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I had to look it up, it was called a Lenslok device:

http://torrentfreak.com/crazy-video-game-drm-prism-1980s-style-080617/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenslok

(and, evidently, not all were red.)

WTF does DRM have to do with security?

Obviously you have not met many security engineering researchers. I have news for you: DRM is a form of computer security. DRM is what computer security becomes when you want to prevent a computer's owner from using their computer in certain ways.

Who do you think is being hired to design DRM systems? What kind of person do you think would come up with an idea like this:

https://torrentfreak.com/how-the-mpaa-knows-where-movies-are-pirated/

Let's put it this way: Vader was seduced by the dark side of the force

I'd suspect that this film has already been paid for (by Mojang) and that this way of distributing it is a toungue-in-cheek snarky way of making fun of the current asinine state of copyright law.

Considering the creator of Minecraft and founder of Mojang is a Pirate Party member I'm not sure how much toungue-in-cheek is needed.

http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-is-theft-ridiculous-lost-sales-they-dont-exist-says-minecraft-creator-110303/

Really? Please do show me where it's been so mortally debunked.

http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-is-not-theft-111104/

Of course they don't get it right either. They call it "piracy" when the proper name is "non-commercial copyright infringement". You can make pretty much the same points you have made and the issue sparks lots of different even-sided debates, but calling it "stealing" is simply plain wrong - at best, an incredibly bad metaphor, at worst, a farcical plea for the emotions of disgust the work invoke -, regardless of the concept of "lost sales". There's a name for such activity and that one is simply not it. It's akin to calling smoking "arson" or something equally nonsensical.

I think that this article about High Court versus Low Court justice will explain it for you.

He and his mother have described it as such. I guess it depends on your threshold. He was allowed to receive occasional family visitors, but was held in a cell by himself 23 hours/day, which is a typical solitary-confinement setup.

"Here's the list of sites, including where they are hosted: Extratorrent (Ukraine), IsoHunt (Canada), Kickass Torrents (Canada), Rutracker (Russia), The Pirate Bay (Everywhere), Torrentz (Canada), and Kankan (China)."

Source:

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-moves-to-the-cloud-becomes-raid-proof-121017/

Well given that nearly half of the files on Megaupload had never been downloaded that makes a good percentage non-infringing. http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-search-warrants-ignored-massive-non-infringing-use-121118/

Extortion:
The Police Raided a 9-Year-Old to Confiscate Her Winnie the Pooh Laptop

Outrageously unfair fines:
$222,000 Music Piracy Fine Not Unconstitutional, Court Rules

Hypocrites:
The RIAA Pirated $9 Million Worth of TV Shows

Ripping off the artists:
Courtney Love does the math

Making sure shit floats:
How Payola Works Today... Or Why You Only Hear Major Label ...

The biggest pirates:
Canadian Music Industry Copyright Class Action Settled

Pushing the worst laws:
Rockmelt Blog | Why PIPA and SOPA are a Very Bad Idea Ã" And ...

So, pirate everything, boycott all of them, destroy the scumfucks.

Extortion:
The Police Raided a 9-Year-Old to Confiscate Her Winnie the Pooh Laptop

Outrageously unfair fines:
$222,000 Music Piracy Fine Not Unconstitutional, Court Rules

Hypocrites:
The RIAA Pirated $9 Million Worth of TV Shows

4. Ripping off the artists.
Courtney Love does the math

Making sure shit floats:
How Payola Works Today... Or Why You Only Hear Major Label ...

The biggest pirates:
Canadian Music Industry Copyright Class Action Settled

Pushing the worst laws:
Rockmelt Blog | Why PIPA and SOPA are a Very Bad Idea â" And ...

So, pirate everything, boycott all of them, destroy the scumfucks.

It just so happens that yesterday The Pirate Bay launched a separate site dedicated to promoting and distributing (legally) the works of some 10,000+ artists. Stuff which has already been on TPB for a while.

Sadly I haven't been able to check this out as I'm in the UK and this new site is blocked by my ISP.

If you paid for the VPN services with the credit card on your name you did nothing for your security. Unless you can trust that the VPN provider will do everything to protect your identity.

