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The Pirate Bay is switching to a magnet link-exclusive service, meaning that it will no longer be hosting any .torrent file. This will happen by the end of the month. One benefit of this is that it will save the site a lot of bandwidth. In fact, the entire data on the site, i.e. the actual torrents, now take up ... |
9 February 2012
18:11 GMT |
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BTjunkie, one of the largest BitTorrent sites out there, has called it a day. After seven years in the trenches its administrators have had enough and are shutting down the site. Their move is entirely voluntary, the feds were not knocking on their front door, at least as far as they know, but it is no doubt in the a... |
6 February 2012
07:11 GMT |
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The 'copyright industry,' meaning the US movie studios and major recording labels, represented by various 'anti-piracy' groups, is fighting a large scale war on piracy, or on the internet, depending on how you choose to interpret it. This war can mean laws like SOPA or PIP, 'trade agreements... |
30 January 2012
10:11 GMT |
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There's no shortage of cyberlocker sites out there. Most provide a terrible experience, cluttered with poor quality or deceitful ads and long wait times, but they've proven popular nonetheless. So much so that eight out of the top 10 file sharing sites on the web are cyberlockers. Now, two of the founders ... |
30 August 2011
04:30 GMT |
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The recording industry and The Pirate Bay don't really see eye to eye, to put it mildly. The industry's various rights groups have been trying to take down the site, with little success, for years. So the upcoming Music Bay, from the same people running The Pirate Bay, is probably going to get a few reactio... |
24 January 2011
07:00 GMT |
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In what seems to be a never-ending pursuit to prevent torrent sites from functioning and flourishing, the verdict received by three men associated with Pirate Bay has been modified following their own appeal, with their fines being increased and prison sentences reduced.Since the Pirate Bay case is meant to serve as... |
26 November 2010
13:52 GMT |
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Security researchers have identified an unusual piece of malware particularly designed to block several websites associated with The Pirate Bay and Mininova.The threat is dropped on people's computers by a trojan downloader from the Ponmocup family of malware, which runs as a file called update.exe.The Ponmocup ... |
25 November 2010
02:45 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay appeal started off today without too much drama and with only three of the four defendants present. The defense attorneys asked for the charges and damages to be dropped, while the prosecutors asked for the initial verdict to be upheld. Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm did not attend as he is s... |
28 September 2010
10:56 GMT |
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Police have raided sites in as many as 14 European countries in a file-sharing investigation. The operation is the culmination of several years of investigation. Several individuals were arrested and computers seized.One of the inadvertent victims of the raid may have been the Pirate Bay which is currently unavailabl... |
7 September 2010
13:39 GMT |
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An upcoming documentary about the Pirate Bay managed to get the funding it needed for a professional editing studio in just three days, with the help of the Pirate Bay and its users.The Pirate Bay - Away from Keyboard is a documentary which aims to depict the story of the people behind the site, its three founders. F... |
2 September 2010
05:32 GMT |
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Wikileaks has been in the news around the world this past week for the release of over 90,000 US military documents relating to the Afganistan war. The site is notorious for releasing leaked documents and files exposing governments and corporations. But its activities haven’t made it a lot of friends. Earlier t... |
2 August 2010
08:49 GMT |
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By now, news of Wikileaks latest exploit has made it around the world. The site was already a target of plenty of governments and corporations. And the Pentagon wasn’t a big fan either. Now, with the over 90,000 documents on the war in Afganistan revealed, there are some fears that the US military will use any ... |
28 July 2010
11:39 GMT |
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The Pirate Party has been taking a very hand on approach so far. Having secured a few seats in the Swedish Parliament and even in the European Parliament, it’s not waiting around and, until it can achieve its objectives through political means, it’s looking at more practical approaches. The Party made the... |
20 July 2010
08:55 GMT |
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Anti-piracy groups have been fighting sites associated with copyright infringement on more and more fronts. Going after high-visibility targets sometimes works, Mininova was ordered to effectively shut down last year, and sometimes doesn’t, the Pirate Bay is still very much alive and kicking. So these groups st... |
19 July 2010
12:03 GMT |
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A Dutch court has ordered the Pirate Bay to prevent access to users from that country or face penalties, in a ruling maintaining a previous judgment. The three founders of the file sharing site were sued last year in The Netherlands by the local anti-piracy outfit BREIN. The group argued that the Pirate Bay fostered ... |
19 July 2010
05:33 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay is known for a lot of things, its founders, the battle with the Hollywood studios, file-sharing, and so on. Sparking romantic relationships isn’t one of them, though, but that’s not stopping the site from partnering with Meezoog.com to launch PirateDate, a site that does exactly what you th... |
2 June 2010
09:22 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay remains one of the most notorious websites online and the symbol of Internet piracy everywhere. This, despite the four people associated with the site being sentenced to serve one year in prison and ordered to pay damages that now amount to approximately $6 million. The big media companies that won the... |
31 May 2010
09:54 GMT |
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The infamous Pirate Bay was taken offline yesterday thanks to the sustained efforts of the big corporate content creators. This wasn’t something new for the BitTorrent indexer and, like each time before, the site is now back online with the help of a brand-new ISP. Who would be willing to take on the task after... |
18 May 2010
09:41 GMT |
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The infamous BitTorrent indexer and search engine the Pirate Bay is currently down after its bandwidth provider was hit with an injunction forbidding it to provide access to the site. The injunction is the latest step in Hollywood’s battle with the site. The ISP, CB3ROB, which operates CyberBunker decided to pl... |
17 May 2010
10:35 GMT |
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The internet has clearly changed things and old revenue models simply don't work anymore for many businesses, especially in the content industries. This hasn't sunk in for most of them but, while the old guard are desperately trying to maintain the status quo, there are others who are trying to find a... |
11 February 2010
10:27 GMT |
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The fight against illegal file-sharing is relentless, though surprisingly pointless at the same time. In another win for common sense, a Norwegian appeal court is standing by an earlier decision and has ruled that ISPs can't be forced to block sites, the Pirate Bay in this case, based on the wishes of private g... |
11 February 2010
06:41 GMT |
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Italy has been putting a lot of effort lately in becoming the clear leader in backwards thinking Internet rules and legislation in Europe, a title strongly disputed with France, though up-and-comer UK may be a serious contender soon if the proposed 'three strikes' law gets through. The latest move has been... |
8 February 2010
06:01 GMT |
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Online privacy is becoming a big issue as more and more information we'd rather keep to ourselves is entrusted to online services. You could argue that if you aren't up to no good, you shouldn't have anything to hide, as Google's Eric Schmidt would have you believe, but you don't have to do ... |
21 January 2010
07:02 GMT |
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Anyone following the BitTorrent scene has been noticing some interesting developments lately and three new technologies in particular have stood out. A couple of them, DHT, PEX, are new ways of finding peers (users with copies of the file you want to download) without relying on the old BitTorrent tracker system. Th... |
19 January 2010
10:54 GMT |
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The largest BitTorrent indexer in the world, Mininova, decided to remove all torrents from the sites, except for those uploaded through its Content Distribution platform. The decision comes after a court decision which forced the site to remove all infringing torrents. In the face of legal consequences and with no p... |
26 November 2009
09:53 GMT |
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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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