uTorrent Linux Server Released
Posted on: September 02, 2010
BitTorrent Inc. ?just released uTorrent Server for Linux, a daemonizable 32-bit binary of the uTorrent core, suited to those familiar with running programs from the command line. A full Linux client is expected to follow in the coming weeks.
Ever since uTorrent was first released back in 2005, Mac and Linux users have been begging the developers to code a version compatible with their computers. In 2006, when uTorrent was sold to BitTorrent Inc., the company promised that a Mac version was coming, and in 2008 it was finally released. Now, on the massive demand from users, ?a Linux client was impossible to ignore.
“If any group has embraced the possibilities and power of BitTorrent for distribution, it is the Linux community. Virtually every distribution is available via torrent download and many even ship with a BitTorrent client in the default configuration,” ?said the BitTorrent’s VP of Product Management, Simon Morris.
Labeled as an Alpha release, uTorrent Linux Server precedes a client with a full featured UI which is expected to be released in the coming weeks. The server can be managed through an HTTP API or the uTorrent Web UI pictured below, which is included in the release.
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Posted on: September 02, 2010For those keen to avoid raping and pillaging music from the nearest torrent site, a one-stop shop where unlimited DRM-free music can be bought for next to nothing must be a great attraction. Zaptunes, a new site advertising just that, has been making headlines this week. Trouble is, everything about it is a scam.
A few days ago various news outlets reported on the existence of Zaptunes, a new site offering DRM-free MP3 downloads for $25. Zaptunes claimed to have 8 million tracks available from the Big Four labels and untold others. As a nice introductory offer, Zaptunes offered their services free for 30 days. Nice.
Yesterday Hypebot had an email exchange with Zaptune's media spokesperson Anand Patel who said that the site's downloads “had been licensed from the appropriate major and indie labels.” But Zaptunes also says it offers music from The Beatles, an Internet impossibility as we all know.
“We have a contract with Sony Music, who hold the rights to most of the Beatles music,” said Patel. “I am sorry, but right now I can not give you more details about this contract.”
That's because there is no contract and Mr Patel is mistaking people for fools. Here's a short list of 13 unlucky reasons why (be sure to check out number 12 especially) and feel free to add more in the comments, there are dozens.
1. Zaptunes.com claims to be a San Francisco, CA based start-up. “With about $5 million in funding from various Venture Capitalists, we have steadily grown and made a strong foothold in the music industry,” they claim.
In fact, Zaptunes appeared just a few weeks ago on July 19th and despite $5 million in funding still begged people on Twitter to advertise for them with a tempting $10,000 prize due to be paid out August 22nd. No winners yet? We are surprised....
Tip: Try speaking to the press Zaptunes, they advertise your product for free....
2. Zaptunes isn't confident that they'll be around long. They registered their domain on July 19th 2010 – it expires on the same date next year. There's stability for you.
3. Even though TheBeatles Twitter account with 109,000 followers follows the Zaptunes Twitter account, that doesn't mean Zaptunes is legit, it just means people are keeping an eye on them. Zaptunes says it offers Beatles tracks. It does not.
4. Zaptunes promotes the availability of Eminem tracks, even though it has none. Zaptunes copied its entire Eminem fact page from an article they found using Google.
Their latest blog post was ripped from Last.fm and the one below that is ripped from MusicByDay. In fact, none of their posts are their own work.
Last.fm content is very popular on Zaptunes – it seems that much of the album art is ripped from there.
5. Other dodgy domains connect to Zaptunes.com including CaptainSam.com, which was registered by Tarandeep Singh Gill living at the rather official sounding 1 Something Road, Some City, California 94127. Even more reassuring is the Zaptunes.co.tv domain which also links to ZapTunes.com and is registered to ‘person surname' living in ‘londra, GB' – wherever that is.
6. Zaptunes says it offers tracks for free from the major labels. Anyone with any knowledge of the Big Four know full well that they never, ever give their music away en masse.
