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BitTorrent is continuing to use significant content partnerships to shake its reputation as a haven for illegal file sharing. The torrenting service has teamed up with Sony Pictures Classics to distribute bonus content for Red Army, a documentary about the national hockey team of the Soviet Union. Users who access Red Army‘s official BitTorrent page can download “four free video, image files and more” or provide an email address to unlock a premium package from BitTorrent Bundle that includes the aforementioned video and image files as well as “14 premium video files and more bonus features and added content.” BitTorrent’s bundling service also has plans to distribute sci-fi series Children of the Machine and David Cross’ Hits. Users are required to install the BitTorrent client before they can download the film. Red Army explores the rise and fall of the Soviet squad, which famously lost to the United States during the “Miracle on Ice” in 1980. The BitTorrent Bundle for the flim has already received more than two million downloads, while the full-length feature doc has received universal critical acclaim; Red Army currently holds a 95% critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The deal between Sony Classics and BitTorrent is significant. It’s the first time BitTorrent Bundle has made a deal with a major film studio, and it’s particularly interesting that the studio in question is Sony, which recently saw several of its films leaked on file sharing sites as part of the highly-publicized hacking spree it suffered. With this partnership, BitTorrent gets to improve its reputation, while Sony gets utilize file sharing on its own terms.

Last month, indie distributor FilmBuff announced a partnership with BitTorrent to distribute curated collections of documentary films via the peer-to-peer file sharing service. The two companies have now revealed the documentaries that will be available via the “BitTorrent Bundle.” The 16 documentaries are split into four different bundles, each available for $15 and curated by different themes. The rock music “Sonic Journeys” pack will offer “Broadway Idiot,” “Fading West,” “The Big Easy Express,” and “The Secret to a Happy Ending.” The jazz-focused “American Roots” features “Awake Zion,” “Brooklyn Boheme,” “Icons Among Us,” and “The Russian Winter.” The internet-themed “Digital Revolution” includes “The Internet’s Own Boy” (which was initially released on Vimeo and came close to an Academy Award nomination), “The Startup Kids,” “TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard,” and “We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivisits.” And the gaming-centric “Arcade Stories” pack will offer “100 Yen: The Japanese Arcade Experience,” “Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters,” “Playing Columbine,” and “Space Invaders: In Search of Lost Time.” Each bundle contains HD-quality versions of the films. Once purchased, users can stream any film from the bundle from its webpage at any time. FilmBuff is the first distributor to make feature-length films available via BitTorrent, which like other peer-to-peer protocols has long been a hub for online piracy. The company hopes to change that with the launch of its Bundle program. http://www.thevideoink.com/news/filmbuff-starts-selling-full-length-documentaries-bittorrent/#.VNsiNeaUfhQ

A Megaupload developer indicted with online piracy-related crimes by Washington has been arrested in the US. Previously he was fighting extradition in the Netherlands, and his arrest sparked speculation that he may have struck a deal with prosecutors. Andrus Nomm, 36, was arrested Monday in Alexandria, Va., AP reported, citing court documents. He came to the US after more than two years of fighting extradition in the Netherlands. Nomm is the first of seven people accused by the US justice of infringing copyright through Megaupload, a now-defunct online service founded by German-born businessman Kim Dotcom. Four of the accused, including the file-sharing mogul himself, are currently in New Zealand fighting extradition requests from the US, the New Zealand Herald reported. Two others are living in Slovakia and in Germany, respectively, where both are safe from being handed over to the US. Nomm was arrested after a US request in 2012 in the Netherlands, but was released on bail and lived in Rotterdam since then, Dotcom's lawyer Ira Rothken told the Herald. His appearance in US custody was “unexpected” and probably indicates that he had struck some kind of plea bargain with American prosecutors, Rothken said. "Given he didn't have any more resources, it was expected the US would take advantage. This is to be expected where the US Department of Justice, in an experimental case, is trying to get folks scared and to testify in certain ways,” he said. The lawyer added that Nomm, a programmer of Estonian origin involved in developing Megaupload from 2006 up to its shutdown in 2012, had problems finding a job in the Netherlands. Rothken added that if Nomm testified truthfully “it would be of no benefit to the US." The FBI’s indictment of Nomm claims that he received $100,000 for his work at Megaupload in 2010. It also accuses him of watching at least one copy of a pirated TV show. Dotcom is currently fighting a myriad of Megaupload-related cases, and is trying to have his frozen assets released by New Zealand and to defeat a US extradition request. His next hearing is scheduled for June 2015. http://rt.com/news/230919-megaupload-programmer-arrested-us/