Funny, I thought that's what cc gift cards were made for...also, it's a bit old but nonetheless an interesting read: Torrentfreak's informal comparison of VPN provider privacy practices.

The "article" mostly quotes from Torrent Freak. Here's the longer source:
http://torrentfreak.com/police-raid-9-year-old-pirate-bay-girl-confiscate-winnie-the-pooh-laptop-121122/

Although I'm not vouching for the accuracy of the following, I thought it might be interesting to include what appears to be a legitimate post at torrentfreak a few hours ago by the father:

As a father of this 10-years girl, I would like to thank you all for a huge support in this case. We are still devestited of what happened, and my girl is still almoust in tears. I will take this as far it goes, and seek for justice for all other cases like this around a globe. Hopefully finnish justice system will find this as fucked up as most of Finnish & Europes social media, and regular people does. Thanx once again, it really matters a lot for us! Love & respect, Julietta & his Dad ps. Sorry for my bad English. Facebook: Aki"weq"Nylund

Everything looks proper, including the link to the facebook page; my apologies in advance if anything turns out to be otherwise. Fwiw, if it hasn't already been mentioned, the actual download that has caused the recent arrest happened in 2011.

Honestly, I don't know why any article with a source link at the bottom of it ends up in slashdot summary.

What's wrong with Torrentfreak?

Honestly, I don't know why any article with a source link at the bottom of it ends up in slashdot summary.

The "article" mostly quotes from Torrent Freak. Here's the longer source:

http://torrentfreak.com/police-raid-9-year-old-pirate-bay-girl-confiscate-winnie-the-pooh-laptop-121122/

This third round of action in âOperation in Our Sitesâ(TM) took control of the domains of Rojadirecta, one of Spainâ(TM)s most popular sites.

The people who operate Firstrow donâ(TM)t live in the US, and neither are their servers located there. In fact, Firstrow says that their site is perfectly legal where they are based

November when ICE seized Rojadirecta.org, a sports site held to be a legal website by Spanish courts on two occasions. The agency may have a desire to protect consumers from foreign websites. Steve Tepp, ICE senior director for Internet counterfeiting and piracy, explains that âoetheir jurisdiction is limited to the United Statesâ¦â However, Tepp argues that âoe[w]e need legislation to provide enhanced remedies to cut off foreign rogue sites from the U.S. market

U.S. Claims Global Jurisdiction of .net and .com Web Sites: Is .edu Next?

It appears to be the US asserting jurisdiction over any website in any country.

ICE seized the TVShack.net in June 2010

This third round of action in âOperation in Our Sitesâ(TM) took control of the domains of Rojadirecta, one of Spainâ(TM)s most popular sites.

The people who operate Firstrow donâ(TM)t live in the US, and neither are their servers located there. In fact, Firstrow says that their site is perfectly legal where they are based

November when ICE seized Rojadirecta.org, a sports site held to be a legal website by Spanish courts on two occasions. The agency may have a desire to protect consumers from foreign websites. Steve Tepp, ICE senior director for Internet counterfeiting and piracy, explains that âoetheir jurisdiction is limited to the United Statesâ¦â However, Tepp argues that âoe[w]e need legislation to provide enhanced remedies to cut off foreign rogue sites from the U.S. market

U.S. Claims Global Jurisdiction of .net and .com Web Sites: Is .edu Next?

It appears to be the US asserting jurisdiction over any website in any country.

ICE seized the TVShack.net in June 2010

You clearly haven't been paying attention.

U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, 'By Mistake

Just google ICE and 'websites' for more crap that the US govt has been pulling against websites, many of which are perfectly legal and not in the US.

Sorry, your point?

Allow me to repeat part of the paragraph that you ended up not quoting: Are you sure Steam doesn't communicate on port 80 or 443 when activating or patching a retail game discovered through word of mouth?

Cut off access to porn on port 80 and watch the use of alternate protocols rise.

Watch HTTP on ports other than 80 rise and watch ISPs cut off HTTP using deep packet inspection. Watch well-known protocols other than HTTP rise and watch ISPs cut off Gopher as well.

