Over the past couple of weeks, two of the largest torrent sites on the Internet shut down. After KickassTorrents was shut down by the U.S. Government, meta-search engine Torrentz.eu also said farewell yesterday. Looking back over the years, they are not the only torrent giants to have fallen.
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After sharing of my favourite sites to stream movies online in previous article, I would like to share sites where you will be able to stream music online, download single mp3 tracks or full albums. Below are my best rated and absolutely free music sites.
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We all love movies and TV series. There are dozen of websites that advertise with a possibility to stream movies for free and without registration. But the majority of them are fake sites, created with the main goal - to earn money through advertising links. Below I've created a list of movie sites that offer real stream links where latest movies can be watched online and absolutely for free.
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For those, who are tired to download fakes, spam, virus infected, password protected or incomplete torrents, I've created a list of free torrent sites that provide download for verified files only. All these sites are open for all, public and do not require registration.
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2013 was a year of many new movies. The list should be surely longer as just Top 25, but you are welcome to comment this thread with your "Favourite Movie 2013". Below is the list of my personal favourites for the last year:
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The number of illicit digital copies is not as high as reported by industry trade organizations, according to a large-scale analysis of BitTorrent file-sharing of videogames.
Anders Drachen from the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University and the PLAIT Lab at Northeastern University as well as Robert Veitch from the Department of IT Management at Copenhagen Business School analysed a the filesharing of some 173 computer games over a three-month period between 2010 and 2011.
They set out to study videogame piracy because "despite the substantial debate about digital game piracy, there is minimal objective information available about the relative magnitude of piracy, or its distribution across different countries nor across game titles or game genres"
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We all love the idea of watching movies with just your Internet connection and a computer and no strings attached. Although some of you may think that this is not legal, i would say "why not try something ill-legal today". There are lots of websites which provide to watch movies online, no need to sign-up and in few clicks you are into the movie arena.
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The Anti-Piracy and Content Protection Summit in Los Angeles had a number of interesting speakers several week ago. Stephens has revealed his wish-list for future 4K content protection with Sony just confirming that its new 4K player will debut in weeks. The Sony CTO says that 4K players should have an Internet connection in order authenticate each video playback, in addition to watermarking files with the identity of the user.
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BitTorrent is without a doubt the best way to share large files online. Bram Cohen, BitTorrent’s inventor recently found out that torrents with more peers are not always quicker.
We have written many articles on how BitTorrent users can speed up their downloads in the past. We have focused on tweaking the client’s options such as the max upload speed and the maximum number of incoming and outgoing connections. Tweaking your client can indeed help with speeding up your downloads but many BitTorrent users are looking for the holy grail that will boost their download speeds to the maximum. Picking the right torrent is one of the most important part and the torrents with the most peers are not always the fastest one.
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The Pirate Bay owners announced the release of new browser that was created for everyone who wishes to avoid censorship from his Internet Service Provider.
New PirateBrowser is a bundle package that can be configured to circumvent the blockade for torrent sites launched in countries such as Iran, North Korea, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Italy and Ireland.
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Up to $750 million in damages from Canada-based torrent site isoHunt is the price that The MPAA is hoping to receive. The movie studio group thinks that this will make others think twice before they start a similar website.
IsoHunt and the MPAA have been battling it out in court for more than seven years and it’s still not over. The case now moves towards a trial from which the movie industry hopes to win a substantial sum in statutory damages, after the 2010 District Court ruling against the torrent site was affirmed earlier this year. How much compensation they’re aiming for, and how they hope to convince the jury was explained in the recent hearing from MPAA lawyer Steven Fabrizio.
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