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VODO Is Netflix-Meets-Kickstarter for Indie Film Fans

BitTorrent site VODO is now offering a series of downloads by up-and-coming filmmakers--with a twist that makes audiences part of the action. READ»

Web Advertising Hits Record High, Torrents For iPhone, Web Giants Vs. Gov At eG8, And More...

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YouTube Adds Rentals, Largest BitTorrent Case Ever, Google Goggles For Biz Cards, And More...

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Numerology: The Price Of Piracy

With Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides hitting theaters May 20th, it seems our obsession with pirates just won't end -- though for many of us, sailing the seas of digital piracy is about as close as we'll get to an eye-patch-and-parrot lifestyle.READ»

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The Real ISP Report Card: Why BitTorrent's Network Performance Data Is "Miles Better" Than What Netflix Found [Sneak Peek]

San Francisco-based BitTorrent, which now boasts more active users than Hulu and Netflix combined, has been developing a skunkworks project that could serve as the true national and international report card for ISP performance.READ»

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Google Censors Its Own Education Investment in BitTorrent

Google prize winner, Khan Academy, partners with the black-listed BitTorrent network to distribute its free online courses.READ»

The Google Instant Blacklist: Why Google Censors BitTorrent, Not Pirate Bay, Xunlei

“Just like our search algorithms, our auto-complete removals are imperfect and change regularly,” a Google spokesperson says. “It’s an imperfect solution.”READ»

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BitTorrent Has More Users Than Netflix and Hulu Combined--and Doubled

According to stats released Monday, sharing platform BitTorrent has surged to 100 million monthly active users. How does that stack up against other digital content providers?READ»

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BitTorrent Raid Aftermath: The Seas of Piracy Are Calm Again

Three days after a huge international BitTorrent raid, we take a look around, and find that the pirate system is still (mostly) standing.READ»

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Massive International BitTorrent Raid: Where Will We Download Mad Men Now?

The Pirate Bay. BTJunkie. Mediafire. All these sites are down or struggling today, after a 14-nation police force raided a Swedish hosting center and a Czech university. It's one of the biggest crackdowns ever, but that doesn't mean pirates are out of options.READ»

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Lost Finale a Pirate's Favorite--Breaks Torrenting Record

Lost's finale has broken the BitTorrent record for the number of global downloads per day. This is a wake-up call for the TV industry.READ»

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Court Slaps Down FCC Over Comcast Ruling, Throws Doubt Onto National Broadband Plan

The FCC has been slapped down by federal judges at the U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. over its attempts to censure Comcast for slowing down its customers' access to a torrent site. That does not bode well for the government's ...READ»

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Want to Save the Planet? Stop Buying CDs, Start Downloading Music

It seems intuitive enough that downloading music would be less carbon-intensive than buying a CD that has been transported in a truck and wrapped in multiple layers of plastic. Now a study (PDF) funded by Intel and Microsoft and ...READ»