In an Internet protocol, peer discovery occurs through discovery nodes. The discovery nodes of the well-known Internet protocols are the DNS servers and the search engines. ISPs have shown themselves able and willing to block access to publicly known discovery nodes in an attempt to stop erotic entertainment and copyright infringement at the border. Napster and BitTorrent, for example, rely on trackers at well-known hostnames; those can be blocked. Even trackerless BitTorrent relies on the well-known hostname router.bittorrent.com to bring a new user into the DHT network; eMule similarly relies on the ed2k servers before a user can join the Kad Network. Fully friend-to-friend systems such as Freenet move peer discovery out of band, but I haven't seen those systems take off among the majority.

Many "legit" stores do not benefit the artists!

Some sell the artists music without permission and do not reimburse the artists
http://torrentfreak.com/apples-itunes-sued-by-artist-for-pirating-music-110812/
http://forum.tunecore.com/post/Album-on-iTunes-without-permission-5680939

Sometimes the artists get no money because of extraordinary business practices by their music publishers or associations
http://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100712/23482610186.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091203/1853507190.shtml
and for interest
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120323/18055718229/how-ascap-takes-money-successful-indie-artists-gives-it-to-giant-rock-stars.shtml

Sometimes the artists get no money because their music publishers instruct them not to register with the copyright agency of that country SO THAT the publisher can claim that the seller is not legitimate because the artists get no money.
http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/entry/russian_based_all_of_mp3coms_former_owner_may_see_jail_time_fines_and_a_mor/
http://allofmp3.ru/press/centre.shtml?s=994&d=66219728 : "Even without an agreement between ROMS and the rightsholders, it is our understanding that ROMS, in particular, has sent several letters to the major record labels inviting them to collect their royalties. Those notices have been ignored."
http://techcrunch.com/2007/07/25/former-allofmp3com-owner-faces-jail-time/

Sometimes it's a choice between
1. not paying
2. paying and the artist gets no money
3. paying and the artist gets no money and you support an abusive music industry
4. paying and the artist gets money and you support an abusive music industry

For mass music I opt for 2 where I can because I think it does least harm.
For less popular music I use CD-Baby and other self publishing sites or buy direct from the artist.

I was trying to create a link to the Political Prostitution video discussed here but the YouTube account is closed by the user and the website is gone?!

Actually the Pirate Bay guy isn't in solitary confinement and it's on a different charge (hacking the tax system), not for running TPB.

You are correct only on the second point. He is in solitary however, and most people believe it's only for the reason of vengeance against him by the copyright cartel.

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-founder-held-in-solitary-confinement-write-him-a-letter-today-121020/

> Unless your government backs the stance then it can veto it.

Right. And when your government backs the stance, like they did SOPA, what happens?

SOPA went down because politicians were scared they wouldn't get reelected because of the massive outcry. People could look at the list of people that voted 'yes' and not reelect them. If it's some appointee? The politician can just say they went rogue and that they won't reappoint them. And who is that politician anyways... it's buried under time and approvals. 'well, they were my third choice; I didn't really like them but they were the only one that would stick'. Do you think that trail is going to be stronger when you can pump up issues like jobs, defense, abortion, etc?

So the problem is that instead of the responsibility being on elected representatives (who are accountable to the people), it's on an appointee (whose accountability is to the government). Sure the government is accountable to the representatives who are accountable to the people, but that's a big gap. (And, yes, the government is the representatives, but you don't elect them all, so it really is the amorphous 'government' before the politicians themselves.)

> The Berne convention passed precisely because the US government did want it, I'm failing to see how your argument eliminates the US government as still being a clear point of protection even under the ITU.

So the US wanted the Berne convention and now 165 signed on. And mind that is signed a treaty not just voted 'okay' at the ITU. So my point is that peer pressure pushed a treaty across the world. How far do you think it could push a resolution in the ITU? Especially if you say 'well this is really just part of the Berne convention to uphold copyright'.

> Great, and what about counter-examples like ICE domain seizures?

I dunno, but I see arrests and IP bans (which I view as far more serious than domain seizures, BTW) and jail time and free speech issues everywhere to follow one thread.

