We though it would be nice to start posting again more regularly on the blog with some weekly features, the first feature we are going to start doing is the top ten weekly articles here on P2PViNE. There has been some interesting p2p and file sharing news out this week which makes for some good reading. [...more]
Accompanying every Scene Release is a small text file titled .nfo which contains information about that particular release, NFOrce.nl a popular scene release NFO listing site has recently changed it's domain name and is now located at nfohump.com. [...more]
Our good friends over at TorrentFreak have launched a community based forum for p2p and file sharing news over at p2pfreak.com, suited and booted in the usual TorrentFreak flavour of charcoal grey and pink it's certainly a colorful place to hang out. [...more]
Legal threats against BitTorrent trackers and indexing sites like thepiratebay.org and Mininova are common in todays digital distribution world, Government's, Law Enforcement Agencies, Private Copyright Do Gooders (BREIN) alike are on a mission to rid the internet of websites that they see as the root of bittorrent media distribution. The BitTorrent protocol relies heavily on torrent indexing websites so that users can locate and download media, Cubit aims to change this practice though by adding fully decentralized approximate keyword search capabilities to Azureus as a standard plugin. [...more]
Virgin Media's Traffic Management Policy advertised as "We don't like traffic jams" is rendering normal Internet use in 2008 for customers virtually unusable between the hours of 4PM to 9PM. Being a Virgin Media customer myself i thought it was about time we covered Virgin's Traffic Management Policy and showed exactly why the imposed limits are unrealistically low for a major percentage of their customer base. [...more]
Virgin Media has released a statement today denying reports that it had allegedly struck a deal with the British Phonographic Industry, Virgin Media acknowledged that it had discussed a 'three strikes and you’re out' policy with the music industry but that no commitment to the scheme was made. [...more]
The OLPC Project is using bit torrent and MiniNova to distribute 4.3GB of free sound samples, all the samples are made available under the terms of a Creative Commons license. Some of the organizations that have contributed samples are The Berklee College of Music, M-Audio, Digidesign and many others. [...more]
Sony BMG one of the largest supporters of the RIAA and IFPI's anti-piracy campaigns has had the tables turned on them this week by french software company PointDev, PointDev are now suing Sony BMG for software piracy of their products after a support call from a Sony IT employee [...more]
Virgin Media The UK's only cable broadband operator is to implement a "three strikes and your out" counter measure system against customers who obtain illegal media content over their network, Virgin Media are introducing this counter measure in partnership with the BPI (British Phonographic Industry). The same type of system was used by Tiscali and the BPI last summer but quickly collapsed after the two could not decide how to share the cost's of the project. [...more]
Investigators in germany have seized ten servers involved in the distrubution of large amounts of copyrighted material in return for payment including games, movies, music and software. According to the GVU report the servers were invite only with members having to pay from 20 to 500 euro to download content. [...more]
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