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Like a waylaid runner who suddenly drops his crutches and sprints to victory, on Monday night, pop singer T-Pain sang "The Star Spangled Banner" without help from AutoTune, shocking a skeptical Dodger Stadium with a rendition that echoed through the air with soaring dexterity. The scene? Dusk in...[img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PopHiss/~4/jLd2PU6I9vY[/img] [url=http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/PopHiss/~3/jLd2PU6I9vY/la-et-ms-t-pain-owns-star-spangled-banner-dodger-stadium-20150902-htmlstory.html]View the full article[/url]

Master P DOES have a limit ... when it comes to his estranged wife throwing huge parties with her boyfriend in a house where HE'S FOOTING THE BILL! P ripped into Sonya Miller ... responding to the story TMZ broke -- she's filed court… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/02/master-p-sonya-miller-parties-in-house-with-boyfriend/]View the full article[/url]

John Daly was singing at the top of his lungs last night ... which is miraculous considering one of them had COLLAPSED just a few days ago. The golf legend grabbed his guitar and hit the stage with Mark Bryan from… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/02/john-daly-what-collapsed-lung-sings-heart-out-days-after-medical-scare/]View the full article[/url]

[img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/stop-blocked.jpg[/img]Continuing with the blocking campaign spreading around Europe, several Hollywood studios recently applied to a court in Norway to have seven ‘pirate’ sites blocked at the ISP level. Warner Bros, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Sony, Disney, Columbia and several local industry groups argued that the sites – The Pirate Bay, ExtraTorrent, Viooz, PrimeWire, Swefilmer, DreamFilm and Movie4K – infringe their copyrights. Local ISPs including Telenor, TeliaSonera, NextGenTel and Altibox were named as defendants in the case alongside Pirate Bay founder Fredrik Neij and the alleged operator of Viooz, Bakrie Abubakr. The process was handled in writing by the Oslo District Court over the summer, so the public have had no access to proceedings. In fact, news of the lawsuit [url="https://torrentfreak.com/movie-studios-and-record-labels-target-pirate-bay-in-new-lawsuit-150901/"]broke only yesterday[/url], alongside estimates that the court would make up its mind sometime next week. In the event the decision came much sooner. Early this afternoon the District Court sided with the mainly Hollywood studios and ordered the seven sites named in the lawsuit to be blocked by the leading ISPs in the country. Telenor, Norway’s leading broadband provider, welcomed the decision. “Telenor is very pleased with the ruling. The principles that have always been important for us are followed in the ruling,” said Communications Director Torhild Uribarri. “For Telenor it has always been important to ensure that the legal system is being followed so that it is the courts, not the Internet providers, who will decide whether a site should be shut down.” Also of importance to Telenor is the Court’s decision to treat all Internet service providers equally. When a blocking order is handed down today and in future, it should be directed at all ISPs Telenor also praised the Court for “a very thorough examination of the case” and for ensuring that strict standards are applied before a blocking order is handed down. “To block a site the damage it causes must be very large, the site must be popular in Norway, the site must not create its own content and infringement on the site should be extremely difficult to prevent or counteract,” Uribarri said. Another issue tackled by the Court was that of costs. Normally the plaintiffs (the studios) and the ISPs would battle this out between themselves but in this case the Court ruled that the pirate sites should pay. According to the ruling the owners of the file-sharing sites should each be billed 231,964 kroner ($28,100) to be divided up between various rightsholders and their associated groups. The split is as follows: $1424 each to Disney, Paramount, Columbia, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal and Warner Bros, $8,500 to the Norwegian Society of Composers and Lyricists, $6,830 to the Norwegian Videograms Association, $1,900 to Video Industry Felleskontor and $2,280 to the Norwegian Film Distributers Association. The ISPs were given two weeks to implement DNS blocks of several Pirate Bay domains including thepiratebay.se, thepiratebay.com, thepiratebay.net, thepiratebay.org, thepiratebay.mn, thepiratebay.gd and thepiratebay.la. Three Extratorrent domains (.cc, .com and .ws), eight Movie4k domains, plus several for PrimeWire, Viooz, Swefilmer and DreamfilmHD complete the list. The court indicated that the order (which is initially valid for five years) can be updated with new domains as they are put into action. The sites themselves were also given two weeks to settle their bills with Hollywood. It seems unlikely that those will ever be paid. Source: [url="https://torrentfreak.com"]TorrentFreak[/url], for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, [url="http://torrentfreak.com/top-popular-torrent-sites-2015-150104/"]torrent sites[/url] and [url="http://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-vpn-service-provider-review-2015-150228/"]ANONYMOUS VPN services[/url]. [url="http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?a=aty2waYyVXM:eBp7Zlgb9wQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"][img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?d=yIl2AUoC8zA[/img]</img>[/url] [url="http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?a=aty2waYyVXM:eBp7Zlgb9wQ:D7DqB2pKExk"][img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?i=aty2waYyVXM:eBp7Zlgb9wQ:D7DqB2pKExk[/img]</img>[/url][img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~4/aty2waYyVXM[/img] [url=http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~3/aty2waYyVXM/]View the full article[/url]

