Archive for February, 2012
BTJunkie shuts down voluntarily
One of the most popular bittorrent sites, BTjunkie, "voluntarily" shut down yesterday on Feb 6th in the wake of last month's closure of Megaupload. A combination of legal actions against fellow file-sharing sites and time-consuming projects have led to the drastic decision that takes out one the main players in the BitTorrent landscape. The founder of the site told TorrentFreak that legal a...
A2IM has a different view of anti-SOPA protests
It's not just the RIAA and big music companies that support SOPA. In another example of the divisions within the music and media industries over proposed anti-piracy legislation and last months anti-SOPA protests, the American Association Of Independent Music (A2IM) offered this statement at the time: "Today [Jan 18th 2012] a number of websites are shutting down in protest of proposed anti-...
