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LOS ANGELES — After a nine-month hunt, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested a Bronx man on Wednesday suspected of posting an unfinished version of the 20th Century Fox movie “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” on the Web before it was released in theaters.

✖ Via ‘X-Men’ Piracy Hunt Leads to Arrest of Bronx Man - NYTimes.com

– “Study finds pirates 10 times more likely to buy music” (Guardian.co.uk, April 21st, 2009)
– Similar studies (a simple Google search)
– A poll on a website providing information about new scene release.

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Here’s an overview of the 10 most downloaded books on BitTorrent this year. The list shows us that illicit book downloads are not yet threatening the best selling authors you’ll find in the New York Times list.

✖ Via FreakBits: The 10 Most Pirated eBooks of 2009.

1. Kamasutra 2. Adobe Photoshop Secrets 3. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Amazing Sex 4. The Lost Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci 5. Solar House – A Guide for the Solar Designer 6. Before Pornography – Erotic Writing In Early Modern England 7. Twilight – Complete Series 8. How To Get Anyone To Say YES – The Science Of Influence 9. Nude Photography – The Art And The Craft 10. Fix It – How To Do All Those Little Repair Jobs Around The Home

“FreakBits is a side project from the people who run TorrentFreak.” (about)

• Sep 16, 2009 link notes tagged: communication technology computer torrent book author evolution internet pirate copyright

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✖ Via Pirate Bay’s blog: “TPB might change owner” (June 30, 2009).

“TPB might change owner”

“Yes, it’s true.

News reached the press today in Sweden - The Pirate Bay might get aquired by Global Gaming Factory X AB.

A lot of people are worried. We’re not and you shouldn’t be either!

TPB is being sold for a great bit underneath it’s value if the money would be the interesting part. It’s not. The interesting thing is that the right people with the right attitude and possibilities keep running the site. As all of you know, there’s not been much news on the site for the past two-three years. It’s the same site essentially. On the internets, stuff dies if it doesn’t evolve. We don’t want that to happen.

We’ve been working on this project for many years. It’s time to invite more people into the project, in a way that is secure and safe for everybody. We need that, or the site will die. And letting TPB die is the last thing that is allowed to happen!

If the new owners will screw around with the site, nobody will keep using it. That’s the biggest insurance one can have that the site will be run in the way that we all want to. And - you can now not only share files but shares with people. Everybody can indeed be the owner of The Pirate Bay now. That’s awesome and will take the heat of us.

The old crew is still around in different ways. We will also not stop being active in the politics of the internets - quite the opposite. Now we’re fueling up for going into the next gear. TPB will have economical muscles to let people evolve it. It will team up with great technicians to evolve the protocols. And we, the people interested in more than just technology, will have the time to focus on that. It’s win-win-win.”

Read the official press release by Global Gaming Factory X (PDF).

• Jun 30, 2009 link notes tagged: news Internet technology peer social network torrent