Manny Pacquiao's boxing career is on its last legs ... with his promoter saying the fighter will retire next year -- to focus on becoming President of the Philippines! Bob Arum was out at Craig's Tuesday night… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/02/manny-pacquiao-will-retire-next-year-says-promoter-bob-arum/]View the full article[/url]

Kris Jenner was all smiles a day after cancelling a promised appearance on "Bachelor in Paradise: After Paradise" because of what she said was a blown-up lip. Kris hit up Nobu in Malibu Tuesday night and there… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/02/kris-jenner-parties-after-fat-lip-cancels-tv-appearance-bachelor-in-paradise-video/]View the full article[/url]

Ice Cube hates the Clippers ... and now, it's clear his movie star son feels the exact same way. O'Shea Jackson Jr. -- who played his dad in "Straight Outta Compton" -- was telling us why Kobe Bryant's shockingly… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/02/oshea-jackson-warns-nba-2k16-stop-hating-on-kobe/]View the full article[/url]

[img]https://torrentfreak.com/images/dallas.jpg[/img]In April, Aussie file-sharers let out a collective groan when the company behind the movie Dallas Buyers Club (DBC) won the right to obtain the personal details of almost 4,800 individuals said to have downloaded and shared the movie without permission. However, things didn’t go to plan. As six ISPs stood by ready to hand over the information, the Federal Court told DBC that before allowing the release of the identities it wanted to see the letters the company intended to send out to alleged infringers. Justice Nye Perram wanted to avoid the so-called ‘speculative invoicing’ practices seen in other countries in recent years. In a [url="https://torrentfreak.com/dallas-buyers-club-ruling-devastates-copyright-trolling-down-under-150814/"]mid-August ruling[/url] it became clear that Justice Perram was right to exercise caution. DBC did intend to demand thousands from alleged infringers, from the cost of single purchase of the movie and a broad license to distribute, to attempting to factor in damages for other things people may have downloaded. All but the cost of the film and some legal costs were disallowed by the Court. In the end and in order to make it financially unviable for DBC to go against the wishes of the court, the Judge told DBC it would have to pay a AUS$600,000 bond before any subscriber information was released. The company didn’t immediately accept that offer and was given a couple of weeks to appeal. That deadline expired last Friday. But while those who believe they might have been caught in the dragnet breathe a sign of relief, the company is warning that it’s not done yet. Speaking with [url="http://www.itnews.com.au/news/dbc-opts-against-appeal-in-iinet-piracy-ruling-408793"]itNews[/url], Michael Bradley of Marque Lawyers, the law firm representing DBC, said that while an appeal was considered risky, other options remain. “Appeals are always hard, it’s an expensive course, and it’s unpredictable – if one judge has taken a particular view, you’re taking a gamble on whether three other judges are going to take a different view,” Bradley said. “We think there may be another way of achieving the outcome [we want] without having to go through an appeal.” DBC believes that by reworking the way it calculates its demands, the Judge will see its claim in a different light. One of the avenues being explored is the notion that pirates can not only be held liable for their own uploading, but also subsequent uploading (carried out by others) that was facilitated by theirs. In his August ruling, Justice Perram said he had “no particular problem” with that theory but did not consider it in his ruling since DBC provided him with no information. Bradley believes that door remains open for negotiation. “Whether an individual should be liable for damages based on other activity is not a closed subject,” Bradley says. “So there may be a different way of approaching it and coming up with something [Justice Perram] is more comfortable with.” The idea that file-sharers should somehow be held liable for the activities of other file-sharers is an extremely complex one that will be hard if not impossible to prove from a technical standpoint. While it could be shown that file-sharer ‘A’ entered a Dallas Buyers Club movie swarm before file-sharer ‘B’, there is no way of showing that ‘B’ benefited in any way from the activity of ‘A’. DBC has no access to any information that proves information was shared between the two, or even between the two via third parties. The company could take a broader view of course, and claim that all pirates were equally responsible for the resulting infringement in the swarm. But that amounts to each person being held responsible for their own infringement and the judge has already determined that to be the purchase price of the movie. While DBC may yet take a second bite at the cherry (it has little to lose having invested so much already in Australian legal action), it wouldn’t come as a surprise if the company decides to make its money elsewhere. There are easy pickings to be made in the United States and the UK, and parts of Scandinavia are now also being viewed as troll-friendly. Tipping money down the drain in Oz might not be the best option. 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Rachel Dolezal -- everyone's favorite racially ambiguous person -- is pregnant. Rachel tells us she's in her second trimester and expecting a boy. The ethnicity is TBD -- we kid. Seriously, we asked about the baby daddy but she… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/02/rachel-dolezal-pregnant-baby-boy/]View the full article[/url]

