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]
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]
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]
What.cd a private bittorrent site dedicated to the world of music has moved from Leaseweb in Holland to Sweden-based PRQ hosting, PRQ Hosting is operated by the owners of the pirate bay. [...more]
Moviex.info is a private members only bittorrent community and tracker that has been setup and configured to leech file sources from public bittorrent users, their tracker configuration allows only seeding for external users with downloading being blocked for non members of moviex.info. [...more]
