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After being challenged by Grande Communications, piracy monitoring outfit Rightscorp has withdrawn its request to identify the hundreds or thousands of customers who it earlier accused of piracy. The ISP is not letting Rightscorp walk away that easily though, and has asked the court for sanctions. For several months Rightscorp has been sending DMCA subpoenas to smaller local ISPs in the United States. Unlike regular subpoenas, these are not reviewed by a judge and only require a signature from the Court clerk. This practice raised questions because DMCA subpoenas are not applicable to file-sharing cases, which is something courts determined more than a decade ago. Perhaps unaware of the legal precedent, most ISPs have complied with the requests. Until last week, when small Texas provider Grande Communications stood up in court after it was asked to reveal the account details connected to 30,000 IP-addresses/timestamp combinations. Soon after Grande filed its objections Rightscorp decided to drop the request entirely. While ISP is pleased that its customers no longer have to be exposed, the company is not letting Rightscorp off the hook. In an advisory to the court (pdf) the ISP notes that Rightscorp’s actions suggest that it’s merely trying to avoid having a judge look at their dubious efforts. “The abrupt withdrawal of the Subpoena is consistent with the apparent desire of Rightscorp and its counsel to avoid judicial review of their serial misuse of the subpoena power of the federal courts,” Grande’s attorneys write. The ISP still wants Rightscorp to pay for the costs run up thus far. In addition, Grande also believes that sanctions for misusing the federal court’s subpoena powers may be in order. “The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California may consider ordering Rightscorp and its counsel to show cause why they should not be sanctioned for misusing the federal court’s subpoena powers,” the advisory reads. The ISP points out that if it hadn’t challenged the subpoena, the personal details of hundreds or thousands of subscribers would have been shared based on a faulty procedure. Since similar requests are being sent to other ISPs, the matter warrants further investigation. “It appears clear that Rightscorp and its counsel are playing a game without regard for the rules, and they are playing that game in a manner calculated to avoid judicial review. Hopefully, they will not be permitted to continue much longer,” Grande’s attorneys conclude. Rightscorp’s withdrawal of the subpoena also contradicts earlier comments the company’s CEO Christopher Sabec made to TorrentFreak. Sabec told us that the company believes that earlier decisions on the legitimacy of DMCA subpoenas in file-sharing cases were wrong, and will be overturned should the issue reach the Supreme Court. Apparently, this was a veiled threat, perhaps to discourage Internet providers from starting a battle that could get very expensive. Instead, with possible sanctions pending, things may now get expensive for Rightscorp. http://torrentfreak.com/isp-wants-court-to-sanction-piracy-monitoring-firm-140915/

