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Sony Pictures actually considered acquiring BitTorrent at one point

BitTorrent is practically synonymous with digital piracy, but the file sharing protocol has plenty of legal uses as well. In fact, a leaked draft presentation from about a decade ago shows that...

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The Pirate Bay co-founder got re-arrested as soon as he left prison

I hope Gottfrid Svartholm enjoyed his thirty seconds of freedom, because after the Pirate Bay co-founder was released from Danish prison for the first time in several years, the Swedish man was...

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Several torrent trackers just banned Windows 10

Windows 10 been bombarded by privacy complaints ever since it was released, and even well before that. A recent update to Microsoft's service agreement has been an especially popular target for...

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Popcorn Time users are now being targeted by lawsuits

Copyright holders have been making examples of unfortunate Internet users who have allegedly shared copyrighted material for years, but most of these lawsuits have been directed at people using BitTorrent...

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The MPAA almost had a censorship battle with some Internet giants

Internet companies like Facebook, Google, Tumblr, Twitter, and Yahoo almost ended up in a standoff with the MPAA after the organization tried to use a lawsuit to force them to...

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The creator of BitTorrent wants to revolutionize live streaming

Peer-to-peer technologies have revolutionized how we download things, and now the inventor of BitTorrent wants to do the same thing to live streaming. For more than five years, Bram Cohen has...

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Leaked emails reveal that the MPAA really, really doesn't like Google

So many of the regulations that censor the Internet and violate the privacy of Internet users come in the form of ant-piracy measures, and as one of the tech world's...

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Anti-piracy measures continue to threaten our privacy

It's strange how many of the rules and regulations that threaten our privacy on the Internet come in the form of anti-piracy measures. ICANN has a new proposal under review...

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Fredrik Neij: Founding the Pirate Bay was worth going to prison for

Fredrik Neij may not be a name that you're familiar with, but you're definitely familiar with the website he helped to create: the Pirate Bay. Unfortunately for Neij, co-founding the...

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Pornography is getting the Popcorn Time treatment as well

I'm sure you've all heard of Popcorn Time by now, the service that lets you stream pirated movies and television shows in much the same way that Netflix does with...

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