he top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘American Sniper.' 'Fury' completes the top three. This week we have four newcomers in our chart. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is the most downloaded movie for the second week in a row. 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. Ranking (last week) Movie IMDb Rating 1 (1) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (DVDscr) 7.7 2 (2) American Sniper (DVDscr) 7.6 3 (…) Fury 7.8 4 (3) Into The Woods (DVDscr) 6.8 5 (…) The Judge 7.5 6 (7) Birdman (DVDscr) 8.6 7 (4) Gone Girl 8.4 8 (5) Unbroken (DVDscr) 7.2 9 (…) Vice 4.2 10 (…) Wild 7.4

When torrent sites go offline millions of users are disappointed with the downtime but what if one could copy a torrent site and run it on a regular PC? With a few clicks and a new tool called BitCannon, that is now a reality. TorrentFreak catches up with its creator for the low down. Attacks on torrent sites are a regular occurrence. That’s been the case for well over a decade and isn’t likely to end anytime soon. As a result people are increasingly looking at ways to make them more resilient. Proxies and mirrors, for example, helped keep The Pirate Bay accessible in the face of countless web blockades. And today, projects like Open Bay and other sundry clones keep the spirit of the site alive even during its prolonged downtime. While these projects are of interest, they all rely on other people taking the initiative. A new open source tool, however, brings torrent site preservation into the hands of everyone with a PC. The idea behind BitCannon is straightforward. The software allows users to download and import torrent site contents into a database hosted on a local machine. From there users are able to browse and search torrents using a web browser in much they same way as they can on the site itself. Torrents can then be downloaded using magnet links and any compatible torrent client. http://torrentfreak.com/images/cannon-title.png After getting a local copy of KickassTorrents up and running, TorrentFreak caught up with BitCannon creator Stephen Smith for the lowdown. “I’m a self taught web developer currently in college studying computer science. I’ve always been fascinated by BitTorrent and its decentralized nature,” Stephen told TF. “With BitCannon, I am hoping to reduce the incentive of taking down torrent sites by encouraging users to utilize the site archives, and I hope this will also encourage more torrent sites to offer full site archives.” Currently only a handful of sites offer these archives (notably KickassTorrents and Demonoid) but they are offered openly and are easy to download and use once BitCannon has been installed. Downloaded site databases, which be viewed in any web browser, are presented in a straightforward and clean format. The image below shows BitCannon running a KickassTorrents dump of all torrents uploaded in the past 24 hours. http://torrentfreak.com/images/kick-daily.png BitCannon is certainly fast. While tests with a 24 hour dump of KickassTorrents were impressive, Stephen says searches on a database of 6 million torrents can be completed in about 10ms, plenty quick enough for most users. Unsurprisingly BitCannon is open source and currently available on Github. Stephen says the decision to go this route was an obvious one. “I want BitCannon to be useful to people, and I want it to be clear that I don’t intend to profit off of it, although I decided to have a donate button because the domain did cost money and I’m a college student,” he says. “I also want to allow people to use BitCannon as they please without any restrictions, in hopes that even if someone wanted to rebrand it and use it to host their own public torrent site, they may do so with minimal trouble.” And that’s the other trick up BitCannon’s sleeve. Stephen says in addition to personal use he hopes that BitCannon will prove flexible enough to provide public facing versions of cloned websites to lower the barrier of entry for those brave enough to host their own torrent sites. BitCannon works well but is still in development, so there are some issues to be ironed out. The installation process could be more automated and the browse page can take a while to load when databases contain more than one million torrents. Seeder/leecher counts are also on the to-do list as is a fully embedded database rather than MongoDB. “What would be ideal, I think, is if more torrent sites allowed users to download archives AND if more users downloaded these archives. Taking down torrent sites would then have less and less of an impact,” Stephen says. BitCannon’s creator is grateful for the invaluable help he’s received from friend Casey Nordcliff and is now is calling on the community to help the project along. “BitCannon isn’t 100% production ready, but I’d like to invite BitTorrent enthusiasts to try it out and provide feedback on how I can make it more useful and easier to use,” Stephen concludes. BitCannon can be downloaded for Windows, Linux and Mac here with instructions found here. For initial testing we advise use of a daily dump rather than full site databases.