Kim Dotcom rolled out Julian Assange and Edward Snowden at his Moment of Truth event today, but despite promises to reveal "concrete evidence" in respect of his own case, a big reveal simply did not take place. An email reportedly set to be unveiled was dismissed as a fake by Warner Bros. Ever since the raids of 2012, Kim Dotcom has pointed to what he sees as a contract shutdown of Megaupload. Designed by Hollywood and carried out by their partners in the Obama administration and the New Zealand Government, Dotcom claims that his fate was pre-determined and a result of corruption. One of his claims is that despite the reservations of those in New Zealand’s intelligence departments, Dotcom was allowed to become a resident of the country. This, the entrepreneur says, was carried out to pin him down in a friendly location so that he could be dealt with by the United States. This morning, at his Moment of Truth event, Dotcom rolled out big guns including journalist Glenn Greenwald, Wikileaks’ Julian Assange and even Edward Snowden himself to deliver his “bombshell”. The latter appeared via video links, connections which Dotcom said we’re being run through a new encrypted browser-based platform under development at Mega. Much of the discussion centered around the alleged unlawful domestic surveillance of New Zealand citizens by their own Government, but the panel frequently weaved in elements of Dotcom’s own unique situation. “We share the same prosecutor, so I understand what is going on there, on a very personal level,” Julian Assange said of Dotcom. “[The United States Government] is trying to apply US law in as many countries as possible, applying their law in New Zealand to coerce and pluck out people to other states,” Assange said. “When you are able to control their police forces you have succeeded in annexing that country. It’s a problem for me personally and it’s a problem for Kim Dotcom.” Dotcom’s human rights lawyer Robert Amsterdam spoke at length on the perils of the Trans Pacific Partnership and criticized the New Zealand Government for its treatment of Dotcom. “What they did [to Kim Dotcom during the 2012 raid] is so beyond the pale that the leader of that democratic government should have resigned on the spot that day,” Amsterdam said. The event was highly polished and was well received by those in attendance, but failed to deliver on one key front. Dotcom previously said that he would present “absolutely concrete” evidence that Prime Minister John Key knew about him earlier than he had claimed. In the event, nothing remotely of that nature was presented. However, several hours before the Moment of Truth got off the ground, New Zealand media began reporting that Dotcom would reveal an email at the event, one that would prove that Hollywood had an arrangement with Key to allow Dotcom into the country in order to extradite him to the United States. The email in question, dated October 27, 2010, was allegedly sent by current Warner Bros CEO Kevin Tsujihara to Michael Ellis of the MPA/MPAA. Tsujihara is one of the Warner executives the company sent to New Zealand in 2010 to deal with a dispute that was putting at risk the filming of the Hobbit movies in the country. During his visit Tsujihara met John Key and the email purports to report on one of those meetings. “Hi Mike. We had a really good meeting with the Prime Minister. He’s a fan and we’re getting what we came for,” the leaked copy of the email reads. “Your groundwork in New Zealand is paying off. I see strong support for our anti-piracy effort. John Key told me in private that they are granting Dotcom residency despite pushback from officials about his criminal past. His AG will do everything in his power to assist us with our case. VIP treatment and then a one-way ticket to Virginia. “This is a game changer. The DOJ is against the Hong Kong option. No confidence in the Chinese. Great job,” the email concludes. But while an email of this nature would have indeed warranted a “bombshell” billing, the Moment of Truth concluded without it or any other similar evidence being presented. Even before the event began, Warner Bros were on record describing the email as a fake. “Kevin Tsujihara did not write or send the alleged email, and he never had any such conversation with Prime Minister Key,” said Paul McGuire, Warner Bros.’ senior vice president for worldwide communications. “The alleged email is a fabrication,” he added. The lack of the promised big reveal is fairly dramatic in itself. It’s certainly possible that Dotcom’s team lost confidence and pulled the reveal at the last minute, which would be a wise move if its authenticity was in doubt. If the email is indeed proven to be a fake, big questions will need to be answered by the person who provided it because up until very recently Dotcom was staking his shirt on it. If it’s genuine, and proving that will be easier said than done now, we’ll definitely hear more as the weeks unfold. http://torrentfreak.com/email-warner-bros-conspired-with-new-zealand-over-kim-dotcom-extradition-140915/

To help everyone finish their downloads, The Freeleech Has Been Extended The torrents that are currently free will remain free until 16 September 23:59:59 GMT When the date changes to 17 September, the torrents will turn back to regular.*