In the second year of the Digital Citizens Alliance’s look at which sites are profiting from online piracy of films and TV shows, one big change was obvious. The traditional use of downloaded files is waning as people shift to streaming sites to watch pirated shows. “The difference was marked,” said Medialink VP Mark Berns, who conducted the study both years for the Alliance. Berns and several others took part in a panel at today’s Digital Entertainment World conference previewing year 2 of the piracy review, which will come out in about three weeks. The Alliance, which is based in Washington, D.C., and substantially funded by the major studios, has focused on online piracy as one of its key interests. This year’s study focused on about the same number of sites trafficking in pirated content, close to 600 both years, said Alliance Director Tom Galvin. Another big difference, however, is that the money they’re generating is being spread more widely, especially as big sites such as Pirate Bay have been shut down. As well, smaller sites increasingly are basing themselves in countries where there is little opportunity for law enforcement to take them down. Ok, right...Blame piracy for making a BAD sequel to an R rated franchise and making it a... The panel’s participants did not put a dollar number on this year’s findings yet (last year, they estimated the sites made $227 million in profit from the pirated content), but they said profit margins are typically 80 percent to 90 percent for the sites. “Now, anyone can create (a pirate site),” said computer security consultant Hemanshu Nigam of SSB Blue. “All you need is a server, and half the time it’s a hacked server. Law enforcement can take down a big site like Pirate Bay, but five more will pop up. Enforcement is thinking, ‘Where do I put my money?’ In the meantime, these numbers just keep going up. The threat metrics keep expanding.” And the damage from online piracy can be substantial, and they pointed to Expendables 3, the film starring a baker’s dozen of aging action stars that was leaked online days before it was to hit theaters. Millennium Films CEO Mark Gill, a panelist, said the film from his company has since been illegally downloaded more than 60 million times, battering the film’s box office returns. It is blamed for the bankruptcy of at least one of the film’s distributors, in Russia. Gill said there are several ways to make a dent in the problem: 1) Shut off the access that sites have to advertising from big brands and the ability to get paid through credit card companies. While Pay Pal has done a good job in cutting off payments to illegal sites, other card processors have been much slower, Gill said. And big advertisers have been slower to block their brands from showing up on the ads that run on many of the sites than they should be. 2) Education about the risks and problems accompanying the sites. Berns said this year’s study found about one in three of the pirate sites had links that would install malware on visitors’ computers, compromising their systems and possibly exposing financial and other personal information. 3) A growing understanding among many consumers that it’s an issue that may affect them directly, instead of a far-away entertainment company. http://deadline.com/2015/02/piracy-streaming-video-study-digital-citizens-allliance-1201370954/

The marketing world has lately been consumed by a debate over fraud – ensuring online ads are shown to real people instead of computerized “bots.” But there’s another issue threatening the industry: piracy. Marketers frequently find their ads alongside unlicensed content from major content owners, or on sites promoting counterfeit goods. Now, the Trustworthy Accountability Group, an ad industry self-regulatory body, plans to fix that problem with a new program designed to identify high-risk websites and ensure marketers’ ads aren’t placed on them. “Fraud, malware and piracy—marketers are really paying attention to this stuff now, and they’re are hopping mad”, said Linda Woolley, president and chief executive of the Trustworthy Accountability Group, who spoke to CMO Today at the annual leadership meeting of the Interactive Advertising Bureau in Phoenix. “I think marketers are extremely concerned about these issues, and they’re now willing to take a stance.” Under the new initiative, called Brand Integrity Program Against Piracy, TAG will certify certain advertising technology companies as Digital Advertising Assurance Providers (DAAP). They will be tasked with identifying high-risk sites or “ad risk entities” and preventing marketers’ ads from appearing on them. TAG will work with a small number of independent third-party firms, including Ernst & Young and Stroz Friedberg, to validate ad tech companies for the monitoring job. TAG’s initiative has the support of its founding ad industry groups, the American Association of Advertising Agencies, Association of National Advertisers, and Interactive Advertising Bureau. It also has the backing of copyright groups including the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and Copyright Alliance. “Billions of dollars that belong to marketers have been stolen or misdirected for unscrupulous purposes,” said ANA President Bob Liodice. “It’s time we reclaim what is ours and put an end to these devious and criminal activities.” Applications to qualify as DAAP providers are now being accepted, and the first companies to receive such validation will be announced over the coming months, TAG said. Meanwhile, TAG continues its push to stamp out fraudulent traffic that continues to plague the industry. On that front, the group plans to launch a cross-industry accountability program by June.