7. Zaptunes says it has a unique business model which enables it to offer unlimited downloads. None of the big labels together agree to unlimited downloads on a download service at any price.
8. Zaptunes' search engine suggests they offer both unreleased tracks and a selection of bootlegs. The major labels love this kind of thing from their partners.
9. Despite all the claims, Zaptunes doesn't offer ANY music whatsoever. From its own site:
ZapTunes.com does not provide any downloads from its servers. ZapTunes.com just enables its members to find free or paid music available on the Internet. The Artists/Tracks displayed on the home page and other parts of the website are for promotional purposes only and may not be available for free or paid download.
ZapTunes.com has a database of websites that offer free and legal music downloads. Whenever a registered members looks for a song, ZapTunes searches for that song in the database, and if it finds a website offering a legal download of that song, it is displayed it to the user. If not, then ZapTunes looks for that song on Amazon, iTunes and various other paid to download websites, and displays the user their options. ZapTunes is not helping or promoting piracy in any way.
10. ZapTunes says its name is a registered trademark. Our searches with the United States Patent and Trademark Office drew a big blank.
11. Most of the site's Privacy Policy was cut-and-pasted from here and the ‘Terms of Use‘ on ZapTunes should be read very, very closely. Anyone giving over their credit card details could be in for a very nasty surprise. DON'T DO IT!
12. Another URL that redirects to Zaptunes is www.24hfunds.com. Readers of this discussion thread on TalkGold will see that by page 6, the scheme promoted by its owner was deemed to be a scam. A search on Google for '24hfunds and scam' turned up 5,000 results.
13. Those unlucky enough to have given their details over already will see charges on their credit card account from TrackYourPics.com – the following is currently displayed on their site, spelling errors intact:
“Did you see a charge on your credit card with TRACKYOURPICS.COM? It is because you either signed up on trackyourpics.com or ZapTunes.com. All the subscriptions have been cancelled, so you will not see any furher charges on your credit card. Also, we are in the process or reversing the charges already made.”
TrackYourPics is registered to an address in San Francisco, California. Google seems to think that location is a drain cover.
A fitting place for Zaptunes. Stay well away.
Article from: TorrentFreak.
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Posted on: September 02, 2010Increasingly, game companies are using peer-to-peer powered solutions to deliver games and updates to their customers. While the use of P2P technology could be beneficial for publishers, consumers, and the image of file-sharing in general, the use of P2P by game companies still lacks transparency, privacy and control. A newly published best practices outline aims to change this.
In the past we've praised game companies who adopted P2P-based solution for the distribution of their content. Through the use of P2P, the game companies can save resources and consumers often see improved download times. However, there is also a dark side to this apparent synergy.
Although the use of P2P technology has many benefits, it is not always implemented with the interests of consumers in mind. In fact, quite often gamers are simply abused as cheap bandwidth sources by million dollar corporations, often without their knowledge.
Akamai, one of the largest content delivery companies around, has a P2P-based product called the Netsession Interface which is rather abusive towards customers. The software is installed as a Windows service and it is always running in the background. Even worse, most users wont even know that it's running because it doesn’t show up in task manager. Nothing of the above is mentioned in their EULA.
The NetSession Interface is used by game publishers including Kuma Games, Aeria Games and NetDevil. Customers who play the games have no user controls or visible indicators, while the software uses ‘their' upload bandwidth to deliver content to other users for an indefinite period after the download is completed.
Besides Akamai there are various other P2P-based solutions that lack transparency, control or privacy, such as Pando's Media Booster. Blizzard's BitTorrent Downloader which is used for the distribution of StarCraft 2 and World of Warcraft is one of the more transparent solutions, but that one is not perfect yet either.
From the Akamai example above it is clear that something has to be done to ensure that consumers are not exploited as bandwidth slaves. P2P technology is great, and many consumer would love to donate some, but there has to be a clear set of rules to guarantee that consumers have a choice.