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muTracker V2.0 Well while we're writing about updates a little too sparsely to consider them all 'news', we've still had plenty of exciting changes we've been working on since our last news post: Class changes The long awaited changes to the standard Gazelle class system have been implemented - the requirements have been changed to better suit the ratioless policies of the site, and so the ratio and uploaded (GiB) values have been removed (focusing rather on the number of torrents uploaded to the site, and whether or not they're well seeded). In addition to this, each class can be purchased through the store with the credits earned from seeding. Entitled users can now be promoted to the higher Patrician class too, should they fit the requirements for it. We have also introduced the secondary Celebrity class, for staffers of other established trackers (if you feel you'd be eligible for the class, or would like to create a thread to offer invites to your site through our invitations forum, let us know through a staff PM, or contact us on IRC). All of the class requirements/perks can be viewed in the User Classes Wiki. Hit 'n' Runs To help increase the availability of content and defer 'dead' uploads, a Hit 'n' Run system has been implemented - You are required to seed a torrent for 96 hours within 2 weeks of snatching it, else you attract a HnR (however, the precise amount of hours may be subject to change in the future, should we see a great enough improvement in the amount of well-seeded torrents). If you seed the upload to 96 hours after receiving a HnR, it will go away. When buying a class, your account must not have any HnR's attached to it. Staff changes While we are saddened to announce the absence of Neon and Rommel (2 of our longest-serving admins), we'd also like to use this opportunity to formally welcome our newest developer, stacked, who has been spending much of his time fixing the CD log scores (see below), and assisting satiricon in other dev work. The logchecker has been fixed Due to a slight issue in the code of our logchecker, many of the early log scores were incorrectly marked as 100% (such that no imperfect log actually existed on the site). The error has since been fixed, as our dev team has downloaded, rescored, and reuploaded the logs from each CD FLAC torrent, that can now be viewed on-site (unfortunately, this means our most popular torrent isn't registered as a perfect FLAC anymore - maybe we could get a perfect upload to trump it?). Many previous '100%' logs are now subject to trumping from better uploads. New forums - The previous, defunct forum for memers has been removed in favour of the Power Tripper forum (as briefly mentioned in the thread, the general site rules apply here, with a strict no-funposting policy!) - For anyone with large collections of content (where uploading all of it may not be feasible), the Offered forum has been created - if you have any ideas you feel could help the forum, please post them within it's suggestion thread - A forum for Tutorials has been added (at the moment, we have a basic guide on getting set up with torrenting, for any users new totrackers) - Greasemonkey (and other) scripts and stylesheets can be shared in the recently added Scripts/styles forum And last (but certainly not least), we'll be having an upload contest! Any torrent you upload with a “jazz” tag is able to be counted towards your total. The point structure is as follows: 320 / V0 MP3 - 50 points Regular FLAC - 75 points Perfect FLAC - 100 points Perfect Three - 250 points ('Perfect FLAC' here is taken to mean a Web/Vinyl FLAC, or a CD FLAC with a cue and log score of 100%) Thus, you get more points for uploading all three formats for each release. You can post your contest submissions in this thread, however, we would appreciate you adhering to a certain layout to make it easier for us to adjudicate (and managing a single post with all your entries, rather than making several redundant posts), though each entry will still be checked: [torrent link] - [format] - [point value] For example: torrents.php?torrentid=3818 - [V0] - 50 torrents.php?torrentid=20763 - [Perfect FLAC] - 100 For perfect three or multiple on one release: torrents.php?torrentid=927 torrents.php?torrentid=3743 torrents.php?torrentid=1799 - [perfect 3] - 250 For this month's contest, our winners will receive a few very special prizes, courtesy of our new partners, RapidSeedbox! Questions about the partnership? Check this wiki. Prizes 1st A month's free 100M20 seedbox with unlimited traffic, 1Gbps download/200Mbps upload, and 250Gb storage A pick featured on the front page Voice in #mutracker for 1 month 10,000 Credits 2nd A month's free 100M20 seedbox with unlimited traffic, 1Gbps download/200Mbps upload, and 250Gb storage Voice in #mutracker for 2 weeks 6,000 Credits 3rd A month's free 100M15 seedbox with unlimited traffic, 100Mbps download/upload, and 150Gb storage Voice in #mutracker for 1 week 4,000 Credits The contest starts now, at 02:00 GMT, 14th September, and ends in exactly 2 weeks, on the 28th After the contest has finished, the signup process will be closed, and registration will be invite-only. And finally, we'd like to welcome all our new users to muTracker!