"Bachelor In Paradise" star Ashley Iaconetti did not serve Jared anything with a cherry on top -- not her's anyway, because Monday's episode was just a tease, or at least that's her story. TMZ has… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/02/bachelor-in-paradise-ashley-iaconetti-didnt-lose-virginity-committed-to-keeping-it/]View the full article[/url]

Sad news for the woman who claimed she was pregnant with Adrian Peterson's 9th kid -- TMZ Sports has learned she had a miscarriage ... but she's still gunning for AP's cash. As we previously reported, the woman -- a massage therapist -- was… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/02/adrian-peterson-alleged-baby-mama-miscarriage-wants-money/]View the full article[/url]

Scott Bakula inserted himself in his "NCIS: New Orleans" co-star Zoe McLellan's bitter custody battle, telling the judge Zoe's focus is not her work or herself ... it's her son. Zoe has joint custody of 2-year-old Sebastian. Zoe and the boy are… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/02/scott-bakula-backs-ncis-new-orleans-costar-zoe-mclellan-in-bitter-divorce-custody-battle/]View the full article[/url]

Bad Religion guitarist Greg Hetson is having a hard time shaking his ex-wife ... so hard, he had to call the cops. Hetson claims in a restraining order, ex-wife Alia Blue has incessantly showed up at his LA home and each time refuses to leave.… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/02/bad-religion-greg-hetson-restraining-order-filed-against-ex-wife-alia-blue/]View the full article[/url]

NFL legend Warren Moon has some advice for Robert Griffin III -- STOP PASSING THE BUCK! TMZ Sports spoke with the NFL Hall of Famer who admits he feels bad that RG3's "fairy tale" career has hit the skids ... but says the QB has no one to… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/01/warren-moon-rgiii-needs-to-shut-up-and-accept-responsibilty/]View the full article[/url]

Cynthia Bailey didn't even make it a full season, and she's already on the verge of following in Porsha Williams' footsteps -- as in, getting demoted. In the wake of the "Real Housewives of Atlanta" fight -- where Cynthia kicked Porsha --… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/01/cynthia-bailey-demotion-fight-porsha-williams-real-housewives-atlanta/]View the full article[/url]

More damage for the UCLA football star who allegedly fought and robbed an Uber driver ... now the guy has just been suspended indefinitely and will probably miss the season opener. The alleged Uber jacker is Ishmael Adams -- one of the best… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/01/ishmael-adams-ucla-football-star-suspended-indefinitely-uber-driver/]View the full article[/url]

7-year-old Jeremiah Succar is a huge fan of Rachel Platten ... and especially her hit song -- "Fight Song," which has become a driving force for him in the hospital. His father explained, "he used to sing it when he got a lot of headaches, but… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/01/7-year-old-cancer-patient-sings-duet-with-rachel-platten-in-hospital/]View the full article[/url]

Master P won't rest until his estranged wife is homeless, phone-less, and penniless -- according to Sonya Miller who is begging the court to force him to pay up immediately. Sonya says Master P pulled out the big guns last week in their… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/01/master-p-sonya-miller-child-support-stop-paying-rent/]View the full article[/url]

Cops say Jimmy Snuka has been lying about what REALLY happened the day his GF died for DECADES ... and his own autobiography helped convince cops he's the murderer. TMZ Sports has obtained documents from the grand jury that indicted the… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/01/jimmy-snuka-cops-use-autobiography-to-make-murder-charge/]View the full article[/url]

Judge Joe Brown is celebrating his freedom after doing the exact opposite of hard time -- 5 days in a Memphis jail for contempt of court -- and lashing out at the court that sent him to the pokey. Judge Joe… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/01/judge-joe-brown-gives-reason-jailed-race-corruption-unjust/]View the full article[/url]

NBA star Markieff Morris could be on his way to the Houston Rockets … if Common’s Instagram is to be believed … and if the photo he posted is actually of Markieff and not his twin brother Marcus. Common worked out in Los Angeles… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/01/common-markieff-morris-trade/]View the full article[/url]

TMZ Sports has obtained the mug shots for former San Francisco 49ers teammates Ray McDonald and Ahmad Brooks ... taken after they were charged with sexual crimes stemming from a 2014 incident. McDonald -- who has since been cut by the team --… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/01/sf-49ers-players-pose-for-cop-cam-in-rape-sexual-battery-case/]View the full article[/url]