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The largest peer to peer file-sharing site in the world, The Pirate Bay, was shut down by a decisive raid by Swedish police on December 9, 2014. The raid was perhaps the most significant ever staged, resulting in the take-down of the biggest shark in ocean of online piracy. But for law enforcement, victory was short lived. Within days of the raid oldpiratebay.org was launched by a site called IsoHunt. Old Pirate Bay hosts an exact copy of The Pirate Bay immediately before it was raided. On January 31, The Pirate Bay site rose from the ashes, and at the moment proudly displays a picture of a Phoenix on its front page. My question for law enforcement is simple: what did you gain? Let’s not mince words: pirating copyrighted content is illegal, and there’s nothing wrong with punishing pirates using the instrument of the law. But if the goal was to curtail piracy, law enforcement has failed categorically. In fact, as a result of software development efforts after the raid, it’s never been harder to take down torrent trackers like The Pirate Bay. After TPB’s servers were hit in Sweden and IsoHunt got their copy of the site up and running, high profile members of the piracy community began work on the ultimate obfuscation: The Open Bay. Pulling directly from IsoHunt’s site, The Open Bay lets anyone on earth “Save, create and run your own Pirate Bay.” Old Pirate Bay was already a bad enough example of the Whac-A-Mole effect: The Pirate Bay was knocked down and Old Pirate Bay immediately popped up to replace it. Now, thousands of websites all over the world will be hosting the exact same “site” called The Open Bay. The main Pirate Bay website is back up, but if it’s taken down again there will be thousands of exactly identical clones available immediately. I wouldn’t count law-enforcement out just yet, but piracy is looking more invincible by the day. If you cut off a Hydra’s head two grow back in its place. Even that metaphor falls short, because at least a Hydra is slow enough to grow merely exponentially. Thanks to the nature of the software, law enforcement could raid every copy of the Pirate Bay in the world at once, and even if nothing could be backed up there would hundreds of replacements within the day. http://thegreyhound.org/site/2015/02/01/the-pirate-bay-returns-piracys-whac-a-mole-effect/ But just because piracy sites are unstoppable doesn’t mean that law enforcement has no options left. No, what we’re left with is the much scarier possibility of deep packet inspection. If you can’t stop piracy at the site level, why not stop it at the user level? Examine every packet of data passing through a person’s pipe, searching for illicit downloads. Law enforcement’s only remaining option to combat piracy is to violate the right to privacy. If we’ve learned nothing from Eric Snowden’s leaks, we’re aware that our government has no aversion to catastrophic intrusions of privacy on a massive scale. The MPAA, rights holders and the law have been playing an unwinnable game of Whac-A-Mole for years, and predictably, they lost. But that doesn’t mean they’re done playing, it means they’ll start playing a much more dangerous game with our rights. You can stop this game before it starts. Petitioning Congress to restore net neutrality is the first and most important step in keeping the internet free. If Internet Service Providers must treat their customers equally, then the MPAA won’t get special privileges in dictating how the internet works. This isn’t about protecting pirates, this is about protecting every person’s privacy against the excuse “well, we were looking for pirates, why do you care?” Privacy matters, even when you have nothing to hide.

