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occupyallstreets:

BitTorrent Giant BTjunkie Shuts Down For Good

BTjunkie, one of the largest BitTorrent indexes on the Internet, has decided to shut down voluntarily today. A combination of legal actions against fellow file-sharing sites and time-consuming projects have led to the drastic decision that takes out one the main players in the BitTorrent landscape.

Founded in June 2005, BTjunkie has been among the top BitTorrent sites for more than half a decade.

The site was never involved in any legal action, and to keep it this way the site’s operators decided to shut the site down for good today. The following message was posted on the BTjunkie homepage yesterday:

“This is the end of the line my friends. The decision does not come easy, but we’ve decided to voluntarily shut down. We’ve been fighting for years for your right to communicate, but it’s time to move on. It’s been an experience of a lifetime, we wish you all the best!”

Talking to TorrentFreak, BTjunkie’s founder said that the legal actions against other file-sharing sites such as MegaUpload and The Pirate Bay played an important role in making the difficult decision. Witnessing all the trouble colleagues got into was cause for a lot of worry and stress, and those will now belong to the past.

That said, BTjunkie’s owner still thinks there might be a future for other BitTorrent sites.

“I really do hope so, the war is far from over for sure,” he told TorrentFreak.

While BTjunkie was never targeted directly by copyright holders, the site was reported to the US Trade Representative (USTR) November last year. Both the RIAA and MPAA listed the torrent index as a ‘rogue’ site that facilitated mass copyright infringement.

BTjunkie is also one of the search terms censored by Google because it’s piracy related, alongside The Pirate Bay, RapidShare, uTorrent and others.

As a result of the decision to shut down BTjunkie, one of the top 5 torrent sites with dozens of millions of users a month is no more. Judging from previous shutdowns like that of TorrentSpy, users will quickly find a new home at other sites.

Nonetheless, it’s the end of an era.

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Sonofabitch.

Shutting down the internet. Someone is taking a big risk.

Réduire l’accès à internet. Il y en a qui sont pas mal “suicidaires”.

*Voir plus bas pour la version française*

Last week, 3 million of us beat back America’s attack on our Internet! —- but there is an even bigger threat out there, and our global movement for freedom online is perfectly poised to kill it for good.

ACTA - a global treaty - could allow corporations to censor the Internet. Negotiated in secret by a small number of rich countries and corporate powers, it would set up a shadowy new anti-counterfeiting body to allow private interests to police everything that we do online and impose massive penalties — even prison sentences — against people they say have harmed their business.

Ce lien est pour la version anglaise. Pour la version française, le voici:

http://www.avaaz.org/fr/eu_save_the_internet_fr/?cl=1534786635&v=12261

La semaine dernière, 3 millions d’entre nous ont repoussé l’attaque des États-Unis sur notre Internet! Mais un danger encore plus grand nous menace, et notre mouvement mondial pour la liberté en ligne est prêt à tout pour le neutraliser pour de bon.

L’ACTA, un traité mondial, pourrait permettre à de grandes entreprises de censurer Internet. Négocié en secret par un petit nombre de pays riches et de puissantes entreprises, ce traité mettrait en place un organisme de l’ombre anti-contrefaçon permettant à des intérêts privés de surveiller tout ce que nous faisons en ligne. Il leur donnerait aussi la possibilité d’imposer des sanctions très sévères - allant jusqu’à des peines de prison - contre les personnes coupables selon eux de nuire à leur activité.

youranonnews:

War on the Internet - Jacob Appelbaum (@ioerror) speaks on Internet privacy and online surveillance in Melbourne on 21 January 2012

anglais seulement désolé

anticapitalist:

That was fast.

A few days ago the news broke that the pending Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was put on hold until consensus was reached.

Although the announcement was rather vague, some news sites and blogs declared SOPA dead, or “shelved,” or erased from history.

Wishful thinking, because today SOPA is back in full force.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith just announced that the SOPA markup is expected to continue next month.

“To enact legislation that protects consumers, businesses and jobs from foreign thieves who steal America’s intellectual property, we will continue to bring together industry representatives and Members to find ways to combat online piracy,” Chairman Smith said.

“Due to the Republican and Democratic retreats taking place over the next two weeks, markup of the Stop Online Piracy Act is expected to resume in February.

“I am committed to continuing to work with my colleagues in the House and Senate to send a bipartisan bill to the White House that saves American jobs and protects intellectual property.”

(via occupyallstreets)