torpedoes Ubisoft Customers
Ubisoft has been a firm believer in DRM. When it announced a new DRM system last month, it assumed people would be happy. After a day where that new system has already lead to a spectacular failing, it has to be asked if this is what sinks DRM for good. Ubisoft and DRM have had a [...]Article from: FreakBits
You Wouldn’t Steal… Would You?
In 2004 the MPAA launched its infamous “You wouldn’t steal…” campaign. The clip was put on millions of retail DVDs and viewers were watch it before they could enjoy the actual content. The message of the anti-piracy ad was pretty straightforward and the full text goes as follows. “You wouldn’t steal a car. You wouldn’t steal a [...]Article from: FreakBits
Law Would Allow Blocking of File-Sharing Sites
The Open Rights Group are asking citizens to complain about a proposed amendment to law which would allow courts to block sites which allegedly infringe copyright.
A pair of Lords in the UK have proposed an amendment to the Digital Economy Bill which would force Internet service providers to deny their subscribers’ access to sites accused [...]Article from: FreakBits
UK Lord Provides Overview of File-Sharing Threat Schemes
In yesterday’s House of Lords debate on the Digital Economy Bill, Lord Lucas provided a rather accurate summing up of the ‘pay up or else’ scheme being targeted at alleged file-sharers in the UK by ACS:Law and Tilly Bailey & Irvine.
Summary of the ACS:Law and now Tilly, Bailey & Irvine schemes to chase alleged file-sharers, [...]Article from: FreakBits
Using WiFI to Infringe Copyright – The Moral Dilemma
Untold thousands of people either leave their WiFi networks open or have no idea how to secure them. Inevitably this means they can be used to share illicit files. But what happens when the owner of the network gets blamed for infringing copyright?
Over on TorrentFreak we often get emails from people who have received letters [...]Article from: FreakBits
Church and Hollywood Fight Over 2012 Statue Copyright
Brazil’s Catholic Church is suing Columbia Pictures for including images of the huge statue of Christ in Rio de Janeiro in their movie 2012. Copyright common sense strikes again…..
The massive Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio is one of the New Seven Wonders of the World and a landmark famous all around the globe. It [...]Article from: FreakBits