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Topsite seized as Demonoid shuttered
The international music industry may be playing Whack-A-Mole with P2P hubs, but it has been whacking some rather large moles lately. Shutting down all illicit P2P traffic is obviously not a realistic goal, and it's not one that groups like the RIAA or the IFPI hold; instead, they just want to make it difficult enough for the average Net user to snag a file that legal alternatives start to look better in comparison. Putting some fear into file sharers is also part of the plan. Music trade groups in Canada and Poland have taken another step down this road with the apparent closure of the BitTorrent tracker Demonoid and a Polish pre-release music site operating from Wroclaw... Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-11-09 |
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