How to download bittorrent files with uTorrent

A quick video tutorial for the uninitated !

Swede Convicted For File-Sharing Now Cleared

A 29-year-old man from Västerås in central Sweden suspected of sharing files from his computer was today acquitted by Svea Court of Appeal. Last year the man was the first person in Sweden to be convicted of file-sharing, having been charged with making the Swedish film Hip Hip Hora available for download from the internet.

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And the best part is ... Since the crime does not carry a high enough punishment under Swedish law to allow for a search of the defendant's house, this means it will be virtually impossible to prove file-sharing crimes in the future.

Kazaa settlement

Kazaa settle out-of-court

It's finally happened. Anyone who used Kazaa during the early days may remember the client's lengthy EULA (End User Licensing Agreement), which contained verbiage regarding its eventual transition to a pay service. In fact, the reason why this FastTrack client had a 128 bitrate limit was to help promote the application as a potential authorized service rather than an absolute piracy tool.

Form slyck.com

More info @ the BBC

Piratbyrån Back Online

A lot's happened since Piratbyrån went offline. Pirate parties have spread to France, and to some surprise, the United States. Since The Pirate Bay raids of May 31, the Swedish political organization “Piratpartiet” have enjoyed considerable success, as it numbers have grown to near 8,000 members.

From www.slyck.com

Keep up the fight !!

Howto: NZB, PAR and UNRAR all in one for OSX / Linux with hellanzb

I was looking for a way to process downloaded NZB files the most easiest way possible. That means downloading the NZB files to one directory, and let some program automatically download the binary posting, decode the files, check them with par2, repair if needed and then unrar the files and place the processed file in another directory. hellanzb dose all this and more!! Check it!

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Video from the Pirate Bay bust

Just found this on youtube thought it might be of interest to some of you !!

HD Copy Protection Workaround Discovered

German computer magazine C't has discovered that PC owners only need to hit the Print Screen button to capture a frame of a HD DVD or a Blu-ray Disc movie and that means that any programmer could create a script that captures the screen 30 times per second to enable a lossless capture of the video frames.

From teamxbox.com

Sometimes it makes you wonder why they even bother ;-)