And Do you really think that, in a world where ACTA could be created, that ITU will somehow prevent domain seizures? What government would really be against that?

http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharers-buy-more-movies-121018/

http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-boosts-cd-sales-071103/

http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharers-buy-30-more-music-than-non-p2p-peers-121015/

http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-piracy-boosts-music-sales-study-finds-120517/

Yeah, I'm lazy. And the site does have its own agenda. But the articles all link to the original sources, so should be verifiable if you're curious.

http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharers-buy-more-movies-121018/

http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-boosts-cd-sales-071103/

http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharers-buy-30-more-music-than-non-p2p-peers-121015/

http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-piracy-boosts-music-sales-study-finds-120517/

Yeah, I'm lazy. And the site does have its own agenda. But the articles all link to the original sources, so should be verifiable if you're curious.

http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharers-buy-more-movies-121018/

http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-boosts-cd-sales-071103/

http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharers-buy-30-more-music-than-non-p2p-peers-121015/

http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-piracy-boosts-music-sales-study-finds-120517/

Yeah, I'm lazy. And the site does have its own agenda. But the articles all link to the original sources, so should be verifiable if you're curious.

http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharers-buy-more-movies-121018/

http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-boosts-cd-sales-071103/

http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharers-buy-30-more-music-than-non-p2p-peers-121015/

http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-piracy-boosts-music-sales-study-finds-120517/

Yeah, I'm lazy. And the site does have its own agenda. But the articles all link to the original sources, so should be verifiable if you're curious.

Remember that time where the internet was freedom? Where one could create a website, it was subject to law, like any other act. Remember when the providers of the internet buckled under the pressure from "the powers that be". Sites could be blocked, freedom quashed, because somebody didn't like the content of a site, because somebody thought it aided in crime and law breaking, despite not breaking any laws itself.

When we start forcing ISPs to block sites, based on anything other than law, we open gates that will never be closed. One leads to more, more to many and eventually freedom on the internet will be dead.

This is the key issue we are dealing with. It is getting overlooked because "piracy is bad". We have many other questions to ask: does blocking these sites even /help/ the problem of piracy? this suggests not! Is piracy really the problem, perhaps the intermediate companies between consumer and author's of content are to blame somewhat?

Why do we have to constantly start making much larger problems while trying to fix smaller ones. Fix the music industry, the film industry, the E-book-monolopy that Amazon is building, fix the problem at the root. Provide consumers with a modern, suitable market in which they pay the author's of content for their products, for a price that represents the true worth of that product. Allow the consumer to have freedom with that product to use it in any device, in any form. Provide a good service, that is value-for-money, and people /will/ use it. We've seen it work before

Leave the internet alone, once the gates are open the wars begin....

(This is one army, preparing arms...

Here's a story TorrentFreak run on this (in English)

I was curious whether a major regional ISP was taking part in this clusterfuck, and found an interesting interview from August stating that the only ISPs taking part are AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon; independent ISPs are not involved and weren't even asked.

Relatedly, I highly recommend that anyone in the service area for Sonic.net (their CEO/founder was the one interviewed) use them as an ISP -- they're the only one I know of that has been persistently doing what we've all been saying we want ISPs to do when it comes to governmental & *AA demands and investing in fiber connections. No better way to show appreciation than voting with our wallets where we can...

It seems like the whole TPB operation was fairly successful and the owners got to live the good life in Thailand (Neij) and Cambodia (Svartholm). They got tons of money to use on drugs (Svartholms drug problem was fairly well known in Cambodia) and living in the sun and beside swimming pools.

It seems like the whole TPB operation was fairly successful and the owners got to live the good life in Thailand (Neij) and Cambodia (Svartholm). They got tons of money to use on drugs (Svartholms drug problem was fairly well known in Cambodia) and living in the sun and beside swimming pools.

Sweden is quickly turning into USA:

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-founder-remains-locked-up-without-charges-120930/

I do not remember the developers of torrent P2P protocols being hauled into court.

Google utorrent lawsuit tells me they were, albeit on patent charges, not copyright charges. The suit was filed then dropped.

I do not remember the developers of torrent P2P protocols being hauled into court.

Google utorrent lawsuit tells me they were, albeit on patent charges, not copyright charges. The suit was filed then dropped.

The clock's visual appearance is almost, if not entirely, uncopyrightable in the US.

