Category: Legal downloads
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Pirate party, 1, 2, 3
There was already a Pirate Party in Sweeden (along with ThePirateBay.org): Piratpartiet. But things are speeding up neatly in those days with the appearance of two French-speaking parties: In France, le Parti Pirate prepares actively the Presidential elections of next year. In Belgium, le Parti Pirate. But, of course, this is only part of it…
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Free Science Fiction in MP3
Science fiction author James Patrick Kelly podcasts some of his works as MP3s. His stories were published in famous SciFi magazines like Asimov’s Science Fiction and The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
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Opera 9: Differentiation
The new Opera web browser is adding a surprisingly new feature: BitTorrent client to share file (Ã la P2P). Peer-to-peer file sharing should be simplified.
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Steal these stock photos
Design and illustration activities often require the use of images. In that intent, photo agencies come to the rescue with their organized offer of catalogs, stocks, heaps of photographs sold for one or more uses. Unfortunately, not everybody have the financial wealth to purchase agency stock photos to illustrate a web site, a leaflet, or…
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ThePirateBay is back online
Merely a few days after their server computers were seized by the Swedish police, ThePirateBay.org is already back online. It appears that as any global private company, ThePirateBay.org really had a crash recovery plan prepared to correct extreme circumstances like those found last Wednesday. The new server is located in Netherlands (an additional server has…
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ThePirateBay: some more
The latest news in the battle between the entertainment industry and the (previously) world’s largest BitTorrent tracker site. The owners of ThePirateBay.org, still very sure of the legality of their web site (and it seems that they some good points drawn from the Swedish law), announced that they would be seeking for compensation from the…
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ThePirateBay: We’ll be back
That’s the message that the owners of ThePirateBay.org are sending right now. They expect to come back within a day or two. Woa! If they go as quick as that, it seems they were ready or prepared. I’m not sure that the entertainment industry was expecting such a fast move. I did not.
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ThePirateBay.org: Servers seized by police
The world biggest indexation site for BitTorrent contents, ThePirateBay.org, would consider itself totally immune from actions from copyright holders associations (like the American RIAA and MPAA) because of its geographical location in Sweeden. As a matter of fact, in this Scandinavian country indexing contents (showing where to find them and not providing them by yourself)…
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Disney for free? 2 months trial
Disney just announced that they would start a test trial of free distribution of some TV shows. During a 2-month (maybe more) test period, shows like “Desperate Housewives” or “Lost” will be free to download. Info Reuters