Earlier this week YouTube announced that it will soon change the video upload limit from the current 10 minutes to 15.

Videos exceeding10 minutes were until now reserved only to YouTube Partners and other content owners but due to a torrent of requests from users the limit had to be pushed a bit further for everybody as well.

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The British High Court has banned a popular copying device used by many gamers to play illegally copied games on the Nintendo DS

Now illegal to sell and market in the UK, the R4 cards, are storage devices that fit into the DS cartridge slot, circumvent security systems and allow people to play pirated games that had grabbed using file-sharing sites.

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Late last year France adopted the controversial three strikes model much to the joy of the entertainment industry and the discontent of advocates of human rights. However, the green light for imposing the law was given by HADOPI (Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des œuvres et la protection des droits sur Internet) only yesterday.

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BitTorrent Inc. keeps on further developing its services and expanding the capabilities of its popular client uTorrent. Last month the company added support for the iPhone and due to a latest upgrade the remote access ‘Web’ feature of its uTorrent Falcon client now supports the iPad and Android devices. This mean that those heavy downloaders using uTorrent can now remotely control their downloads on the mobile device of their choice no matter where they are.

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Ron Bowes, a security consultant at Nmap, has caused quite a turbulence in news earlier this week as he made available through file-sharing sites the public Facebook profiles of 100 million users of the social networking site which makes about 20% of the site's global membership.

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Industrial Light & Magic and Sony Pictures Imageworks, two major companies in the visual effects business, have teamed up to launch an open-source software as a solution for sharing large, complex CG files.

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Recently Motorola filed a patent which lets you believe that the company has been busy developing some sort of a cloud-based file sharing service.

The new tool called “Family Room” which some say could be an addition to the MOTOBLUR, the company’s software which provides social media updates in one collective space and also offers back up solution, is described by Motorola as follows:

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While ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) lines up US as one of the advocates of severe copyright rules (abroad), it the laws surrounding anti-circumvention don’t seem just as tough.

The Courthouse News Service mentioned late last week that according to a court’s decision, the mere act of breaking a digital lock is not, in and of itself, an infringement.

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Some interesting news related to a lawsuit that has all the major US mobile carriers involved including AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, & T-Mobile was picked up recently by Techdirt. According to the site, the company Luvdarts claims these providers are no better than file sharing networks that spread illegal content and goes as far as comparing them to Limewire and Gnutella.

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Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor in "The Ghost Writer"

TorrentFreak has published the data they collected with the top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent for the week ended July 25. All the films included in this chart are DVDrips (unless mentioned otherwise).

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