Pimp Your Pirate Domain With OpenNic
Filed under: Announcements & Events, File-Sharing Programs, Networks & Services
OpenNIC is an organization of dedicated volunteers who run an alternative DNS network, and they’ve just launched a new domain for those of you who may own a file-sharing website – .pirate.
The ICANN system (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) was created on September 18, 1998, and incorporated on September 30, 1998 with the purpose to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly on behalf of the U.S. government by other organizations, notably the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which ICANN now operates.
Despite the efforts of the entertainment industries and their acolytes to enforce blocks in the ICANN systems, people have always found ways to avoid these measures. The most common way (until now) has been a browser plugin, such as MAFIAAFire; the popular choice, however, is starting to be the alternate DNS system. As such, OpenNic launched its new .pirate TLD (top level domain).
Registration with this domain takes only minutes, and then your new .pirate domain is accessible to anyone who’s using OpenNic’s DNS servers. Furthermore, the project is not limited to only .pirate domains, as they also have .geek, .oss, and .parody, among others.
Travis McCrea is the man behind the dotPirate project, and Deputy Leader of the Canadian Pirate Party.
“While the world gets smaller and more connected through advancements of the Internet and web technology, every day our ability to have a free flow of information becomes more and more threatened by countries who wish to censor and control the communication platform which brings us all together,” McCrea told TF.
“This is something that we cannot let happen, and why the dotPirate Foundation, … is proud to announce the launch of the new Top Level Domain (TLD) .pirate on the OpenNIC root system.”
Some of the popular domains “affiliated” with piracy have already reserved their space, including torrentfreak.pirate and thepiratebay.pirate. As a bonus, those who are using blockaid.me for their DNS will already be able to access .pirate domains – they’ve added support for OpenNic during the weekend.
As for those using OpenDNS, the provider announced a new service for Windows users last week. DNSCrypt (which was only available for Mac OSX and Linux), is a technology that encrypts all DNS traffic between an Internet user and the OpenDNS service. You can download it here:
Pirate domains can be registered for free at www.dotpirate.me
Pirate Bay Founder Seeks European Court’s Help
Filed under: Announcements & Events, File-Sharing Programs, Networks & Services, Legal P2P News & Issues
Founded almost a decade ago (2003) The Pirate Bay claims roughly 35 million users – and is one of the biggest online file-sharing communities. One of its founders has decided to take his case to the European Court.
Jonas Nilsson – a lawyer representing Fredrik Neij – believes that TPB is protected by the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights. On February the 1st Sweden’s Supreme Court decided not to grant leave to appeal in the criminal case against Pirate Bay’s founders. As such, the previous determined jail sentences and fines against Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström are still a go.
“We now see no other solution but to take this case on to the European Court of Justice,” Jonas Nilsson wrote in an opinion piece in Sweden’s paper of reference Dagens Nyheter.
“According to Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees citizens of Sweden the freedom to receive and impart information, we believe that Frederick Neij’s right to freedom of expression has been denied him,” he added.
“According to our complaint to the European Court, The Pirate Bay’s services – to transfer non-proprietary information among users through an automated process on the Internet – is protected under that article of the Convention.”
Fredrik was initially sentenced to one year in prison, but after an appeal in late 2010 his sentence was reduced to 10 months. As for the others, Pirate Bay’s co-founder Peter Sunde and key financier Carl Lundstroem were both sentenced to eight and respectively four months in prison, while also ordered to pay a total of 5.1 million euros in damages for copyright infringement to the music and movie industry.
Nilsson claims that TPB never transferred or passed on any copyrighted data – that was the responsibility of the site’s users. TPB purpose was solely “to allow the free dissemination of information via non-copyrighted torrent files.”
He also notes that since the torrent file information wasn’t illegal, the function should be covered by Article 10, and that he will ask for further examination to determine whether Fredrik is to be held responsible or not.
“In our opinion, it is like being held guilty in court because someone delivered a letter with illegal content. Another, and perhaps even more relevant analogy, would be if the founders of a buying and selling site were found guilty after someone sold a stolen bicycle after it was advertised on the site,” Nilsson explains.
The lawyer noted that under the European Convention of Human Rights, “Swedish citizens are guaranteed the freedom to receive and spread information.”