With a rather peculiar takedown request Hollywood is going after OpenCulture.com, one of the largest collections of cultural and educational media online. According to a takedown notice the MPAA sent to Google, Open Culture's list of 700 free public domain movies contains copyright infringing material. Despite the growing availability of legal services in many countries, movie studios face a constant stream of pirated films. In an attempt to deter these infringements, the MPAA and individual movie studios send thousands of takedown notices to Internet services every month. Most of these requests are directed at Google. When it comes to takedown notices the MPAA has a dubious track record. The movie industry group has got into the habit of asking Google to remove the homepages of allegedly infringing sites instead of individual pages where the infringing movies are listed. A few days ago, for example, the MPAA asked Google to remove the homepage of the most popular torrent site Kickass.so, alongside several other torrent and streaming sites. As with previous requests Google declined to do so as the request was too broad. http://torrentfreak.com/images/kickmpaa.png The same takedown notice includes another unusual and perhaps more worrying request. Between all the “pirate sites” the MPAA also targeted Open Culture’s list of public domain movies. For those unfamiliar with the project, Open Culture offers an archive of high-quality cultural & educational media. With Stanford University’s Dan Colman as founder and lead editor, the content listed on the site is selected with great care. The MPAA, however, appears to have spotted a problem with the list and has asked Google to remove the entire page (containing 700 movies) from its search results, as shown in the image below. http://torrentfreak.com/images/openculturedown.png So why would MPAA target content that’s seemingly in the public domain? The full details of the takedown notice have yet to be published, but there is a good chance that the request was sent in error. In any case, the notice doesn’t look good for the MPAA. Over the past seferal months the MPAA has lobbied Google to block entire domains from its search results, but mistakes like these are a reminder for Google to remain cautious.

The decision by the Australian Classification board to refuse classification for the game Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, is set to spectacularly backfire. In response to the censorship the game's developer is advised fans to hit the Internet and pirate the title instead. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is a 2D top-down video game developed by Dennaton Games and published by Devolver Digital. It’s the follow-up to the original Hotline Miami which developed into a fan favorite shifting hundreds of thousands of units in its first weeks on sale. While HM2 is set to ride on its predecessor’s successes, its nature means that the some gamers will not be seeing the game on shelves, virtual or otherwise. The problem lies with HM2’s depiction of sex and violence, often in the same scenes. Kotaku, for example, has a report on one particular scene which involves lots of killing rounded off with what appears to be rape. While this scene isn’t the only culprit, it’s all been too much for the Australian Classification Board, the body tasked with ensuring titles are suitable for a local audience. According to government guidelines, publications that “depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified” will not be classified. As a result the Australian Classification Board has now effectively banned Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number in Australia meaning that Aussies won’t be able to get their hands on the title. Well not by official means of course. Normally this kind of situation would see gamers disappearing off to torrent sites hoping to obtain the title without being caught. However, thanks to HM2’s developers they can not only still do the former but can do so without any fear of the latter. The move was uncovered by Reddit user Max Cartwright who wrote to Jonatan Söderström, co-creator of Hotline Miami, expressing disappointment at the game being banned. “As you obviously are aware, Hotline Miami 2 has been refused classification in Australia. This killed me, knowing that there is no legitimate way to purchase one of my most anticipated games,” Cartwright began. “My question to you is, how would you, as the developer, most prefer me to obtain your game? I was thinking maybe I could torrent it and donate to you directly, but I’m not a fan of torrenting games and I don’t want to get in legal trouble.” Söderström responded, and it was everything Cartwright could’ve hoped for. “If it ends up not being released in Australia, just pirate it after release,” Söderström said. “No need to send us any money, just enjoy the game!” With the email confirmed as genuine it now seems that Australians will not only be able to bypass the censors but do so with permission – a somewhat unique situation for commercially available title. For their part, Devolver Digital have expressed disappointment at the decision not to classify but say they have no plans to censor the title. “We are concerned and disappointed that a board of professionals tasked with evaluating and judging games fairly and honestly would stretch the facts to such a degree and issue a report that describes specific thrusting actions that are not simply present in the sequence in question and incorrectly portrays what was presented to them for review,” the company said. This isn’t the first time that the creators of Hotline Miami have rubbed shoulders with pirates. In 2012 the developer took the decision to give customer support and a special patch to users of The Pirate Bay who had downloaded the game without paying for it. Playing nice with pirates worked out well two years ago. Let’s see how that pans out second time around.

