Torrents Made Streams with Put.io
Posted on: March 10, 2010
For many the idea of downloading a movie to merely watch it once and then remove it from their hard drive has become rather unappealing and that’s why services like Put.io are starting to open new prospects for new ventures and a new segment of audience.
What is Put.io?
A service that gets files from the Web and enables either storage or direct streaming.
Put.io has the ability to fetch files from bittorrent, FTP, Direct download, Rapidshare, and also standard websites. Moreover, it can even pull links from an RSS feed and stores the files allowing you to come back and access them anytime you want.
Currently in beta, Put.io offers 50 GB of storage with 150 GB of bandwidth. While downloading files to the service will not count for the bandwidth usage, accessing the files will; this means the more you watch a file, the less bandwidth you have.
Naturally, a service like Put.io couldn’t have come without file sharing features – the site allows you to share files and folders with other people and access files from any browser supporting device. Apart from a mobile version, Put.io intends to release an API together with a Boxee plugin.
With regard to copyright issues Put.io states: "It is our policy to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") and other applicable intellectual property laws. Responses may include disabling access for all users to the material claimed to be the subject of infringing activity and/or terminating submitters of the material ability to use the Put.io service at all."
http://www.p2pon.com/2010/03/10/torrents-made-streams-with-put-io/ Post LinkComcast Funds BitStalker Anti-Piracy Research
Posted on: March 10, 2010
For years the RIAA and other copyright holders have been sending copyright infringement notices to ISPs, requesting they forward them to their customers. ISPs including Comcast have always kindly complied with these requests, but remained a neutral party.
It therefore came as a surprise when we found out that three major US ISPs – Comcast, Cox and Warner Cable – have been funding research which aims to help copyright holders track down and gather evidence against BitTorrent pirates more efficiently.
Unlike most of the ‘passive' BitTorrent tracking tools that are in fashion today, BitStalker uses an ‘active' method through which they can actually prove that the BitTorrent client associated with an IP-address is sharing files. Where the passive methods wrongfully accuse 1 in 10 downloaders, BitStalker promises to avoid such false positives.
The researchers who developed BitStalker further claim (pdf) that their tool is much more effective than the current competition, as it would allow copyright holders to get information on 20 million BitTorrent users for a bargain price of $12.40. What remains unclear, however, is why three large ISPs are interested in funding this project.
It is no secret that the RIAA has been pushing Comcast, Cox and other ISPs to take stricter measures against copyright infringers, including the ultimate sanction of terminating customers' Internet access. However, thus far the ISPs have largely maintained their neutral position as information carriers.
Whether the funding of BitStalker's research is a signal that this may change is open for speculation. Another argument for ISPs to join could be that they want to protect their customers from receiving copyright infringement notices in error.
Regarding the BitStalker method of tracking BitTorrent users, we can say that it is not as revolutionary as the researchers portray it. TorrentFreak spoke to several people who are currently operating the largest BitTorrent trackers on the Internet and none of them was impressed by BitStalker's technology.
If BitStalker is indeed implemented the large scale monitoring will have to be executed from thousands of IP-addresses. Most trackers have rules in place so that one single IP-address will be banned from the tracker if it connects to too many torrents.
Similarly, if BitStalker was put on a cloud service like the research suggests, it wouldn't take long before these IP-ranges would appear in block-lists, rendering BitStalker useless.
If we add to this that BitStalker's active BitTorrent tracking method will require users to be ‘connectible', which a large percentage of users aren't, this means that it will result in many false negatives. The researchers report that they could only connect to less than half of all available peers, which might be caused in the main by the connectability issue.
Whatever the motivations are for Comcast and the other ISPs to fund this project, the good news is that less people will be accused of uploading something they haven't. Whether BitStalker will really be that more efficient depends on one's definition of efficiency. For now, we doubt that it will result in a global BitTorrent crackdown.
Article from: TorrentFreak, check out our new blog at FreakBits.
http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~3/Ow8-ae1dHBM/ Post LinkRIAA’s Pie Gone Bad
Posted on: March 10, 2010In an age where information is so abundant that can easily become redundant or even misleading and dangerous unless doubled by a trusty “filter” or objectivity tool, to see a pseudo-explanation of a phenomenon of such amplitude like file sharing countered immediately by a solid argumentation is like a breath of fresh air.
P2P (pie-to-pie) Fable
Surfing the net the other day I came across a great article by Mike Masnick at Techdirt, a sort of a reply to a recent RIAA statement. First of all, let’s remember some of the trade group’s latest desperate attempts to demonize file sharing and anyone coming close to it – from its efforts to link the Chinese hack of Google to Google's stand on copyright, the foolish claim that file sharers were having a negative effect on humanitarian aid in Haiti to the recent use of a fable to describe what’s wrong with file sharing.
Here’s the “exposition” courtesy of Mike:
Perhaps it's part of the RIAA's propaganda campaign for school children, but in a recent blog post, RIAA VP Joshua Friedlander compared the file sharing situation to the children's fable Nobody Stole the Pie by Sonia Levitin.
You may have heard the story. It's about a bunch of villagers all taking a little nibble of a pie, insisting that just a little bit won't hurt — and then, of course, the entire pie is gone, and everyone claims that it was "Not I" who ate the pie.
Now let’s check out what’s wrong with the picture, RIAA so keenly and self-infatuatedly presents:
“The reason the pie story functions the way it does is because the pie is a scarce and limited resource. As such, each time someone takes, it means that there is less for others. It's a zero-sum game. In contrast, with a digital file, the content is abundant and an infinite resource. Each time someone makes a copy, rather than less for everyone, there's actually more for everyone. You're actually growing the pie. Neat!”, points out Mike.
The author then goes on emphasizing the true source of the concern RIAA has when it comes to file sharing:
“The problem the RIAA and its labels face is not everyone nibbling on the pie. It's that it has always focused on selling pie at greatly inflated prices, because in the old world, you could only get the pie from a few RIAA-run pie shops. In the new world, with abundant pie, where each copy of a piece of pie expands the pie, suddenly people can get their pie from many other places. And it's been great for pretty much everyone, other than the proprietors of the RIAA pie shops.” Then he adds: “More musicians are able to get their "pies" out there, since the old pieshop gatekeeper is no longer the bottleneck. More musicians are able to make money since they no longer have to rely on the pieshop to fund their ability to make new flavors of pie.”
