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60 Year Olds in Trouble for Downloading Gay Porn?
Heh, heh. Talk about going after the wrong people.
Davenport Lyons is quickly becoming the de facto copyright cop in the UK, acting on behalf of content owners to chase after suspected infringers. The firm has been in the news several times this year for sending letters to people operating open WiFi networks, saying that they’ll [...]
20 Million Peers on the Pirate Bay
Wow. Talk about a popular site. Sheesh.
The Pirate Bay has reached yet another milestone. Today, they track more than 20 million unique peers for the first time since the site was launched. It is estimated that the Pirate Bay tracks more than half of all BitTorrent users at any given point in time.
By November 2007, [...]
The History of the Pirate Bay
Speaking of file sharing and pirating, there’s an interesting article on Torrent Freak about Pirate Bay. I found the details of how they reacted to being raided to be fairly amusing. Like them or hate them they’ve always been fun to watch in their battles with the Hollywood morons.
The popularity of the site didn’t go [...]
