The number of songs downloaded from Apple’s online music store iTunes sped past one billion Thursday as a customer in Bloomfield, Mich., purchased Coldplay’s “Speed of Sound” as part of the band’s X&Y album. Apple, which was watching for the one billionth download, will give Alex Ostrovsky, the lucky downloader, a 20-inch iMac computer, 10 iPods and a $10,000 gift certificate to iTunes. “Over one billion songs have now been legally purchased and downloaded around the globe, representing a major force against music piracy and the future of music distribution as we move from CDs to the Internet,” Apple’s Steve Jobs said in a press release. In addition to the prizes Ostrovsky will take home, Apple will also establish a scholarship in his name to New York’s Juilliard School of Music.

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After second week spent by skiing down mountains in Austria, Switzerland and Italy I’m back to bring you some new information. The first and probably most important is about new antipiracy attack of MPAA against many torrent and emule sites. On tuesday was taken offline famous eMule server Razorback2 by Belgian Police, in conjunction with the MPAA. On 23rd, the MPAA has announced a tremendous escalation in their fight against online piracy - this time targeting BitTorrent, eDonkey2000 and Newsgroup NZB indexing sites. More from Slyck, focusing on torrent sites:

In all, nine indexing sites have been targeted (Isohunt.com, BTHub.com and TorrentBox.com all owned by one individual.) BitTorrent: ISOHunt, TorrentSpy, NiteShadow.com, BTHub.com and TorrentBox.com; eDonkey2000: Ed2k-It.com; Newsgroups: NZB-Zone.com, BinNews.com and DVDRs.net. The operators of these indexing sites appear surprised at the MPAA’s decision to sue, as they have yet to receive any notification.

“Funny, they didn’t email me,â€? Gary from ISOHunt said. “I’m not too concerned because we deal with copyright requests everyday, some of them from studios MPAA represents.â€? “Justinâ€? from TorrentSpy echoed Gary’s skepticism. “I guess I will learn more when I see what they have filed exactly. [I’m] not sure why they are suing when we comply with DMCA requests but I guess we will learn more down the road.â€?

A point to consider is TorrentSpy and ISOHunt are search engines - not trackers. Their role in the BitTorrent community is considerably different from previous lawsuit recipients such as the trackers EliteTorrents and LokiTorrent.

“We haven’t had a case that really tests the case of whether providing an indexing service by itself an infringement,” von Lohmann said. How the above mentioned indexing sites will react remains unclear, considering they have yet to actually receive the complaint. While large scale sweeps such as this typically happen once per year, the major difference this time is the inclusion of Newsgroup indexing servers – a radical departure from typical copyright enforcement actions.

So it looks we may have small problems with NewTorrents.info. This site isn’t as big as TorrentSpy or Isohunt, but still quite famous and popular. The main difference is that both of these are US located and we aren’t. The thing is, that they are still running without any change or difference, and they haven’t been even contacted by MPAA. Isohunt experienced some problems with MPAA already, but is working fine now. I’ve been always thinking that these organizations focus on trackers - and we are not tracker, we are just indexing site targeted on specific kind of torrents. I’ve not received any letter connected with this action, so I hope it will be OK. You can read MPAA press release commenting the situation. Stay connected to be more informed about this situation…

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I’m a little busy atm and Martin couldn’t keep the site up to date this week also..so i shortly bring you the newest movies from the last days listed in this blog cuz i don’t have the time 2 write in detail about several good ones . Here we go.

