After the high profile SOPA and PIPA acts were shelved, it seems that their legacy is that pirate and torrent sites are firmly in the authorities firing line. It also seems like other BitTorrent website owners might be considering following BTjunkie’s lead because it looks like America has more than enough power to arrest anyone, anywhere. Even though there are more bittorrent website owners who are not even entertaining such an idea.

It was about 10 years ago when bittorrent website owners seemed to be unstoppable, but The Pirate Bay owners were caught. And after years of court hearings, it was decided that The Pirate Bay owners will remain in prison. As a result, The Pirate Bay moved its domain to .se in order to avoid being shut down by the United States authorities.

Despite that some bittorrent website owners are quick to respond to DMCA complaints and in a positive manner, they should not consider these actions as keeping them safe because the powers that be in the US seem to be on a crusade, and are still able to arrest and put a file suit against possible pirate perpetrators.

Not all website owners are doing the same including Gary Fung, IsoHunt’s owner, who said that “such things aren’t new to him.” said that “IsoHunt has been in lawsuits for about 6 years with both the CRIA and the MPAA.” Mr. Fung said that IsoHunt will continue to exist, and that the authorities cannot put the torrent website under criminal investigation because it’s already involved in two civil lawsuits.”

Bittorrent index websites “come and go,” said Fung, who said that “the entertainment industry should start embracing new technology rather than fighting against it” because it could make more money this way.

Another admin who is looking to keep his website running is Sam. After BTjunkie closed down its services, Extratorrent has become the fifth largest website of its kind. Sam believes that “it’s impossible to stop the unstoppable,” and now that Megaupload and BTjunkie are gone, “100 new websites will open,” while Extratorrent will remain online.

Like we said, The Pirate Bay will also continue to do business in Sweden using a Swedish domain, and it’s going to replace its torrent links with magnet links. So the jury seems to be out about the question, “is piracy stoppable or unstoppable?”

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The aging rocker accuses wealthy web executives of getting rich off the back of the ailing music industry, which loses vast sums of revenue every time music tracks and albums are illegally downloaded and shared.

Writing for a column in the New York Times, Bono said: “The immutable laws of bandwidth tell us we’re just a few years away from being able to download an entire season of  (TV show) 24 in 24 seconds.

“A decade’s worth of music file-sharing and swiping has made clear that the people it hurts are the creators… The people this reverse Robin Hooding benefits are rich service providers, whose swollen profits perfectly mirror the lost receipts of the music business.

“The only thing protecting the movie and TV industries from the fate that has befallen music and indeed the newspaper business is the size of the files.”

The “Beautiful Day” hitmaker believes the problem would be solved if internet service providers monitor their file-sharers and enforce strict controls, adding: “We know from America’s noble effort to stop child pornography, not to mention China’s ignoble effort to suppress online dissent, that it’s perfectly possible to track content…

“Perhaps movie moguls will succeed where musicians and their moguls have failed so far, and rally America to defend the most creative economy in the world, where music, film, TV and video games help to account for nearly four per cent of gross domestic product.”

I think Bono and his fellow stars would get a lot more sympathy if we actually saw them suffering, and having only 3 houses instead of 5 doesnt count.

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A Swedish court jailed the four men, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde in a landmark case after they were found guilty of breaking copyright law.

The Pirate Bay is the world’s most high profile file-sharing website and was set up in 2003 by anti copyright organisation Piratbyran. However it has been run by individuals for the last few years.

Every day millions of files including movies and tv streams are downloaded from the site. However no copyrighted material is hosted on The Pirate Bay servers. The site instead hosts ‘torrent’ links to TV shows, movies and music files held on the users computers that are ‘shared’ around.

The four were also ordered to pay $4.5m (£3m) in damages. Naturally music and movie companies welcomed the verdict but the men are now set to launch an immediate appeal and are refusing to pay the fine.

Peter Sunde, speaking at an online press conference described the verdict as “bizarre”.

“It’s serious to actually be found guilty and get jail time. It’s really serious. And that’s a bit weird,” Sunde commented.

“It is so bizarre that we were convicted at all and it’s even more bizarre that we were convicted as a team. The court said we were organised. I can’t get Gottfrid out of bed in the morning. If you’re going to convict us, convict us of disorganised crime.

“We can’t pay and we wouldn’t pay. Even if I had the money I would rather burn everything I owned, and I wouldn’t even give them the ashes.”

The damages have been awarded to a number of entertainment companies, including Warner Bros, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI, and Columbia Pictures but fell short of the $17.5m in damages and interest the companies wanted.

Speaking to the BBC, the chairman of industry body the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) John Kennedy said the verdict sent out a clear message.

“These guys weren’t making a principled stand, they were out to line their own pockets. There was nothing meritorious about their behaviour, it was reprehensible.

