While it seems certain that The Pirate Bay has been targeted today, it was not the only casualty. Several other torrent related sites including EZTV, Zoink, Torrage and the Istole tracker are also down.
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In an announcement Wednesday, the Public Prosecutor for Special Economic and International Crime (SØIK) revealed that several people have been arrested following criminal referrals by Rights Alliance relating to torrent sites including ShareUniversity and DanishBytes.
DanishBytes is a new site that appeared in early January 2021. Even in the early days it had a reported database of 3,600 well-seeded torrents covering movies and TV shows, with an emphasis on locally subtitled content.
One of the arrested men is said to have sold access to the servers which were used by a currently unknown number of users to share around 3,800 copyright works on the torrent sites, a number that is very close to the number of torrents on the DanishBytes tracker.
When police officers arrived at Fort Hood's soldier readiness processing center just before 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 5, the gunman had already killed 13 people and fired 146 rounds inside the crowded building.
After a few minutes of furious gunbattle outside the building, the accused gunman, Maj. Nidal Hasan, stood over Fort Hood police officer Kimberly Munley. He had shot her three times, and when her gun malfunctioned, he kicked it out of her hands, she testified Wednesday during the Article 32 pretrial hearing to determine whether Hasan will face a court-martial.
Witnesses testified that Hasan continued shooting after he left the building, then he was confronted by Munley and Todd, the first police officers on the scene. Munley said she was washing her patrol car when the call of a shooter at the readiness center came over the radio.
It's smiley emoticons all around over at Filesoup, following the news that United Kingdom police have withdrawn all criminal charges for copyright infringement against the Bristol based BitTorrent file sharing site.
But on Thursday, police lawyers at Bristol Crown Court admitted that this was, if anything, a civil case. "The Crown Prosecution Service advised the Court today that it is neither necessary nor appropriate to continue to pursue this matter in a criminal court," a CPS spokesperson declared.
In the Filesoup prosecution, the matter didn't get that far. It's no surprise to us that UK police eventually got cold feet in pushing this issue as a criminal matter. The criminal liability enforcement provisions of the Copyright and Patents Act are kind of soupy themselves when it comes to community-based file sharing sites. Are venues like Filesoup even covered by them?
But the UK Telegraph cites police saying that FACT can still push this matter in civil court, "and that the force would support such action." The anti-copyright infringement group "declined to comment" on what it plans to do next, the newspaper added.
Police Academy and the subsequent films in the series is a guilty pleasure of mine. The films are puerile, vapid, stupid, gross beyond belief and I laugh my Glutteus Maximus off at them. So apparently did a large part of the American movie going public.The premise for the film is right at the beginning off screen narration where it is explained to the audience that a mayor's executive order in a quaint metropolitan area has said that the police academy will not discriminate on any grounds. Apparently that also includes intelligence as well. So we find that a whole lot of people are now applying to be cops.What a class they are too. They're headed by Steve Guttenberg who is given a choice by another police captain friendly to his late father who is concerned about Guttenberg's lack of direction in life. We've also got Kim Cattrall the rich débutante who's just bored with her life, David Graf who takes the gun/penis dichotomy to the extreme, Bubba Smith the peaceful florist, Bruce Mahler the henpecked husband, and little Marion Ramsey who has voice projection problems and my favorite Michael Winslow the human sound effect machine.Of course we have to have a villain and in this case and in a few subsequent episodes it's G.W. Bailey better known to today's audience as Lieutenant Provenza in Kyra Sedgwick's squad in The Closer. He will stop at nothing to run this group off the police force and they, especially Guttenberg, will stop at nothing to goof on him.Another favorite is George Gaynes the absolutely clueless commandant of the Police Academy. What that man can do with the word 'many.'Confession is good so embrace your inner grossness that allows you to enjoy the Police Academy series.
The registrars were ordered to suspend domain names of many torrent service sites including MisterTorrent, ExtraTorrent and SumoTorrent, where MisterTorrent had its .com domain suspended while MisterTorrent and SumoTorrent were forced into loosing control over their domains.
