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"BitTorrent declares war on VoIP, gamers", the headline to The Register's latest BitTorrent article reads. The article continues that a recent change in µTorrent's design would cause massive bandwidth problems for VoIP users, gamers, and video conf
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BitTorrent and The Pirate Bay continue to dominate file-sharing news - something that's become nearly an everyday occurrence. P2P throttling once again is a national issue - if you happen to live in Canada. And finally, SoulSeek is in the headline
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Google Analytics provides some fascinating insight into the volume and type of traffic that comes to Slyck.com. It also shows the general makeup of the P2P community, and the types of resources the community has at their disposal. The most interes
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It's been 5 years since The Pirate Bay appeared online. That was way back in 2003, when the file-sharing world was a very different place. BitTorrent was just starting to enter the P2P realm, but FastTrack and eDonkey2000 were still the undisputed
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Reporting on the 'scene' is never easy - unlike P2P, there are no media relations and scene release aren't published like press statements. So in this circumstance, we have to take BREIN's latest press release and continue digging. But what BREIN
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If you could total the quantity of unlicensed tracks within the vastness of the P2P community, then apply a reasonable fee to those tracks, you would end up with a very large monetary number. $10 billion? $50 billion? Just how much untapped money
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There are a lot of good things to be said about TV and movie studios opening up to the idea of streaming content. Almost any popular TV show is freely available for streaming, without any fear of copyright enforcement. Legal sites such as Hulu.com
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LimeWire was featured twice this week, for both some good and some bad news. The IFPI touted another victory against unauthorized BitTorrent sharing when the Bulgarian search engine TorrentValley was shut down by local authorities. And there's som
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The Pirate Bay (TPB) enjoyed another milestone today, breaking the 25 million user, or peer, barrier. Only two weeks ago, TPB surpassed 20 million users, and in January of this year, broke 10 million users. The growth of TPB has been stratospheric
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With the continuous stream torrent site shutdowns, it would seem that eventually, the stream would stop, right? Not really, as today the IFPI announced another BitTorrent site shut down. This time, it's the Bulgarian site TorrentVallley.com that i
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