Artists taking the matter of selling their music in their own hands and on their own terms and keeping a revenue much larger than they would do if collaborating with a large record label, is a prospect not very appealing to music industry. Bands like Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead have proved it. Leaving aside the fact they were already famous when they made the decision to give away their albums for free and paradoxically ended up more money than they had expected, new artists could be inspired to adopt similar ways to promote themselves and that would just mean a lot of companies being forced to retire or change. And who wants changes when everything is going lavishly smoothly?
So let’s wrap it up with another fragment of Mike’s post addressing the issue of music industry vs. file sharing.
Recent studies have shown that the music industry has been growing, not shrinking over the past few years. It's just that the money is going to different places. Again, the RIAA has a blindspot for all the other places where people can get pie, and how they've build up great business models around it, assuming that if you're not getting pie from an RIAA shopkeeper, then you must be "stealing." But that's like saying every time I order pizza from Domino's, I'm stealing from Pizza Hut. Or, even worse, every time I make my own pizza at home, I'm stealing from Pizza Hut.
The real problem is not different people taking "just a little bit." The people haven't been taking, they've been growing the pie. Massively. And the musicians and record labels who understand this have been growing and profiting nicely. So, seriously, RIAA, let's leave the children's fables where they belong and start focusing on updating your antiquated business model to deal with the twenty-first century.
Nice piece of writing Mike!
http://www.p2pon.com/2010/03/09/riaa%e2%80%99s-pie-gone-bad/ Post LinkMetallica Fans Obtain Ticket Price Reduction in Israel Using FaceBook
Posted on: March 10, 2010For those still underestimating the power of social networking, here’s a Facebook fact.
Hetfiled & Trujillo firing up the crowds
Metallica’s fans from Israel who haven’t had the chance to see their idols since the tour in 1999 and feared the possibility of losing the upcoming concert of the band due to the high price of the tickets took the matter into their own social hands.
It seems that a real army of headbangers launched a campaign on Facebook to try obtaining a more reasonable ticket price for the concert scheduled for May 22, 2010. And they did succeed! From the actual price of the ticket – way too high – $159, the fans lowered it to around $80.
The power of many, right? – While initially the group included 600 followers, in less than 4 days more than 6,000 users joined the noble cause. To be honest with you, the news makes me glad, especially since I can easily remember the desperate joy at spending the few bucks I could afford back in high-school on my first ticket to a Metallica concert.
Now, I can’t help but wonder what inspiration will be drawn from this?
http://www.p2pon.com/2010/03/09/metallica-fans-obtain-ticket-price-reduction-in-israel-using-facebook/ Post LinkSix BitTorrent Admins Arrested, Interpol Chase Two More
Posted on: March 10, 2010
Although it wasn't yet evident, December 2009 appeared to mark the beginning of an effort to shut down the Greek BitTorrent scene. The Society for the Protection of Audiovisual Works (EPOE) conducted an investigation and moved in conjunction with the police to carry out the first action of its type against a BitTorrent site in the country.
The 285,000 member Greek-Fun.com carried around 14,000 torrents linking to music, domestic and international movies, software and computers games. Around 5,500 of these torrents are believed to have linked to material in the EPOE repertoire. As is usual with these cases, EPOE were quick to point to the financing of the site as an indication of criminal behavior. Like many private torrent sites, Greek-Fun offered benefits to users who donated to keep the site running although the admins denied profiteering.
In the end at least one administrator of the site, believed to be in his early 30's, was arrested and several people were questioned with investigators linking site email addresses to Facebook accounts for evidence. EPOE said the site caused it 1.8m euros in damages.
As the bad news about Greek-Fun spread, Greece's largest private tracker – the huge 898,000 member Gamato.info – also unexpectedly went down, officially due to “technical problems”. Whatever the reason, as can be seen by the graph below, the result was a massive drop in Greek Internet traffic. Gamato remained down for several weeks, only opening again during the first few days of February 2010.
Today, however, the site is down again, and the news is not good.
ELAS (Greek police) are engaged in an on-going operation to round up the administrators of the site. Already there are reports of 3 arrests in Athens (the capital and one of the world's oldest cities) and 3 in Thessaloniki (Greece's 2nd largest city). A soldier, a musician and a confectioner are among those arrested.
New information suggests that ELAS have alerted Interpol to arrest two further admins who are apparently reside outside the country. TorrentFreak has learned that they are located in The Netherlands and are being called “the brains” behind the site. The Gamato servers are also located there although it's unclear at this stage if there is a connection.
“We host a lot of different sites and do not keep tabs on our clients as long as they comply with our Terms of Service, which includes confirming to the Dutch law,” Gamato's host told TorrentFreak, adding: “As far as we and our legal counsel can see, this is the case with the site mentioned by you.”
It's believed that police are looking for 11 individuals in total. Thus far, 27 hard drives, five laptops and more than 600 DVDs have been seized.
According to the police, file-sharing on Gamato was responsible for 80% of online piracy in Greece, with EPOE calculating its losses at the hands of the tracker at a staggering 1 billion euros.
Although Gamato was a private torrent site, it didn't follow the usual format. It wasn't “invite-only” – anyone could signup – and although sharing ratios were counted there were no punishments or rewards for the amounts shared. Furthermore, unlike Greek-Fun, Gamato did not accept donations from users.
The Society for the Protection of Audiovisual Works (EPOE) shot to fame in 2008 when virtually every site offering user-generated Greek subtitles (fansubs) for English language movies and TV shows became recipients of its legal threats. Within a very short time sites including greektvsubs.gr, subtitles.gr, greeksubs, subs4u.gr and apsubs.com had either closed down or removed all subtitles.
Article from: TorrentFreak, check out our new blog at FreakBits.
http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~3/3lYvRbLiwtE/ Post LinkBitStalker Can Monitor Pirate Bay Torrents for $13 p/mo
Posted on: March 10, 2010Researchers create BitStalker, an efficient “active probing strategy” for finding copyrighted material on large BitTorrent tracker sites, but fact that the research was funded “in part” by PolyCipher, an ISP consortium, should make some nervous about what it plans to do with it.
