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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

How to upgrade to RuTorrent 3.4

Posted: 09 Apr 2012 05:32 PM PDT

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How to upgrade to RuTorrent 3.4 is a post from: File Share News If you have an older version of rutorrent, you can upgrade via SVN, SSH (wget), or other (such as FTP). If you have previously installed via SVN, you can easily do a checkout using: First, you will need to login to your [...]
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Top Private Torrent Trackers

Posted: 09 Apr 2012 06:01 PM PDT

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Top Private Torrent Trackers is a post from: File Share News If you still miss the days of Kazaa, Limewire, and others. There are plenty of new torrent private trackers online that offer quality content, if you can get an invite. Invites are becoming the new option as more “internet police” are shutting down public [...]
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Megaupload Host Refuses to Delete User Data and Evidence, For Now

Posted: 10 Apr 2012 06:44 AM PDT

For weeks Megaupload has attempted to come to a workable solution with the Department of Justice, but Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has just confirmed to TorrentFreak that these efforts have been in vain.
The DoJ and Megaupload couldn’t reach an agreement and as a result several parties are now fighting over the data, all for very different reasons.
The government’s position is somewhat confusing. Initially the authorities argued that they had no interest in the data at all, but when Carpathia Hosting made a deal with Megaupload to sell the servers for $1,000,000, the feds backpedaled. The government does not trust Megaupload with the data and would rather see it deleted.
But Carpathia refuses to do so, as Megaupload, the EFF and even the MPAA all believe that would be a bad idea.
Megaupload has argued before the court that the servers hold important evidence, and has accused the feds of wanting to purposefully destroy it so the file-hoster becomes hindered when mounting its defense.
"In essence, the government has taken what it wants from the scene of the alleged crime and is content that the remaining evidence, even if it is exculpatory or otherwise relevant to the defense, be destroyed," Mega’s defense wrote to the court.
And Megaupload is not the only party interested in keeping the data intact. The EFF is representing a user who is demanding the return of his personal files, and the MPAA wants the data to be preserved for civil cases the movie studios may file against Megaupload.
In an attempt to save the data, all parties except the government have asked Judge O’Grady to come up with a solution to prevent Carpathia from having to wipe the servers clean.
In a filing to the court yesterday, the hosting company makes its position clear. Without an opinion from the court, they are refusing to delete the data as the government is suggesting.
“Carpathia is in no position to decide whether to destroy or keep the data without guidance from this Court. Defendants' claims are sufficiently reasonable that without a court order, it would be imprudent for Carpathia to simply ignore them and reprovision the servers,” the hosting company writes.
“And while the government claims its sampling is sufficient and no further data need be preserved, other parties have claimed that all of the data is necessary – Mega for its defense, EFF for the return of data to innocent users, and MPAA for use in future litigation,” they add.
For now Megaupload’s servers are safe, but if the court decides that it has no problems if they are wiped clean, the hosting provider will do so.
If the data is to be preserved, Carpathia wants to know if they can sell the servers to Megaupload. If the court believes the hosting company should continue to maintain the servers, Carpathia wants to be compensated.
The fate of Megaupload’s data is now in the hands Judge O’Grady.
Source: Megaupload Host Refuses to Delete User Data and Evidence, For Now

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Pirate Parties On Course for Historic Election Wins

Posted: 10 Apr 2012 03:47 PM PDT

Founded in September 2006, the German Pirate Party has already booked several successes in its relatively short existence.
The Party currently has dozens of members in elected offices across Germany, which is more than in all other countries combined. Most notable is the unprecedented win in the elections for the Berlin state parliament last summer, where the Pirates got 9 percent of the vote.
Continuing this success the Party is now conquering the rest of Germany. For the first time in its history the Pirate Party is now virtually the third largest party in Germany, achieving 13% of the total vote in a recent poll.
The Pirate Party surpassed the Green Party, which peaked at 11%.
In common with all other Pirate Parties across the world, the German Pirate Party's policy focuses around three pillars; shared culture, free knowledge, and fundamental privacy. Based on recent poll results, these key points appeal to a wide audience.
While the results of the polls are promising, there is still a long way to go. The next federal elections are held late 2013, more than a year away.
austrian pp logo

The success of the German Pirates is mimicked by their neighbors in Austria, where the local Pirate Party got 7% of all votes in a recent poll.
Illustrating that the Pirates are not a fringe group, 22% of the respondents said they could see themselves voting for the Party in the coming elections.
The coming months will be crucial for both parties, as they have to keep the momentum going towards the new elections. Being in the spotlight is great for as long as there’s good news to sell.
Times can change quickly as we’ve seen in Sweden, where support for the local Pirate Party plunged a year after the European elections, resulting in a failed election bid in 2010.
Time will tell whether Europe is ready for the Pirates now.

