Peer to Peer technology used for TV and video distribution

Peer to Peer

‘Blank’ Movie Director Foregoes Hollywood For P2P | Movie Legally Available On BitTorrent

From today, you can download a newly-released feature film through any one of a number of peer-to-peer networks. That’s not news,...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

The Pirate Bay Court Case Ends – Verdict Hanging In The Balance Until April 17

The court case which saw The Pirate Bay in the dock facing charges of assisting copyright infringement has ended after just...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

The Pirate Bay Trial Begins In Sweden | IFPI Begins Fight Against File-sharers Everywhere

The Pirate Bay today went on trial on charges of copyright theft, promoting copyright infringements, and profiting from the file-sharing of...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

The Pirate Bay Goes To Court | What Are The Consequences If The BitTorrent Tracker Loses?

On February 16, 2009, a three-years in the making trial against The Pirate Bay will begin in Sweden. What, if any,...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Copyrighted Filesharing Will Never Die | It May Be Illegal But People Don’t Think It’s Wrong

While Hollywood and the MPAA nibble away at the perpetrators of illegal file-sharing, they should realize they are going to lose...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Social Networking To Kill Copyright? | BitTorrent Researcher Thinks So By 2010

The Web as a mainstream tool accessible to everyone has changed things for copyright owners. Whether they choose to embrace the...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Web TV Wire 2008 Review | A Year In Online Video

2008 has now seamlessly morphed into 2009 and we’re all a year older, and maybe even a year wiser. But what...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

The Dark Knight Most Pirated Movie Of 2008 & Still A Box Office Smash | Hollywood Blinks

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 12 months, you’ll know that The Dark Knight has been absolutely...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

ThePirateCity.org Video Streaming Site? | Irony: The Pirate Bay Gets Pirated

Anyone who regularly downloads over peer to peer networks or torrent sites will have heard of The Pirate Bay. But have...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

IsoHunt Lawsuit Sends Message to CRIA, RIAA, MPAA & More – Linking is Legal

Should a site be held accountable for merely linking to pirated material? IsoHunt thinks not, and is taking its case to...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Olympic Torrents Hugely Popular | The Pirate Bay Becomes ‘The Beijing Bay’ To Taunt IOC

What happens when the IOC runs to the authorities rather than approaching the pirates themselves? A round of pure and utter...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

‘The Dark Knight’ Pirate Movie Update | Batman’s 38 Piracy Free Hours Deemed Success

The new Batman movie, The Dark Knight, has been the biggest film release of the year so far by a mile....
Dave Parrack
1 min read

P2P File Sharing Software Users to be Banned in Europe | France Calling For Law Change

Last November saw the French government, lead by President Nicolas Sarkozy, impose a law which meant that anyone suspected of using...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Torrent Search Engine Sites | Most Popular Movie, TV & Video BitTorrent Download & Tracker Portals

Despite many and varied attempts to Torrent Search Engine sites from operating, or receiving visitors, they are on the increase, and...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Using P2P & YouTube To Promote New TV Shows | The Networks Decide They Want In

Peer To Peer networks and BitTorrent have always gone hand in hand with piracy, with many such services used for swapping...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

MediaDefender Denial Of Service Attack Against Revision3 – Open BitTorrent Tracker

Revision3, the online video studio founded by Kevin Rose and home of the Diggnation video podcast amongst others, suffered a denial...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Adobe Flash Player Now With Built-In Peer To Peer Capabilities | Flash 10 Has Arrived

Virtually every Web user will have a Flash Player from Adobe installed, as it’s one of those must haves if you...
Jef Pearlman
1 min read

Comcast Blocking BitTorrent Traffic 24/7 | New Data Shows ISP Lied To The FCC

It’s been well known for a while that many ISPs around the world have been messing with the flow of BitTorrent...
Dave Parrack
55 sec read

Demonoid BitTorrent Tracker Back Online With New Admin After Six Months Of Downtime

I didn’t see this one coming at all, in fact I thought Demonoid was dead and buried. But no, six months...
Dave Parrack
44 sec read

Canadian Broadcaster Follows Norway’s Lead By Utilising BitTorrent As Distribution Method

A recent post on the Last100 blog (part of the Read/Write Web network) written by Guinevere Orvis, an interactive producer with the...
Mathew Ingram
1 min read

Movie Industry Rallies Against Net Neutrality | Surely Hulu Proves They Are Wrong

The Internet hasn’t been good for the movie or music industry, at least in terms of providing a new way for...
Art Brodsky
6 min read

Peer To Peer CAN Be Used For Piracy, So Ban It Outright | Or, Simply Lose Your Identity

When it comes to the subject of peer to peer and file sharing over the Internet, there seems to be a...
Sherwin Siy
3 min read

How BitTorrent Can Successfully Work As A Distribution Tool For A Public Broadcaster

NRK recently took part in a very successful experiment with distributing the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation programme, Nordkalotten 365, via BitTorrent. A little while...
Eirik Solheim
3 min read

The War Against Illegal File Sharers | Higher Education Bill With File Sharing Warning

The fight against file sharers, and so called music and movie pirates continues, even though the organisations fighting it must know...
Art Brodsky
2 min read

BitTorrent Not Just For Pirates? | Norwegian TV Broadcaster Makes Series Available For Free

For years the BitTorrent protocol has been blamed for encouraging the spread of pirated television shows, full length movies, and popular...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

MPAA Data About Illegal Movie Downloading From University Campuses Inaccurate

The MPAA is rapidly catching up with the RIAA in terms of blindly and blatantly pushing fot their business models to...
Gigi Sohn
2 min read

Top 10 IPTV Awards For 2007 | The Products and Technologies Shaping The Industry

It’s new year, which means it must be time for the ubiqutous year-end list?  This best of 2007, which we hope captures...
Dave Parrack
5 min read