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Source: Torrentfreak.com ISP Charter Communications is accusing several major record labels of having violated the Colorado Consumer Privacy Act. The music companies allegedly sent copyright infringement notices for tracks they didn't own the rights to, resulting in false accusations against subscribers. While the record labels don't deny that mistakes were made, they argue that Charter's claims don't hold up in court. Last year, a group of major music companies sued Charter Communications, one of the largest Internet providers in the US with 22 million subscribers. Helped by the RIAA, Capitol Records, Warner Bros, Sony Music, and others accused the ISP of deliberately turning a blind eye to its pirating subscribers. Such claims are not new. The same music companies have sued several ISPs in the past and booked a major victory when a jury ordered Cox to pay a billion dollars in damages for turning a blind eye to piracy on its network. Charter is determined to avoid ending up in a similar position. In March, it denied the copyright infringement allegations in court while striking back with some accusations against the record labels. According to Charter, the companies abused the DMCA by sending notices for tracks they didn’t own the rights to. Fraudulent Piracy Notices Violated the Colorado Consumer Privacy Act? At the end of April, the ISP expanded its claims by arguing that by sending false takedown notices, the record labels also violated the Colorado Consumer Privacy Act. This claim comes on top of the accusation that the music companies violated the DMCA. “In the course of their business, the Record Company Plaintiffs caused their agent, the RIAA, to engage in unfair, unconscionable, deceptive, deliberately misleading, false, or fraudulent trade practices,” Charter argued, while highlighting the unauthorized copyright infringement notices. The false notices harmed Charter, which spent significant resources processing the notices. In addition, they also impacted the broader public, who were falsely accused of breaking the law and received “baseless threats” based on the inaccurate notices. These are strongly worded claims. However, according to the record companies they don’t hold up in court. Record Labels Ask Court to Dismiss Charter’s Claims This week, they submitted their answers to the Colorado federal court. As indicated before, the music companies ask the court to dismiss the claim that they violated the DMCA, arguing that the notices were not intentionally sent in error. In addition, the companies argue that the DMCA claim is barred because Charter didn’t remove or block any infringing content. In a similar vein Warner Bros, Sony Music and the other labels also dispute the deceptive and fraudulent trade practice accusations under the Colorado Consumer Protection Act. These don’t hold us and should be dismissed as well, they say, for two separate reasons. Firstly, the music companies argue that the DMCA preempts Charter’s CCPA counterclaim. The issue at hand is a DMCA matter and Congress intended for federal law to exclusively govern the DMCA notice process, which would mean that a state law claim can’t apply to the same conduct. This argument doesn’t mean that there were no inaccurate notices sent. That’s also the case with the second defense from the record labels, which holds that Charter failed to state a proper claim under the Colorado Consumer Protection Act. A proper claim would require proof that the music companies knowingly sent false notices and intended to mislead and deceive the receivers. This isn’t something Charter can prove, the labels say. The labels may have sent notices for music they didn’t own, without being aware of it. In addition, Charter hasn’t provided any evidence that its customers were harmed, according to the labels. While subscribers may have received inaccurate threats, they were not disconnected from the Internet. “Charter has not alleged that its subscribers suffered any harm resulting from any allegedly inaccurate notices. Indeed, Charter does not allege that it ever suspended or terminated a single subscriber based on infringing use of its network identified in an inaccurate notice sent by Plaintiffs,” the labels write. The ISP will likely disagree with how the labels present the issue and ultimately it is up to the court whether Charter can continue to pursue its claims in court, or not. — A copy of the record labels’ motion to dismiss Charter’s counterclaims is available here (pdf).

Tracker Name: Cheggit Genre: Porn / XXX Review https://www.invitehawk.com/topic/121278-cheggit-porn-2020-review/?tab=comments#comment-334044 Sign Up Link: https://www.cheggit.me/register.php Closing Time: Soon Additional Information: Cheggit has all of the bells and whistles you’d expect from a porn torrent site. The seed numbers are quite healthy and the content is certainly varied enough to provide you with a good dose of adult entertainment every time you visited. Originally founded by some ex-Empornium admins who didn’t like a few changes that were happening, so they decided to found their own adult tracker instead. Initially there was quite a good success with a large number of members signing up within a couple of days. Torrents are moderated to make sure that there are screenshots of the movie along with some kind of description or they are removed so anything you view you should have a good idea of what the video looks like before you even bother to download it.

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SOURCE: https://www.ghacks.net/2020/06/17/torswarm-is-an-open-source-bittorrent-downloader-which-is-in-early-development/ Though qBitTorrent has been my go-to P2P downloader for a long time, I do like to try new clients once in a while, and was impressed with PicoTorrent. I came across a new BitTorrent downloader (not a proper client, explained further) which is open source, and has a minimalistic approach. This is TorSwarm. It is in a very early stage of development. So, I wouldn't compare it with polished applications. TorSwarm is a portable software and comes in a tiny 227KB archive. The extracted folder is less than 1MB in size. The program's interface doesn't have a toolbar or menubar. Drag and drop a torrent file from explorer onto TorSwarm's GUI, or include the path manually. You may also add a magnet link to download torrents. Set the download path, which is the folder where the torrent's data will be saved. The application does not have an options page or a right-click context menu or tray icon. Instead, the TorSwarm interface has a few settings that you can tinker with. This includes setting the maximum number of connections, connection timeout, minimum threads, handshake timeout, peers from tracker, piece timeout, metadata piece timeout. Click the Start button to begin downloading the torrent. The Files pane, which is on the left side displays the list of files available in the selected torrent. The Output pane on the right logs the task. Hit the Stop button to stop the download. As of now, the application does not support pausing and resuming downloads. So, if you stop a torrent midway, it re-downloads it from the start. This can result in a lot of data usage if you're on a capped connection. That's not a good thing, but I'd like to remind you again that the application is still in an early phase. However, that's not its biggest con. TorSwarm does not support uploading torrents, meaning you can't seed back to other peers. This is considered unethical, aka leeching. The program displays the current, average and max download rates in the bottom left, while the ETA details are displayed on the opposite side. A status bar is located on the bottom edge, and that displays the download progress, peers, among other information. A visual progress bar is displayed towards the far right corner. TorSwarm saves a log file in plain text in the output folder, with more stats about the download process. The developer's GitHub page acknowledges that the program does not support uTP, NAT, PnP, etc., currently. There is no way to set the upload or download limit either. TorSwarm is written in C#. The source code is available on GitHub. The program doesn't have anything to do with Tor, the letters in the name represent "Torrent". TorSwarm does a reasonably good job of downloading files, and I would term it as an interesting concept application in its current state. Its main flaws right now are the lack of support for uploading (seeding), pause and resume, as well as management features such as blocking IP addresses. If these features arrive in a future update, the program can be considered a proper BitTorrent Client. I'd also like to see options to add trackers (you can do this with a magnet perhaps), add or ban IPs, etc. As far as the performance is concerned, it is is quite light on resources.

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