Evidence of child abuse, including child pornography, is often readily available via the Web thanks to peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing sites. BitTorrent software poses a particular problem for stopping the trade of these illicit images because it breaks the files into pieces and sends them from one computer to the next via different paths without passing through any centralized servers. This has for the most part rendered cops and security experts powerless to trace the origins of the files and catch the predators.Recently, however, engineers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have developed promising new software to automate the tracking of BitTorrent content and hopefully help law-enforcement officials solve this puzzle. The key is locating the images quickly by focusing on new files coming out of RSS feeds and entering P2P networks, before they can be widely distributed.The more times a file has been downloaded via a P2P network the more widely distributed the contents of that file are, making it much more difficult to track, says Robert Patton, an applied software engineering researcher at Oak Ridge who is developing the software with Thomas Potok, head of the lab's Applied Software Engineering Research Group.Child predators can share images, videos or other content by first creating a small descriptor file, or "torrent," that can be distributed via the Web or e-mail. The torrent file will tell anyone interested in downloading this content how to contact a "tracker" computer that coordinates the matching of consumers with suppliers. Because of the way BitTorrent works, the consumer ends up getting different pieces of content from multiple computers with different IP (Internet Protocol) addresses.Oak Ridge's software grabs the torrent file and immediately investigates the IP addresses of the different computers from which pieces of the file are stored. Based on data-traffic patterns, the software then prioritizes IP addresses to be investigated, creating a short list of suspects for cops to investigate.The federal government estimates that more than five children die every day as a result of child abuse. As it is, law enforcement has the resources to work on less then 1 percent of the caseload, says Grier Weeks, executive director of the National Association to Protect Children, a nonprofit based in Knoxville, Tenn. Oak Ridge's automated winnowing of suspects is expected to be a valuable time-saver for law enforcement hunting down those computers and their owners. Currently cops have too many IP addresses, most of them dead ends, to investigate.Oak Ridge's work on the BitTorrent tool began in early 2010 when the association asked researchers at Oak Ridge and law enforcement officials from Tennessee and Virginia to educate them on the pervasiveness of child abuse and exploitation, much of it shared on the Internet. The idea was for the association to connect Oak Ridge's scientists with law enforcement overwhelmed by the magnitude of the problem and hindered by technical challenges. The Knoxville Police Department, home of the Tennessee Internet Crimes against Children Task Force, expressed interest in Oak Ridge's work soon after meeting the researchers.Oak Ridge's software means that sophisticated methods of data analysis may soon be in the hands of law enforcement officials. Two police departments are now testing it, although Weeks declined to identify them. "This is a Geiger counter for locating predatory pedophiles," he says. "Instead of radiation, it finds the presence of child abuse images."The biggest concern about the software at this point is whether its use will hold up in court or allow potential offenders to get off on some technicality. If the software does prove successful, however, "there will be one less excuse for inaction, which is what we have now," says Weeks, who adds that he has brought the software to the attention of top law enforcement agencies, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. "This is an entirely new field really, what we would call child-rescue technology, and it uses the same sorts of tools and methods as are used in counterterrorism."
The hosting company, famous for its 'no questions asked, no takedown' policy and previous home of Wikileaks, was raided late yesterday as part of an investigation into copyright infringement. The CEO of Stockholm-based PRQ, Mikael Nyborg, told Swedish news bureau TT that the police wanted to examine four of its servers.
On Monday, several high-profile Swedish sites were simultaneously hit by a DDoS, which police suspect was launched in retaliation for Swedish prosecutors' efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The websites affected belonged to three major banks in Sweden, the Swedish armed forces, news bureau TT, and Sweden's protection and preparedness agency MSB. It is not known if the attacks were launched by Anonymous.
The police in Germany have issued an international arrest warrant for two brothers who are accused of carrying out a series of violent crimes as part of an online turf war between rival file-sharing websites. 2ff7e9595c
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