Anyone expecting a swift conclusion to the current investigation into The Pirate Bay should stop holding their breath. According to prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad the process involves processing lots of evidence and will take many months to complete. But who else is on the prosecutor's radar? Yesterday was the one month anniversary of the December 9, 2014 raid on The Pirate Bay. To this day the site remains down. First week aside, most news has focused on the fate of the notorious site and whether it will rise like a phoenix from the ashes. There have been numerous teasers from people with access to The Pirate Bay’s main domain, thepiratebay.se, but no concrete signs either way. But while millions of former users adjust to life without the site, authorities have remained fairly tight-lipped about when their investigation began and the position it’s at today. There are signs, however. In 2012 it became evident that new action was being planned against the site when the Pirate Bay team revealed the existence of a new investigation. Just days later Swedish hosting company Binero confirmed that they had been approached by the police for information about the site’s domain. Then, as predicted, in April 2013 prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad filed a motion at the District Court of Stockholm requesting the seizure of several Pirate Bay domains. Shortly after, Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm was questioned in prison, a visit which confirmed the existence of a new investigation involving Swedish anti-piracy group Antipiratbyrån and led by Ingblad. Outwardly things went quiet in the months that followed but in November 2014 there was a significant development. The Pirate Bay’s Fredrik Neij was arrested, ostensibly to serve the sentence handed down for his previous involvement in the site. However, emails obtained by TorrentFreak revealed Hollywood insiders discussing new criminal charges against Neij for his alleged continued involvement in the site. Also of interest but not revealed until today, TF understands that last year Thai police were briefed on a number of individuals said to be involved in The Pirate Bay’s operations. One of those individuals was a man employed at a hosting company back in Sweden, but not the company that was raided in December. After obtaining his photograph from a police briefing document TorrentFreak approached the man himself and also Rights Alliance lawyer Henrik Ponten for more information. Neither responded to our requests for comment. The task ahead for Swedish authorities is said to be substantial. In the December raid large amounts of equipment and other evidence was seized and that will have to be systematically processed as the days unfold. According to prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad, that will take a considerable time. “[The Pirate Bay] was seized, everything needs to be reviewed and analyzed. It will take many months to do so,” Ingblad said this week. The big question now is whether Ingblad’s team will be investigating a dead site or one that has already risen from the ashes. They are watching, he confirmed. “We will keep track of what happens,” the prosecutor added.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone. We want to apologize for the recent downtime. Before Christmas our hard drive crashed and due to holidays was bit more complicated than we expected to replace it. Unfortunately we lost some torrents (well a bit more than we expected), we are not sure what happened, still investigating, but we are sure that with your help we are going to have them back soon, so if you notice that your torrent is not on site anymore please feel free to upload it again. For everything else we have used a backup from 18 December, so everything after that date was lost, if you invited someone, or anything else after that date please use staff pm to inform us about it and will try to fix it as soon as possible. We will try to add everything back to normal as soon as possible but if you notice any bugs please let us know using staff pm and will try to fix it. Since we where offline on Christmas and you guys miss the gifts we make it so that you can open it now. We are sorry for any inconvenience due to recent downtime. PTN Staff :: Staff

