This post is ancient in internet time, but I tend to agree with Torrent Freak’s third prediction from their “5 bitTorrent Predictions for 2010″:
Prediction 3: More people will use BitTorrent anonymously
2010 is the year where copyright holders gain more control over the Internet. Three-strikes legislation will be rolled out in various countries and global trade [...]
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Textbook Torrent searches on the rise
Published by January 13th, 2009 in bitTorrent, campus and copyright. 2 CommentsAccording to a recent study (involving the WordPress Stats plugin for bavatuesdays), students searching for textbook torrents has seen a dramatic rise as of late. In little over 24 hours Google searches for the term “Textbook Torrents” on the bava have increased almost 150%. During these tough times it seems that students are looking for [...]
Last month TorrentFreak had an article about Professor John Stinchcombe of the University of Toronto explaining how he uses the concept behind bitTorrent to explain DNA sequencing. You can see the slide below (which even includes an image the Pirate Bay logo ) where he draws the comparison.
What’s so cool about this [...]
P4P: Universities as techno-corporate thinktanks?
Published by August 25th, 2008 in bitTorrent, edupunk, piracy and politics. 1 CommentI’m a fan of TorrentFreak, it’s one of those rare blogs that streams interesting news on a very specific subject and openly acknowledges its biases while providing the reader with a ton of information to fend for themselves. In fact, I have come to think of TorrentFreak as one of the outposts in a war [...]
Tom Woodward turned me on to this fascinating keynote presentation by pirate radio DJ Matt Mason, author of The Pirate’s Dilemma, at The Medici Summit on March 3rd 2008. It resonated on several levels about issues that have been circulating for a while now in regards to re-mixes, mashups, and all things copyright in educational [...]
Now there are a lot of great people in Canada (particularly in the EdTech realm) but I have a fine time communicating with and learning from them in a distributed manner from the continental 48. It wasn’t until I read that the Canadian police will no longer target individuals who download copyrighted material for [...]
My last post focused on the wealth of bitTorrent news and politics coming out of the Torrent Freak blog. In my blogging diligence I neglected a recent, quite remarkable report coming out of this blog in this post: “The Biggest Ever BitTorrent Leak: MediaDefender Internal Emails Go Public”.
From what I understand, MediaDefender [...]
The blog Torrent Freak is a relatively recent favorite of mine. I have read it sporadically for a while, but it seems like things have been heating up as of late in bitTorrent land as the MPAA and other interest groups start to ratchet up their war against bitTorrent (even the porn industry has [...]
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