Neowin News Feed for: File sharing

SoShare by BitTorrent lets you send up to a terabyte for free

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:26:27 +0000

SoShare it's a simple, free file delivery service powered by BitTorrent. Send up to a terabyte of data in one transfer. Move any file. Of any size. To any number of recipients. Read more...

Ares 2.2.4

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:51:21 +0000

Ares is a free open source file sharing program that enables users to share any digital file including images, audio, video, software, documents, etc. You may now easily publish your files through the Read more...

Dropbox to bring document preview options in coming months

Paul Ferson — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:01:12 +0000

Dropbox is to bring some big changes in coming months, with a greater emphasis on image sharing and file previews. Gone are the days of structured folders; the future seems to be document previews! Read more...

Ares 2.2.0

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:54:34 +0000

MegaUpload shutdown bad for the Box Office business?

Alfonso Maruccia — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:19:31 +0000

A new research digs deep into the box office revenues highlighting some interesting finds: blockbuster films improved their performance, while smaller products were hurt. Read more...

MegaUpload heir gets a new domain

Alfonso Maruccia — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:59:30 +0000

Kim DotCom's new on-line service will have a New Zealand-based domain, the entrepreneur confirms. And it will work with the due respect of the local laws. Read more...

Bow-chicka-uh-oh: Man told to pay $1.5m for sharing ten porn movies

Andy Weir — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 10:45:04 +0000

A federal court in Illinois has ordered a man to pay $1.5m in damages - the largest award of its kind - after evidence proved that he had illegally shared ten adult movies via BitTorrent. Read more...

The Pirate Bay back in business after downtime

Alfonso Maruccia — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 01:36:20 +0100

The most popular BitTorrent website is back after a bit of downtime. The culprit is a defective part that had to be replaced on-site, the Bay crew said. Read more...

File sharing copyright material considered legal in Portugal

Andrew Stevenson — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:57:15 +0100

File sharing continues to be a thorn in the side of the entertainment industries. Now public prosecutors in Portugal have said that file sharing copyright material online is, in fact, legal. Read more...

Kim Dotcom teases the future of Megabox

Paul Ferson — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:16:26 +0100

Kim Dotcom, the now-famous internet media mogul, has revealed further details on Megabox. Anyone interested will be disappointed to discover the supposedly revolutionary service is "coming soon". Read more...

New Megaupload 90% finished, launching soon

Tyler Holman — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:02:06 +0100

Megaupload is coming back, and sooner than you think. Founder Kim Dotcom says that the new, decentralized and 'unstoppable' service is 90% coded, and servers are already being deployed. Read more...

MPAA: Hotfile is the 'most blatant inducer of copyright infringement'

Paul Ferson — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:53:30 +0100

The Motion Picture Association of America has deemed file-sharing hub Hotfile the "most blatant inducer of copyright infringement" during legal proceedings, beating even Megaupload and torrent sites. Read more...

Filesonic goes offline with no explanation provided

Paul Ferson — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:48:01 +0100

Filesonic, previously one of the major file-sharing websites on the internet, has been gone for the past few days with no explanation, and the main domain having suddenly changed hands. Read more...

Kim Dotcom to receives up to $6 million from government for legal battle

Paul Ferson — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:20:43 +0100

Kim Dotcom is to receive up to $6,000,000 from the New Zealand government to aid his legal battle for the future. This money will be secured from $10,000,000 in bonds that were frozen back in April. Read more...

Kim Dotcom claims he's going to 'turn this world upside down'

Paul Ferson — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:07:43 +0100

Kim Dotcom has shared some of his extremely ambitious plans with the internet via his Twitter account, indicating that he isn't going to give up on his goals for the future. Read more...

Criminal investigation building against Demonoid in Mexico

Nathan Tsui — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 03:37:47 +0100

A Demonoid staff member was apparently arrested in Monterrey, Mexico in October 2011, and a criminal case of intellectual property rights violations is being built against the site's owners. Read more...

Internet Archive starts seeding torrents

Tyler Holman — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:32:52 +0100

The Internet Archive just got into the torrent seeding business - they're now offering almost a petabyte of their collection on BitTorrent, including everything from concerts to books. Read more...

Demonoid shut down by Ukrainian government

Nathan Tsui — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:20:36 +0100

After an extended period of downtime from a DDoS attack, followed by a period of malicious redirects to malware and spam sites, Demonoid has been shut down by the Ukrainian government. Read more...

BitTorrent Inc: the future of entertainment is RealPlayer

Alfonso Maruccia — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:50:08 +0100

The uTorrent company is experimenting new ways to monetize its P2P clients and the free availability of digital contents on the BitTorrent network. The first of these experiments pushes RealPlayer. Read more...

BitTorrent Torque set to revolutionize file sharing over browsers

Swagatam Mukherjee — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 15:32:23 +0100

BitTorrent is introducing a new opensource JavaScript interface for web developers and users for experiencing the power of BitTorrent in your browser. Read more...