QuebecTorrent Clone Outmanoeuvres Music Industry

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Just days after the QuebecTorrent BitTorrent tracker was taken down by an injunction in a blaze of publicity, a near identical clone of the 108,000+ member tracker has appeared out of nowhere. Allegedly the product of the old team, Torrent411.com is up and running with 109,000+ members - and counting.

Last week we reported on the final chapter of the QuebecTorrent story. After a long legal battle against 31 Canadian media organizations, the administrator decided that rather than fight and lose, it would be better not to mount a defense at all. After receiving a permanent injunction ordering the closure of the site, QuebecTorrent closed its doors for the last time having amassed an impressive 108,805 members.

Many people are drawn to BitTorrent news as it can be both exciting, confusing, intriguing and amazing all at the same time. Today we can report on a story which has all of these elements.

QuebecTorrent Clone Outmanoeuvres Music Industry (http://torrentfreak.com/quebectorrent-clone-out-manoeuvres-music-industry-080716/)

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Warning notices of illegal downloading or peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing may not always be accurate, according to a UW study conducted in May.

The study was created to better understand copyright enforcement and how illegal downloading is actually tracked, said Michael Piatek, the lead graduate student on the project.

The study involved attempting to receive Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notices. DMCA is a U.S. copyright law that was passed and signed into law by the Senate in October 1998. The law was created to lessen piracy and illegal manufacturing, copying and distributing of software. DMCA takedown notices are formal requests to stop illegal downloading or sharing.

During the UW study, more than 400 genuine DCMA takedown notices were received, although no downloading or file sharing occurred.

Unwarrented takedown notices are sent when monitoring agents identify users by their Internet Protocol (IP) addresses on file sharing or downloading networks. Whether or not a user actually downloaded or shared a file is not monitored, causing innocent peer-to-peer (P2P) users to receive notices, Piatek said.

Illegal downloading hard to track down - The Daily of the University of Washington (http://thedaily.washington.edu/2008/7/16/illegal-downloading-hard-track-down/)