itwbennett writes "Geek advocate Wil Wheaton has written a blog post on the (legal) usefulness of BitTorrent, saying that the speed of his recent download of Ubuntu 12.
The federal judge hearing a Massachusetts file-sharing case has struck down a proposal to send all defendants a notice urging them to contact the plaintiff to work out a settlement.
The UK High Court last week ruled that the nation’s largest ISPs would have to block subscribers from accessing the notorious BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay.