The Pirate Bay has risen from its digital ashes once again. TPB is back online today, more than seven weeks after its servers were raided . The notorious torrent site is operating from the familiar .se domain and it appears that the data loss is minimal. Early December 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 domain came back online waving a pirate flag on its temporary homepage. TPB later added a countdown to February 1st, alongside several hints that the site would come back online at that day. Today we can report that The Pirate Bay lived up to the comeback expectations, with a comeback one day ahead of schedule. A few minutes ago the site started serving torrents to the masses again, much to the delight of millions of users. The Pirate Bay’s homepage currently features a Phoenix. The look and feel of the site is familiar and the user accounts are working properly. The “Contact Us,” “RSS” and “Register” links are not operational yet and result in a 404 error. Based on the recent torrents is appears that the data loss is minimal. The latest upload was on December 9 last year, the same day TPB’s servers were raided. Whether or not mods and admins are able to access the TPB backend is unknown at the moment. Earlier this week TPB staff told us that they would be locked out. This would make the site easier to manage and the risk of being brought down for a third time. However, these planned “optimizations” caused mutiny among the site’s original staff members. WTC-SWE, one of the lead admins of The Pirate Bay, told us earlier this week that they are launching their own version of the Pirate Bay, which they believe is the real one. To make the matter even more confusing, Pirate Bay’s downtime spurred the development of various spin-offs who all have a steady userbase of their own. Isohunt.to’s OldPirateBay.org is currently the largest, with millions of visitors per day and the number one spot for the search term Pirate Bay in Google. It will be interesting to see thepiratebay.se can reclaim these visitors during the months to come. Developing story… Updates will be added when we have more information. http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-back-online-150131/

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BitTorrent, the pathbreaking developer of data transfer technology that became widely used to share — and steal — copyrighted content on the Internet, stands strong after a tumultuous decade and may just be coming into its own. Profitable, with more than 170 employees, the San Francisco company continues to develop new products. It is on the verge of turning on the money spigots for two popular free offerings: Bundles, a service for downloading music and video and Sync, its file sync and sharing service. "We see nothing standing in our way," said BitTorrent CEO Eric Klinker. Klinker was promoted from CTO in 2008, when the company was in dire financial straits. "There is nothing that stops us from being one of the largest ideas on the Internet, and hopefully one of the largest companies behind those ideas." Soon, BitTorrent plans to let Bundles artists sell content like music and films directly to fans, with the company keeping 10 percent. In the past, the company has generated advertising revenue for artists. More than 20,000 artists have distributed work through Bundles, which was introduced in 2011. The move follows an experiment in September in which Thom Yorke of Radiohead used the channel to release an album for sale. BitTorrent Chief Content Officer Matt Mason said sales were substantial, though he would not provide numbers. Last November, best-selling author Tim Ferris also used BitTorrent Bundles to give away sections and drafts from his book, "The 4-Hour Chef." Amazon.com purchased the book, which Barnes & Noble and many independent bookstores had declined to distribute. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2015/01/bittorrent-bounces-back-from-deathbed-finds.html

When the PirateBay went down last month, it caused shock waves to ripple through the, let's say “alternative media acquisition” space. It was the most popular pirating site and was famous for openly taunting DCMA requests on its website. Its fall has led to a few sites opening that claim to be the rebirth of the original site, despite not having any official connection to the original creators. One of those sites, Oldpiratebay.org, was launched by the ever-popular ISOhunt team. It uses the The PirateBay's source code, which they also released, so that anyone can launch their own clone of The PirateBay. That has predictably resulted in a bevy of pull requests. The ISOHunt team decided that getting some help from the community is in order. To help move things along and fix the legal liabilities that come with running a single torrent site, ISOHunt is pledging $100,000 in Bitcoin for Mods, developers, uploaders and other members who contribute to the OpenBay project. It is unclear exactly how the money will be distributed. Presumably, the amount sent to coders will be based on how much they contribute and how useful those contributions are. It is unclear at this time if this is directly related to the “Pirate Phoenix” project that the original PirateBay site is teasing. According to TorrentFreak, the rewards will begin being handed out next month, starting with US $10,000 for those who offer up the best features. When uploading and moderation features are added next month, US $5,000 will be rewarded to split among the top uploaders, with another US $5,000 earmarked for the moderators. Most seem to think the projects are unrelated, but their convenient timing (The Phoenix project is set to be revealed on February 1, the same day ISOHunt's project goes into effect) is making some wonder. If the ISOHunt team and whoever is left in the PirateBay team to run Project Phoenix are working together, the ISOHunt team has done an adequate job disguising that fact. Despite a ton of attention, no one seems to know what Project Phoenix is. The most popular theory is a decentralized, or at least a less centralized, solution is in the works. The PirateBay team previously talked about contingency plans if the site was ever taken down, but no one knows for sure, the Phoenix symbol was used during previous down times in the PirateBay's life in order to let the community know that the site would return. Project Phoenix will launch on February 1, you can find the OpenBay project on GitHub. We will have more news as it comes in.