“In light of the Supreme Court decision [not to hear the case], we now see no alternative but to pursue this case through to the European Court. That clear legislation or legal precedent is missing in an area that affects us all – the Internet – represents a problem for the rule of law, today and tomorrow,” he concluded.
Top 10 Most Downloaded Movies on BitTorrent
Filed under: Announcements & Events, Downloads, Movies, MP3, Digital Audio & Games, Tops
TorrentFreak has published the data they collected with the top 10 most shared movies on BitTorrent for the week ended May 13. All the films included in this chart are DVDrips (unless mentioned otherwise).
This week ’21 Jump Street’ climbs to the top of the chart this week; on the second place we find Mel Gibson’s latest film, the spicy action flick ‘Get The Gringo’. ‘The Avengers’ is still in CAM version, still on #3 and box-office results have already put to rest any claims or worries the producers might have related to piracy.
This week’s list features four new entries.
The chart also includes download links for the movies listed here (where available) via Kat.ph
| Ranking | (last week) | Movie | Rating / Trailer | Download Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (2) | 21 Jump Street (R5) | 7.6/trailer |  |
| 2 | (…) | Get the Gringo | 7.8/trailer | |
| 3 | (3) | The Avengers (CAM) | 8.9/trailer | |
| 4 | (1) | This Means War | 6.5/trailer | |
| 5 | (4) | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | 7.6/trailer | |
| 6 | (…) | Vicky Donor (DVDscr) | 8.0/trailer | |
| 7 | (…) | Hate Story (DVDscr) | - /trailer | |
| 8 | (5) | Mission: Impossible – The Ghost Protocol | 7.7/trailer | |
| 9 | (9) | Chronicle | 4.8/trailer | |
| 10 | (…) | Man on a Ledge | 6.6/trailer | |
(via TorrentFreak)
Facebook Brings File-Sharing Feature For All Groups
Filed under: Announcements & Events, File-Sharing Programs, Networks & Services
No less than a month ago Facebook launched Groups for Schools; now they’ve enabled file-sharing for all groups.
The number one social network (Facebook) is now offering the ability to send files to all groups. This update will become available to everyone the following days. If you can’t access this feature yet, Facebook wants you to know that you’ll have it “soon”, a Mashable report reads.
Facebook’s “Groups for Schools” was launched a month ago and enables anyone with an .edu e-mail address to share files.
Users can upload common file types of up to 25MB, the exceptions being music files and executable files. E-books, comics, music videos and other small movies are green.
To prevent the spread of malicious, inappropriate or copyrighted files, “users can report files the same way they can with other content across the site,” a Facebook spokesperson said.
More than 380 million people use Facebook Groups, and enabling file-sharing was one of the most common requests from groups’ users, the spokesperson said.
This is how the new file-sharing feature is going to look:
Pirate Pay – The Russian Solution Against Piracy
Filed under: Announcements & Events, Entertainment Industry, File-Sharing Programs, Networks & Services, Legal P2P News & Issues
The Russian-based Pirate Pay was launched with one purpose and one purpose only: to create a piracy-free future.
Pirate Pay’s developers claim they’ve built a system that can completely stop peer-to-peer file-sharing of copyrighted materials via BitTorrent. The initial tests – carried out in collaboration with Walt Disney Studios and Sony Picture – showed a Pirate Pay that successfully stopped tens of thousands of downloads.
According to the website, roughly 45.000 Bittorrent transfers were stopped, but it’s yet unknown how many downloads managed to slip, or how many downloaders tried to get their data after the tests were over.
Pirate Pay charges between $12.000 and $50.000 to protect specific movies. The technology behind it allows the website to attack existing BitTorrent swarms, effectively rendering file-sharing impossible. The idea came when the team behind Pirate Pay was working on a network traffic management system for internet providers; the system was able to stop BitTorrent traffic to loosen up the network capacity.
How exactly this technology works? Early indications point that they are flooding Bittorrent clients with bogus information, masquerading as legitimate peers, thus making file-sharing impossible.
There were others which made use of this technology, such as the now defunct MediaDefender – a website that offered similar services. They are now called Peer Media – and they offer anti-piracy services.
However, the highly-decentralized nature of BitTorrent combined with trackerless torrenting and other available technologies could render Pirate Pay (and similar services) obsolete. Thank God!
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