To address this issue, game publisher company Solid State Networks has just released a best practices document (pdf) which emphasizes giving users transparency and control over their resources. According to the company it all boils down to the following directives:
1. Transparency – Make visible and readily accessible information about the presence and operational activity of the P2P technology.
2. Control – Provide the ability to manage, operate and remove the P2P technology in an intuitive and conspicuous manner to the user.
3. Privacy – Ensure the absolute privacy and security of personal information and user originated files.
We think this is a great initiative and sincerely hope that the gaming industry will adopt this, or a similar set of rules, in the interests of the consumer. A quick search on Google shows that most of it is much needed, as there are are many complaints (1,2,3,4,5) from gamers about the lack of transparency and control that most of the current P2P delivery systems offer.
Surprisingly enough, Solid State Networks already offers their very own P2P-based delivery solution for game publishers that adheres to all three directives. However, the other P2P-based solutions that already exist out there can be easily adopted to become ‘fair' as well.
Below you'll find an additional PSA, summarizing how and why game publishers should handle P2P-powered game distribution.
Best Practices P2P Technology in Online Games
Article from: TorrentFreak.
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Hollywood Links Pirate Bay Founding Group To Cyber Attack
Posted on: September 02, 2010A large scale cyber attack which took down cable, telephone, cellular and satellite networks in Washington for around 15 minutes has been blamed on a female Russian hacker. According to the show Covert Affairs, she is a member of Piratbyrån, the founding group behind The Pirate Bay. The group are somewhat unsuccessfully trying to play down any real-life link to the supposedly fictional claims.
Covert Affairs is a spy action/drama from USA Network which premiered in July 2010. The pilot featured young CIA trainee, Annie Walker, who was guided by Auggie Anderson, a agent who was previously blinded on a mission in Iraq. The next few episodes to date follow Annie in her adventures.
In episode 7, which aired last week, events were focused on the visually impaired Auggie Anderson. While in bed with beautiful TV reporter Liza Hearn (Emmanuelle Vaugier), Auggie notices the phones are down. Not only that, but all TV, cable, Internet, cellular and satellite communications too.
Concerned at the shutdown and eager to get back into the field, Auggie puts his theory to his bosses – that a hacker was responsible and he is the man to go in and sort things out.
To his surprise, Auggie was given the mission but at the briefing (6 minutes into the episode) he had quite a surprise. The hacker turns out to be his elegant Russian ex-girlfriend Natasha Petrovna (Liane Balaban), who Auggie had dumped several years earlier.
As with many shows of this type, Covert Affairs blurs reality with real-life events, people and organizations such as the CIA. In this respect, Petrovna's background proves to be of particular interest.
Born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia, Auggie's old flame has a graduate degree in computer security but according to the CIA is now a member of a particularly sinister group – the Swedish Piracy Bureau Piratbyrån – the founding group behind The Pirate Bay.
“A card carrying anarchist,” remarks an agent in the briefing.
Concerned that there's rarely smoke without fire, TorrentFreak contacted Piratbyrån founder Marcin de Kaminski for comment.
“What I can say is that we do have strong and positive connections with Russian groups and individuals,” Kaminski explained. “We have experienced really good cooperation at more than one time.”
“It is of course always bad for our credibility when information appears to leak. At the same time we know that the MPAA has been making stuff up for years, so we are not surprised.”
So has Piratbyran ever been involved in hacking, or would it consider employing mysterious hackers?
“If we use secret agents like this Natasha? It is impossible for me to say anything specific about our whereabouts and strategies, but let me make this clear: there is still lots of dirty stuff that has to be taken care of,” warned Kaminski.
But wasn't Piratbyrån disbanded recently?
“Piratbyrån is in fact not currently an operational entity, that is correct. But at the same time we are working on other partially related projects. You will hear from us again,” Kaminski concludes.
The next episode of the show, Fool In The Rain, airs September 7th. Who knows what other secrets will be revealed....
Article from: TorrentFreak.