Notorious piracy site taken offline by Swedish police raid hints rise from the ashes with phoenix Pirate Bay’s revival seems certain after the torrent site has started to display a logo of phoenix with a timer counting down to 1 February. The timer was unveiled last week along with a revived but non-functioning site. Now the phoenix, a symbol of rebirth used by the Pirate Bay in previous relaunches of the site, has replaced the iconic battleship logo and the animated waving pirate flag. On the homepage, the Pirate Bay battleship travels towards a cartoon of an island harbour named “welcome home”, now positioned overlapping the island. The countdown timer indicates that the site will relaunch on 1 February, although no official announcement has been made by the lose collective of “30 to 50 people from all over the world” who apparently run the Pirate Bay. Rising from the ashes, again The Swedish investigation, which followed the police raid in December that took the site offline, is still ongoing. The Pirate Bay’s operators claimed they “couldn’t care less” about the raid and site’s shutdown, while one of the site’s founders Peter Sunde suggested that it had outstretched its usefulness and should remain offline. Rivals including competing piracy site IsoHunt had attempted to revive the site themselves, posting backup copies of the original Pirate Bay database and setting up clone sites. The phoenix logo was last used by the site in 2006 when the site was taken offline by a police raid on a data centre in Stockholm. When the site came back online shortly after the raid the Pirate Bay used the logo to indicate its rising from the ashes. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/26/the-pirate-bay-set-to-return-on-1-february

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Industry executives have spoken out against the threat of online piracy to pay-TV operations in the MENA region. Participating in a panel session at IBC Content Everywhere in Dubai on how the MENA TV industry is adapting to the Content Everywhere revolution, Abdul Hadi Al Sheikh, executive director of television at Abu Dhabi Media, stressed the importance of educating viewers of the impact of illegally streaming content. “Internet providers can do more on the issue and block pirated content but, at the end of the day, we need a cultural change in the mindset of people in the region,” he averred. “Regulators can also play more of a role but, unfortunately due to the nature of the situation in the region, I don’t think it is a high priority for many counties,” he suggested. David Butorac, the chief executive of OSN, sought to dispel the misconception that illegally downloading premium content or streaming live sport was a victimless crime. “That is not the case,” he stated. “If you look at the fact that it costs about US$120 million to produce the Netflix series House of Cards, then the company needs to get a return on that investment otherwise, what is the point of making more content?” He called on video-sharing site YouTube to do more in terms of IP protection. “You don’t get pornography on YouTube because it is blocked. The same should be done to prevent other intellectual property, like Hollywood films being shown.” Khalifa Al Shamsi, chief digital services officer for Etisalat, echoed Abdul Hadi Al Sheikh’s comments. “There is a real need for the industry to educate people,” he declared, revealing that every morning during the ongoing Asia Cup football tournament, he received WhatsApp messages with links to where people could watch games illegally. “I replied to my friend telling him this is wrong and to watch it through beIN Sports but he said it was easier to just stream it from elsewhere. That is the kind of attitude we need to change,” he asserted. http://advanced-television.com/2015/01/21/mena-execs-warn-of-online-piracy-threat/

