Today the largest and most important court case in file-sharing history starts in Stockholm, Sweden. The trial against The Pirate Bay is expected to be followed by countless others around the world. TorrentFreak explains:
Almost three years have passed since The Pirate Bay’s servers were seized by the Swedish police.
In the years since the raid a lot has changed. For one, The Pirate Bay grew to become the largest BitTorrent tracker on the Internet and one of the most prominent sites in the world (as of right now the site is ranked 102nd largest with 25 million unique users). Some estimate [...]
February 16, 2009
The War Against File-Sharing: The Pirate Bay Trial
February 3, 2009
The P2P Alternative Social Economy
The Wall Street Journal reports that a peer to peer social currency based economy may be playing a large role in our future. Stan Stalnaker, founder of the Hub Culture social network says “I don’t think anybody has any idea of how big a shift is coming in terms of our our view and perception of finance and money.” Clever social entrepreneurs are already bypassing the traditional banking world with micro lending services such as Kiva.org, and now other groups are creating their own units of exchange.
Hub culture has its own digital currency called Ven that its worldwide members can [...]




