Bye Bye TorrentSpy and ISOHunt Both Plan to Start Filtering Copyrighted Content

-from Zero Paid
TorrentSpy decides to not block US visitors and chooses to filter pirated content from its search results instead, something which ISOHunt plans to do as well.
It’s a sad day for those in the US who use TorrentSpy or ISOHunt, two of the world’s largest public trackers sites, to find movies, music, and more [...]

AT&T to start scanning their users for pirate material…

So AT&T wants to began to scan every file that people send over their network, I think that this is a balant violation of peoples privacy, but since AT&T already gave your phone records to the4 government I guess they could care less. This was brought on because of a deal that they have with [...]

RIAA Accused of Extortion, Conspiracy, etc..

Aren’t these the people that said that tapes would kill them? Apparently RIAA is going to court for extortion, conspiracy, computer fraud, trespass, and kicking babies (I think don’t quote me) All in all I think that this is rather funny, because all I can say is it’s about time. I’m pretty sure what [...]

New HD-DVD and Blu-Ray processing key

Already out and about is the new code for all newly released and soon to be released HD-DVDs and Blu-Rays. As much as I do not want to get an angry letter in the mail from an angry business man, I’m still going to post the number. so here it is:

45 5F E1 04 22 [...]

DRM-free iTunes Songs Have Embedded User Info

So Itunes has apparently started to release songs free of DRM protection rights. A big win for Pirates and normal people who use Itunes and don’t have ipods, right? Turns out that the first parts of the almost epic win is wrong. These songs that have no DRM are embedded with your user information. So [...]

DRM group pledges to fight Digg rebels

- From Times Online
Bloggers who published the key that would unlock the copy protection on HD-DVDs have been threatened with legal action
Jonathan Richards
Bloggers who posted links to a software key that would unlock the copy protection on some high-definition DVDs have been threatened with legal action.
The entertainment industry-backed consortium which developed the protection said that [...]

09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0

What is it?
It’S the original HD-DVD Processing Key for most movies released so far. This means the number is precisely the key you need in order to decrypt and watch HD-DVD movies in Linux (Insert VLC, etc).
It seems though at the moment that all DVD’s made after April 23rd have a new Processing key. Some [...]

BitTorrent Exploit Vulnerability Discovered in Latest Opera

-from torrent freak
Opera, the popular cross-platform web browser has a bug in its BitTorrent engine which leaves it vulnerable to an attack which renders its host machine unusable.
Opera
It is being reported that Opera v9.20 is vulnerable to an attack which causes it to consume 100% of its host machine’s resources, rendering the PC unusable.
Proof of [...]

aXXo Torrents Exploited by Malware Peddlers

-from Torrentfreak

When someone becomes a success by earning the admiration of their peers, there will always be the ‘hangers on’ who want to share the spoils of success. For aXXo, the most popular DVD ripper on BitTorrent, it’s about people using his name to further their own, sinister aim: to install malware on as many [...]

Students largely ignore RIAA instant settlement offers

-From ARS Technica
By Ken Fisher | Published: March 26, 2007 - 12:13PM CT
While the RIAA is touting a settlement percentage north of 25 percent with its recent campaign against file sharing at US colleges and universities, the fact remains that the overwhelming majority of students are shunning the insta-settlement approach. According to the RIAA, some [...]