“The Pirate Bay did immense harm and the damages awarded doesn’t even get close to compensation, but we never claimed it did.

“There has been a perception that piracy is OK and that the music industry should just have to accept it. This verdict will change that,” he said.

The four men denied the charges throughout the trial, saying that because they did not actually host any files, they were not doing anything wrong.

Speaking on Swedish Radio, assistant judge Klarius explained how the court reached its findings.

“The court first tried whether there was any question of breach of copyright by the file-sharing application and that has been proved, that the offence was committed.

“The court then moved on to look at those who acted as a team to operate the Pirate Bay file-sharing service, and the court found that they knew that material which was protected by copyright but continued to operate the service,” he said.

A lawyer for Carl Lundstrom, Per Samuelson, told journalists he was shocked by the guilty verdict and the severity of the sentence.

“That’s outrageous, in my point of view. Of course we will appeal,” he was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency. “This is the first word, not the last. The last word will be ours.”

Rickard Falkvinge, leader of The Pirate Party, which is trying to reform laws around copyright and patents in the digital age – told the BBC that the verdict was “a gross injustice”.

“This wasn’t a criminal trial, it was a political trial. It is just gross beyond description that you can jail four people for providing infrastructure.

“There is a lot of anger in Sweden right now. File sharing is an institution here and while I cannot encourage people to break copyright law, I’m not following it and I don’t agree with it.

“Today’s events make file sharing a hot political issue and we’re going to take this to the European Parliament.”

So down, but not out. The website itself is still running but may not be for much longer.

The media companies are however just plugging a small leak from a torrent of file sharing that cannot be stopped. The sooner they change policy and go with the tide of change the better for us all.

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Well unfortunately it is of course, we have already reviewed the free satellite tv packages before and come to the conclusion that the sales pages are far from truthful.

To quote – “So what exactly is the Satellite TV PC scam? Well after payment you will download a software program or even just a webpage link usually consisting of a list of free to view tv channels that are all available for free on worldtvpc.com. Thats pretty bad right? Well the other product you may get in this kind of deal either on its own or bundled with the satellite tv product is a P2P program thats also available for free on worldtvpc.com.”

So as the holidays have just finished, we thought we would give away a free satellite tv software product to show you what kind of package you get for your money.

Most of these satellite tv software products consist of a list of free to view internet tv channels – so there are your thousands of channels.

Also free sports, latest movies and TV shows and full episodes are offered, where do they come from? Well again it aint rocket science these guys use. They simply give you a freely available P2P software application to install and search for your show/movie/sports event.

So thanks to our friends at TVPC Elite you can freely download the TV software.

And thanks to our P2P software page, you can access the best peer 2 peer software downloads.

Once you have done that, congratulations are in order.

You have just saved yourself up to $129 by not paying for free satellite tv on pc.

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Netgear have announced a new Internet TV settop box that will play video streams from Youtube etc. But also has an inbuilt torrent app allowing users across the world to download any TV show or movie they want.

The new hardware lets owners view internet streaming from video sites such as YouTube straight onto their Television screen. Much more exciting though is the device’s built-in BitTorrent client. Watching movies and TV episodes on BitTorrent is popular because you can view from anywhere in the world.

The new device can play videos from several large streaming sites, including YouTube, Google Video and Metacafe. However, its true power comes from the built-in BitTorrent client. Millions of people use BitTorrent to download TV-shows every week, so there are a lot of potential customers out there.

What is a torrent?
A torrent is a very small file with the suffix .torrent. This file contains the information required to download a file which the torrent was made for. A torrent is one of the most popular ways of downloading big files such as movies TV shows and games (although its legality is in question)

In effect, using a torrent for a popular movie or show makes downloading faster because the more people that want to download it results in a higher download speed for all users.

* A torrent is a file
* Torrents allow you to download anything and everything on the internet
* Each movie or show has a unique torrent file used to download it
* You need to use a torrent client to download the file

A torrent is a slightly different method of p2p sharing and there are many torrent clients available.

The new Netgear device will be popular outside the US, as that is where most of the TV torrent downloads occur. The main reason being that fans have to wait for weeks or months before hit TV shows air in their own countries.

The device also has a USB socket to allow connection of external USB drives. Plug in, and watch all your videos on your big screen TV instantly. Netgear’s Internet TV Player will cost $200, and be available in early Summer 2009.

Of course many people can already watch downloaded movies and tv shows just by buying a lead and connecting a notebook straight to your TV. So this device will be for the uninitiated, especially at this price.

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Due to the massive increase in online piracy, many non US countries are adopting a new policy of Showing episodes more quickly to prevent this.

New Zealand is one such country, its free to air TV networks are showing hit tv shows sooner.

