ShareBeast & AlbumJams Operator Pleads Guilty to Criminal Copyright Infringement
In September 2015, U.S. authorities announced action against a pair of sites involved in music piracy. ShareBeast.com and AlbumJams.com were allegedly responsible for the distribution of “a massive library” of popular albums and tracks. Both were accused of offering thousands of tracks before their official release dates. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) placed their now familiar seizure notice on both domains, with...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 09/11/17
This week we have three newcomers in our chart. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is the most downloaded movie. The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are Web-DL/Webrip/HDRip/BDrip/DVDrip unless stated otherwise. RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart. This week’s most downloaded movies are:...
Demonoid Hopes to Return to Its Former Glory
Demonoid has been around for well over a decade but the site is not really known for having a stable presence. Quite the opposite, the torrent tracker has a ‘habit’ of going offline for weeks or even months on end, only to reappear as if nothing ever happened. Earlier this year the site made another one if its trademark comebacks and it has been sailing relatively smoothly since then. Interestingly, the site is once again...
No, Google Drive is Definitely Not The New Pirate Bay
Running close to two decades old, the world of true mainstream file-sharing is less of a mystery to the general public than it’s ever been. Most people now understand the concept of shifting files from one place to another, and a significant majority will be aware of the opportunities to do so with infringing content. Unsurprisingly, this is a major thorn in the side of rightsholders all over the world, who have been scrambling...
6 lessons on using technical RFCs as a management tool
As an engineering leader, I value trust and believe that individual contributors should be involved in architectural and high-level technical decision making. I consider every line of code to be a decision made on behalf of someone else (including your future self), and having a fast-growing distributed team makes technical decision making particularly difficult to manage. read...