Researchers from the University of Colorado have published a new technique for fighting the distribution of copyrighted material on BitTorrent. Current monitoring employs passive methods that are prone, as we all know, to a variety of errors and false positives.
To mitigate the potential for false positives they investigated the feasibility of using active methods to monitor extremely large BitTorrent swarms like those found on public tracker sites like The Pirate Bay. For this they developed BitStalker, a new active probing framework that identi?es active peers and collects “concrete forensic evidence” that an individual was involved in sharing a particular copyrighted ?le.
“We ?nd that the current investigative methods produce at least 11% false positives, while we show that false positives are rare with our active approach,” they say in their paper, “BitStalker: Accurately and Efficiently Monitoring BitTorrent Traffic.”
They claim that BitStalker can monitor over 20,000 peers in 5 minutes using only 14.4–50.8KB/s of bandwidth. Using Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) they estimate one could monitor the entire Pirate Bay with some? 20 million peers for only about $12.40 p/mo.
So how does it work?
First it gathers a list of peers in a given BitTorrent swarm by querying a tracker. For each IP address it and port number returned it then conducts a series of “light-weight probes” to find out if a peer really exists and is participating in the file transfer.
- Establish a TCP connection with another peer.
- Exchange handshake messages with the correct SHA1 content hash and receive handshake responses.
- Exchange bit?eld messages and receive bit?eld responses.
- Request and receive a 16KB block of ?le data.
The researchers say that by following these steps BitStalker can make false positives a thing of the past.
They continue:
A successful TCP probe indicates that the peer is listening on the correct port. However, an effective counter-strategy could be to register arbitrary IP addresses with ports that are opened (such as web servers). The subsequent handshake probe is more conclusive, as it indicates that the BitTorrent protocol is running on the correct port and also identi?es the content being shared by a SHA1 hash. The bit?eld probe provides stronger evidence still, since it describes all pieces that the peer has downloaded, which implies active sharing. Finally, requesting and subsequently receiving a block of the ?le provides the strongest form of concrete evidence for ?le sharing.
It's welcome news that researchers have figured out a way to find conclusive proof that a person was involved in illegal file-sharing, but it does, as they acknowledge, raise “general legal issues that this type of monitoring exposes.”
In particular, a speci?c de?nition of what constitutes “evidence” in the context of illegal ?le-sharing.
Most troubling is that the research was “funded in part” by PolyCipher, an ISP consortium created by Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cox Communications. With the MPAA and RIAA trying to get ISPs to become voluntary copyright police one has to wonder whether BitStalker may go active in the near future.
Stay tuned.
jared@zeropaid.com
UK STUDY: ISPs Could Earn $304m w/Bundled Music Services
Posted on: March 10, 2010British Phonographic Industry-funded study finds that bundled digital music services could earn ISPs ?203 million ($303.9m USD) by 2013.
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is once again trying to lure in UK ISPs to help it fight illegal file-sharing on their networks, this time by releasing the results of a study it funded that found ISPs there could earn as much as ?203 million ($303.9m USD) by 2013 if they launched a bundled digital music services for their subscribers.
It also said the offering could help ISPs reduce the cost of “subscriber churn,” that a simple 10% reduction could help a big ISP with around 3.5m customers would generate indirect value of more than ?20m per year ($30m USD).
“It’s increasingly clear that it isn’t smart to be a ‘dumb pipe,'” says BPI Chief Executive Geoff Taylor. “This report shows that the revenue potential of digital music services alone makes sound economic sense for ISPs. UK music companies want to innovate and develop exciting new digital offerings. ISPs such as Virgin Media have recognized that legal digital music services offer a more exciting and profitable future than continued widespread piracy.”
It's ironic that it would cite Virgin Media as an ISP willing to offer digital music services considering the ISP spent years and a staggering eight figure sum developing “Virgin Music Unlimited” only to see it fall apart thanks to last minute by major record labels. Virgin Media later came to an agreement with Universal Music last June, but the service, promised to appear towards the end of last year, is still nowhere to be found, so it should hardly be held up as an example by the BPI.
Further damaging the credibility of their statements is the fact that the BPI tries to suggest that ISPs could make even more from bundled digital music services if only they were “offered to consumers in tandem with meaningful action to tackle illegal music downloading.?”
In other words, if they get on board with the BPI's proposals to fight illegal file-sharing ISPs could make a lot of money.
In response to the study UK ISP TalkTalk, which claims to be the country's largest broadband provider with over 4.25 million customers, sarcastically thanks the BPI for its “strategic business advice,” but says the ?203 million ($303.9m USD) figure glosses over the fact that it would have to criminalize the behaviors of many of its customers in an ultimately “expensive” and “futile” pursuit.
“Though some may question the value of such insight from an industry which has failed to acknowledge the impact of new technology on its own business models and is pressing the Government to criminalize its biggest customers. As it happens TalkTalk does offer a legal download service (emusic), as do other ISPs,” it said in a statement. “Perhaps there is a goldmine for ISPs in legal downloads but that will not alter the fact that the copyright protection proposals being proposed threaten human rights. They will penalize innocent broadband customers. They are expensive, unwieldy and utterly futile.”
It's silly that the BPI is even offering such “innovative” ideas for others to follow when it can't seem to come up with any for itself. It's like getting workout tips from a couch potato.
One has to wonder why people would even want a bundled digital music service when they already have, in the BPI's own words, more than 35 legal online digital music services to choose from.
The BPI ought to commission more studies that find out what consumers actually want, and try to give it to them. Instead the music industry seems to continue doing the opposite, first figuring out what it wants and giving consumers only what it's forced to to make a profit, but even then profits are secondary to control of access.
Stay tuned.
jared@zeropaid.com
UK STUDY: 40% Unable to Name Legal Online Music Service
Posted on: March 10, 2010Consumer Focus also says that 85% can only name two, iTunes and Amazon, but UK music industry, in typical fashion, emphasizes that more than 35 exist and touts own study that found 96% awareness of iTunes and Amazon.
Consumer Focus, the UK govt-backed consumer advocacy group, has long tried to illustrate the deficiency of the country's copyright laws and the dramatic learning gap consumers have of them.
