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TorrentHound Shuts Down Voluntarily, Joins Kickass Torrents and Torrentz.eu

by Rajdeep
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TorrentHound Shuts Down Voluntarily, Joins Kickass Torrents and Torrentz.eu

It seems like online piracy has left its glory days behind, as another major player -TorrentHound – has finally decided to call it quits. After Kickass Torrents and Torrentz.eu, TorrentHound has become the third torrent website to bite the dust this year as the website has reportedly decided to shut itself down voluntarily.

In a one-word message to TorrentFreak, TorrentHound’s founder said ‘Finito’, which means ‘finished’ in Italian, indicating the website’s shutdown. The torrent website was founded back in 2007 and had been around for nearly a decade before its founder took the decision to shut it down.

As pointed out by TorrentFreak, even though the website had been around for quite some time now, and was among the top 10 torrent sites in terms of visits, it never reached the popularity levels of bigger players like The Pirate Bay, Kickass Torrents, and Torrentz.eu. TorrentHound founder provided a more detailed statement on the shutdown to the publication, saying, “It’s a combination of less traffic, less revenue and our bills piling up. Then add on constantly getting bugged by anti piracy agents, just wasn’t worth the headache anymore.”

The TorrentHound website now shows an obituary, with links to “not terrible places left for torrents”.

Earlier this year, torrents site Kickass Torrents was shut down after the arrest of alleged founder Artem Vaulin in Poland and was followed by the farewell of popular torrent search engine Torrentz.eu.

One of the most popular torrent website The Pirate Bay can be seen the only exception to the bunch as it has maintained its strength despite taking several hits in past. Several clone and mirror sites have tried to keep the name of other torrent sites alive but withered over time.

[Source:- gadgets.ndtv]

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After Kickass Torrents, Torrentz.eu Shuts Down

by Rajdeep
written by Rajdeep

After Kickass Torrents, Torrentz.eu Shuts DownWeeks after torrents site Kickass Torrents was shut down following the arrest of alleged founder Artem Vaulin in Poland, another major player Torrentz.eu appears to have shut its portals on Friday, a media report said.

Torrentz.eu, considered the largest torrent meta-search engine, announced “farewell” to its millions of users.

Founded in 2003, Torrentz.eu had millions of visitors per day the site grew out to become one of the most visited torrent sites.

After more than 13 years of service, the popular site announced its farewell just a few hours ago, that too without any warning, Torrent Freak reported.

While the homepage is still active, Torrentz has completely disabled its search functionality and has similarly removed all torrent links. Torrent Freak claims it was contacted by the owner of Torrentz.eu, who “prefers not to comment at the moment.”

“Torrentz was a free, fast and powerful meta-search engine combining results from dozens of search engines,” a text read while searching for content.

The site’s users are no longer able to login either. Instead, they see the following message: “Torrentz will always love you. Farewell.”

Two weeks ago, Artem Vaulin, the alleged 30-year-old Ukrainian owner of Kickass Torrents, was detained in Poland after being charged with a four-count US criminal indictment which was followed by shutdown of the search engine.

Vaulin was charged with money laundering and violations of several copyright laws.

[Source:- gadgets.ndtv]

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India Shuts Down Internet More Than Any Country In The World: Report

by Loknath Das
written by Loknath Das

India Shuts Down Internet More Than Any Country In The World: Report

India has the second-highest number of internet users after China and is fast shifting towards digitisation in every arena. Ironically, the country also has the highest number of internet shutdowns in the world.

While the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) report says that there were 451 Mn monthly active internet users at the end of the financial year 2019, a report by internet advocacy group Access Now says that India led the world in internet shutdowns with 67% of the total recorded worldwide in 2018.

Another report by the Software Freedom and Law Center, which tracks internet suspensions, says that since January 2012, there have been 373 halts in India’s internet service.

As CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) protests heated up across the country, authorities had to resort to shutting down the internet in Delhi and few other cities, which saw unrest.

Earlier, from December 11 evening, the mobile internet and data services were shut down in the northeast state for 24 hours and later extended up to 48 hours. According to a state government notification, this step was taken supposedly to prevent misuse of internet platforms and social media to disturb the peace and order in Assam. There were also shutdowns in West Bengal.

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Reacting to the internet shutdown in Delhi, a technology lawyer and Managing Partner at Mishi Choudhary and Associates, Mishi Choudhary said in a statement, “It’s really concerning that the capital city of the largest democracy in the world has shut the internet down and cut off its citizens from communicating. This is unprecedented and could have an irreversible and detrimental impact on India’s aspiration to become a Digital Leader.”