Downloading movies, television series and music via illegal bittorrent sites might seem like the classic victimless crime, but it is wreaking havoc on the entertainment industry nonetheless. This is not a new problem but what’s new is the technological advances that are throwing up platforms and strategies that could help content-creators take back the industry. It’s worth noting that most internet users say they are drawn to illegal file-sharing websites because of the diversity of content on offer, not because they want to avoid paying. This means that to defeat online piracy, content producers need to create platforms they can monetise and can deliver potentially limitless content that can be shared or swapped – at least for a limited period or among a set number of people. In other words, the content producers need to be more like the platforms that offer pirated products than like the stodgy bricks and mortar vendors of yore. It is a tall order but not an impossible one because the technology is already in place. Streaming video and audio platforms such as Netflix and Spotify have done much of the heavy lifting and consequently enjoy deep market penetration. Their standard operating procedure appears pretty nimble, relatively low-cost, simple and shareable. Pesky regulatory procedures aside, these relatively viable platforms seem to show the way forward, offering a real solution to the problem of virtual piracy. This would go beyond the sometimes toe-curling attempts to persuade consumers to be more moral and put something into the virtual honesty box. As The National reported yesterday, experts have called on broadcasters and regulators during the International Broadcasters Convention to educate people in our region about the ill-effects on the entertainment industry of illegally streaming content. Awareness is a good first step. The availability of viable alternatives should swiftly follow. The problem of online piracy will be defeated when the industry starts to think a little bit more like the pirates.

No matter what your stance is on file sharing, the commercial downsides to pirating movies and television shows are obvious. Writers and directors see their work inherently devalued, and the companies financing the projects see less return — potentially impacting their desire to fund future projects. Objectively speaking, piracy is bad. Except when it changes the world. That ‘s the lesson at the heart of Chuck Norris vs. Communism, one of the documentaries screening at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. In the 1980s, Romania was locked down under the Communist regiment of Nicolae Ceausescu. News and media were strictly controlled, the country’s secret police used violence and intimidation to tamp down all dissent, and any entertainment from other countries was chopped up and censored before being made available to Romanian citizens, if at all. Underground movie parties popped up across the country The advent of VHS tapes and VCRs changed the dynamic, however, as a string of Hollywood films began making their way into the country via a black-market ring led by a mysterious figured named Teodor Zamfir. Underground viewing parties popped up as people gathered in secret to watch the best (and worst) work of Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Marlon Brando — and yes, Chuck Norris. Through a series of interviews and dramatic re-enactments, the documentary chronicles how the exposure to movies let people see outside the boundaries of what Ceausescu’s government presented, planting seeds of unrest that eventually played a part in the revolution that overthrew the regime in 1989. It’s a funny, tense, nostalgia-fueled trip full of clips from movies like Missing in Action, 9 1/2 Weeks, and Bloodsport, and speaks to the profound power movies have to change the way people experience the world. Director Ilinca Calugareanu uses her re-enacted sequences to riff on the styles of the bootlegged movies — a Romanian censorship board scene is pure Adrian Lyne, while other sequences call to mind some of the grungy, low-budget action flicks of the era. That framework keeps the documentary moving, but its soul comes from interviews with those that attended the underground screenings, and had their lives changed as a result. "We started to want to become heroes," says one man who grew up watching bootlegs of action films and the Rocky movies. An older woman describes the eye-opening experience of watching her very first movie — Bernardo Bertolucci’s sexually explicit Last Tango in Paris. It didn’t matter if the movies were Western propaganda, says another young man; at least they weren’t Ceausescu’s propaganda. One woman single-handedly dubbed 3,000 movies Central to the film is the presence of Irina Nistor, the woman who dubbed the English-language movies into Romanian. Handling both male and female roles, Nistor became a folk hero to the underground cinema scene, with audiences equating her voice with the hope and freedom that the uncensored movies themselves evoked. Nistor estimates that she dubbed 3,000 movies before calling it quits, but both in the film and during a post-screening discussion, she insisted that she was never trying to ferment revolution or change; despite the danger, she dubbed the films simply because watching uncensored movies was just too exciting a proposition to pass up. The film drags slightly in its last third, and it doesn’t connect the dots to the Romanian Revolution as clearly as it thinks it does, but neither problem gets in the way of the movie’s fascinating story. And while VCRs have long given way to pirated DVDs and now digital files, the larger theme of Chuck Norris vs. Communism is echoed every time a group uses social media to self-organize, or censored information leaks out online: technology as the mechanism by which the human spirit can rise up against oppression. So if you like movies, you should see this one. Just don’t pirate it when you do.