With a new update to the site The Pirate Bay has added yet more mysterious hints to its uncertain future. The site suggests that it's sailing towards its home base, but to what end? An official statement from the TPB crew is expected to be released during the days to come. A month has passed since The Pirate Bay was raided at the Nacka station, a nuclear-proof data center built into a mountain complex near Stockholm. After being down for two weeks the site’s domain became responsive again, waving a pirate flag and a counter that kept track of the time that had elapsed since the raid. Last week this counter suddenly started counting down, indicating that something is about to happen on February 1st. A few hours ago a few new mystery changes were made to the site. The Pirate Bay logo in the right left corner started to move to a new image named totheisland.png on the bottom left. The CSS class of the image is “setsail,” suggesting that TPB is moving to the island. The question that remains, however, is what it all means. The text on the island image is hardly readable but on closer inspection it appears to be a copy of one of TPB’s older doodles, pictured below. The island in question features Pirate Bay’s home base and a few other torrent landmarks, including the seeder’s cave, dead torrents swamp and the grave of the MPAA. So does this mean that the Pirate Bay is heading home for a fresh start? Or will the ship dock for good? Besides the moving ship and the island image TPB also added a new “pipe vi Makefile” class for the encrypted AES code. This is yet another suggestion that something’s coming, but in common with the other hints it’s still unclear what. A source close to The Pirate Bay team informs TF that they are not ready to make an announcement on the site’s future yet. However, an official statement will follow in a few days time. While Pirate Bay users are eagerly hoping for a full comeback on February 1st, the site could also announce something new. The extended downtime suggests that the site was hit hard and it’s not unthinkable that recent backups are out of reach. Meanwhile, several Pirate Bay copycats are trying to gain the hearts and minds of lost Pirate Bay users. Yesterday, one of the imposters using the com.ua TLD went as far as issuing a press release, stating that the Pirate Bay has found a new home in Ukraine. For now, however, the real Pirate Bay remains without torrents. And if it eventually makes a comeback, it will be at the official thepiratebay.se domain.

The Canadian based anti-piracy firm Canipre is known for hounding file-sharers with lawsuits and copyright infringement notices. Ironically, however, the company may want to start cleaning up its own house first as a blog affiliated with the company has been frequently "pirating" news articles. Copyright is a double-edged sword, and those who sharpen one side often get cut by the other. We see it happening time and time again with lawyers, lawmakers, anti-piracy groups and copyright holders. In Canada the local anti-piracy group Canipre is running into the same trap. The blog copyrightenforcement.ca, which is linked to one of the company’s top executives and often used to post Canipre press releases, has been making a habit out of lifting articles written by hard-working journalists. Most of the articles that appear on the site are copied from other news sources, including TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, The Hollywood Reporter, TorrentFreak and many others. At TF we publish our content under a CC license, so there’s no foul play there, but the other news sites are not all copy friendly. In fact, the publication of most of the lifted articles amounts to blatant copyright infringement. While fair dealing exists, posting full articles, some of which are behind a paywall, generally doesn’t fall into this category. And it’s not only the text that’s being copied but also the images which are often independently copyrighted. After becoming the first company to go after individual Canadian file-sharers in court, this week Canipre announced a new campaign to send copyright infringement warnings to ISPs under the notice-and-notice program. However, as University of Ottawa professor Michael Geist points out, they may have to start sending piracy notices to their own staff first. “Canipre would likely offer its services to the media companies whose work is affected, yet it might want to take a closer look at its internal conduct before throwing stones in the form of thousands of notices alleging infringement,” Geist notes. Making matter even worse, this isn’t the first time that Canipre has been linked to unauthorized copying. Two years ago the company’s own website blatantly used photos that were ripped-off from independent photographers.

