Why SOPA is going to be unenforceable
I would lay odds that SOPA is going to pass, and pass by a majority in the house and senate; it is debatable if the president will sign it. If you have been involved in Bittorrent or P2P systems for a long time, you know that the minute something passes like a law against something, […]
The Day Network News Died
I have been reading an entry over on Torrent Freak about the shut down of one of the few Tier-1 Usenet servers on the planet. Usenet is a holdover from the very early days of the internet and has been one of the major ways that people communicated and shared information before P2P and long […]
Massive Bittorrent Site Closures in China
The Chinese government has been busily shutting down Bittorrent sharing sites over the last 10 days causing a rush to download across China according to Sina. The rush to download has degraded Bittorrent services with the remaining servers that are still up and running. As the largest BT download website in China with 5 million […]
Sadly the Pirate Bay Shuts Down
It is with a real sense of loss that the Pirate Bay closed down today, and while the news is all over the place from Torrent Freak to more mainstream sites like Gizmodo and Life hacker, this is a real loss to anyone who was interested in what was being downloaded. Companies like Big Champagne […]
Not Surprising: Bittorrent Sharing Down, Rapidshare Way Up
One of the plausible guesses of what would happen when the Pirate Bay was sued was that file sharers were not only to go on doing what they wanted to do, but that other systems were going to be used rather than the all too traceable Bittorrent and P2P systems that are currently used. 10 […]