In fact, just last month it found that almost 3/4 of the population doesn’t know what they’re legally allowed to copy or record, and that's practically impossible to not infringe copyright laws as part of their daily lives unless they don't use digital technology.
Part of the problem has always been the music industry's reluctance to offer consumers viable, legal alternatives as a means to fight online copyright infringement, but as it's slowly begun to roll them out over the years new research from Consumer Focus shows how the music industry is failing to properly promote them.
Their research found that a staggering 20% are unable to name a single legal online music service at all, and that 85% could name only two – iTunes and Amazon.
“The music industry is shooting itself in the foot by not promoting legal online music services,” said Jill Johnstone, the group's International Director. “If file sharing is causing the damage the music industry claims, why aren’t they putting more effort in to promoting the legal alternatives? Before we go down the enforcement road it is only fair to ask the music industry to do more to make people aware of the legal options.”
Consumer Focus, in addition to recommending reform of the country's copyright laws, is also calling for reform of its copyright licensing system in order to make it easier to create more legal online music services with streaming, “all you can eat”, micropayment, advertisement or subscription based models.
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) counters that claims of low brand awareness are a “fallacy,” pointing out that survey could've included people who don’t even have an Internet connection or interest in music.
This argument makes sense, but the BPI goes on to remind people that there are more than 35 legal online digital music services in the UK. That may be so, and I challenge even die-hard music fans to name more than 6, but it doesn't mean they're offering consumers what they want.
It also cites its own study from last November that found 96% of the Internet users surveyed knew of iTunes and Amazon among others (not stated is the actual number per individual).
“It’s just not credible to suggest that people who are downloading illegally haven’t heard of iTunes, Amazon or other legal music services,” countered Geoff Taylor, BPI's Chief Executive. “Our much larger, more recent and targeted online survey shows that awareness of legal music services among internet users is almost universal. The measures in the Digital Economy Bill are precisely what is needed to encourage illegal downloaders to move across to those legal services.”
By “encourage” he means disconnecting households from the Internet via a “three-strikes” graduated response system proposed as part of the emerging Digital Britain Bill. So rather than figuring out what they actually want, or even conducting surveys to that end, it instead is focusing on a removing digital music customers altogether (disconnection), banning open Wi-Fi, and a proactive ban on websites suspected of infringing copyright.
These certainly aren't very effectives way to “encourage” people to become new customers, especially since “illegal downloaders” are most likely already adept at avoiding detection by copyright holders (VPNs/Usenet).
Finding out what they want and offering it to them, the mark of any good business, is the only solution.
Stay tuned.
jared@zeropaid.com
BitTorrent directory now with Trends
Posted on: March 09, 2010 |
The FileSharingZ.com BitTorrent directory has been upgraded with a number of new features and many improvements. You can now follow the worldwide BitTorrent evolution, as well as see individual tracker growth. |
Piracy Rises In France Despite Three Strikes Law
Posted on: March 09, 2010
September last year saw the passing of France's controversial three-strikes ‘Hadopi' law which allows the music industry to track down repeated copyright infringers with the ultimate goal of decreasing the country's piracy rate.
Under the new law alleged copyright infringers will be reported to a judge once they have received three warnings. The judge will then review the case and hand down any one of a range of penalties, from fines through to severing the Internet connection of the infringer.
Proponents of the new law claimed that the law would convince millions of people to stop downloading copyrighted content through file-sharing networks. Most critics, however, doubted the effectiveness of the system and pointed out that there are many ways to circumvent the law.
A new study published by the University of Rennes shows that the critics are indeed right. The researchers looked into the habits of downloaders before and after the law was implemented. They found that instead of reducing piracy levels, the piracy rate actually went up by 3%.
This increase in piracy shows that the French are not changing their downloading habits much, despite the tougher legislation. There is, however, an interesting shift in the sources people use to download copyrighted movies and music. At an increasing rate the French are using streaming services along with file-hosting ‘cyberlockers' such as Rapidshare and Megaupload.
These services are not covered by the Hadopi law and therefore 'safe' to use. Conversely, usage of P2P services such as BitTorrent dropped from 17.1 percent to 14.6 percent between September and December last year. Overall the research seems to suggest that the looming disconnection threat has changed how and where people get pirated content, while the piracy rate itself increased.
Another remarkable statistic uncovered by the researchers is that half of all P2P users who download copyrighted content also buy digital content online. This means that if these users were disconnected from the Internet under the new law, the music industry would lose customers and thus revenue.
The overall message put forward by the research seems to be that it is hard to deter people from copyright infringement when there are plenty of alternatives to bypass the legislation. This does not only hold for the French case but can also be applied to the UK and other countries where tougher anti-piracy laws are implemented.
The answer to the increasing piracy rates worldwide is not legislation. Instead, the entertainment industry may accomplish much more by innovating and expanding their online business so that it meets the demands of today's digital consumers.
Article from: TorrentFreak, check out our new blog at FreakBits.
http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~3/zu_HdVNeVbs/ Post LinkAnnual BitTorrent Download of 5.43 GB of SXSW Music
Posted on: March 09, 2010Use BitTorrent to download all of the MP3 files publicly available on the SXSW website as of March 6, 2010.
It's that time of year again with the 2010 SXSW music festival fast approaching. The annual event held in Austin, TX has always been a showcase for some of the latest and greatest music artists around, and this year is no exception.
As part of the event MP3 files are sporadically made available on the site to showcase some of the artists that are scheduled to appear during the 5 day extravaganza.
Greg Hewgill has been kind enough to compile all of those MP3 files into two handy dandy torrent trackers, some 1038 files totaling 5.43GB worth of free music in all!
- SXSW_2010_Showcasing_Artists_Part1.torrent – 646 files, 3.35GB
- SXSW_2010_Showcasing_Artists_Part2.torrent – 392 files, 2.08GB
In case you missed last year's music or any of the years going back to 2005 when the music was first compiled into torrent trackers as a BitTorrent download, they're still available here.
Enjoy.
Stay tuned.
jared@zeropaid.com
LimeWire Adds AVG Protection to Its P2P Client (Pro Version)
Posted on: March 09, 2010
LimeWire is trying? its best to keep its popularity, legit appearance and relevance in the business. The company has recently announced their plans to secure their network.