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Posted on: September 02, 2010If you were looking forward to getting into GFT tracker, the time has come :p GFT has opened its official invites IRC channel for a limited period of time and potential new recruits can now request for a free invite over this IRC chat room. GFT is a highly sought after General/0Day torrent tracker which is perhaps best known for its out of this world pre times. Additionally, it is one of the few successful ratio free private trackers out there, with good torrent retention and fast download...
100 More Invites To FileList.Ro – Giveaway No. 02
Posted on: September 02, 2010By popular demand, the FileList.Ro invite giveaway is back for a second round. We will be giving away 100 more free invites to this excellent General/0Day torrent tracker. In the meantime, if you applied for an invite in FL.Ro giveaway no 01, please check your E-mail inbox – all invites have been sent and if your request was among the first 100 valid mails to reach us, you should have received an invitation. For those of you who haven't heard about FileList.Ro, it’s one of the largest General...
Scam Artists Use HADOPI to Steal Users Money
Posted on: September 02, 2010
Falsely Accused UK File-Sharers Urged to Sue for “Harassment”
Posted on: September 02, 2010
uTorrent Linux Server Released, Client Coming Soon
Posted on: September 02, 2010Earlier this year BitTorrent Inc. promised they would release a Linux client this summer, and today they are one step closer to achieving that goal. The company just released uTorrent Server for Linux, a daemonizable 32-bit binary of the uTorrent core, suited to those familiar with running programs from the command line. A full Linux client is expected to follow in the coming weeks.
Ever since uTorrent was first released back in 2005, Mac and Linux users have been begging the developers to code a version compatible with their computers. In 2006, when uTorrent was sold to BitTorrent Inc., the company promised that a Mac version was coming, and in 2008 it was finally released.
Fast forward another two years and a Linux version was announced. Voted as one of the top suggestions for uTorrent in the client's ‘Idea Bank‘, the massive demand from users for a Linux client was impossible to ignore. In June of this year BitTorrent Inc. officially stated that it was working on Linux programs, and today the first one was released.
BitTorrent’s VP of Product Management Simon Morris realizes that the company pretty much owed this release to the community that played such a vital role in popularizing the protocol.
“If any group has embraced the possibilities and power of BitTorrent for distribution, it is the Linux community. Virtually every distribution is available via torrent download and many even ship with a BitTorrent client in the default configuration,” he says today.
“This morning, we are announcing a preview release of the first of two new products for Linux users,” Morris added. “uTorrent Server, an alpha version available immediately for download, is intended for users seeking a fast, powerful and lightweight BitTorrent client without the need of the full features and complexity of the native GUI.”
Labeled as an Alpha release, uTorrent Linux Server precedes a client with a full featured UI which is expected to be released in the coming weeks. Today's release is aimed at more Linux users, who are encouraged to leave feedback so the development team can prepare releases for specific Linux distros in the future. The server can be managed through an HTTP API or the uTorrent Web UI pictured below, which is included in the release.
uTorrent Server for Linux (Web UI)
“Today's version is only the first step, and we will continue to support the Linux user community with new versions in the near future. If you prefer to stick to more conventional user experience, rest assured we are working hard to build a full-featured client, coming soon,” Morris announced. There is currently no update on whether the company will make the “summer” deadline they set earlier.
With uTorrent Server, BitTorrent Inc's main brand is now supported on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms in common with its main competitor, Vuze. Whether it will reach the massive marketshare it has on Windows with the two latter platforms has still to be seen though. Considering the late entrance, uTorrent has a lot of ground to make up.
Article from: TorrentFreak.
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http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~3/Kx2Jbrrb0hc/ Post LinkPirate Bay Documentary Reaches Fundraising Goal
Posted on: September 01, 2010
Pirate Bay on screen
Posted on: September 01, 2010
Pirate Bay will become a documentary subject in the idea of a Swedish filmmaker. ??Simon Klose wants to create a documentary called TPB AFK about the three founders of the site, and their reactions to being found guilty of being accessory to crime against copyright law and fined about $3.6 million.