Choker.2005.DVDRip.XViD-BNU - IMDB, nfo, torrent

Just.Friends.DVDRip.XviD-LMG - IMDB, nfo, torrent

Fear.Of.Clowns.DVDRip.XviD-LMG - IMDB, nfo, torrent

Niagara.Motel.2005.LiMiTED.DVDRiP.XViD-BMT - IMDB, nfo, torrent

Memoirs.Of.A.Geisha.2005.DVDRiP.XviD-HLS - IMDB, nfo, torrent

hmn..won’t hurt to post it in here also…
Crashday-CLONECD - nfo, torrent

that’s all for now…

enjoy

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Since 1980, Eurosoft has had an enviable reputation as a world class provider of PC diagnostic and test solutions to leading manufacturers and service organisations. Eurosoft’s widely-used PC reliability solutions have been proven in numerous manufacturing and servicing organisations to reduce costs and increase productivity throughout the entire PC lifecycle. Used by thousands of PC manufacturing, repair, upgrade, education, and service organisations throughout the world, Pc-Check® is specifically designed to save time, money and resources by reducing assembly, upgrade and repair test workloads.

Features:
♦ Easy to Use hardware tests.
♦ Self-Booting independent testing.
♦ Core system testing (extensive testing coverage without Windows drivers).
♦ Command line, scripted, or manually selectable tests speeds up test load
times, burn-in tests and service reliability.
♦ Generates multiple report types, including a detailed hardware
configuration snapshot, which can be written as text or as XML.

Release name: Eurosoft.Pc-Check.6.00-XiSO
Size: 30 x 15MB
Filename: pchk6-xiso
Links: Homepage, Product brochure, Product technical
NFO: here
Torrent: NewTorrents, MiniNova

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This morning the long awaited Omega ATI Drivers 3.8.221 based on the Catalyst 6.2 Ati Drivers got released. If you don’t like the Catalyst Control Center or just want to have faster ati drivers with much more tweak settings and configuration capabilities this one is the right thing for your ATI card. Enjoy

Download Mirror Page on OmegaDrivers.net

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Another movie which entered cinemas yesterday and is now available on the net is thriller Freedomland. This film mixed a bit of mystery and crime with great actors including Samuel L. Jackson or Julianne Moore. Quality of this cam is a bit worse then in case of previous “Date Movie”, so I recommend you to wait for some better release…

When her son disappears and is believed to be dead, a single mother blames an African-American man from the projects for the kidnapping, creating a racial controversy. An African-American detective (Jackson) and a white newspaper reporter team up to investigate the case, which they discover may be more complicated than they expected.

Genre: Crime / Drama / Mystery
IMDB rating: 4.7/10 (114 votes)
Directed by: Joe Roth
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe

Release name: Freedomland.CAM-HYdRO
Size: 2 CD, 1.07 GB, 77×15 MB
Runtime: 113 minutes
Quality: Cam, VCD
File names: hy.fland.cd1, hy.fland.cd2

Links: IMDB, Trailer, Homepage
NFO: here
Release sample: sample #1, #2, #3
Torrent: NewTorrents

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New Group CCAT (CopyCat) has released new cam version of movie “Date Movie”, which came into cinemas yesterday. Date Movie is romantic comedy starring well known Alyson Hannigan (American Pie, Buffy, Veronica Mars) and Adam Campbell in main roles. IMDB rating is 4.1/10 at the moment, but it may change a lot. Quality of this cam is quite good (sample).

The story of hopeless romantic Julia Jones, who has finally met the man of her dreams, the very British Grant Fonckyerdoder. But before they can have their Big Fat Greek Wedding, they’ll have to Meet the Parents, hook-up with The Wedding Planner, and contend with Grant’s friend Andy - a spectacularly beautiful woman who wants to put an end to her Best Friend’s Wedding.

Genre: Comedy / Romance
IMDB rating: 4.1/10 (244 votes)
Directed by: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Starring: Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Fred Willard, Jennifer Coolidge, Eddie Griffin

Release name: Date.Movie.CAM.VCD-CCAT
Size: 2 CD, 828 MB
Runtime: 85 minutes
Quality: Cam, VCD
File names: damo.a-ccat, damo.b-ccat

Links: IMDB, Trailer, Homepage
NFO: here
Release sample: sample
Torrent: NewTorrents

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