When the French govt created the HADOPI to be at the head of the three-strikes anti-piracy system it didn’t probably suspect how busy its agency would be.
According to Billboard, HADOPI receives 25,000 music related copyright infringements each and every day.
How HADOPI will change the fate of digital sales in France is still a big question mark (although we are among those who think this is far from being the right solution to optimize sales). French labels trade body director general David El Sayegh, says it is too early for an estimation in this respect.
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To get a better view on how the peer-to-peer scene is evolving with respect to what file sharing software people prefer to download, we keep you posted weekly with the latest numbers. So here’s a list with last week's top ten most downloaded p2p file sharing programs – the chart is based on figures published by Download.cnet.com and it refers to the number of times a p2p client was downloaded from their site (click on the names for download).
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The thirst for pirated e-books may be growing. Every day people type between 1.5 and 3 million Google queries for pirated e-books, an increase of 54 percent over queries logged one year ago, according to a new study by Attribute Research.
Since the iPad became available in mid-May of this year, demand for pirated e-books has increased by 20 percent. And no wonder: iOS users expect most apps to be free. iBooks, Apple's virtual bookstore app released along with the iPad, is free. But click on a bestseller and it'll cost $10 or more. Sticker shock.
Of the 89 top-selling titles from Amazon used in the study to quantify illegal downloads, "Breaking Dawn," Stephanie Meyer's fourth installment in the Twilight series, was the most sought after title in searches for pirated e-books, just about the time it fell off of Amazon's 100 top-selling books in September.
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Despite being a private community of music fanatics, What.cd operates one of the largest BitTorrent trackers on the Internet. Recently, the site’s users were silently transferred to a new tracker. Named Ocelot, the new and improved tracker is one of the most efficient around and to commemorate its implementation What.cd staff have been telling the complete story of how it came to be.
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After a series of private tracker open signup and invite application updates, here’s some DDL forum news for a change. Over the years, we’ve featured a number of DDL forumson this blog, most of which cater to specific niches such as music, movies, games, documentaries, etc. While these are some very special sites indexing unique content, several of our readers had asked us to feature more sites with scene 0-Day releases. PreScene is one such DDL forum that indexes latest scene releases along with download links to listed releases - all sorts of uploads ranging from zero day software to TV shows can be found here. In fact, this site acts both as a release log (pre database) as well as a download link repository – most scene pres are listed on PreScene and most of these releases even come with direct download links (based on one click hosting sites), making this much more than a web based pre channel.
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Last month, a relatively new music downloading application burst onto the scene. Mulve carried no music of its own, but instead allowed users to make their own searches and download material from servers owned by Russia’s biggest social networking site. This week Mulve disappeared unexpectedly but for good reason. Without any warning, the UK police arrested its operator. ...