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The Pirate Bay may not be the world's largest BitTorrent site, but it's definitely the best known. So much so that even people who never visited the site itself are familiar with its logo. But, in keeping with their anti-IP stance, the logo wasn't copyrighted or trademark by the owners, something that ... |
18 November 2009
11:31 GMT |
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The BitTorrent peer-to-peer technology has been around for quite a few years; its huge popularity ensures that it will be around for at least as many. Anyway, the BitTorrent protocol has evolved over the years to the point where BitTorrent trackers, the sites which managed the initial communications between clients,... |
17 November 2009
10:14 GMT |
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The war between the music industry and anyone it perceives as standing in its way of making money the good, old-fashioned way, by selling CDs, is still raging, but, for once, common sense and this little thing called the law prevailed in the face of scare tactics and misguided legal threats. Earlier this year, the No... |
9 November 2009
11:25 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay has been taking hit after hit yet, miraculously, managed to stay afloat with hardly any noticeable damage so far. This time though it may not be able to weather the storm as a Dutch court has ordered the site to remove all infringing torrents within three months or face fines of 5,000 Euros, or $7,500... |
23 October 2009
06:15 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay case was scheduled for an appeal next month but it now seems that this has been postponed at least until summer 2010. The case has always been surrounded by controversy and this time it was no different. Two of the judges supposed to preside the appeal were accused of bias, a recurring theme in the Pir... |
20 October 2009
04:40 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay trial has seen its fair share of twists and turns and keeping up with the events is becoming harder even for the most dedicated. The trial is set for an appeal in November and already it's stirring up some controversy in a case riddled with this kind of issues. Several judges have been accused of ... |
30 September 2009
10:39 GMT |
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If there was any doubt that Hans Pandeya, Global Gaming Factory X's CEO, had as much chance of getting his hands on the Pirate Bay as winning the Super Bowl, yet again, a major issue has popped up putting another serious damper on any would-be transaction. A Swedish court has seized control over all of his perso... |
26 September 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Pirate Bay admins have offered open public support for the new lobbing group formed to help Black Internet fight against a court decision that obligated it to disconnect the Pirate Bay tracker from its Internet connection in mid-August. Black Internet, Pirate Bay's former ISP, has gained much public support afte... |
19 September 2009
05:13 GMT |
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After huge positive reactions in the Swedish press and Government officials, Black Internet, Pirate Bay's ISP, will mount an appeal to the court ruling, which forced it to cut the internet connection for the renowned tracker. At first, Black Internet's CEO, Victor Möller, announced that due to a lack o... |
15 September 2009
10:38 GMT |
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Finally, someone in Facebook has read their Terms of Service and made up their mind about how they should feel about file-sharing services implementing features for their website. After going back and forward in recent days, Facebook announced LimeWire representatives that they would block LimeWire's new feature... |
12 September 2009
04:04 GMT |
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If there was even a small chance that the Pirate Bay sale would go through, it's now looking even less likely than the last time it looked "even less likely.” As August 27, the date when the transaction was supposed to be finalized, came and went, GGF CEO Hans Pandeya was as confident as ever, despite a pe... |
10 September 2009
05:25 GMT |
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With the fate of the Pirate Bay still pretty much in the air, as the August 27 date when the sale of the site was supposed to be finalized came and went, another chapter in the heavily debated “Spectrial” is about to begin after the date for the ongoing appeal was set for early November by the Swedish App... |
4 September 2009
11:59 GMT |
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TorrentFreak reports that Ukrainian-based BitTorrent tracker Demonoid is facing some huge hardware problems that will certainly result in some downtime for its users. Demonoid admins have admitted to having serious problems with a lot of components ranging from system memory, hard-drives and power circuits.It seems t... |
4 September 2009
04:15 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay sale is going ahead as planned, at least that's what Hans Pandeya, CEO of Global Gaming Factory X, the company that plans to buy the torrents site, is saying. Another big step in the process was made yesterday as GGF's shareholders approved the deal. Now, Pandeya tells us, it should take abou... |
28 August 2009
05:12 GMT |
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Just as the Pirate Bay was taken offline by a court order in Sweden, only to be brought back up again at a different location using another ISP, the site's founders actually got some good news yesterday after the Swedish government agency in charge with collecting the $4 million in damages the content companies ... |
25 August 2009
11:22 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay is once again hit by rough waters and this time it may be the biggest move to take down the site yet. Swedish authorities have ordered that it be taken offline, threatening its bandwidth suppliers with heavy fines. Following the decision, Black Internet, the site's main ISP, has complied and has s... |
25 August 2009
05:34 GMT |
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The Pirate Party, a political organization fighting for copyright and patent law reform, is going from strength to strength having secured a seat in the European Parliament and the German one. Now the organization is announcing that it is an officially registered political party in the UK, having been recognized by t... |
14 August 2009
11:27 GMT |
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With the date of the Pirate Bay sale getting closer the legal troubles have increased and the site is being attacked in court rooms in several countries. One such lawsuit recently ended in the Netherlands with the site being asked to shut down in the country and given a 10-day window to do it. That window would have ... |
10 August 2009
10:55 GMT |
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Considering the upcoming Pirate Bay sale and all of the events this year, from the one year in prison sentence and the $3.6 million fine in Sweden to the recent banning of the site in the Netherlands, it may not be such a big surprise that the site's founder and spokesman, Peter Sunde, has decided to resign and ... |
4 August 2009