Hit show Heroes is amongst the list of top illegal downloads with copies of the shows reaching cyberspace as soon as they have premiered.

As a result of this, top shows which include House, Private Practice and Survivor are now being shown within days of the original showing in the US.

TVNZ spokeswoman Megan Richards and TV3 marketing director Roger Beaumont confirmed they had ‘tightened’ the turnaround for screening international shows, particularly those from the USA.

“The potential for illegal downloading is a factor in that,” says Beaumont.

Tony Eaton from the Federation Against Copyright Theft said that the authorities in New Zealand had yet to conduct extensive research into illegal downloading.

‘Our primary focus has been the film industry but in saying that we have turned our attention to television more. It makes sense for networks to make shows available as soon as possible on television here.’

The trend may explain why the big two free to air networks offer legal downloads of top shows for a limited period after they screen on TV.

Richards further commented:- ‘It may be that online availability of programming is actually having the effect of boosting television viewing that is certainly the case with catch up TV. Having the ability to catch up online on a couple of missed episodes of a favourite programme actually encourages the viewer to stay with the series as it runs on TV’

In spite of the illegal downloads, Beaumont said total TV viewing has increased by 5 per cent on last year.

“That’s more people watching TV, and watching it for longer.”

Internet piracy via file-sharing networks accounts for the majority of these losses, with about $33m in lost consumer spending. The buying of illegally-pirated movies or files was responsible for more than $24m in lost consumer spending in 2005.

This situation is an obvious result of broadband use and freely available torrents, p2p networks and illegal uploading of tv and movie files, and gives the major studios a major headache.

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You can now download movies, tv shows and music legally and keep your halo intact.

The terms file sharing and peer 2 peer have some pretty shady and negative connotations. Always being reported in the press due to yet another legal battle involving music and movie downloads, but did you know that there is nothing illegal about p2p networks? You can use them perfectly legally to share files and they are used legitimately by a great number of people.

Every one has heard of Napster the original p2p network created by 18 year old Boston student Shawn Fanning. This was at the time, mp3 and digital music players were just taking off. In a landmark case Napster was shut down but although the act of sharing digital files was illegal, Napster didnt actually host any files just let different people share between each other. and this made it hard to implicate Napster in any crime.

Napster was finally forced to close down in 2001

Whilst illegal share filing continues to be popular, the large corporations have recognised that they cannot stop this massive tide and are in fact embracing the concept. The benefits are numerous. Digital downloads are much more cost effective. Companies can now cut out the middleman and sell direct to you making more profits and charging less.

A number of companies have already jumped on the p2p bandwagon. Bittorrent the popular ‘legal’ torrent website has signed deals with high profile companies including Warner Bos, Twentieth Century Fox, and Paramount meaning a selection of Movies and TV shows are available to watch for free. The majority of content is charged for but interestingly the prices are significantly lower than shop prices.

There are many proponents of the $5 monthly subscription P2P model, with the revenue being shared out amongst Studios and actors, the movie and music industry would at least be able to bring in some revenue as opposed to none.

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We have all in those quiet moments asked those philosophical questions.. Whats the meaning of life? What came first chicken or egg? What the hell is the difference between P2P and BitTorrents???

If you share my curiousity then read on and become intelligent. What is the difference between a P2P client and a Bit Torrent client?

Its not really that easy to answer because they are pretty similar with just subtle differences. They both make use of the collective to download and share files. Making use of many different PC’s that are hooked onto the network.

Bit Torrents sharing

Bit Torrents make use of multiple computers and receive any file in pieces/packets/chunks. The torrent breaks the files into small pieces, thus letting you download that precious file from many so that for every chunk you download, it gets uploaded to another person who wants it. It doesnt just get it from one host but shares the loads from many hosts or different people at the same time. This can make it a much faster system for transferring large files than a P2P network. After downloading the parts are combined into one and the file is on your hard drive ready for use.

BitTorrent is often referred to as ‘true P2P sharing’ because instead of publishers servers being used to distribute the files, BitTorrent users do the file serving themselves. The Torrent community of users voluntarily upload their files into the swarm and are motivated by the cooperative spirit. BitTorrent also adds incentives to generous users

The Torrent sharing philosiphy goes like this:-

if you share your files on Bit Torrent then your reward will be an increased download speed. However if you just leech and dont share your files then your download speeds will be slowed down. So in effect your generousity is rewarded. This downloading speed is controlled by the BitTorrent tracking servers. They will monitor all of the ‘swarm’ users. If a user shares files then the tracker servers reward you with and increased swarm bandwidth allocation. Dont share and you’ll find your downloading speed creeping around 1k per sec.

P2P Peer2Peer sharing

P2P or Peer 2 Peer is a host 2 host transfer where the entire file or files are transferred directly between 2 different computer users. You do have more knowledge as to who the files come from, but on the downside the speed of transfer is totally down to the speed that the other PC can send file data.

