Posts Tagged ‘Bittorrent’

A 31-year old unemployed Japanese man by the name of Shuichiro Tanaka has admitted to uploading 3 TV-shows and sharing 165 more on BitTorrent after he was arrested by Tokyo Police’s Cyber Crime unit and charged with copyright infringement. In his confession, the man told the investigators that he used BitTorrent because he believed it [...]

One of the first major BitTorrent trackers in Mininova has announced that it will no longer host torrents that are not uploaded by its approved media partners and as a response to a recent court order, has deleted nearly every torrent on its tracker page. Since being launched in 2004 in the wake of the [...]