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Written by enigmax on August 16, 2009 www.torrentfreak.com

A politician being touted as Britain’s next Prime Minister has been persuaded to take action to criminalize 7 million citizens following intensive industry lobbying over file-sharing. Business Secretary Lord Mandelson is in favor of introducing tough laws including Internet restrictions and fines of up to £50,000 ($83,000).

The debate on how Britain should tackle illicit file-sharing is heating up. The government has already set an utterly unrealistic target of reducing online piracy by 70% within a year. If that isn’t achieved, under the Digital Britain proposals communications regulator Ofcom would be given extra powers to take degenerative action against the functionality of a user’s Internet connection.

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Written by enigmax on July 22, 2009 torrentfreak.com

Just last week, multi-talented entertainer and general all round good guy Stephen Fry confirmed what everyone had secretly hoped he would, that he pirates TV shows with BitTorrent. Now, to immortalize those momentous occasions, a new game featuring Fry himself has been released entitled ‘Stephen Fry and The Quantum of Torrents.’

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Debian Package: libapache2-mod-bt
“mod_bt is a BitTorrent tracker for the Apache Web server. It is written in C and runs as an Apache 2.x module. It is possible for mod_perl or PHP to directly access the tracker’s information; no need to download and bdecode scrape URLs. The tracker is fully configured from within Apache’s own configuration file. The goal of mod_bt is to seamlessly integrate Bram Cohen’s BitTorrent protocol with Apache so that any Webmaster who serves up large files can shift the burden of bandwidth onto its clients with as little hassle as possible.”

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