The director has already begun to record and with the help of Kickstarter in three days, he raised nearly $30,000 on to pay for a professional editor and use of an editing suite in putting together what he described as a “complex story”.
The documentary’s name is a reference to how the site’s founders had to confront reality: “AFK is computer slang for being offline, so TPB AFK is the story about a group of people in a?digital community?who, at times, are forced to leave the internets and deal with life offline — away from keyboard.”
The movie will be released once the appeal is over with the conclusion of the story of the Pirate Bay’s lawsuit, however it ends. Although it’ll be mostly in Swedish, there’ll be subtitles openly available for people who want to translate them. It’ll be available free in Ogg Theora on BitTorrent, and it’ll also be purchasable on DVD for, Klose says, “people who wish to support the filmmakers”.
http://www.p2pon.com/2010/09/01/pirate-bay-on-screen/ Post LinkHADOPI – Three Strikes Letters ‘Imminent’
Posted on: September 01, 2010
ZeroPaid Interviews Russell McOrmond 2 – Canadian Bill C-32 (Part 2 of 3)
Posted on: September 01, 2010
ZeroPaid Interviews Russell McOrmond 2 – Canadian Bill C-32 (Part 3 of 3)
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R5 DVD Release Dates For September, October & November 2010 (Updated)
Posted on: September 01, 2010Lots of people seem to be interested in getting to know movie DVD release dates in advance. Usually, this information is easily obtainable from stores that sell DVDs, both online and offline. But how about guessing when a movie will leak online? Although movies don’t have an official ‘leak-to-P2P date’ scheduled by publishers, you can pretty much guess when some movies will appear on file sharing networks if you know their DVD Region 5 (R5) release date. The R5 format was first introduced to...
Metal Band Blasts U2 Band Manager’s Criticism of P2P
Posted on: September 01, 2010
Share Files with Courier on Mac OS X
Posted on: September 01, 2010
A new file sharing utility for Mac OS X that lets you quickly and conveniently share files on your Mac to multiple online services has been released by Realmac Software .
The application is designed to enable you to share files over different web services easily. The basic idea is… You select the services you want to upload your files to, and it does the rest.
Courier's interface revolves around "envelopes," which are really templates for sharing to multiple services at once. For example, one envelope might be designated for your business's Twitter and Flickr accounts, while another might be for your personal Flickr and Facebook accounts. Once you've created at least one envelope, you simply drag-and-drop the files you'd like to share onto the envelope and click Deliver.
Adding to its appeal, Courier integrates your envelopes with the Mac OS X Services menu (available via right-click or the current application menu), making it easy to share items from anywhere in Mac OS X.
A demo that allows five deliveries is available. Courier is priced at $20 as a limited introductory offer and requires Mac OS X 10.6 running on a 64-bit Mac. It currently supports Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Ember, Amazon S3, Vimeo, and FTP/SFTP, with more services on the way.
http://www.p2pon.com/2010/09/01/share-files-with-courier-on-mac-os-x/ Post LinkA New Textbook Torrent Site
Posted on: August 31, 2010
TorrentMyBook, dedicated to sharing knowledge in the form of textbooks, ims to become the world’s largest BitTorrent index of textbooks, following in the footsteps of the late TextBookTorrents.
As it can been seen from its own description,? Torrent My Books is „a torrent search engine and indexer for all things relating to books. Our goal is to become the number one source for providing users with an endless supply of digital books”.
The main difference with the late TextBookTorrents is that the site doesn’t have a tracker. It just provides an index of book related torrents where users can add to and download from.
The appearance and feature set of the site is similar to many other sites. Visitors can browse through the different sections, and the homepage of the site shows the more recent titles added to the various categories. TorrentMyBooks currently lists just over hundred torrents, but the founders hope there will be thousands of titles available soon.
http://www.p2pon.com/2010/08/31/a-new-textbook-torrent-site/ Post LinkHDBT Celebrates 2nd Birthday – Signups Open (Polish HD Tracker)
Posted on: August 31, 2010With the rising popularity of Blu Ray disks along with high definition video formats, dedicated HD torrent trackers have become some of the most sought after torrent sites within the BitTorrent community. No matter how many different HD trackers we feature on this blog – it simply does not seem to be enough to meet the demand :p For those of you who are looking to be part of a new private tracker with high definition video content, here’s another decent choice; HDBT. HDBT is a Polish HD tracker...