Says the press release: "LimeWire Pro users will see the 'Protected by AVG' assurance whenever a downloaded file is safely scanned and cleaned." It's great to see a developer taking a proactive approach. Plenty of P2P users don't understand the risks associated with what they're downloading, so I appreciate LimeWire doing something to mitigate that risk.
As expected, the new protection feature will only be included on LimeWire's pro version (the one you pay for) probably to make it more appealing for people who really want to spend money on file sharing apps.
Jason Herskowitz, VP Product Management for LimeWire, states "LimeWire is committed to providing peer-to-peer's best user experience and we are vigilant about user security." He continues, "We are always looking for ways to improve, and with AVG's seamless integration into LimeWire, we will be providing users with peer-to-peer's most secure technology."
http://www.p2pon.com/2010/03/08/limewire-adds-avg-protection-to-its-p2p-client-pro-version/ Post LinkDutch Pirate Party Joins Election Race
Posted on: March 09, 2010
2009 was a breakthrough year for the Pirate Party movement. With more than 7 percent of the vote, the Swedish Pirate Party secured two seats in the European Parliament.
A few weeks later, the Pirates in Germany entered the local Parliament after a member of another party switched sides.
In 2010 the Pirate Parties hope to continue this hot streak, especially during the Swedish national elections later this year. However, Sweden is not the only country where a Pirate Party will end up at the ballot. In the UK the local Pirate Party hopes to compete as well and the Dutch party has now decided to do the same.
In recent months there has been a lot of political debate regarding Dutch copyright law which currently allows people to download copyrighted movies and music for personal use. Several established parties have shown interest in criminalizing file-sharers, something the Pirate Party hopes to avoid.
Instead, the Pirates would like to shorten the copyright term to 5 years and legalize sharing of all copyrighted material on the Internet. Tim Kuik, head honcho at the local anti-piracy outfit BREIN, is not afraid of politically organized pirates and described the Party's plans as short sighted and unrealistic.
Samir Allioui, Chairman of the Pirate Party, told TorrentFreak that he's very happy with Kuik's negative comments. “He gives people a good reason to vote for us,” he said, referring to the negative view that most people have of BREIN.
If elected, the party will do everything it can to stop abuses of copyright, promote Net Neutrality and push for patent reform. The party is further committed to increasing transparency, strengthening fundamental rights and protecting privacy.
Despite the enthusiasm of the party's members, there is still a long way to go before they can actually compete in the election on June 9th. One of the biggest hurdles is the requirement to deposit a sum of 12,000 euros, a barrier which is meant to prevent too many parties from entering the election.
Samir is confident that they will be able to raise the money in the weeks to come. He encourages all sympathizers to become a member of the Party and help to get the Pirate Party on the ballot.
Article from: TorrentFreak, check out our new blog at FreakBits.
http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~3/Jz5i-NV4TlA/ Post LinkUbisoft's Uber DRM Cracked Within a Day
Posted on: March 09, 2010 |
Ubisoft's new DRM designed to prevent piracy was cracked within hours of its release. The new DRM restricts and hinders legitimate customers even more, but in turn Ubisoft promises extra content for them. Any real impact on piracy remains to be seen. |
Music Group Gets Court Injunction Against UseNeXT
Posted on: March 09, 2010
UseNeXT is a brand operated by Munich and London-based company, Aviteo Ltd. UseNeXT is one of the most popular Usenet services around today and has traditionally advertised extensively within the BitTorrent community and on many torrent sites.
On 19 December 2006, performing rights group GEMA, which handles the copyrights of more than 1 million rightsholders worldwide, filed for an injunction against UseNeXT. GEMA had earlier leveled accusations at UseNeXT's advertising in which it said, among other things, the company claimed to offer 1 million MP3s through its service.
“[UseNeXT] advertised its fee-based access with unambiguous references to illegal exchange platforms. In particular it publicized the anonymity, speed and security of access to contents available on Usenet,” GEMA said in a statement, adding: “On top of that, the service also offers special, perfected search software that makes it easier to locate and manage musical works and other contents protected by copyright.”
On 18 January 2007, the Hamburg District Court issued a preliminary injunction against UseNeXT's operators, which included instructions for it to change the way in which it advertised its product and barring it from providing musical works from GEMA's repertoire. UseNeXT objected to the decision and disputed that it had ever encouraged subscribers to download copyright works, arguing that its use of the terms ‘unfiltered' and ‘anonymous' related to features inherent in the Usenet system.
On 17 February 2010, the Hamburg District Court handed down a preliminary injunction against UseNeXT which bars the service from offering a sample 100 musical works to which GEMA administers the copyright. The injunction also states that UseNeXT must go further than simply modifying its advertising in order to protect GEMA's copyrights.
Although not necessarily liable for infringements, the Court said that Usenet providers would have to take responsibility for the services and environments they provide.
In a statement, GEMA said that the Court of Hamburg's decision represents expanded liabilities for Usenet providers which go further than regulating their approach to advertising, but also apply when modified advertising proves insufficient to protect rights holders.
“The adoption of the preliminary injunction is a success in our commitment to the protection of copyright,” said Dr. Harald Heker, Chief Executive Officer of GEMA. “Second, the ruling also represents a further important step towards a comprehensive responsibility of the Usenet service operator for its offer.”
At this stage it's unclear how UseNeXT will choose to comply with the injunction. Unlike services such as Rapidshare that operate their own servers and actually store content, UseNeXT are a reseller of the Highwinds Usenet service. UseNeXT does not store any content, Highwinds do.
UseNeXT used to offer a search engine and software interface to access Usenet, so conceivably something could've been implemented there to bar access to the GEMA titles mentioned in the injunction. However, recent changes to their service means they are no longer offering those solutions but suggesting the use of 3rd party software, with one particular solution from Tangysoft up front.
Nevertheless, the Court said that UseNeXT is responsible for the service it's re-selling so the company will have to find an answer somehow. Many Usenet providers are already working with rights holders to automate the removal of content, so solutions are available. How quickly and comprehensively UseNeXT acts will remain to be seen.
