Authors seek Meta's torrent client logs and seeding data in AI piracy probe(torrentfreak.com)

126 points by miki123211 1 year ago | 136 comments

Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally(torrentfreak.com)

128 points by mgdigital 2 years ago | 64 comments

BitTorrent Tracker Blocks 'Infringing' Hashes(torrentfreak.com)

47 points by gslin 2 years ago | 18 comments

All DMCA Notices Filed Against TorrentFreak in 2023 Were Bogus(torrentfreak.com)

393 points by HieronymusBosch 2 years ago | 102 comments

TorrentFreak article reporting that every DMCA takedown notice filed against the site in 2023 was invalid, sent by anti-piracy companies.

Iconic Torrent Site Rarbg Shuts Down, All Content Releases Stop(torrentfreak.com)

191 points by notmine1337 3 years ago | 48 comments

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues(torrentfreak.com)

393 points by askl 7 months ago | 220 comments

TorrentFreak article reporting Meta's argument in a lawsuit that uploading pirated books via BitTorrent while training AI models qualifies as fair use.

Rarbg Is No More(web.archive.org)

1275 points by 0___0 3 years ago | 519 comments

Archived RARBG shutdown notice explaining the torrent site is closing due to team deaths from covid, the war in Europe, energy costs, and inflation.

Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years(legittorrents.info)

706 points by en3r0 3 years ago | 366 comments

Farewell page for Legit Torrents, a legal torrent tracker run from 2005 to 2023, explaining its shutdown after a null route and looking back on its history.

RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent(sharpsec.run)

352 points by udev4096 2 years ago | 173 comments

Security blog post disclosing that qBittorrent's DownloadManager ignored SSL certificate errors for 14 years, enabling remote code execution, fixed in version 5.0.1.

AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42(lantian.pub)

1348 points by xiaoyu2006 4 months ago | 488 comments

Blog post recounting how an AI agent trying to join the DN42 hobbyist network to scan it ran up a $6531.30 AWS bill for its operator.

Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers(kianbradley.com)

599 points by k-ian 1 year ago | 187 comments

Blog post describing how the author registered an expired torrent tracker domain, revived the tracker, and observed about 3 million peers connecting.

The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press(windowsread.me)

495 points by Leftium 1 year ago | 216 comments

A Windows ReadMe newsletter post by Chris Hoffman recommending YouTube downloader tools and explaining how Google pressure keeps tech outlets from covering them.