A few short weeks ago, it seemed like The Pirate Bay might be gone for good. Then things took a turn in torrent fans’ favor when the site’s homepage came back online along with a digital timer that began counting down to February 1st. A hidden video of Arnold Schwarzenegger saying “I’ll be back” in Terminator 2: Judgement Day was an obvious suggestion that the service would indeed be making a comeback, and now it looks like it has taken a huge step toward finally making that comeback. As you can see, The Pirate Bay is clearly in the process of piecing its site back together and getting ready to relaunch after a major raid carried out by Swedish police took the site offline in early December. The site is still expected to relaunch on February 1st, and for the time being none of the buttons on the homepage do anything.

New signs point to the imminent return of torrent site, Pirate Bay. The sites homepage, now back online, features a design reminiscent of the sites familiar look, along with recognizable features and a decreasing countdown clock. When the Pirate Bay was shut down after a Dec. 9 raid, users and pundits thought it could finally be the end for the Internet's most popular and resilient file-sharing site. Over 50 servers were seized, the site went offline, and even the site's original spokesperson Peter Sunde publicly called for a permanent shutdown of the torrent site he once championed. Frustrated users began the search for alternatives, such as Kickass torrents, the second most popular file sharing site on the web. New site clones such as oldpiratebay.org popped up, using the cached torrent information copied from Pirate Bay and even updating with new torrents. Around holiday time, however, the site showed signs of new life. The homepage displayed a defiant pirate flag with the site's familiar skull and crossbones image. At New Year's, a countdown clock appeared, set to hit zero on Feb 1. Users suspected and hoped this was a hidden message that the site and torrents would return on that date. Now more signs of a return have emerged recently. The animated pirate flag image is still displayed but has now been shrunken to a box in the middle of the page. More importantly, the Pirate Bay's familiar search box and torrent search links have reappeared. Though the search functions are not yet active, the links to affiliated sites Pirate Browser and PromoBay are now working. The countdown clock continues to tick down, with animation of a pirate ship about to reach land getting closer to its goal as each day goes by. The new homepage is currently being hosted by a server in Moldova called Trabia which is assumed to also be the site host should the Pirate Bay indeed return online, an expectation supported by Trabia's official statement that "[There] is actually no copyright infringement originating from websites such as 'thepiratebay.se' which makes it a very complex case which is open for a lot of interpretation and discussions. We stand behind all our clients as long as they use our services for a legal purpose." Whether the site and all of its torrents return at all is still not guaranteed, but with Feb. 1 right around the corner, we expect to soon know what all the recent cryptic activity on the Pirate Bay homepage actually signifies.