Tracker's Name: MUtracker.org Genre: Music Sign-up Link: http://mutracker.org/register.php Closing date: N\A Additional information: mutracker is a new music tracker

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The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Maleficent' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘How To Train Your Dragon 2.' 'Edge Of Tomorrow' completes the top three. This week we have two newcomers in our chart. Maleficent is the most downloaded movie, again. The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are BD/DVDrips unless stated otherwise. RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart. 1 (2) Maleficent 7.4 / trailer 2 (1) How To Train Your Dragon 2 8.3 / trailer 3 (7) Edge Of Tomorrow (Webrip) 8.1 / trailer 4 (…) The Giver 6.9 / trailer 5 (5) The Fault in Our Stars 8.3 / trailer 6 (3) A Million Ways To Die In The West 6.2 / trailer 7 (4) Godzilla (Webrip) 7.1 / trailer 8 (…) Plastic 5.8 / trailer 9 (6) X-Men: Days of Future Past (HDrip/TS) 8.4 / trailer 10 (8) Divergent 7.2 / trailer http://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-pirated-movies-of-the-week-140915/

The Australian Government has proposed a wide variety of measures to deal with online piracy, including website blocking. The local Pirate Party believes that censorship is not the answer, however, and signals a range of problems with the Government's plans. This is a guest post written by Simon Frew, Deputy President of Pirate Party Australia. — The Australian Government recently called for submissions into its plans to introduce a range of measures that are the long-standing dreams of the copyright lobby: ISP liability, website blocking for alleged pirate sites and graduated response. The Government’s discussion paper specifically asked respondents to ignore other Government inquiries into copyright. This meant ignoring an inquiry by the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) into copyright in the digital economy and an IT pricing inquiry. These reviews both covered important aspects of sharing culture in the 21st century, yet they were completely ignored by the Government’s paper and respondents were instructed to ignore issues covered in them. The ALRC review examined issues around the emerging remix culture, the ways the Australian copyright regime limits options for companies to take advantage of the digital environment and issues around fair dealing and fair use. It recommended a raft of changes to update Australian copyright law to modernize it for the digital age. Whilst the recommendations were modest, they were a step in the right direction, but this step has been ignored by the Australian Parliament. The IT pricing inquiry held last year, looked into why Australians pay exorbitant prices for digital content, a practice that has been dubbed the Australia Tax. Entertainment and Tech companies were dragged in front of the inquiry to explain why Australians pay much more for products than residents of other countries. The review found that, compared to other countries, Australians pay up to 84% more for games, 52% more for music and 50% more for professional software than comparable countries. The result of this review was to look at ways to end geographic segmentation and to continue to turn a blind eye to people using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to circumvent the higher prices in Australia. Between the Australia Tax and the substantially delayed release dates for TV shows and movies, Australians don’t feel too bad about accessing content by other means. According to some estimates, over 200,000 people have Netflix accounts by accessing the service through VPNs. Pirate Party Australia (PPAU) responded to the latest review with a comprehensive paper, outlining the need to consider all of the evidence and what that evidence says about file-sharing. To say the Government’s discussion paper was biased understates the single-mindedness of the approach being taken by the Government. A co-author of the Pirate Party submission, Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer summed it up: The discussion paper stands out as the worst I have ever read. The Government has proposed both a graduated response scheme