According to an internet shutdown tracker, the longest internet shut down has been in Jammu and Kashmir. “An internet shutdown was imposed on 4th August 2019, when Article 370 of the Constitution was abrogated by the Parliament of India. There was a Presidential order 272 dated 5th August 2019 implying the same,” said Software Freedom Law Centre that tracks internet shutdowns.

“There was a preventive shutdown imposed in the state which is yet to be lifted, the beginning of the communication blockade saw landlines as well as mobile services restricted, the ban on landlines was lifted but suspension of mobile internet continues in the valley,” it added.

[“source=inc42”]

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India shuts down internet once again, this time in Assam and Meghalaya

by Loknath Das
written by Loknath Das

Birdseye view of a city

India maintained a shutdown of the internet in the states of Assam and Meghalaya on Friday, now into 36 hours, to control protests over a controversial and far-reaching new citizen rule.

The shutdown of the internet in Assam and Meghalaya, home to more than 32 million people, is the latest example of a worrying worldwide trend employed by various governments: preventing people from communicating on the web and accessing information.

And India, the world’s second largest internet market with more than 650 million connected users, continues to exercise this measure more than any other nation.

On Thursday, India’s president Ram Nath Kovind approved the Citizenship Amendment Bill, a day after the country’s Parliament passed it. The law offers a path to Indian citizenship for non-Muslim minorities from three neighboring countries (Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh) — not for the country’s own Muslim minority.

Shortly after the bill was passed, protests broke out in the streets in the northeastern states of Assam and Meghalaya, where residents have long been concerned about immigration from the aforementioned nations. In Meghalaya, texting services have been suspended, too.

Soldiers are seen through the wreckage of a vehicle which was set on fire by demonstrators during a protest against the government’s Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in Guwahati on December 13, 2019. (Photo by BIJU BORO/AFP via Getty Images)

To contain the situation, the Indian government sent in troops and shut down the internet — a measure that the United Nations  has condemned in the past, calling it a violation of human rights.

Officials in the state of Assam said, “Social media platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, and YouTube are likely to be used for spreading of rumors and also for transmission of information like pictures, videos and text that have the potential to inflame passions and thus exacerbate the law and order situation.”

There is currently no official word on when the internet services would be resumed at these two places.

Preventing people from a medium that enables them to stay in touch with one another, and access news and information, is becoming a common phenomenon in several nations, though none come close to India.

Access Now, a digital rights group, reported earlier this year that India alone had about 134 of 196 documented shutdowns in 2018. According to Internet Shutdowns, a service operated by New Delhi-based digital advocacy group Software Law and Freedom Centre, there have been about 91 documented cases of internet shutdowns in India this year.

In Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian government shut down the internet for 133 days after stripping the majority Muslim territory of its autonomy in August. The service has only been partially restored.

[“source=techcrunch”]

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Google shuts down Google+ following massive security flaw

by Loknath Das
written by Loknath Das

Google exposed the data of hundreds thousands of Google+ users due to a faulty API, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. As part of reparations, the company is permanently shutting down Google+.

The API in question, allowed developers access to the public data of the users who signed up to use the app that used that API. The bug in the API allowed the developers to not just access the private, non-public data of the users who signed up as well as people they are connected to.

Google found up to 438 apps that used this API and 496,951 users may have been affected by this bug.

The data being stolen includes full names, email addresses, birth dates, gender, profile photos, places lived, occupation and relationship status. There were no phone numbers, email messages, timeline posts, direct messages or any other type of communication data.

This issue has existed 2015 until Google found out about it in March 2018 and decided to fix it. Google then had a choice to inform its users but chose not to because it wasn’t legally required to and secondly, because it would draw regulatory attention towards itself. Google was afraid it, too, would become the center of attention following Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, and as such chose not to disclose the information to its users.

Google’s excuse is that it found no evidence of any of the data being misused, however, it also has no way of being sure of that. The company did not check up with any of the developers of the aforementioned 438 apps.

Google also said the consumer version of Google+ had low usage and engagement and 90% of user sessions are less than five seconds long, essentially trashing its own product to cover up. The company is henceforth shutting down Google+ to consumers.

Google is also said to working on improving security elsewhere, including restricting developer access to things such as SMS, call logs, and contact data on Android and add-ons for Gmail.

[“source=ndtv”]

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