http://www.instantidiocy.com Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:21:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/10/six-bittorrent-admins-arrested-interpol-chase-two-more/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/10/six-bittorrent-admins-arrested-interpol-chase-two-more/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:21:44 +0000 TorrentFreak http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/10/six-bittorrent-admins-arrested-interpol-chase-two-more/ Although it wasn’t yet evident, December 2009 appeared to mark the beginning of an effort to shut down the Greek file-sharing scene. The Society for the Protection of Audiovisual Works (EPOE) conducted an investigation and moved in conjunction with the police to carry out the first action of its type against a file-sharing site in [...]]]> http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/10/six-bittorrent-admins-arrested-interpol-chase-two-more/feed/ 0 http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/10/comcast-funds-bitstalker-anti-piracy-research/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/10/comcast-funds-bitstalker-anti-piracy-research/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:21:42 +0000 TorrentFreak http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/10/comcast-funds-bitstalker-anti-piracy-research/ For years the RIAA and other copyright holders have been sending copyright infringement notices to ISPs, requesting they forward them to their customers. ISPs including Comcast have always kindly complied with these requests, but remained a neutral party. It therefore came as a surprise when we found out that three major US ISPs – Comcast, Cox [...]]]> http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/10/comcast-funds-bitstalker-anti-piracy-research/feed/ 0 http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/09/music-group-gets-court-injunction-against-usenext/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/09/music-group-gets-court-injunction-against-usenext/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:19:24 +0000 TorrentFreak http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/09/music-group-gets-court-injunction-against-usenext/ UseNeXT is a brand operated by Munich and London-based company, Aviteo Ltd. UseNeXT is one of the most popular Usenet services around today and has traditionally advertised extensively within the BitTorrent community and on many torrent sites. On 19 December 2006, performing rights group GEMA, which handles the copyrights of more than 1 million rightsholders worldwide, [...]]]> http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/09/music-group-gets-court-injunction-against-usenext/feed/ 0 http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/09/piracy-rises-in-france-despite-three-strikes-law/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/09/piracy-rises-in-france-despite-three-strikes-law/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:19:24 +0000 TorrentFreak http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/09/piracy-rises-in-france-despite-three-strikes-law/ September last year saw the passing of France’s controversial three-strikes ‘Hadopi’ law which allows the music industry to track down repeated copyright infringers with the ultimate goal of decreasing the country’s piracy rate. Under the new law alleged copyright infringers will be reported to a judge once they have received three warnings. The judge will then [...]]]> http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/09/piracy-rises-in-france-despite-three-strikes-law/feed/ 0 http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/08/dutch-pirate-party-joins-election-race/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/08/dutch-pirate-party-joins-election-race/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:19:16 +0000 TorrentFreak http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/08/dutch-pirate-party-joins-election-race/ 2009 was a breakthrough year for the Pirate Party movement. With more than 7 percent of the vote, the Swedish Pirate Party secured two seats in the European Parliament. A few weeks later, the Pirates in Germany entered the local Parliament after a member of another party switched sides. In 2010 the Pirate Parties hope to [...]]]> http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/08/dutch-pirate-party-joins-election-race/feed/ 0 http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/08/music-biz-hopes-to-end-piracy-by-tempting-isps-with-millions/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/08/music-biz-hopes-to-end-piracy-by-tempting-isps-with-millions/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:19:16 +0000 TorrentFreak http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/08/music-biz-hopes-to-end-piracy-by-tempting-isps-with-millions/ Around seven years ago when pressure was first starting to form against the then-fledgling BitTorrent scene, attitudes were pretty much as they are now. “They’ll never stop it, we’ll always find a way,” cried the masses grabbing music, movies and software for free, and few disagreed. Of course, there will always be a way to acquire [...]]]> http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/08/music-biz-hopes-to-end-piracy-by-tempting-isps-with-millions/feed/ 0 http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/08/top-10-most-pirated-movies-on-bittorrent-52/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/08/top-10-most-pirated-movies-on-bittorrent-52/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:19:16 +0000 TorrentFreak http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/08/top-10-most-pirated-movies-on-bittorrent-52/ This week there are four newcomers (three comebacks actually) in the top 10. New Moon is the most downloaded movie on BitTorrent. The data for our weekly download chart is collected by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are DVDrips unless stated otherwise. RSS feed for the [...]]]> http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/08/top-10-most-pirated-movies-on-bittorrent-52/feed/ 0 http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/08/completely-free-mmorpg-that-gasp-doesnt-suck/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/08/completely-free-mmorpg-that-gasp-doesnt-suck/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:45:16 +0000 Zythrix http://www.instantidiocy.com/?p=2418 How many of you are World of Warcraft fans?! Woo!! WoW! Alright! Yeah! Right? No. Piss off, this isn’t for you. – My roommates and I have recently gotten entrenched in the 100% Free-to-Play MMORPG Runes of Magic. To the fresh eye, it is most definitely a World of Warcraft clone. However, among many smaller differences (compared to the following), [...]]]> http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/08/completely-free-mmorpg-that-gasp-doesnt-suck/feed/ 0 http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/08/blood-of-the-roadrunner/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/08/blood-of-the-roadrunner/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:29:28 +0000 Zythrix http://www.instantidiocy.com/?p=2416 Finally! Thank you Seth MacFarlane! I was perusing YouTube when I stumbled across the following video. This is Set MacFarlane’s take on Coyote vs Roadrunner. I’m on the coyote’s side =D. ]]> http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/08/blood-of-the-roadrunner/feed/ 0 http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/07/and-bittorrent%e2%80%99s-oscar-goes-to%e2%80%a6-district-9/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/07/and-bittorrent%e2%80%99s-oscar-goes-to%e2%80%a6-district-9/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:19:11 +0000 TorrentFreak http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/07/and-bittorrent%e2%80%99s-oscar-goes-to%e2%80%a6-district-9/ Tonight, Hollywoods biggest stars will walk the red carpet into the Kodak Theater for the Academy Awards ceremony. In anticipation of the glamorous Oscar night, we enter the dark side of the movie business to find out which of the 10 nominees in the Best Picture category gets the vote from BitTorrent users. NewTeeVee asked [...]]]> http://www.instantidiocy.com/2010/03/07/and-bittorrent%e2%80%99s-oscar-goes-to%e2%80%a6-district-9/feed/ 0