10:24 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay has never lacked the media's attention, but, lately, it looks like something new is happening every day at the soon-to-be sold site. Recently sued by several US movie studios, again, and ordered to shut down operations in The Netherlands, the site is getting hit with yet another lawsuit, this time... |
1 August 2009
05:49 GMT |
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Despite doubts from the media and many experts and a recent series of events that cast a serious shadow over the deal, it looks like the plan to acquire the Pirate Bay is going ahead as planned, with the Global Gaming Foundation announcing that the final purchase will happen on August 27. Not only is the deal alive, ... |
31 July 2009
11:51 GMT |
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Despite the upcoming sale of the Pirate Bay, or perhaps because of it, more lawsuits are hitting the bittorrent site. Recently several major US movie studios have filed a new suit against the site asking for all operations to cease but, in the meantime, the ruling in a case filed by BREIN, a Dutch anti-piracy outfit,... |
31 July 2009
07:06 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay sale, which left many questions unanswered and many people skeptical, looks a lot less likely now that Wayne Rosso, the former CEO of Grokster, decided to step away from the deal, after only two weeks. He was brought in to aid with the transformation of the site into a legitimate one and to broker the ... |
29 July 2009
04:46 GMT |
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With the Pirate Bay being sold and new owner Global Gaming Foundation claiming the site will become legal and pay copyright owners, many are wondering how exactly the company intends to make the money necessary for the licensing. Most of the explanations have been vague but with the hiring of Wayne Rosso some details... |
17 July 2009
08:42 GMT |
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Last month Swedish gaming company Global Gaming Factory announced its plans to buy the popular bittorrent site Pirate Bay for $7.8 million. If the deal goes through the Pirate Bay will turn legit and pay copyright owners while keeping the core of the site intact. While the news sent shock waves through the community ... |
17 July 2009
05:23 GMT |
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While the aftermath of the Pirate Bay deal is just starting to be felt, some questions as to the future of the site and how the community will fare are already begging to be answered. Last week the torrent site announced it had been bought by Swedish gaming company Global Gaming Factory X AB (GGF) for about $7.8 mill... |
6 July 2009
06:46 GMT |
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Global Gaming Factory X AB (GGF) announced the acquisition of torrent indexer and tracker site Pirate bay for a reported $7.8 million (SEK 60 million). Pirate Bay representatives have confirmed the news saying that the move shouldn't worry users and that the new leadership will continue to build on the principle... |
30 June 2009
05:28 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay is working on a new video sharing site, called Video Bay, to compete with the likes of YouTube. While the initial announcement was made over two years ago a test version was just recently made available for the public. Most of the features are in very early development and the site has a clear “d... |
29 June 2009
04:58 GMT |
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The request for a retrial in the Pirate Bay case, after allegations of bias on the judge's part, is being reviewed by the Svea Court of Appeal. The Stockholm District court, which handled the case, argued yesterday that the judge's affiliation with several pro-copyright groups didn't interfere with his... |
9 June 2009
04:44 GMT |
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Sweden's Pirate Party managed to win at least one seat in the European Parliament after the elections held this past Sunday. It gained a little more than 7 percent of the Swedish votes and was placed above several established parties. Sweden had a 43 percent turnout in the European elections and the outcome pl... |
9 June 2009
02:26 GMT |
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With the whole Pirate Bay trial controversy not even close to settling down, here comes another case of copyright taking torrent sites to court. This time it was the Netherlands’ popular torrent indexing site Mininova's turn to go to court with the local anti-piracy group BREIN. BREIN is accusing Mininov... |
4 June 2009
09:04 GMT |
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Sweden's Pirate Party is getting some high scores in the polls and may be able to secure a seat in the European parliament. The party is the third biggest in the country according to polls ahead of the European elections, as Times Online reports, and its popularity is growing, especially after the Pirate Bay tri... |
23 May 2009
06:09 GMT |
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Content and copyright owners are constantly fighting against piracy, either by starting organizations with the role of preventing the expansion of illicitly sourced content, or by filing lawsuits against major BitTorrent trackers. The Pirate Bay, one of the most popular communities for sharing and downloading of file... |
11 August 2008
06:15 GMT |
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Pirate Bay is a torrent tracker from Sweden that is very much concerned with the issues of security and privacy. They should be, since in Sweden the Government can at any time access all international e-mail messages, telephone calls and Internet traffic. Fredrick Neij, co-founder of Pirate Bay, is proposing the impl... |
10 July 2008
03:16 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay, the BitTorrent website which has been longly criticized for the content published on its page, prepares to release a complaint in order to demand for compensations from IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), an organization supposed to defend music artists' copyrights. To b... |
16 April 2008
04:43 GMT |
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After TorrentSpy, one of the most popular BitTorrent websites on the Internet, got shut down, another similar webpage makes a major move due to tough copyright laws. The Pirate Bay today announced that it decided to move its servers in Sinai, Egypt, as a result of new copyright legislation promoted in Sweden. Accordi... |
1 April 2008
05:36 GMT |
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We all know the authorities struggle to shut down the BitTorrent websites and reduce the amount of pirated content they suspect these services distribute every day. But closing them is not always a disaster for the BitTorrent services. The best example is represented by The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent technology that ma... |
27 December 2007
10:30 GMT |
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Sometimes, law enforcers do anything in their powers and even use illegal methods to prove the crooks' activity. Of course, if the accused ones are proved to be innocent, then the law enforcers might get sued. Pirate Bay, the file sharing service is in such a case - they plan to sue companies, that earlier accus... |
26 September 2007
05:16 GMT |
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