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Posted on: March 09, 2010Out of all the private torrent trackers online today, CN remains to be one of the most secretive. However, It's strict rules against publicity have not been able to prevent news from spreading across the BitTorrent universe – most people now know of it’s existence and the tracker is known as one of the best movie trackers one could get into. Thankfully, CN’s administration have responded to the growing popularity is a positive manner. Although the site hasn’t directly opened signups, numerous...
STUDY: 40% Unable to Name Legal Online Music Service
Posted on: March 09, 2010Consumer Focus also says that 85% can only name two, iTunes and Amazon, but UK music industry, in typical fashion, emphasizes that more than 35 exist and touts own study that found 96% awareness of iTunes and Amazon.
Consumer Focus, the UK govt-backed consumer advocacy group, has long tried to illustrate the deficiency of the country's copyright laws and the dramatic learning gap consumers have of them.
In fact, just last month it found that almost 3/4 of the population doesn’t know what they’re legally allowed to copy or record, and that's practically impossible to not infringe copyright laws as part of their daily lives unless they don't use digital technology.
Part of the problem has always been the music industry's reluctance to offer consumers viable, legal alternatives as a means to fight online copyright infringement, but as it's slowly begun to roll them out over the years new research from Consumer Focus shows how the music industry is failing to properly promote them.
Their research found that a staggering 20% are unable to name a single legal online music service at all, and that 85% could name only two – iTunes and Amazon.
“The music industry is shooting itself in the foot by not promoting legal online music services,” said Jill Johnstone, the group's International Director. “If file sharing is causing the damage the music industry claims, why aren’t they putting more effort in to promoting the legal alternatives? Before we go down the enforcement road it is only fair to ask the music industry to do more to make people aware of the legal options.”
Consumer Focus, in addition to recommending reform of the country's copyright laws, is also calling for reform of its copyright licensing system in order to make it easier to create more legal online music services with streaming, “all you can eat”, micropayment, advertisement or subscription based models.
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) counters that claims of low brand awareness are a “fallacy,” pointing out that survey could've included people who don’t even have an Internet connection or interest in music.
This argument makes sense, but the BPI goes on to remind people that there are more than 35 legal online digital music services in the UK. That may be so, and I challenge even die-hard music fans to name more than 6, but it doesn't mean they're offering consumers what they want.
It also cites its own study from last November that found 96% of the Internet users surveyed knew of iTunes and Amazon among others (not stated is the actual number per individual).
“It’s just not credible to suggest that people who are downloading illegally haven’t heard of iTunes, Amazon or other legal music services,” countered Geoff Taylor, BPI's Chief Executive. “Our much larger, more recent and targeted online survey shows that awareness of legal music services among internet users is almost universal. The measures in the Digital Economy Bill are precisely what is needed to encourage illegal downloaders to move across to those legal services.”
By “encourage” he means disconnecting households from the Internet via a “three-strikes” graduated response system proposed as part of the emerging Digital Britain Bill. So rather than figuring out what they actually want, or even conducting surveys to that end, it instead is focusing on a removing digital music customers altogether (disconnection), banning open Wi-Fi, and a proactive ban on websites suspected of infringing copyright.
These certainly aren't very effectives way to “encourage” people to become new customers, especially since “illegal downloaders” are most likely already adept at avoiding detection by copyright holders (VPNs/Usenet).
Finding out what they want and offering it to them, the mark of any good business, is the only solution.
Stay tuned.
jared@zeropaid.com
Court Maintains Ban on DVD Backup Software
Posted on: March 08, 2010Judge sides with MPAA in case against Real Network's RealDVD software that would allow consumers to make backup copies of purchased DVDs for personal use.
Chalk up another win for the MPAA and another loss for consumers. For US District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel has issued a permanent injunction against Real Networks DVD-backup software RealDVD.
The Judge declared that RealDVD, in order to make backup copies, would likely violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Content Scramble System (CSS) license.
If you recall, back in September of 2008 Real Networks launched RealDVD to allow users to make backup copies of purchased DVDs for private use. The MPAA immediately dubbed it “StealDVD” and filed a lawsuit to ban its sale.
The kicker is that the MPAA then said that making even one copy of a DVD is illegal, arguing that the price of a DVD is predicated on the “notion of certain use rights associated with certain price points,” and that it would have to change the price of DVDs (certainly upwards) if people wanted to be able to make copies.
In other words, it only charges $9.99 per DVD, for example, because it assumes it lasts for a finite period of time. If you want a DVD you can make copies of then the “price point” must be higher to reflect “expanded use rights.”
The MPAA's statement after the verdict reaffirms these earlier sentiments.
“We are gratified by the successful conclusion of this important matter,” said Daniel Mandil, General Counsel & Chief Content Protection Officer for the MPAA. “Judge Patel’s rulings and this settlement affirm what we have said from the very start of this litigation: It is illegal to bypass the copyright protections built into DVDs designed to protect movies against theft. We will continue to vigorously pursue companies that attempt to bring these illegal
circumvention products and devices to market.”
So though you may buy the DVD the MPAA still gets to decide how, when, and where you can watch it.
And they wonder why people turn to piracy for content.
“(Real's testimony) made it clear that Real was out to deliver to consumers a product that people wanted to see,” said Fred von Lohmann, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's senior staff attorney, to CNet. “I think the message this sends is if you get into the business of enabling consumers to do with DVDs what they've long done with CDs, you'll get sued out of the business. I think that's bad news for consumers. What that means is that if you want to create a digital back-up of your movies, you have to pay for that a second time on iTunes.”
Even worse still is that Real Networks was reportedly working on a a DVD player/burner codenamed Fact that would've stored more than 70 movies on its internal HDD. This also no way to fight piracy. File-sharers simply turn to illegal alternatives, in many cases filling up 1TB HDD with hundreds of XViD copies of their favorite flics.
The MPAA insists in the same press release that “major motion picture studios continue to invest heavily in technologies that allow people to access entertainment in a variety of legal ways,” but what it's not saying is that that “access” is coming with an increasingly burdensome price.
Consumers only want to pay for a product once and they be able to do with it as they please. So it's a good thing there alternative software programs that do the same thing as RealDVD.