ast week Canada enacted an amendment to its copyright law which requires Internet services to retain access logs of customers in order to process piracy notices. This mandatory data retention puts the privacy of VPN users at risk, and as a result Canadian providers are considering pulling out of the country. A few days ago it became a legal requirement for Canadian ISPs to forward copyright infringement notices to their subscribers. As a result of the new copyright law amendments, which also apply to VPN services, providers now have to keep logs of their subscribers’ IP-addresses or face high penalties. Specifically, the law requires a broad range of Internet services to “retain records that will allow the identity of the person to whom the electronic location belongs to be determined, and do so for six months….” Failing to log traffic and forward these notices may result in “statutory damages in an amount that the court considers just, but not less than $5,000 and not more than 10,000…” The new rules also apply to BTGuard, a well-known Canadian VPN and proxy service that claims to keep no logs. Concerned that the new data retention requirements would force a change in this policy, several customers asked the provider for clarification. Responding to these requests BTGuard assured its customers that its logging policy remains unchanged. However, BTGuard may discontinue its Canadian servers in the near future. “Rest assured that we are committed to our customers’ privacy. As stated in our privacy policy, we do not log our customers’ usage or IPs and never will,” one customer was told by BTGuard. “It’s possible that this legislation will require us to discontinue our servers in Canada, but we will find a solution and our services will continue where it’s legal to be anonymous without causing you any inconvenience,” the company added. In a separate request we asked BTGuard for a comment on how the new law will affect its business. In a short comment we were informed that they are still exploring their options and that no final decision has been made yet. “We still guarantee privacy. Our servers in Canada might be closed, but we are still exploring our options,” BTGuard’s Jared told TF. Other providers are prepared to take similar measures. While the text of the law suggests that VPN providers are covered (something that’s also confirmed by one of Canada’s top copyright scholars), many are still uncertain about the exact impact it will have. TunnelBear informed us that they are still investigating if they are indeed covered by the new legislation. If they are, the company will take its business elsewhere. “Despite our investigation and legal consultations, it remains unclear whether or not VPN companies are included in the bill. We have brought on legal counsel to continue to investigate,” TunnelBear says. “If it is determined that TunnelBear is required to comply with C11 if we retain operations in Canada, we will swiftly move our operations to a more privacy friendly region. At no point, under any circumstances will TunnelBear log the activity of our users,” TunnelBear adds. For TunnelBear the issue is less urgent than for others though, as the company doesn’t allow torrent traffic on its servers. While the changes may reduce piracy somewhat, it also negatively affects people’s privacy. And with the new data retention requirements Canada has certainly become an unattractive location for VPNs and other privacy services. — TF is interested in hearing how other Canadian providers intend to respond to the new law. We sent out more inquiries and will add to this article when responses are received.

Billed as the first case of its kind, a man has gone on trial in the UK accused of attempting to camcord the movie 'Gravity' in full 3D. The 28-year-old film student allegedly constructed a rig using a pair of hi-def cameras but was thwarted when cinema staff spotted and confiscated his device. Despite their reputation for being poor quality, so-called ‘cam’ copies of movies remain popular with movie fans. On the other hand, these bootlegs – which are the product of unauthorized in-cinema recording – remain terribly unpopular with the movie industry itself. Over the years Hollywood has lobbied for draconian laws all around the world to deal with the problem. On home turf legislation is now particularly tough, with lengthy jail sentences for those caught recording the latest blockbusters. Elsewhere the strength of the law varies, but that hasn’t stopped the industry from using all of the tools at its disposal. There have been a number of “camming” cases in the UK in recent years, some of which have resulted in lengthy sentences for the accused. And in what appears to be a world first, a trial currently underway in central England involves the prosecution of an individual alleged to have gone equipped to “cam” a movie in full 3D. According to reports from Birmingham Crown Court, Ciprian Florea attended a Cineworld cinema in the city during November 2013 with the express intention of making an unauthorized copy of the space blockbuster ‘Gravity’. Making effective camcorder copies of 3D movies is not straightforward but the prosecution said the 28-year-old had prepared for the job in hand. Florea, a student of film technology at Birmingham City University, is said to have hired two special high-definition cameras the day before his arrest. These had been placed in a custom-made box in order to record the left and right eye as required for 3D imaging. Florea admits making the device and taking it into the cinema, but denies he intended to make a copy of the movie. “It is not disputed that the defendant made that camera. He says he did not intend to use it in the auditorium,” said Sally Cairns, prosecuting. “The prosecution say that is exactly what he intended to do. That is why he went to the cinema, that is why he bought the tickets to see the 3D film Gravity on that night.” With no specific “camming” legislation available to the prosecution, Florea stands accused of possessing a 3D camera with intent to commit fraud, i.e the recording and subsequent distribution of the movie. “This trial is about piracy, film piracy,” Cairns said. “Specifically the illegal recording of films from cinema screens and then potentially distributing them, showing them, sharing them with others.” According to the Birmingham Mail the case is also unusual in that Florea had not even reached the screening room before his device was confiscated by security. “He had something around his neck, a sort of box,” a security guard told the Court. “I saw a red light and that is when I turned around. I though this could be a recording device. It did not look like a usual camera.” The Federation Against Copyright Theft confirmed to TF that the case is underway but declined further comment. For the Cineworld chain involved in the case, this is the second time in the headlines in as many months. In December 2014, Cineworld made headlines when staff called police to tackle children they believed had been recording the movie The Hunger Games. The innocent kids were cleared by police of all wrong doing. A representative for Cineworld informs TorrentFreak that following the event the chain is now revisiting its policies. “It is for the police to decide whether they feel it is appropriate to act on the information provided to them. In this case, the police decided that there were sufficient grounds for suspicion and chose to attend the cinema,” a spokesperson said. “However, we have taken on board the concerns expressed by the parents and we are reviewing how the policy is applied to younger customers.”