and website blockades without offering any evidence that either of these work. Unsurprisingly the only study the discussion paper references was commissioned by the copyright lobby and claims Australia has a high level of online copyright infringement. This calls into question the validity of the consultation process. The Government could not have arrived at these proposals if independent studies and reports had been consulted. The entire review was aimed at protecting old media empires from the Internet. This is due in part, to the massive support given to the Liberal (Conservatives) and National Party coalition in the lead-up to the 2013 federal election which saw Murdoch owned News Ltd media, comprising most major print-news outlets in Australia, actively campaign for the in-coming Government. There is also a long history of media companies donating heavily to buy influence. Village Roadshow, one of Australia’s largest media conglomerates, has donated close to four million dollarsto both major parties since 1998: in the lead up to the 2013 election alone, they donated over $300,000 to the LNP. The sort of influence being wielded by the old media is a big part of what Pirate parties worldwide were formed to counter. The Internet gives everyone a platform that can reach millions, if the content is good enough. The money required to distribute culture is rapidly approaching zero and those who built media empires on mechanical distribution models (you know, physical copies of media, DVDs, cassettes etc) want to turn the clock back, because they are losing their power to influence society. Much of the Pirate Party response centred on the need to allow non-commercial file-sharing and dealing with the wrong, bordering on fraudulent assumptions, the paper was based on. From the paper: Digital communications provide challenges and opportunities. Normal interactions, such as sharing culture via the Internet, should not be threatened. Creators should seize the new opportunities provided and embrace new forms of exposure and distribution. The Pirate Party believes the law should account for the realities of this continually emerging paradigm by reducing copyright duration, promoting the remixing and reuse of existing content, and legalising all forms of non-commercial use and distribution of copyrighted materials. The discussion paper asked, ‘What could constitute ‘reasonable steps’ for ISPs to prevent or avoid copyright infringement?’ This was of particular concern because it is aimed at legally overturning the iiNet case, which set a legal precedent that ISPs couldn’t be sued for the behavior of their users. This section was a not-so-subtle attempt to push for a graduated response (‘three strikes’) system which has beenheavily criticized in a number of countries. The agenda laid out in this discussion paper was very clear, as demonstrated by Question 6: “What matters should the Court consider when determining whether to grant an injunction to block access to a particular website?” The Pirate Party obviously disagrees with the implication that website blocking was a foregone conclusion. Censorship is not the answer to file-sharing or any other perceived problem on the Internet. Government control of the flow of information is not consistent with an open democracy. The Pirate Party submission attacked website blocking on free speech grounds and explained how measures to block websites or implement a graduated response regime would be trivial to avoid through the use of VPNs. On Tuesday September 9, a public forum was held into the proposed changes. The panel was stacked with industry lobbyists, no evidence was presented while the same tired arguments were trotted out to try to convince attendees that there was need to crack down on file-sharing. It wasn’t all bad though, with the host of the meeting, Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull, flagging a Government re-thinkon how to tackle piracy after the scathing responses to the review from the public. Despite signalling a re-think, the Australian Government is still intent on implementing draconian copyright laws. Consumers may have won this round, but the fight will continue. http://torrentfreak.com/censorship-answer-online-piracy-140914/