Stay tuned.
jared@zeropaid.com
Music Biz Hopes To End Piracy By Tempting ISPs With Millions
Posted on: March 08, 2010Around seven years ago when pressure was first starting to form against the then-fledgling BitTorrent scene, attitudes were pretty much as they are now. “They'll never stop it, we'll always find a way,” cried the masses grabbing music, movies and software for free, and few disagreed.
Of course, there will always be a way to acquire media free of charge, the last few decades have shown us that. But the media industries are now having to find new ways to defend their corner. There has always been talk of Big Movies or Big Music ‘owning' politicians and lawmakers, but while this is true to the extent that their immense lobbying power allows, there has also been another more serious threat on the back-burner.
If the RIAA or MPAA owned – literally – all the major ISPs, they could affect the piracy landscape quicker than ever before. A simple rewrite or tweaking of subscriber's Terms of Service would ensure that anyone proven to be a pirate could be ejected from the Internet in an instant, no laws needed. While this is unfeasible right now, there are easier ways of encouraging the same, like business partnerships and promises of profit.
According to a new study titled “Is There A Commercial Argument For ISP Music Services” commissioned by the BPI on behalf of Universal Music and carried out by industry analyst Ovum, if the UK's most prominent ISPs all more or less immediately launched subscriber packages that included bundled music, they could generate new revenues of ?103 million by 2013.
The BPI say this figure is based on a ‘medium adoption scenario’ and is an amount equal to 41% of the total 2009 digital music market. In an ‘accelerated adoption scenario’ the study says that the revenues could nearly double to ?203m.
Aside from the profitability implied by these revenues, the report seems keen to offer other incentives to the major ISPs – Virgin Media, Sky, BT, O2, Orange and TalkTalk – to get involved in the music business. The study suggests that the inclusion of a music element to bundles would reduce subscriber ‘churn' – the rate at which customers cancel their contracts. The example given is that an ISP with 3.5m customers could save ?20m if the bundling of music cut churn by 10%, although there is no information to show that it actually would.
While suggesting good business is to be had in getting a little involved in the music business, the BPI is keen to point out that for ISPs, the more involved they get, the more they can make.
“The revenue prospects for bundled ISP music services would be substantially increased if services were offered to consumers in tandem with meaningful action to tackle illegal music downloading,” say the BPI.
We approached TalkTalk, an ISP referred to in the study, for a comment.
“TalkTalk thanks the BPI for its strategic business advice. Though some may question the value of such insight from an industry which has failed to acknowledge the impact of new technology on its own business models and is pressing the Government to criminalise its biggest customers,” a spokesperson told TorrentFreak.
Clearly TalkTalk doesn't want to do the music industry's dirty work for them, but if other ISPs got heavily involved in the music distribution business it might be considered natural for them to try and protect their revenues. That said, the leap from simple common carrier to having a vested interest could complicate their position.
Nevertheless, another issue the report highlights is that heavy competition is driving down the price of broadband services while consumer desire for bandwidth continues to increase. In any business working in plain commodities, the desire to bring in more profitable “added-value” products is strong.
“It’s increasingly clear that it isn’t smart to be a ‘dumb pipe’. This report shows that the revenue potential of digital music services alone makes sound economic sense for ISPs,” said BPI Chief Executive, Geoff Taylor.
So let's imagine that the ISPs want to get involved in this market, offering bundled music for an extra ?6.49 (the price level suggested in the report) – what would be so wrong with that? It's pretty affordable after all, so why not give it a chance?
“With the right service platform, user experience and merchandising strategy, ISPs have an opportunity to reach a green-field digital music market that mainstream download-to-own services such as iTunes do not reach today,” explains report co-author and Ovum’s principal analyst, Adrian Drury.
So these suggested services aren't of the “fill up your iPod” type, but of the “can only be used sitting-at-your-computer streaming services with limited download allocation” type. Surprised? Us neither.
Trying to convert those currently using file-sharing services over to paid models is already a big challenge. Trying to switch them to an inferior product whilst being hounded by their ISP on behalf of the music industry is a different matter altogether, and something TalkTalk refuses to be drawn into.
“Perhaps there is a goldmine for ISPs in legal downloads but that will not alter the fact that the copyright protection proposals being proposed threaten human rights,” their spokesperson told us. “They will penalise innocent broadband customers. They are expensive, unwieldy and utterly futile.”
If the record labels really did own your ISP, this is the type of environment subscribers would be pushed into. And you'd still have to fill up your iPod elsewhere at additional cost.
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Posted on: March 08, 2010Here’s our latest collective tracker open signup update. If you are wondering what that is, this is a post summarizing information about private torrent trackers that were featured on FILEnetworks during the last 1-2 months. This articles features 15 private torrent trackers specializing in all sorts of content ranging from TV shows, kids content, high definition movies, mobile content, audiobooks, music, music videos to general releases. All of the private communities mentioned here are...
Congressman Compares Lack of Radio Performance Tax to Slavery
Posted on: March 08, 2010House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) takes the fight over terrestrial radio's refusal to pay performer royalty fees to the next level.
It seems the debate over terrestrial radio performance royalty fees is heating up these days with news that House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) recently said that the lack thereof makes slaves out of artists.
“In 1865, slavery was abolished by the 13th Amendment. No more free labor,” Conyers told a crowd at a musicFIRST, a RIAA-funded advocacy group, press conference. “It abolished at the same time involuntary servitude. What does that have to do with what we're here for today? Well, when you tell somebody that you're benefiting from their work product but there's no avenue for compensation, it kind of harkens back to that great problem.”
Calling slavery a “great problem” is sorting of putting it mildly, but comparing it to the lack of a performance tax for musicians cheapens the misery endured.
Aside from the fact that slaves couldn't simply choose another vocation as music artists can, injecting such heated rhetoric into the debate only complicates the ability of both sides to have a rational dialogue with one another, especially when Conyers says that he'd first like to find a compromise with radio broadcasters before moving forward with legislation.
Not helping any is comments by the NAACP referring to the lack of a performance tax as a violation of musicians' civil rights.
“Being paid fairly for your labor is one of the most basic civil rights, which is why we are pleased to support musicians everywhere to ensure that they are duly and fairly compensated when their music is enjoyed by radio listeners,” said Hilary O. Shelton, Director of the NAACP Washington Bureau and Senior Vice President for Advocacy and Policy.