Both have their benefits and disadvantages, peer2peer (P2P) is good for downloading small files such as single track songs (but not cd’s), movie clips etc.
Bit Torrents are suitable more for the larger files. But i like to use FrostWire (p2p) for small files and Azures (torrent client) for large files.

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And why do they do this you ask? Well its something called advertising. If they can keep us on their website then whilst you are viewing the content you are also subliminally being bombarded with advertising. As long as we stay on the site they have a chance to get some revenue from us. Also of course you may bookmark a fantastic video only to find its been removed next time you look!

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Now help is at hand with some great sites that allow you to keep, download and preserve your beloved videos from the net before they become erased. After downloading to your PC you can watch the video stream to your PC. Transfer it to your iphone or ipod or other device and feel happy in the knowledge that its yours forever..

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Watch TV online is all the rage and everyone is doing it on their PC. This is great unless the internet tv streaming will not work on your pc. So heres some tips and answers to basic problems to have you watching tv on your pc.

Q No Stream showing at all?

To watch any stream you will need a media player. The 2 most used players are Windows Media Player. The second is Real Player. If you are using a Mac OS then you need to download the Flip4Mac Quicktime WMV Component. This is because Microsoft and Windows Media Player are no longer supported with Macs. However, dont worry guys, the Flip4Mac is 100 percent compatible.

Some Firewalls (used in Networks) make it impossible to receive streaming media. Ask your Network administrator for help.

Sometimes the connection is very slow and it can take a while before the channel starts playing, have a little patience.

Don’t forget that the live Internet television depends on the origin of the stream and not on the software that displays the TV images. Some stations are offline temporarily or with too many connections, not all stations have a 24 Hours schedule. If you are receiving error messages on certain station, try it later.

JIT Debugging needs to be enabled.
This is usually enabled by default but sometimes gets disabled by some programs to determine if you need to enable JIT Debugging follow these steps:
1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Select from the menu Tools->Internet Options then select advanced tab.
3. Scroll to approximately half way down page.
4. Find Use JRE (some numbers) (requires restart) and check the checkbox on left.
4. Restart Computer.

Q What Browser Do I need?

All Internet Browsers should be ok including Internet Explorer 6.0 to 7.0, Opera 8.0 and higher, Apple’s Safari and Mozillas FireFox, including all platforms released and their versions. Just make sure you have the latest version of IE or Firefox installed. Also make sure you are not using a non graphical web browser. Some browsers will need certain plugins to view the streams so make sure that you accept any plugins requested by either FireFox or IE.

Q Why do the TV Streams keep freezing and how can I stop it?

This could be a buffering problem switching from one TV to another, we recommend to stop the first one by hitting the Pause button on your screen. You can also open the TV stream directly into your Player if you find that it doesn’t want to play directly from the site (just clic the “External” button). If you find that the link will still not play or is broken, do not hesitate to contact us; that is what we are here for.

Q I can see the TV Stream but I cannot hear it.

I know it sounds obvious but check that your speakers are turned on and connected and the volume is turned up. Check another pc program that has sound or music from it.

If this doesnt work, and you still cant hear anything then you need to check to see the sound drivers in your PC are set up correctly. You can do this by clicking on the speaker icon in your taskbar and see if the volume properties appear on your screen. If they dont then you will need to update your soundcard drivers.

If your using a Mac, go to your control panel and click on the System Preferences under the Apple Menu in the left corner of the screen. Check that all of the sliders are at their full capacity. You should also be hearing a short beep sound when moving them around.

If none of the above works make sure you have the latest media players installed

Q I can hear the TV Stream but I cannot see the picture.

Make sure your Media Player is up to date and is the latest version available. If not, then you upgrade your Media Player.

If none of these works, try a different internet television channel as it may be the streaming servers fault.

Q: Some stations are not as clear as others, is something wrong?

A: Just like a TV set, live Internet television depends on the origin and not on the software that displays the TV images. The video quality is dependent on the broadcaster’s own bandwidth; the higher the bandwidth, the better the video quality you will receive.

Q: Buffering – Channel keeps freezing and stopping and starting.

A: This is a buffering problem. The buffering can be attributed to your Modem connection, your ISP, or Internet traffic in general, and even the station broadcasting if its busy. The most likely culprits are Internet traffic and the station’s server being overloaded. If your doing other Internet intensive work may increase buffering as well. So shut everything else down.

Q: Error message “Interface not supported”.

A: Please download the latest version of microsoft media player

Q: Error message “Unspecified error” or “Could not obtain OLE control window handle”.

A: Please download the latest version of Real Player.

Hopefully this will sort out your streaming tv problems. Happy viewing

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