The US DOJ takes down knock-off and counterfeit sites all the time, because design is, indeed, protected.

http://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-130-domain-names-in-mass-crackdown-111125/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20023918-93.html

Now if justice really was blind, and there was true equality in front of the law, we should see one of these on the apple web site too, not just companies that sell handbags and jerseys.

Google has quietly expanded its list of censored search phrases with the addition of The Pirate Bay’s domain names. The blacklist prevents popular keywords from appearing in Google’s Instant and Autocomplete search services, while the pages themselves remain indexed. Although Google understands that there is no silver bullet to stop online copyright infringement, the search giant is convinced that the steps they’ve taken could help to decrease piracy.

https://torrentfreak.com/google-adds-pirate-bay-domains-to-censorship-list-120910/

it's not stealing, copying there is no theft and it was already ruled by high courts in switzerland that people that pirate wouldn't have paid for it in the first place so there is no sales lost.

http://torrentfreak.com/swiss-govt-downloading-movies-and-music-will-stay-legal-111202/

I've pirated and cut cable since 1996 when i started off downloading off passed around FTP servers and Newsgroups.

I still use newsgroups and torrents nowdays and a Western Digitial WDTV Live plus with a usb wifi adapter plugged in to stream downloaded movies off a shared drive on my lan to my tv.

I pirate television due to spam, I hate a 30 minute television show is streatched to 1 hour due to commercials every 3 minutes and they play so many commercials they actually have to remind you what you were watching "will be right back with xxx show in a few minutes"

got fed up with spam in 96 so cut cable and pirated ever since, where I live we have 1 local theater within a 50 mile radius and ticket prices are 13.50 for 1 person, if I take my family that's just over 40 bucks in tickets only plus another 10-20 for popcorn/soda FUCK THAT.

I pirate movies so I can enjoy them at home with my family on my surround sound (7.1 bluray rips ftw on http://kat.ph/ and can actually save money.

Why would I pay the same price to buy the movie on Bluray to go see it in a stinky, noisy, stuffy theater? movies are to be enjoyed at home alone or with loved ones, not in a gymnasium full of strangers lip smacking, gorging, laughing, glow of phone texting, etc.

Movie theaters in the 60, 70's and even 80's were a social experience, people dressed up in suits and ties, women in fancy dresses to go out to the movies, it became a social event almost as going to a church in a way. But the 90's then 2000's came long that made home theater systems as good or better quality than theaters and we now have it how it's supposed to be, movies should be an intimate enjoyment, an escape from reality which is better at home or with loved ones than a gym full of noisy, nasty, strangers.

so I'll pirate till I die :)

http://kat.ph/
http://thepiratebay.se/
http://h33t.com/
newsgroups which are free since my ISP offers them freely
there are still FTP sites floating around as well still used

fuck spam television and mpaa

Theater system is dead, Strangers all up in some gymnasium to watch a movie is a dead model. It's time to adapt or die.

I think you mean this article:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-hollywood-encouraging-onine-piracy

Pogue (don't get people started on him), said:

Of the 10 most pirated movies of 2011, guess how many of them are available to rent online, as I write this in midsummer 2012? Zero.

Note that while you added on "or purchase", the article never states this.

Which is a good thing, too, or Pogue would probably have been called out.
I don't know who 'the authority' on the 10 most pirated movies of 2011 would be, but I suspect torrentfreak would be a good source:
http://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-pirated-movies-of-2011-111223/

Amazon has all those titles available on DVD, Blu-Ray, some combo packs with 'ultraviolet digital copy' (yuck), instant purchase through Amazon's instant video and - yes - even one rental (127 Hours).

So "or purchase" is simply false.

Looks like whoever has posted this story hasn't fact checked, but according to TorrentFreak, TPB have already responded - specifically to this article - indicating that PrivitizeVPN is not their project, and is merely the link to one of their advertisers. http://torrentfreak.com/tag/privitizevpn/

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-did-not-launch-a-free-vpn-120827/ Just sayin....

https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-did-not-launch-a-free-vpn-120827/

Slashdot broke a story earlier today claiming that The Pirate Bay had launched a free VPN service called PrivitizeVPN.

Interesting, except for the fact that itâ(TM)s not a Pirate Bay project.

The Pirate Bay team informed TorrentFreak that they have nothing to do with the service.

They are just running it as an ad next to the regular download links.