Now when it comes down to it I agree with the RIAA that radio broadcasters should have to pay the same royalty fees as everybody else – online streaming broadcasters, satellite radio, etc.. Why should terrestrial radio be exempt from paying what everybody else has to?
It's just not fair.
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), the so-called “voice for the nation's radio and television broadcasters,” is doing its best to fight Conyers efforts and the proposed “Performance Rights Act.”
It calls the new fees a “job-killer” that would harm “struggling artists,” and has made the brilliant move of countering Conyers' bill with a bill of its own – the “Local Radio Freedom Act.” After all, who doesn't like freedom right? Especially when it's local.
Stay tuned.
jared@zeropaid.com
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SXSW Gives Away 3.35 GB of Free Music via P2P Networks
Posted on: March 08, 2010The South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival, regarded as one of the largest and most popular in the US, has released its latest DRM-free, file sharing-safe collection of songs. Thanks to BitTorrent (and TorrentFreak which first reported the event), the comprehensive song selection has once again been included in a single torrent file, which is now available for download free of charge.
With this latest edition, SXSW music festival continues its much-acclaimed convention of publishing free tracks from participating artists, accounting for the distribution of thousands of quality songs since 2005. On multiple occasions in recent years, SXSW itself has been involved in encompassing festival song collections into single torrents for simplicity purposes and uploading them online. Since 2008, however, the public was asked to contribute in fulfilling this task.
Although the song list is quite extensive, setting up the torrent and uploading it online can be handled by one person alone, as all of the MP3 files are all gathered on SXSW’s website. While in 2008 this assignment was completed entirely by Greg Hewgill, Ben Stolt volunteered to do the same for the following song editions, in 2009 and 2010, respectively. So far, torrents created through the courtesy of SXSW have registered a huge success among online file sharers, accounting for more than 100,000 downloads.
The great thing about the tracks is that the artists themselves have approved them for distribution, which means that they can be downloaded without the risk of raising suspicions from the RIAA. This year’s first release comprises 646 tracks totaling 3.35 GB, but SXSW have promised to top that by making an additional 200 tracks available in the near future.
The torrent includes quality festival performances from all kinds of artists in a wide scope of music genres. If you are a music enthusiast looking for a free fix, then you should definitely give it a try.
This year’s highly anticipated SXSW music festival is scheduled to take place between March 17-21 in Austin Texas, so plan ahead and make sure you don’t miss it!
http://www.p2pon.com/2010/03/07/sxsw-gives-away-3-35-gb-of-free-music-via-p2p-networks/ Post LinkLaw Firm Accused of Bullying Alleged File Sharers
Posted on: March 08, 2010
The tables turn – Atari and other major game publishers have chosen Davenport Lyons to represent them numerous times and the law firm quickly made a reputation for hunting alleged copyright infringers. However, according to GI.biz, the firm is now being investigated for harassment and bullying by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, an industry watchdog.
It’s been two years since the consumer group Which? started to point to the wrongdoings of the firm which had adopted the policy of sending out letters accusing people of illegal file sharing.
The letters relied very much on intimidation, demanding a ?300 damage fee or risk being be taken to court. This caused Which? to dub the warnings as "excessive" and "bullying". The group in a recent statement said that "Davenport Lyons was making incorrect assertions about the nature of copyright infringement and ignoring evidence presented in defence. It added that the letters incorrectly claimed their recipients were legally responsible for ensuring their internet connections were properly secured."
The investigation which blows a little wind of change in the system was hailed by Adds Deborah Prince, head of legal affairs at Which? who said: "We're pleased to see some action at last from the SRA and hope the tide is finally turning in favour of consumers. We now want to see some decisive action to stop these bully-boy tactics."
http://www.p2pon.com/2010/03/07/law-firm-accused-of-bullying-alleged-file-sharers/ Post LinkAnd BitTorrent’s Oscar Goes To…. District 9
Posted on: March 07, 2010
Tonight, Hollywoods biggest stars will walk the red carpet into the Kodak Theater for the Academy Awards ceremony.
In anticipation of the glamorous Oscar night, we enter the dark side of the movie business to find out which of the 10 nominees in the Best Picture category gets the vote from BitTorrent users. NewTeeVee asked us to rank the nominees by number of downloads and the results are finally in.
If every download on BitTorrent counted as a vote, District 9 would be crowned the winner, closely followed by Avatar. The least popular films according to the BitTorrent public are The Blind Side with 1,845,000 downloads and An Education with ‘only' 683,000 downloads.
We have to note that comparing the downloads of each of the nominees is not really fair since some films have been available online for more than a year already, while others only leaked a few weeks ago. Avatar, which is second in the list with 11,326,000 downloads, became available in DVD-quality a month ago, while District 9 was already widely available last September.
As usual, all the nominated films are available online in various formats. For District 9 2,948 unique torrent files were counted, but the majority of these are inactive or have very few downloaders. Avatar beats District 9 in terms of availability with 4,280 torrent files.
The data for this list is collected by TorrentFreak from several sources, including reports from all the large BitTorrent trackers. All release formats, including cammed versions, are counted. Afterwards, the data was carefully checked and possible inaccuracies were systematically corrected.
| rank | movie | downloads | |
|---|---|---|---|
| torrentfreak.com | |||
| 1 | District 9 | 12,639,000 | |
| 2 | Avatar | 11,326,000 | |
| 3 | The Hurt Locker | 7,930,000 | |
| 4 | Up | 5,437,000 | |
| 5 | Inglourious Basterds | 5,376,000 | |
| 6 | Precious | 4,922,000 | |
| 7 | Up In The Air | 4,855,000 | |
| 8 | A Serious Man | 3,836,000 | |
| 9 | The Blind Side | 1,845,000 | |
| 10 | An Education | 683,000 | |
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Posted on: March 07, 2010FirstWire, the popular free LimeWire alternative, is one of the best clients that support Gnutella, a decentralized file sharing network. Although unnoticed by many, FrostWire can also handle torrent files as it comes with built in support for BitTorrent protocol. However dedicated torrent clients such as Vuze and uTorrent sued to pwn FrostWire’s BT engine which was based on legacy LimeWire technology. However the FW team announced a major change to the software recently, dubbed...
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