AlphaRatio is currently adding core changes to some of its systems, including both code and servers. Sadly jasonmaster is having internet problems currently and this is slowing down the changes. Changes made today: * All users have been issued 3 invites. * All donors have been given Permanent Access to use PayPal on AR's Donation and Seedbox System. * All users have been issued 2:1 Ratioboost for 48hours. * IRCBonus Auto Reward System has been set to automatic distribution. * Search Torrents by FreeLeech/NeutralLeech and/or scene has been added. * Global FreeLeech will remain Active until further Notice. Updates to coming up next Week: * New Seedbox/Services system. * SeedBonus Auto Reward System will be tested. * Some tweaks to the Torrent Search tool to make it more user-friendly. * Due to a change in fund levels, the 18TB Archive will be shutdown (A 7TB Server will replace it later). Updates with no ETA: * FreeLeech/RatioBoost Event System triggered by Users via Silver Nuggets or when Donations hit 100%. * VNC VPS Service, ready built system with small amount of resources and 1 dedicated IP, to use VNC on any network. * New Themes from the AlphaRatio Theme contest.

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In recent years BitTorrent Inc. has managed to get some of the biggest artists in the world to work with them, using BitTorrent technology as a promotional tool. The company is currently looking to add more partners to the roster and in their pitch they claim that BitTorrent users tend to be heavy music consumers. BitTorrent Inc, the company behind the successful uTorrent and BitTorrent file-sharing clients, has been making huge efforts in recent times to shed the false image that the company is synonymous with online piracy. One of the key ways it’s changing this perception is by partnering with well-known artists such as De La Soul, Moby and Madonna, and showing that BitTorrent is an ideal tool to connect artists with fans. To provide some examples of what it can do, BitTorrent Inc. has made a distribution and advertising deck with success stories. Thus far more than 10,000 artists have used BitTorrent’s bundles, generating over 100 million downloads which convert into real sales. Slide from BitTorrent’s advertising deck (via Digiday) Aside from listing its successes the company also reports some intriguing statistics on the consumer behavior of its community. On slide 12 BitTorrent Inc. notes that its community is 33% more likely to buy albums online, makes 34% more DVD purchases, watches 34% more movies in theater and is twice as likely to have a paid music subscription. BitTorrent’s community Because BitTorrent Inc provides no source for the data provided in this last slide we contacted the company last week to find out more. Unfortunately, we haven’t received a response thus far. However, while writing this article we found that the numbers reported in the pitch deck trace back to one of our own articles. The data reported by BitTorrent Inc. comes from music industry group IFPI and details the buying habits of music pirates. BitTorrent Inc subsequently used these piracy statistics to sell its “community” to potential partners. This is interesting for a variety of reasons. First, IFPI’s research doesn’t mention BitTorrent users, but file-sharing music pirates in general. Furthermore, since when does BitTorrent see “music pirates” as its community? Perhaps that’s the reason why the source for the data isn’t provided in the pitch deck (IFPI was mentioned as source in an earlier pitch deck). That said, BitTorrent Inc is right to point out that file-sharers tend to be more engaged fans than the average person. Even the RIAA was willing to admit that. It’s good to see that more and more artists, including many big names, are beginning to recognize this potential too. Even U2, whose former manager is one of the most vocal anti-piracy crusaders, has now decided to give away its latest album for freehoping that it will increase sales of older work. Without piracy, that would have never happened. http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-users-buy-33-music-albums-online-140914/

ScienceHD | SHD | E-Learning | September 2014 Review Tracker Name : ScienceHD ( SHD ) Tracker Genre : E-Learning Tracker Type : Ratio Based Bonus System : Yes Tracker Link : https://sciencehd.me Tracker Signup Link : Closed/Invite Only IRC : Yes IRC Bonus : Yes Tracker Birthday : 4/22/2009 Tracker Description ScienceHD is a great tracker specialized in E-learning staff especially in documentary and scientific disciplines.It has great collection of BBC, National Geographic and more.Has very active community of people who share interests in science and documentaries. Tracker ScreenShots Home Categories - Search Browse Torrents Top 10 Torrents Browse Libraries Requests Bonus Points User Classes Upload Forums Rules Faqs IRC Support - Help Desk Stats My Ratings Speed : 8/10 Content : 8/10 Community : 8/10 Overall My Experience : 8/10

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DoS Attack That was the issue. Let's keep our fingers crossed it doesn't happen again soon. Enjoy the new site. BS Staff!