That does not mean that a free VPN isnâ(TM)t a good deal, if you donâ(TM)t forget to bypass the ad-ware installers. However, when we tried it the service didnâ(TM)t work at all.

According to people close to PrivitizeVPN they are working on the connectivity issues. Those looking for a more stable and high bandwidth VPN are probably better off looking for a paid alternative.

This is not a Pirate Bay project at all.

It's an advertising campaign, and a damn good one since it made it onto Slashdot...

Hmm. Must have said something politically controversial recently to be picking up all these 'troll' flags. Oh wait, found it: I said something bad about Apple. That tends to get people's panties all up in a knot. Well... here's a little something then to help them burn through those extra -1, disagree points; links backing up my previous post....

The war on piracy uses pretty much the same tactics as the war on drugs.

You can't have downloaded content. Any downloaded content you do have must be in clear digital containers with the administering agency. Even if you have prescr--er, license, for the downloaded content you have in your possession, you can still be charged with a crime if it does not come in a pre-approved container. Taking other people's downloaded content, even if they have the same content as well, is also forbidden. You cannot move your downloaded content from one container to another container, this is also illegal. Admission that you have downloaded content, or a suspicion that you may be in possession of downloaded content, legally or not, is grounds to search your person for it. Possession of a sufficient quantity would normally get you intent to distribute as well, but we have declared a quantity of zero to be intent to distribute: Every downloader is also an uploader, as a matter of law.

If charged, you are guilty until proven innocent. The best lawyers in the geographical area you are being prosecuted in will be used against you, while you will be given a crappy public defender, or none at all, since we've found that we can throw you in jail for civil violations as well, and only criminal court has to provide one. Possession in and of itself, regardless of whether or not you have a valid license to possess it, is sufficient for a conviction. There is no appeals process, or any appeals process present is designed only to look at things that are a "matter of law". You'll note the law has been so narrowly written as to make everyone guilty, merely by possession.

Fines and punishments will be far worse for this than any other crime. In fact, if you murder the artist who's song you downloaded, you'll face less time in jail and less fines. Actually, you could murder the whole band, and their agent, and still get off comparatively light.

Oh, lastly, trying to hide your content trafficing using encryption, vpns, or any other obfusciation technology will result in additional punishments, as it is obstruction of justice now to do so. Thank you for you cooperation, corporate citizen.

http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anonymity-seriously-111007/

I know TFA is asking what VPN service is best suited for ppl living in Australia

I happen to travel frequently, from the Americas to Europe to Asia (including Australia/NZ) to Africa, for business, and there are times I desperately need VPN that just works

I do not need a lot of GBs, but I do need security - which means, VPN which do NOT keep any log of my online activity

Can anyone recommend VPN services that can work in _any_ country in this world?

I suggest you take a look here. And that goes to all of you: http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anonymity-seriously-111007/

>> the official torrent contains a single gigantic zip file

This is nearly as bad as using RAR in Torrents
http://web.archive.org/web/20080724050712/http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3559946/Why_RAR_archives_do_not_belong_in_torrents
https://torrentfreak.com/unpack-rar-archives-before-you-release-a-torrent/

It is a shame that people continue to do this and unfortunate that the torrent programs do not make more effort to guide users to the right thing.

> No matter how good it is, no torrent client will allow you to choose the files inside a zip file inside the torrent.

No Torrent program I know if is good enough yet but some archive programs are very clever and it wouldn't be impossible to make a torrent file that did more with ZIP files. I'll explain...
Technically ZIP is more than just a file format it is also a file system. ZIP unlike RAR is not one big single *solid* file, and it is possible with ZIP files to extract individual files from an archive without needing to unpack the entire archive. In practice this is more complicated when you do not have a full and complete archive but at least in theory torrent programs could be made more ZIP aware and proiritize the file index and other essentials from within the ZIP.

"Current annual revenue is estimated at somewhere between $15 and $20 million and the company is backed by millions in venture capital."

http://torrentfreak.com/utorrent-becomes-ad-supported-to-rake-in-millions-120810/

So unless TF got their numbers wrong, this is not at all about surviving - they do very well already.

http://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-operators-face-criminal-investigation-in-mexico-120807/

More information for the editors.