Pirate’s campaign poster

Source: Pirate Parties On Course for Historic Election Wins

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

MPAA Filter Censors Legit Torrent Files on isoHunt

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 11:22 AM PDT

Nearly two years ago the U.S. District Court of California issued a permanent injunction against BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.
The Court ordered the owner of isoHunt to start censoring the site's search engine based on a list of thousands of keywords provided by the MPAA, or cease its operations entirely in the US.
"I find it absurd that we are required to keyword filter which ironically all search engines in countries like China are required to do due to political censorship, but isoHunt would be the only search engine serving traffic to US users required to do similar filtering," isoHunt owner Gary Fung wrote to the court in a response.
Hoping to get the decision overturned isoHunt filed an appeal, which is still ongoing, but in the meantime it saw no other option than to comply. The filter was implemented and has since prevented a list of film-related phrases from showing up in the search results. But not without collateral damage.
Besides blocking links to Hollywood blockbusters, the MPAA’s filter is also preventing public domain works and authorized content from being accessed.
Filmmaker Brian Taylor is one of the independent artists whose work is falsely censored by the MPAA filter. Last week his small film production firm En Queue Film released a 18 minute horror short titled “the Bite.” In addition to putting it on video streaming sites Taylor also thought it would be a good idea to put it on isoHunt.
“I got it going, had downloads start from the US and Europe almost immediately, which made me a very happy guy,” Taylor told TorrentFreak.
However, this enthusiasm faded quickly when he tried to access the torrent from a US connection a day later. Instead of a link to the torrent file the filmmaker was welcomed with the following message. “Torrent has been censored, as required by US court.”

Blocked torrent

Needless to say Taylor was shocked to see the work that he owns 100% being censored. The whole idea was to share it with a wide audience, including people from the US.
“Some of us aren’t stealing movies from torrent sites, some of us are offering original material,” Taylor told TorrentFreak.
“My original material being blocked in the US hurts my chances of: being discovered, making money, making more art. Not to mention the fact that Americans miss out on “the Bite,” the most original realistic short horror film ever made.”
Unfortunately, this takedown is not an isolated incident.
Another good example is this torrent with thousands of songs from the 1930′s, that are all believed to be in the public domain. While the content is completely unrelated to any motion pictures, the MPAA filter prevents US visitors form accessing it.
We asked isoHunt to look into the issue and we were told that an unfortunate combination of keywords in the file names is to blame.
“We've found that it was a TV title that censored it,” Gary Fung told TorrentFreak, adding that these false positives are quite common.
“There are thousands of titles the MPAA sent that we are forced by the US court injunction to censor our index against, and these are but two tangible examples of non-infringing content that is falsely censored,” he added.
As isoHunt has pointed out to the court before, this false censorship based on a filter which includes many dictionary words, is clearly hindering freedom of speech. This is one of the main reasons why the BitTorrent search engine continues to fight the filter requirement in court.
The Ninth Circuit Appeal Court now has to decide whether the permanent injunction will stay in place or not. This decision will be a crucial one to the future of isoHunt, and possibly many other search engines including Google.
Source: MPAA Filter Censors Legit Torrent Files on isoHunt

ODDNS: Decentralized and Open DNS To Defeat Censorship

Posted: 07 Apr 2012 06:53 AM PDT

The Internet’s Domain Name System, which translates human-readable URLs into IP addresses so that web users can more easily find Internet sites, has become a battle ground for censorship during the last couple of years.
From residing almost exclusively in the awareness of computer engineers and nerds, recent attempts by various copyright holders to censor sites such as The Pirate Bay and introduce even more broad powers with the introduction of the SOPA legislation in the US, the existence and mechanisms of the Internet’s DNS have now broken through into the mainstream.
In a response to growing attempts at censorship, various alternative DNS systems have been proposed with an emphasis on those that can’t be meddled with by the authorities. The latest, called ODDNS, comes out of France.
As its name suggests, ODDNS (Open and Decentralized DNS) is an open and decentralized DNS system running on the P2P (Peer-to-Peer) model. It’s creator, web developer Jimmy Rudolf, told PCinpact he invented the system with two specific aims in mind.
The first, and of most interest to people fighting censorship, is to “show governments that it is not possible to prevent people from talking.”
The second, of interest to anyone who owns and maintain their own domain names, is to take back control of them. “I find it absurd to have to regularly pay for a domain name,” Rudolf explained.
ODDNS is an application which allows everyone running the software to share information about domain names with each other, a bit like how a P2P network functions. ODDNS can supplement or even replace regular DNS.

ODDNS

Because domain names and related IP addresses are shared among peers in the network, they can no longer be censored. Furthermore, buying a domain name from a registrar is no longer required since people running ODDNS can create and maintain their own.
Still under development, as expected the source code to ODDNS is licensed under GNU GPLv3. PCinpact reports that the current ODDNS website will be updated next week and the first beta release of the software will follow shortly after.
Of course the success of the project will sit on the developers’ ability to overcome the technical hurdles and, crucially, if they can encourage enough people to come on board and stay on board. The desire to stick with this kind of system will be driven by need so more censorship will become this and similar projects’ lifeblood.
Source: ODDNS: Decentralized and Open DNS To Defeat Censorship

Rutorrent 3.4 Review

Posted: 08 Apr 2012 06:31 PM PDT

Rutorrent 3.4 Review is a post from: File Share News
Rutorrent 3.4 Review is a post from: File Share News The new rutorrent 3.4 has many new features. Added support for new rTorrent versions (0.9.0) Added plugins screenshots, rutracker_check, history, extratio, check_port and task. Possibility to control of plugins loading is added. Possibility to second sort of UI tabales is added (shift+LMB on the header [...]
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