Former WWF superstar "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka -- a member of the WWE Hall of Fame -- will be charged with murdering his girlfriend in an incident that happened 32 YEARS AGO. Officials in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania say the 72-year-old will be… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/01/wrestling-legend-jimmy-snuka-to-be-charged-with-murder-in-death-of-gf/]View the full article[/url]

[img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/megaupload-logo.jpg[/img]In a few months’ time it will be four years since Megaupload’s servers were raided by U.S. authorities. Since then, virtually no progress has been made in the criminal case. Kim Dotcom and his Megaupload colleagues are still awaiting their extradition hearing in New Zealand and have yet to formally appear in a U.S. court. Meanwhile, more than 1,000 Megaupload servers from Carpathia Hosting remain in storage in Virginia, some of which contain crucial evidence as well as valuable files from users. The question is, for how long. Last month QTS, the company that now owns the servers after acquiring Carpathia, [url="https://torrentfreak.com/hosting-company-wants-to-wipe-1103-megaupload-servers-150814/"]asked the court[/url] if it can get rid of the data which is costing them thousands of dollars per month in storage fees. This prompted a response from a [url="https://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-user-asks-court-to-return-his-files-150824/"]former user[/url] who wants to preserve his data, as well as Megaupload, who don’t want any of the evidence to be destroyed. Megaupload’s legal team suggested that the U.S. Government should [url="https://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-wants-u-s-to-pay-the-server-storage-bills-150825/"]buy the servers[/url] and take care of the hosting costs. However, in a new filing ([url="http://torrentfreak.com/images/usres.pdf"]pdf[/url]) just submitted to the District Court the authorities deny all responsibility. United States Attorney Dana Boente explains that the Government has already backed up the data they need and no longer have a claim on the servers. “…the government has already completed its acquisition of data from the Carpathia Servers authorized by the warrant, which the defendants will be entitled to during discovery,” Boente writes. “As such, there is no basis for the Court to order the government to assume possession of the Carpathia Servers or reimburse Carpathia for ‘allocated costs’ related to their continued maintenance.” The Government says it handed over its claim on the servers early 2012 after the search warrant was executed and the hosting company was informed at the time. This means that the U.S. can and will not determine the fate of the stored servers. The authorities say they are willing to allow Megaupload and the other defendants to look through the data that was copied, but only after they are arraigned. In any case, the U.S. denies any responsibility for the Megaupload servers and asks the court to keep it this way. “…the United States continues to request that the Court deny any effort to impose unprecedented financial or supervisory obligations on the United States related to the Carpathia Servers,” the U.S. Attorney concludes. Previously the U.S. and MPAA blocked Megaupload’s plans to buy the servers, which is one of the main reasons that there is still no solution after all those years. The MPAA also renewed its previous position last week ([url="http://torrentfreak.com/images/usres.pdf"]pdf[/url]). The Hollywood group says doesn’t mind if users are reunited with their files as long as Megaupload doesn’t get hold of them. “The MPAA members’ principal concern is assuring that adequate steps are taken [to] prevent the MPAA members’ content on the Mega Servers in Carpathia’s possession from falling back into the hands of Megaupload or otherwise entering the stream of commerce,” they write. The above means that none of the parties is willing to move forward. The servers are still trapped in between the various parties and it appears that only District Court Judge Liam O’Grady can change this. It appears to be a choice between saving the 25 Petabytes of data or wiping all servers clean. Source: [url="https://torrentfreak.com"]TorrentFreak[/url], for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, [url="http://torrentfreak.com/top-popular-torrent-sites-2015-150104/"]torrent sites[/url] and [url="http://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-vpn-service-provider-review-2015-150228/"]ANONYMOUS VPN services[/url]. [url="http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?a=SrfhlppFnVA:oXi0t4desDA:yIl2AUoC8zA"][img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?d=yIl2AUoC8zA[/img]</img>[/url] [url="http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?a=SrfhlppFnVA:oXi0t4desDA:D7DqB2pKExk"][img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Torrentfreak?i=SrfhlppFnVA:oXi0t4desDA:D7DqB2pKExk[/img]</img>[/url][img]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~4/SrfhlppFnVA[/img] [url=http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~3/SrfhlppFnVA/]View the full article[/url]

Seals really are the dogs of the sea ... and like dogs on land, these underwater pooches love to get their bellies rubbed too. This smiley seal just kept pulling the diver's hand back in for some extra lovin' ... not wanting the rub fest to… [url=http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/01/underwater-diver-seal-rub/]View the full article[/url]