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Tracking 13 Years of Data In January 2004, the Los Angeles Times published an article headlined “Screener Ends Up on the Internet,” a story about the recent leak of theSomething’s Gotta Give screener copy intended for Oscar voters. This headline struck me as laughably clueless — like reading “Local Man Views Pornography On Internet” — but the MPAA statements inside were even more surreal, claiming it “marked the first time a so-called screener sent to an Oscar voter had been made available for illegal copying.” Anyone who’d spent ten minutes on Usenet in the early 2000s knew this was nonsense. Oscar screeners leaked regularly and reliably, often with watermarks intact, typically around December and early January when they were mailed to Academy voters. So I did a little digging and found that all but one of that year’s 22 nominated films were already online. A decade later, it’s become an annual ritual for me. On the morning the Oscar nominees are announced, I roll out of bed, load up some tabs, and start doing research into every nominated film. The result is this Google Spreadsheet encompassing all 413 Oscar-nominated feature films for the last 13 years. Along with the official U.S. and Oscar screener release dates, I include the leak dates for each major way that films typically find their way online: Cam. The old standby, a handheld camera in a theater. The worst quality, and increasingly uncommon. Telesync. Typically, a cam with better audio, often from headphone jacks in theater seats intended as hearing aids. Telecine, R5, PPV, Webrip, and HDRips. The terminology and sourcing’s changed through the years, but these are all high-quality rips with solid audio and video. (Generally speaking, Telecines were ripped from original prints distributed to theaters, R5 from “Region 5” DVDs sent to other regions to combat piracy, PPV from advanced pay-per-view sources, Webrip from early online releases like iTunes, and HDRip from a variety of sources, but typically from HDTV.) Screener. Great quality, usually intended for media or competition review, but can leak at any point in the distribution chain, often with watermarks intact. (As Ellen DeGeneres knows well.) Retail. A rip from the official retail release. And then I use a little spreadsheet magic to calculate tables with a bunch of stats tracking how many films leaked online and how quickly. Yes, this is my idea of a good time. I’m great at parties. DVD In An HD World In April 2004, the MPAA was already crowing about a decline in screener piracy, citing their watermarking technology and FBI assistance to increase accountability. This was the start of a decade-long battle against screener piracy, but a funny thing happened in the last couple years: Screeners weren’t declining then, but they’re declining now. But not because of increased accountability, watermarks, or new DRM technology. Screeners aren’t leaking because they don’t matter anymore. Think of it this way: If you’re in a scene release group—one of the underground bands of misfits with names like SiMPLE, EVO, or TiTAN you see tagged in every torrent — you’re competing with dozens of others trying to release films online as quickly as possible, at the highest possible quality. If you’re the first to release a highly-prized film in a high-quality release, you win bragging rights over every other group. A release that’s lower quality than one already leaked by someone else? Completely worthless. A cam isn’t great, but a telesync is better. A telecine is marginally better than a telesync, but a watermarked screener? Much, much better. But here’s the thing: screeners are stuck in the last decade. While we’re all streaming HD movies from iTunes or Netflix, the movie studios almost universally send screeners by mail on DVDs, which is forever stuck in low-resolution standard-definition quality. A small handful are sent in higher-definition Blu-ray. This year, one Academy member received 68 screeners — 59 on DVD and only eight on Blu-ray. Only 13% of screeners were sent to voters in HD quality. As a result, virtually any HD source is more prestigious than a DVD screener. And with the shift to online distribution, there’s an increasing supply of possible HD sources to draw from before screeners are ever sent to voters. On December 27, Foxcatcher leaked online in HD quality by the release group EVO with hardcoded Arabic subtitles, a pretty strong indication it wasn’t sourced from a screener. EVO released a new version without subtitles on January 6, captured from a 1080p source and released as a WEB-DL. Even if someone did manage to get a copy of the Foxcatcher DVD screener right now, it’s unlikely it would ever be released. It’s garbage compared to either of these two releases — standard-definition and likely littered with watermarks or other dumb security precautions. Now, in 2015, Oscar-nominated films leak online as quickly and consistently as ever. Of this year’s 36 nominated films, 34 already leaked online in some form — everything except Song of the Sea and Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me. But only 36% of those were leaked from screeners, down from a high of 89% in 2003 and 2004. With the caveat that there’s a month left before the Oscar ceremony, the chart below shows the percentage of screeners that have leaked online by Oscar night since 2003. https://medium.com/message/pirating-the-2015-oscars-hd-edition-6c78e0cb471d

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Hi! Ethan I would like to apply for 2nd round GA. This time I request to apply for any Cinematik Account. (Can't add like + rep again) Thanx in advance :)

LA beatsmith Salva has been grinning as of late, evidenced by his stellar Peacemaker mixtape featuring some of hip-hops most prominent upcoming artists, including Young Thug, Schoolboy Q,A$AP Ferg, plus veterans such as E-40, Kurupt and Freddie Gibbs. The tape showcased Salva’s multifaceted talents and ability to blend muttiple styles together such as house, funk, trap and hip-hop. He recently dropped his video for “Old English” featuring Freddie Gibbs, A$AP Ferg, and Young Thug. which you can view below. In recent news, Salva has announced an 8-stop tour across the nation along with the west coast’sProblem and NYC producer Branchez. The tour was made possible thanks in part to Red Bull Studios and their involvement with his latest LP. In addition to this, Salva has selected more than a handful of exclusive tracks along with his recent Peacemaker mixtape to present his fans with a BitTorrent Bundle, which is slated for release on February 20th. Peep Salva’s upcoming tour dates below and check back for his BitTorrent Bundle later next month.