Now, to compete with its filesharing foes, the company is itself buying into the peer-to-peer business.
Several ISPs have already been ordered to implement similar measures against another filesharing site - Newzbin 2.
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Mr Taylor said that figure demonstrated how the market could "explode" if the government tackled illegal filesharing.
The blueprint for the gun and other Defense Distributed firearm components have also been uploaded several times to the Pirate Bay, the censorship-resistant filesharing site.
The Pirate Bay, for its part, says its downtime has been a result of a failed power unit, according to the filesharing-focused news site Torrentfreak.
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It sought permission to sell movies, music, games and software via a store that would be able to ignore global agreements on copyright and trademark controls, reports filesharing news site TorrentFreak.
For the moment, the site seems to be merely focused on getting in contact with users who lost their data in the copyright-driven Megaupload raid that rocked the filesharing world earlier this month.
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Part of what has made WikiLeaks so much more effective than traditional hacking efforts, after all, is that whistleblowers with privileged accounts within computer networks are a far more efficient source of embarrassing data than hacking techniques such as random searches of filesharing networks.
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Keller adds his claim to two other hacking allegations against WikiLeaks in just the past week: Tiversa, a small security firm based in Pennsylvania, told Bloomberg that WikiLeaks had actively grabbed as many as half of its files from unwitting users on peer-to-peer filesharing networks.
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At midnight Wednesday night, Bloomberg posted a strongly-worded story that outlined hacking accusations against WikiLeaks, claiming that as many as half of its revelations have come not from insider whistleblowing, but from WikiLeaks itself actively siphoning information out of government networks via peer-to-peer filesharing networks like Limewire and Kazaa.
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