ZeroPaid Interviews Russell McOrmond 2 – Canadian Bill C-32 (Part 1 of 3)
Posted on: August 31, 2010
ACTA Officials Firm on September Completion Time
Posted on: August 31, 2010
FTC Ends LimeWire Investigation
Posted on: August 31, 2010
The Federal Trade Commission has closed its investigation into peer-to-peer site LimeWire, though the agency said it remained concerned about the security implications of users running legacy versions of the company's software.
"Upon review of the matter, including non-public information submitted to the staff, we have determined not to recommend any further action by the commission at this time," Mary Koelbel Engle, associate director of the FTC's bureau of consumer protection, wrote in a letter to LimeWire chief executive George Searle.
When LimeWire is installed, it allows users to share files via a peer-to-peer network, and the investigation centered around the concept that LimeWire originally would automatically share a user's files rather than letting the user opt-in. Many people were sharing files they did not know they were sharing on the wide-open P2P network.
The FTC found that LimeWire provided enough safeguards to protect users, and had improved its offering on letting users know about the dangers of inadvertently sharing sensitive files on the P2P network, like tax documents, bank statements and other types of information.
LimeWire is not entirely free from legal battles, however. In June, eight music publishing organizations sued LimeWire for copyright infringement "on a massive scale." That suit came weeks after a Manhattan federal judge ruled in favour of 13 record labels and the Recording Industry Association of American (RIAA), which also sued LimeWire for copyright infringement.
A LimeWire spokeswoman said Friday that a trial for the RIAA case is set for January 18, 2011. The case involving the music publishers is separate from that, but "we still hope to work together and settle through a business agreement rather than a legal one," she said.
In the meantime, LimeWire is working on the development of its own music service.
http://www.p2pon.com/2010/08/31/ftc-ends-limewire-investigation/ Post LinkGGF wants to buy Demonoid, Demonoid doesn't want to be purchased
Posted on: August 31, 2010 |
Last year, Global Gaming Factory (GGF) tried to buy The Pirate Bay but failed to come up with sufficient funds. The story had a particularly bad ending since the CEO, Hans Pandeya, even had some of his personal assets seized. However, GGF is now back... |
Disney and WB React Desperately
Posted on: August 31, 2010
Trying to keep their work away from the file sharing site/service moles, Disney and Warner Bros. ?make desperate efforts and have sued an ad firm called Triton Media for providing advertising services to a series of sites that the studios feel facilitate copyright infringement.
They claim that the sites in question ”have posted, organized, searched for, identified, collected and indexed links to infringing material that is available on third-party websites, otherwise provided access to infringing material, and/or hosted infringing material”, therefore, no trace of hosting or transmission of copyrighted material.
These sites just allow users to post links. ?But even so, it seems that they are a real threat for the Disney's folks so they are trying everything they can to stop advertising on pirate websites.
All of these websites could themselves be liable for a contributory infringement claim, but the studios have instead decided to reach out even further by taking action against a larger business in Triton.
The two studios aren't the first to attempt to crack down on piracy by targeting so-called facilitators. Adult entertainment publisher Perfect 10 sued Mastercard and Visa in 2004, alleging the two credit card companies provided "crucial transactional support services" to pirate websites. A district court dismissed the case, and later the Ninth Circuit upheld it, determining that Perfect 10 had failed to support any theory of liability against the defendants.
It appears that Warners and Disney, represented by the anti-piracy experts at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, want to take a shot at being the very plaintiff that might expand the definition of contributory copyright infringement.
The studios are seeking unspecified monetary damages as well as an injunction that would prevent Triton from doing business with these websites.
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