After a controversial first few days, the hacking trial of Gottfrid Svartholm on Friday completed its second week. The Swede's Danish co-defendant took the stand for the first time and world renowned security expert and key Tor member Jacob Appelbaum appeared for the defense. The hacking trial of Gottfrid Warg and his alleged 21-year-old Danish accomplice continued this week in Copenhagen, Denmark. While the Pirate Bay founder answered questions during week one, this Wednesday marked the first day the 21-year-old answered questions. The man, whose identity is being protected, told the Court that while he’s had no formal IT training, he is indeed a computer security expert who had been involved in testing computer systems to see how they hold up to external threats. He admitted working for American, Australian and Danish companies. The 21-year-old Dane refused to say whether he knows Gottfrid on the grounds that he could be attacked in prison. He did admit to having previously heard about Gottfrid, however. “Most people in the IT sector have heard of him,” he said. The Dane also admitted to traveling to Cambodia to visit friends and smoke cannabis, but denied that he went there to meet Gottfrid at his apartment. The prosecution also presented some emails in which the man said that CSC, the IT company involved in the hack, was owned by the CIA, but he dismissed that comment as a joke. Discussion also returned to the IRC conversations referenced in the first week of the trial which reportedly took place between ‘My Evil Twin’ (allegedly Gottfrid) and ‘Advanced Persistent Terrorist Threat’ (allegedly the 21-year-old). Much was made in week one of potentially altered Internet Relay Chat (IRC) logs presented by the prosecution. This week the Dane admitted that he had been involved in some conversations and had actually met ‘My Evil Twin’. That person was not Gottfrid, he said. In respect of the content of some chats, the Dane said the topic had indeed centered around the security of IT systems but he insisted that there we no plans to hack CSC or any other companies’ computers. Usernames and passwords of CSC systems that were allegedly exchanged during the IRC chats had been found using Google, he added. Also of note during the day’s proceedings was the Dane’s continued refusal to provide police with encryption keys to examine the contents of his laptop. “There is no material on my computer. I can not see how it would make this a better situation,” he told the court. However, DR.dk reported that during the day, due to the nature of the evidence being presented, it became clear that police had managed to retrieve some information without access to the keys. After a day’s break in proceedings, on Friday renowned activist and security expert Jacob Appelbaum appeared as an expert witness for the defense. Appelbaum also appeared in Gottfrid’s Swedish trial, a case in which he was partly acquitted. The prosecution previously complained that Appelbaum knows Gottfrid personally, so was unsuitable as an expert witness. The American denied that was the case. “I’ve only talked a little with Gottfrid as he is not known as a sociable guy. He is not easy to approach and the times that I’ve seen him in social situations it has always been about computer security,” Appelbaum said. Echoing his testimony in the Swedish case, Appelbaum told the Court that it certainly would have been possible for outsiders to have controlled Gottfrid’s computer to carry out the hack of CSC. It’s unclear for how long the trial will continue but hearings have been allocated until the end of October. http://torrentfreak.com/jacob-appelbaum-gives-testimony-in-gottfrid-svartholm-trial-140914/

It's finally here! After many years of being asked repeatedly for a donation bar, or some sort of onsite feature for our members to track our monthly progress on site funding, we have willingly added such a feature to help our members! On our Home Page you can always see where we are as a site on our monthly cost and fundraising. This meter is not kept in real time as it would simply be too much to tie it into all the donation scripts and all, and we would need it connected to a few offsite things that the site should be no part of, but will be updated every couple days as our numbers get crunched during normal site procedures and processes. You asked for one, now here it is.. please use it as we've always been told it would be. Thank you all for your support, suggestions and ideas. We are striving to listen to our community and give you all what you need! -On Behalf of the Bitsoup Staff

Tracker Name :Seedgames Genre :Games Sign Up Link :http://www.seedgames.org/signup.php Closing Time :N/A Additional Information :private torrent trackers for games

Tracker Name : Theinternationals.nu Signup Link : http://theinternationals.nu/signup.php Genre : General Closing Date : N\A Additional Information : The Internationals is a Swedish general tracker with a lot of torrents and users.The forum is very active and the speeds are very good.There is alot of Nordic people on it.Pre-Times are good and speeds are decent.The Internationals has bonus system and lots of freeleech torrents.

Tracker Name : TheShow.bz Signup Link : http://theshow.bz/signup.php Genre : e-Learning Closing Date : N\A Additional Information : a Tracker specialized in Cinema and Movies related stuff as well as 3D Graphics / Animation and alot more . It has an awesome speed and active forum also It has a Invite Forum for power user