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I have noticed more than a few people not playing nice with the apis. It is not nice to hit an rss feed once per second or once every 2 seconds. I have set minimum times for each to 10 minutes. So, hammering the site, will get you nothing, except banned. Those of you playing nice with the apis, cool, you won't see any change. Those of you are not, fix your apps and set your retry times accordingly.

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A claim by Kim Dotcom's estranged wife Mona against 50% of assets seized following the raid on Megaupload should be rejected, the U.S. Government says. Dismissing her interests in the property as "inchoate and murky", the U.S. insists that Mona should get nothing. Following the 2012 raid on Megaupload and Kim Dotcom, U.S. and New Zealand authorities seized millions of dollars in cash and other property. Claiming the assets were obtained through copyright and money laundering crimes, last July the U.S. government launched a separate civil action in which it asked the court to forfeit the bank accounts, cars and other seized possessions of the Megaupload defendants. In August 2014, Dotcom and his co-defendants responded by filing their own claims against the property, a move which resulted in the U.S. branding the former Megaupload operators as “fugitives“. Early September Mona Dotcom, Kim Dotcom’s wife, filed her own claim against some of the seized property. Mona said that under New Zealand law she had “a 50% marital interest” in the assets named in the civil forfeiture complaint, which includes luxury vehicles and other expensive items. No standing to claim However, in a new filing the U.S. states that Mona currently has no standing to make such a claim, arguing that her interest under New Zealand law remains “unquantifiable” until she obtains a New Zealand court order defining the extent of her marital property. Noting that Mona herself previously claimed to have been “completely financially dependent” on Kim Dotcom since their marriage, the U.S. states that Mona has failed to provide evidence that she has “dominion and control over the properties” which give her standing to make a claim. Highlighting Mona’s claim to one of the seized vehicles, the U.S. notes that “Mona Dotcom cannot even drive — and without that ability, it would seem nearly impossible for her to establish that she had dominion and control over the vehicles.” Already received millions from marriage Also at issue is the value of the 50% claim itself. According to the U.S. government, Mona has already received assets “far in excess” of the value of her claim from her marriage thus far. “Mona Dotcom has already received more than any possible marital interest claim from releases from the New Zealand Courts, as well as from a direct transfer to her from Kim Dotcom of assets not restrained by this Court,” the U.S. argues. According to the filing, through successful court action the Dotcom’s have obtained 40% of the assets previously seized in New Zealand. “As of December 2014, more than NZ$1 million (currently US$770,000) in restrained funds were released to the Dotcoms as ‘living expenses’ by the New Zealand courts,” the filing reads. “An additional approximate NZ$6 million (US$4.64 million) in legal fees have already been released to the Dotcoms. Mona Dotcom has benefited from the attacks on the restraints and has continued to enjoy a lavish lifestyle as a result.” The U.S. also references assets in cloud-storage service Mega which were gifted to Mona by husband Kim. The 17% share is estimated to be worth NZ$35 million. “This gift, combined with the apparent proceeds of previous sales of stock in Mega Limited and [music service] Baboom, means that Mona Dotcom has been provided and still controls assets well in excess of the approximately NZ$23 million she is trying to claim in this proceeding as her marital assets. “Because she has already been provided those assets, her claim that she is still owed half the interest in Kim Dotcom’s restrained assets cannot be established under New Zealand law.” Benefits from illegal activity? The U.S. government also insists that in order to have a valid claim for assets Mona might have to prove that she has not unlawfully benefited from criminal activity associated with her husband and Megaupload. “Whatever the New Zealand courts ultimately determine Mona Dotcom’s marital interest to be, New Zealand courts have consistently refused to allow even an entirely innocent and unaware spouse to retain any interest in criminal proceeds,” the U.S. government writes. But according to government’s lawyers, it may not come to that. They say that Mona was one of the incorporators of the “Megateam Corp.” in the Philipines and had no less than six separate Megaupload accounts associated with her email addresses. “Mona Dotcom’s claim is insufficient to give her standing because she cannot establish any concrete injury,” the U.S. concludes. “Until the New Zealand courts quantify whatever property interest she may have, the nature of her property interest is at best, inchoate and murky.” Finally, it appears the U.S. is also concerned about the amount of cash being burned through by the Dotcoms. In December Kim Dotcom filed a request for further legal expenses (estimated by the U.S. as likely to run into “millions”) plus additional living expenses (US$77,000 per month) to be released. That hearing will take place next week.

