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Filed under: P2P

Pirate Bay developing super-stealth file sharing technology

The Pirate BayThe LA Times ran a profile of The Pirate Bay this weekend. The BitTorrent indexing site sticks up its nose at the MPAA and copyright holders around the world.

The Stockholm-based site has garnered support in Sweden, and the state-registered Pirate Party has almost as many members as the Green Party in that country.

Probably the most interesting tidbit in the article though, is a quote from Pirate Bay software designer Peter Sunde, who says the group is working on a new file-sharing technology that will make file exchanges "untraceable." No word on exactly how this technology will work, but it will be an open-source program.

[via Wired's Epicenter]

Filed under: Internet

Pirate Bay, mininova, and Torrentspy among top Alexa sites

mininova, Torrentspy, and The Pirate Bay on Alexa
TorrentFreak is reporting that three top BitTorrent tracker sites--The Pirate Bay, mininova, and Torrentspy--have accomplished the inevitable and entered the Alexa 200, the top 200 most-trafficked sites on the web acccording to Alexa. Torrentspy has the highest rank at 153, followed by mininova at 165, and The Pirate Bay barely squeezing in at 198. While nobody argues that Alexa's rankings are the picture of accuracy, it does give a pretty good indication of web trends, and this seems like a pretty big trend. TorrentFreak speculates that it was IsoHunt's recent (temporary) shutdown that bumped these sites into the top 200 (with its spillover traffic going to them), and the Alexa chart would seem to confirm that. Now that IsoHunt is back up, I wonder if it will gain back that traffic, knocking the other sites down a notch.

Filed under: Video, P2P

Steal This Film: Documentary on the Swedish piracy movement

Part one of a documentary on the Swedish piracy movement has been released and it sheds interesting light on the attitude of the Swedish people and the pressure brought to bear by the US government upon them.

For anyone who hasn't been following the raid on The Pirate Bay, or the formation of The Pirate Party (a political party whose platform includes Piracy as its main point), part one of "Steal This Film" provides a worthy primer on the Swedish mindset surrounding copyright in the digital age.

The film's producers write, "Hopefully you'll enjoy the first part of Steal this Film ('Stockholm, summer 2006'). It achieves some, but by no means all, of our goals. To continue we need your help. this film is free for you to share, watch on your dvd player or on your ipod, or show in cinemas. But if you like the work we've done and want us to carry on, use our donate link to send us a couple of dollars or euros."

For the fashion conscious downloader, there are also T-shirts available to help fund the second installment.

[Via Boing Boing]

Filed under: Internet

2005's file-sharing winners and losers

RIAASlyck News has put together a list of their picks for the biggest winners and losers in file-sharing for 2005. File sharing's winners? BitTorrent, Apple, LimeWire, The Pirate Bay, and open source. The losers? Sony-BMG, Kazaa owners Sharman Networks, Grokster, pay P2P, and, of course, perennial loser the RIAA. I'd personally add to the winners list Fiona Apple, whose new album, which is being acclaimed as one of the year's best, would never have seen a release this year without the attention its P2P leak garnered.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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