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05/15/2012 - Idiotic Copyright Comparisons in Canadian Parliament
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Politicians are always going the extra mile for their supporters, and nothing spells that out more clearly than this video, taken from the Canadian Parliaments discussion into C-11, the current attempt to give Hollywood what they want in Canada. In it, MP Dean Del Mastro tries to make a comparison for format shifting, and why it’s [...] Source: Idiotic Copyright Comparisons in Canadian Parliament
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05/15/2012 - The Pirate Bay Suffers (Local) Downtime
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Yes, The Pirate Bay is down at the moment. No, not everywhere. Every time The Pirate Bay suffers a few minutes for downtime, thousands of people start to worry that something awful has happened to their beloved site. Luckily, this is usually not the case. When the site’s not responding someone probably tripped over a [...] Source: The Pirate Bay Suffers (Local) Downtime
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05/15/2012 - Wil Wheaton Defends BitTorrent, Warns for Anti-Piracy Lobby
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Actor Wil Wheaton, known for his roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Lost and The Big Bang Theory made a few interesting comments on his blog. He says that piracy isn’t as evil as Hollywood claims and believes that Internet providers shouldn’t mess with people’s BitTorrent traffic. “I believe in network neutrality, I don’t [...] Source: Wil Wheaton Defends BitTorrent, Warns for Anti-Piracy Lobby
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05/15/2012 - RapidGator Goes Down, Suspended by Hosting Company
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RapidGator.net has been one of the fastest growing file-hosting sites since the demise of MegaUpload. In less that half a year it grew from zero to millions of users a day. However, today RapidGator users have been unable to reach their favorite site. While some fear a second Megaupload-like shutdown, the current outage appears to [...] Source: RapidGator Goes Down, Suspended by Hosting Company
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05/13/2012 - German Pirate Party Wins in Key State Election
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The German Pirate Party won several seats in the North Rhine-Westphalia state election today. For the fourth time in a row the Pirate Party broke the 5% threshold which is needed to enter parliament. According to the latest exit polls the Pirates received 7.5% of the total vote which translates into 18 parliament seats. Today’s [...] Source: German Pirate Party Wins in Key State Election
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