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Tracker Name : TorrentShack Tracker URL : http://torrentshack.net/ Tracker Type : Ratioless Signup URL : Closed / Invites Only Tracker Speed: 9/10 Tracker Pretime: 9/10 Tracker Content : 7/10 Tracker Description : Torrentshack Is a very good Ratioless tracker with great download speed and good PreTimes. Index : Torrent Catégories : Torrents : Archive : Requests : Top 10 : Forums : Donation : Wiki : Rules : Stats: Staff : User classes : Invite System :

Tracker Name: TorrentLeech [TL] Tracker URL : http://www.torrentleech.org Tracker Genre : General Signup URL : Invite only Tracker Speed: 10/10 Tracker Pretime: 9/10 Tracker Content : 9/10 Tracker Description : TorrentLeech is one of the biggest General and 0-Day tracker nowdays. With thousands of members (over 200k) and torrents over 40k its a place where you can find anything and with top speeds. You can find here all type of content like movies, DVD-R, music, Ebooks, TV-Series, etc . Ratio is not an easy job when you first join the tracker cause of waiting time for new members plus TL has no freeleech files. Home/News : Torrent Categories : Filters : Browse Page : Forums : Wiki : User Classes : Donate :

Tracker Name: FreshonTV [TVT.ro] Tracker URL : http://freshon.tv Tracker Genre : TV Signup URL : Invite only Tracker Speed: 8/10 Tracker Pretime: 8/10 Tracker Content : 8/10 Tracker Description : Freshon/TvTorrents ro is a romanian private tracker for TV Content. It is a nice low level tracker with good content and speeds. If you are a TV buff and struggling to get into bigger trackers then try this out. Home/News : Torrent Categories : Browse Page : Requests : Calendar : Subtitles: Forums : Rules : F.A.Q : IRC : User Classes : Upload :

Tracker Name: SceneAccess [sCC] Tracker URL : https://sceneaccess.eu Tracker Genre : General Signup URL : Invite only Tracker Speed: 10/10 Tracker Pretime: 10/10 Tracker Content : 9/10 Tracker Description : One of the most wanted, well organized, well managed, well secured, well designed trackers in the BT world. Site is full of rich contents. This is one of things that users get attached to the tracker. Huge freeleech packs, single episodes in different formats, various kind of releases etc. you can decide all of those things by looking at those big category lists below. They tell the story well. Speeds are well how can I say this "unbelievable". Most of users there use high end seedboxes or Internet connections to transfer their data. Sort of hard to compete with those users if you have somewhat a low end connection. Speed of pre-times is another important thing about this tracker. I think there are one or two trackers out there to compete with pre-times of this tracker. Most of pre-times are too quick. Freeleech torrents are in two different sections. MP3/0day section and Archive section. Mp3/0day As you can see from the category list of this section below the section is all about MP3, 0day and MVids. This section covers a huge area. Archive Archive sections is all about Movies, TV, Games or others. Most of the the time those are comes as packs. You can find so many large packs in Archive section. They have weekly movie packs and its always free leech. So many peers/seeders hang around in those sections all the time. Every torrent in those sections is free to be leeched. Best way to build your ratio up and increase you buffer amount. Community of SCC is one of the most active and valuable communities in the torrent world. Forum is a knowledgeable, extremely active place. Not only about scene releases and the tracker, but also you can find very useful tutorials and stuff too. A lot of them. They also have some competitions going on there so users can participate to those competitions and be more active on the forum. Also I should mention about the IRC. There are different channels for specific languages and many channels for services. So IRC is also active. Home/News : Browse Page : Forums : Wiki : User Classes : IRC : Staff : Donate :