A man hit with a $32 million lawsuit after releasing an estimated 200 hours of UFC PPV events on torrent sites has settled his case with UFC owner, Zuffa. On top of a permanent injunction Steven Messina, known online as Secludedly, publicly apologized to the UFC and will hand over all of this equipment and website data. According to fans around the world, MMA is the fastest growing sport, bar none. The planet’s premier MMA production company is the Ultimate Fighting Championship, more often known as simply UFC. In addition to events broadcast on regular TV, each month the UFC puts on special PPV cards. These cards attract a lot of attention and are a major money spinner for the martial arts organization. However, there are thousands of fans out there who prefer not to pay to view. For them, torrent sites are the answer. Until the first few months of this year one of the most prolific releasers of UFC content was an individual known online as Secludedly. However, during April his activities came to an abrupt halt after he was targeted in a $32 million lawsuit filed by UFC parent company, Zuffa. Secludedly was soon revealed to be Steven A. Messina, a 27-year-old from Staten Island, New York. “I’ll be honest, I don’t understand the laws and all that around this type of thing, so I’m a little lost here and overwhelmed,” Messina told TorrentFreak at the time. “I don’t even know what is going on. I think people on the Internet know more than me.” With a default judgment looming TorrentFreak further interviewed Messina who told us that he’d decided to launch a funding campaign to defend himself against Zuffa. He raised a few hundred dollars, nowhere near enough to take on the multi-billion valued company. Then the inevitable happened. On June 4, 2014, a default judgment was entered against Messina and his fight with the UFC was over. The question now was how badly they’d choose to beat him up financially after the final bell. All went quiet until early September when Zuffa filed for a permanent injunction to stop Messina pirating UFC content in the future. Behind the scenes the UFC and their arch-enemy had settled their case, with the only public record being the injunction jointly signed by the martial arts organization and Messina. As can be seen from the excerpt from the injunction below, the UFC are keen to learn from Messina’s operation, and that means collecting all data they can from the New Yorker. “This Court hereby enters an injunction requiring Defendant, Steven A Messina, to turn over to the plaintiff, Zuffa..[..].. any readily available information, processes, records accounts, bills received for the purchase of any UFC event, user profile names and identifications, domains utilized by Defendant and any user information for any website or computer used by, owned or controlled by Defendant that was used or assisted in the unauthorized access, streaming, copyright, uploading, downloading, distributing or public performance of any UFC event, including, but not limited to, the events that are the subject of the instant litigation,” the injunction reads. Also of interest to Zuffa is the equipment used by Messina to pirate their content. The injunction cites a 2013 TorrentFreak article in which Messina explained how he captured super-smooth video. All equipment related to that must be surrendered to Zuffa including various pieces of software, scripts and storage devices. In addition to restraining Messina from future piracy acts, the UFC are also allowed to check up on him to ensure compliance. “Plaintiff shall be entitled to conduct all discovery permitted under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for the period of six (6) months from the date of the filing of this stipulation for the purpose of monitoring Defendant’s compliance with the terms of this permanent injunction,” the injunction reads. There is no mention of a cash settlement and even if there was one it wouldn’t amount to much, certainly not $32 million. However, to act as a deterrent, the UFC has had Messina come out in public to both apologize and warn others away from the perils of piracy. “I apologize to the UFC for any damages incurred as a result of my actions in illegally distributing copyrighted UFC broadcasts. As a result of my confession for piracy of UFC’s protected content, I fully accept the terms of the settlement with the UFC,” Messina said. “I now realize the harm caused by my actions. It is my hope that I can use this difficult period as a learning experience as I move on with my life. I would also like to tell anyone pirating UFC broadcasts, either through illegal downloading or non-authorized streaming, that it is illegal and not worth the risk.” Kirk Hendrick, UFC’s Chief Legal Officer, said the MMA organization was satisfied with the result. “The UFC organization is pleased with the outcome of this case and Messina’s willingness to assist the UFC’s efforts in protecting our intellectual property and broadcasts. With Messina’s apology and understanding, the UFC organization will learn more to help us continue uncovering illegal distribution of our content.” But while Messina may have been brought under control, the lawsuit against him has done nothing to stop content appearing online. Following last weekend’s Jacare vs Mousasi card, no less than five separate release groups uploaded the event online. http://torrentfreak.com/ufc-pirate-apologizes-settles-following-32m-lawsuit-140913/