The Pirate Bay is suffering temporary downtime as their bandwidth provider has stopped passing through traffic. A week ago, Hollywood got an injunction to effectively shut down the Pirate Bay by threatening its provider with huge fines. TPB team is currently working on a solution.

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A few days ago came in news that several major Hollywood studios had obtained a preliminary injunction against CyberBunker operator CB3ROB Ltd. & Co. KG from the Regional Court of Hamburg.

CB3ROB and Managing Director Sven Olaf Kamphuis are now prohibited from connecting TPB & its Servers to Internet.

Kamphuis officially confirmed receiving the injunction yesterday and stopped routing  TPB’s traffic until his lawyers have carefully read and reviewed the legal documents.It resulted in downtime for the world’s largest BitTorrent site.

A TPB insider told  that they are not planning to wait for a decision from the Cyberbunker, and that they’ve already set the backup process in motion which will bring the site back online. The Pirate Bay’s servers are untouched and getting the site up and running only requires the routing (IP-tunnel) to go through another provider.

After the raid,back in 2006, the site operators have taken extreme care to ensure that there are proper backup mechanisms in place and that the locations of the servers are well concealed. Where the servers are actually located remains a mystery.

Expected that site will return very soon in hours.

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The µTorrent team has added an idea bank to their website where users can vote for and suggest features that should be implemented in the next version client. ——————————————————————————————————

µTorrent is one of the most widely used BitTorrent applications. It is the client of choice for more than 50 million users worldwide and this number continues to rise alongside BitTorrent’s increasing popularity. ?

The Idea Bank is prominently featured on µTorrent’s website and allows users to submit and vote for ideas they want to see in µTorrent. Users can vote for a maximum of 10 ideas, but are free to change their vote if a better suggestion comes along. Once an idea is completed, users will regain the vote they allocated to that suggestion.

uTorrent has always had a forum section with feature requests, but that was less visible for the average user. With the new Idea Bank users can see at a glance what features are being worked on and what has already been implemented.

“Although the Forums are popular, they tend to select a much more advanced community of enthusiasts. Those who have a feature suggestion or want to vote on one can go to the Idea Bank and participate. At the time of writing the bank holds 55 ideas, one of these is being worked on and three ideas have been implemented already. A Linux version of uTorrent is the top idea at the moment, followed by an email notification for completed downloads.

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Canada is preparing to introduce a revamped copyright bill that will have disastrous consequences for consumers. The Government is hereby ignoring the public consultation held last year, where many Canadians spoke out against harsher copyright legislation.
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In 2008,Consultation Public cleared that very strict Anti-Piracy laws are not welcomed in canada, but it looks like that this has had very little effect on canadian government.Canada’s Prime Minister is about to announce a ‘new’, even more strict law.  Michael Geist, prof. E-commerce Law in Ottawa, Said that this bill  is,“the most anti-consumer copyright bill in Canadian history.”

IsoHunt [popular BT Search Engine] is currently hosted in Isohunt Web Technologies/Canada and involved in a lawsuit against the Canadian Recording Industry Assicoation (CRIA). If this new bill is passed, this would mean that isoHunt’s chances of winning that long standing legal battle will decrease .

Isohunt owner Gary hung said that by this law,”We need laws that support our neutrality and our ability to operate a search engine free of censorship and unreasonable constraints,’It is completely opposite to what they expect’,ISPs can be forced to handover private information of users . They may be further encouraged to throttle P2P traffic, The new bill also is unlikely to provide fair exceptions for breaking DRM for purposes that doesn’t violate copyright, which unfairly prohibits one’s tinkering with electronics he owns.

However,It is not completely clear what the details of the new bill will be, but expected that it will be the equivalent of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This means that copyright takedown request become a censorship tool while consumers lose several ‘fair use’ rights

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