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The troubles seem to never end for Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm. Now that he’s waiting for a verdict in his case in Sweden, authorities in Denmark are asking for his extradition. Svartholm is suspected of some hacking-related crimes, similar to the ones he’s being trialed for in Sweden, Torrent... |
7 June 2013
04:36 GMT |
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A Pirate Bay user might face prison time after he was caught sharing 57 movies during a friend’s house search.
The man was ordered to pay a fine, but the prosecutor has submitted the case to the Supreme Court, hoping to obtain a jail sentence for the man, TorrentFreak reports.
As it stands, it looks like th... |
14 May 2013
09:33 GMT |
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A new private cloud client is opening up its gates today. Moln.is is a VPS (Virtual Private Server) provider that aims to protect your data.
The company has announced today that it is launching this new service. The team behind Moln.is is known to have been involved in projects such as The Pirate Bay, Flattr, Ipred... |
30 April 2013
11:08 GMT |
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Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm, who is serving time in prison, has been questioned by police as part of a new criminal investigation regarding The Pirate Bay.
So far, the case involves several publishing houses, as well as an anti-piracy group from Sweden, TorrentFreak writes, citing unnamed source.
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30 April 2013
08:46 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay has moved to an Iceland domain in an attempt to keep the website online for as long as possible. After the site’s new Greenland-based domain was suspended earlier this month, they continued looking for new domains that would not get axed, TorrentFreak reports. The original move from their Swed... |
25 April 2013
05:04 GMT |
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For as long as any type of civilization has been around, people have tried to get everyone else to act, think and do as they please or believe everyone should. And, for as long as any civilization has been around, those targeted opposed the "rules" or laws if they happened to have other opinions. Granted, for the mo... |
4 September 2012
04:20 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay blocks are as effective as warning messages on cigarette packs. You can use a VPN, browser extensions, various Pirate Bay proxies, web-based proxies, actual proxies, plus a number of tricks, workarounds and hacks to get to the site. That's ignoring the fact that you can always go to any of the hug... |
22 August 2012
09:00 GMT |
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With more and more countries scrambling to block The Pirate Bay you'd think that the site is finally over. That's not really the case, if anything, it's doing better than ever. But users in the UK and in other places where the site is censored are having a bit more trouble reaching it. There are count... |
23 May 2012
07:13 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay block in the UK has been having all sorts of effects, though stopping piracy, or even just the Pirate Bay, doesn't seem to be one of them. In fact, just after the block went live, Pirate Bay traffic shot up to record numbers. But it's not just the Pirate Bay that is seeing record traffic... |
18 May 2012
19:41 GMT |
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As long as there have been pirates, there have been people trying to stop them. Most of the time that's via lawsuits, draconian legislation, all sorts of blocks, limits and artificial hurdles for legitimate buyers, and generally spoiling everyone's fun, artist, pirate, or buyer alike.
But from time to time... |
14 May 2012
09:04 GMT |
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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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