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Interesting take on music, movie and software Piracy data

While Piracy is definitely unethical, everybody has a point of view and many of us believe that Piracy is not theft. Anti-piracy agencies have resorted to data figures to show how much monetary loss piracy is costing them, here is another take with the other side of view to these claims complete with numbers.

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Piracy facts

Microsoft Office 365 Customer Preview Now Available For Download

Microsoft started poking Google almost a year ago promoting their Office 365 offering, the company has now revealed the brand new Office 2013 for Home, small businesses and enterprise users.

The new release focuses mainly on the cloud features and integration with newer Windows 8 metro UI, the user-interface is designed to work optimally with touch, stylus and mouse/keyboard across new Windows devices. The new Office is also tightly integrated with social features catering to new scenarios in reading, note-taking, meetings and communications.

MS Office 365

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OneClick from BitTorrent allows users to download torrents in web-browser as normal files without a torrent client

While using torrents to download all kinds of digital files is very popular, many not so techy users find it difficult to use. And for these users exist torrent-to-http services like zBigZ.

BitTorrent Inc. the company behind ongoing development of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol, has came up with an browser based torrent integration technology allowing developers to use the power of web-browsers and torrents to deliver easy-to-use file downloading and streaming services. To demonstrate the technology the company has released OneClick browser extension for Google Chrome which allows users to download torrents as regular files without requiring a torrent management client. The user simply clicks a torrent link and the file starts downloading as any other http download inside web-browser.

OneClick

zBigz - Simple, free, fast and hassle free torrent to http download service

Proxy services to fetch torrents and offer easy-to-download fast regular http links are nothing new, and we have blogged about a similar service httpTorrents which is no longer available. A similar torrent-to-http service zBigZ is an downloader's dream come true, offering an excellent user-interface the service allows users to grab torrents onto zBigZ servers which can be downloaded as regular http links using download managers of their choice like IDM, flashget etc..

The great part is the service provides an decent, free offering - just limiting free accounts to a maximum of two torrent grabs and storage at a time with support for download resumes (when downloading cached files from zBigz servers to your computer).

zBigz

The service not only provides a faster and better way to download files, but also helps users bypass ISP torrent download restrictions and get files anonymously over a SSL secured link. More details, features and signup links below.

Automatic photo uploads come to Dropbox for iOS with a new way to earn free storage

dropboxThe Dropbox iPhone App has been updated to support automatic photo uploads and gallery view. After upgrading to new version, the app will prompt user for permission to automatically upload phone's camera roll (images and movies) to their Dropbox account.

To promote usage of this feature, users are also offered an reward of up to 3GB of bonus capacity in 500MB increments when data gets uploaded using the new feature.

dropbox iOS

Windows 8 Release Preview Now Available For Download

Almost three months after the "Windows 8 Consumer Preview" public download milestone, Microsoft Windows 8 Release Preview is now available officially for download. Windows 8 Release Preview is a pre-release testing version of Microsoft's upcoming major OS upgrade "Windows 8", the new OS is designed ground-up in terms of interface and focuses on people and apps providing them powerful new ways to use social technologies and to connect with people.

Windows 8 Release Preview

Don't forget to checkout the official release introduction video below.

ResumeMonk - Easy, free and professional online service to get beautiful resume in minutes

Resume Monk LogoIf you are looking for a professional quality resume template, what can be better than the free resume templates shared earlier ? - well, the answer would be "Resume Monk".

"Resume Monk" is an free, online service which allows users to fill-in there details, select a format from beautifully designed resume templates and save the completed resume as an PDF file for printing and get a unique link for there hosted online "CV" for social sharing.

The best part of this approach is that user simply needs to enter or edit there details once using the intuitive interface and have a elegant, professional resume with all his details within minutes - the service also allows users to manage and edit multiple resumes. Since, the service is online all user-data is saved on "Resume Monk" servers and a user can access it from anywhere - this also makes sure you don't have to worry about backing up your resume information or put efforts in-case your offline resume gets lost.

online CV maker

Pirate Pay - Microsoft funded anti-piracy startup, attacks and blocks torrent file-sharing automatically

Pirate PayThe battle between file-sharing mediums and anti-piracy agencies is nothing new, and yet another effective arsenal for anti-piracy advocates is ready to get deployed. Pirate Pay is an Russian start-up which is being funded by Microsoft, the technology effectively blocks BitTorrent traffic by attacking P2P swarms resulting in blocked file-sharing. The technology makes use of a cluster of servers to connect to each and every P2P client trying to download a particular torrent, and then confuses them with corrupted data making them disconnect from each other.

Pirate Pay

Recently, the technology got successfully used to prevent illegal pirated distribution of Russian movie "Vysotsky. Thanks to God, I am alive". During the usage of 30 days the Pirate Pay technology blocked 44,845 infringed copies from being downloaded illegally via torrent, even after the users found torrent download link on torrent networks.

20 Free Professional Quality CV Templates

A resume or a curriculum vitæ (CV) is the very first impression an employer encounters when looking to hire someone, and if you are seeking a job this document becomes critical to increase you chances of getting hired. If you are looking for some attractive, professional quality resume templates here is you chance to grab them absolutely free - just hit the download button at the end of this post to grab your legal copy of 20 professional quality "CV templates".

Free CV Template sample

Here is what you receive in reply when you send a DMCA copyright notice to ThePirateBay.org

There is no doubt that ThePirateBay.org has been the most bold, organization when it comes to copyright matters. And things really get funny when you send an DMCA copyright infringement notice to them and they reply - read the full letter after the jump.

DMCA Notice
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