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- Top 10 Most Downloaded Movies on BitTorrent
- Porn Company Rejects Mass Lawsuits, Goes After Torrent Sites
- EZTV Crowdsources New Design, New Features Coming
| Top 10 Most Downloaded Movies on BitTorrent Posted: 10 Jan 2011 01:07 AM PST
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| Porn Company Rejects Mass Lawsuits, Goes After Torrent Sites Posted: 09 Jan 2011 12:39 PM PST
Pink Visual’s holding company, Ventura Content, is no stranger to anti-piracy litigation. In February 2010 it filed suit against the owner of Brazzers claiming that so-called ‘tube sites’ owned by the company were offering unauthorized copies of their content. Brazzers went on to describe the $6.75m suit as “‘fatally defective“. Despite high value warning shots such as this, the growth of both tube and torrent sites continues to be of concern to the wider adult industry. Now, in a move designed to reverse the trend, Pink Visual has just made its 2011 anti-piracy strategy public. Part of the company’s strategy will be educational, with reminders sent to subscribers informing them of their responsibility not to spread Pink Visual’s content and the consequences for doing so. The company has also hired a monitoring company called Degban to scan the web for infringing content and issue takedown requests. interestingly, what Pink Visual will not do is enter the end-user mass litigation market. Last week president Allison Vivas said that her company had been approached by law firms specializing in this type of work, but had turned down the opportunity to get involved. Vivas said she had anticipated that the EFF would get involved and that the courts would question the legal tactics being used. She was of course correct, as the recent Batman XXX case shows. "It wasn't as straightforward as advertised," Vivas said about the model. But that doesn’t mean that Pink Visual won’t litigate – they will. In addition to going after several ‘tube’ sites, the company says it will also start targeting BitTorrent trackers. "In addition to taking legal action against some site operators on our own, there are several other companies preparing to file multiple-plaintiff lawsuits against such site operators in the coming months. We anticipate that these lawsuits will be officially announced within the first quarter of 2011," said Vivas. While Pink Visual will seek damages, they will also try to force site operators to employ filtering technologies. While it seems clear that this will be a requirement for ‘tube’ site operators, it is uncertain how this will relate, if at all, to torrent sites. Article from: TorrentFreak, Covering Torrent Sites and News since 2005. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| EZTV Crowdsources New Design, New Features Coming Posted: 09 Jan 2011 06:26 AM PST
Today, five years later, EZTV has become one of the largest torrent sites on the Internet. With 30 million visitors a month the site is still expanding, and feature-wise the site’s owners also have plans to grow. One of the new features currently in development is the integration of ezRSS with EZTV’s “my pages” feature. This means that users can setup an RSS feed for their favorite shows on the EZTV website, and use this feed to automatically download new shows. However, while working on the new features EZTV’s founder realized that the site’s design could also use an overhaul. In recent months a lot of money has been invested on the hardware side, but the design has remained the same. But with some help from the public this may soon change. “So I have started work on the EZTV codebase, getting ready to implement a whole bunch of new features we hope you will all love, and I thought it was about time to come up with a new visual style to the website,” Novaking writes in an announcement. “Now this is where it becomes interesting, I’m terrible at graphics/design so I think this could be the best time to see what you loyal fans might be able to do in regards to taking this site to the next level of TV content,” he adds. True to the sharing nature, the new EZTV design will be crowdsourced. People who want to help out are encouraged to submit their designs, which should be simple and support mobile devices, Google TV and tablets such as the iPad. TorrentFreak of course asked Novaking to reveal a bit more about the upcoming features that he’s working on, but aside from the ezRSS integration he was reluctant to share his plans. EZTV users will have to be patient and wait for the new features until they are ready to be rolled out. Article from: TorrentFreak, Covering Torrent Sites and News since 2005. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This week there are three newcomers in the list. 127 Hours is the most downloaded movie of the week.
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