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Not even the Pirate Bay documentary is safe from Hollywood. Mixed in with the sustained effort of closing down as many pirated movies as they can, Hollywood giants are also aiming to take down the Pirate Bay documentary.
Viacom, Paramount, Fox and Lionsgate are some of the companies that asked Google to take down l... |
20 May 2013
03:22 GMT |
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Swedish prosecutors are trying once more to close down The Pirate Bay by asking the court to block Internet addresses used to access the site.
Swedish prosecutors want to de-register the domain names “piratebay.se” and “thepiratebay.se,” Reuters reports.
The Pirate Bay is one of the world&... |
16 May 2013
02:12 GMT |
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While Peter Sunde still has to deal with the prison term he has to serve for his involvement with The Pirate Bay, he's looking forward to the future as well. In fact, seeing as he's been the site's spokesperson, a political career may suit him.
He now plans to run for the Finnish branch of the Pirate ... |
15 May 2013
03:33 GMT |
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3D printing has the potential to revolutionize a lot of things, while it's still not mainstream and may not be for a few more years, it could be as revolutionary as the web. That, of course, is both a good and bad thing.
3D printing could mean people giving life to their creations, printing an iPhone cover or ... |
10 May 2013
07:11 GMT |
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Antigua has been threatening to put together a legal pirate site for years now, to get back at the US for unfairly and illegally, it would seem cutting, down on a promising business for the small nation, online gambling.
The US decided that online gambling is "wrong" and that people shouldn't be allowed to do ... |
3 May 2013
10:26 GMT |
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It's only been a week or so since The Pirate Bay started accepting BitCoin donations. It's the first time the largest pirate site in the world has accepted donations too. However, it is already expanding its options by adding support for LiteCoin, an alternative crypto currency. LiteCoin is very similar ... |
2 May 2013
05:43 GMT |
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In an effort to block sites such as The Pirate Bay, Norway has taken another step towards a legislation that should enable authorities to battle online copyright infringement as new amendments are well received in the Parliament. Politicians have proposed several amendments to the Copyright Act, which makes it easi... |
1 May 2013
07:23 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay wasn't paranoid in thinking that Swedish authorities were going after its domain. But it turns out it may not have been paranoid enough, as authorities did indeed file to seize the site's .se domain.
However, they also want the .is domain the site has just switched to.
So, in response, The ... |
30 April 2013
10:44 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay has changed domains, again, but it can't seem to get away from problems. The last time around, its domain name got revoked within hours of switching to it, now its SSL certificate for the new Iceland domain has been revoked as well.
Thankfully, as TorrentFreak has found out, this isn't some ... |
26 April 2013
07:38 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay has switched domains again, this time to a more permanent location, Iceland. Fearing, for good reason, that its current Swedish .se domain may get seized by authorities, the site attempted to move to a Greenland .gl domain. But Greenland wasn't too keen on getting involved in the whole mess and p... |
25 April 2013
07:44 GMT |
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Bitcoins have sure been getting a lot of attention lately. While the price has stabilized, somewhat, there's still plenty of volatility.
Still, more and more companies and groups are starting to adopt Bitcoins as officially supported currency, some are quite respected, such as WordPress or Reddit, others are, ... |
23 April 2013
07:40 GMT |
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Gottfrid Svartholm, the co-founder of The Pirate Bay, has been charged by Swedish prosecutors for his alleged role in hacking a number of companies, including a bank. In addition to Svartholm, three other individuals have been charged for the crimes. The co-founder of the world-renowned torrent website was deported ... |
17 April 2013
03:59 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, The Pirate Bay moved to a new .gl domain, associated with Greenland, fearing that its current .se domain would be seized. The site had been operating under the Swedish domain for a little over a year, since it switched from the old .org domain.
But with hints that the Swedish authorities were p... |
11 April 2013
03:22 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay is moving homes again. This time though, it's not a prank, the site has moved to a new ThePirateBay.gl domain in anticipation of the seizure of its current domain ThePirateBay.se. The new address is working and visitors to the old domain are redirected to the new .gl one. The .gl country code top... |
9 April 2013
04:14 GMT |
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BitTorrent has been around for years and, while some are still only now discovering it, several other, more "modern" options have come along since. Most popular file sharing technologies eventually get replaced by newer ones.
For BitTorrent, it looked like cyberlockers would be that replacement. Even as recently as ... |
1 April 2013
13:21 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay is constantly hounded, yet it manages to stay alive. While it makes it seem effortless, a lot of people work behind the scenes to ensure your favorite pirate site stays alive. To do that, it has to move from time to time, to stay one step ahead of governments wanting to shut it down.
Quite recently, i... |
1 April 2013
10:10 GMT |
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About a month ago, a Finnish anti-piracy group decided that the best way to attract attention and get people to stand beside them against piracy was to "steal" The Pirate Bay's source code and use it for one of their propaganda sites.
CIAPC, or TTVK in the Finnish abbreviation, probably it was being really clev... |
28 March 2013
10:34 GMT |
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Spoofs of "websites as people" aren't exactly new and most aren't that original or funny. But Cracked's latest crack it is not only funny, it's spot on.
The video is so packed with subtle and less than subtle references that you'll have to watch it several times to catch them all.
There�... |
15 March 2013
14:41 GMT |
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In an effort to raise awareness on the fact that most computer systems are poorly protected, computer science students from Serbia have hacked an advertising billboard from the center of Belgrade and have made it display, among other things, the logo of The Pirate Bay.
Just before programming the billboard to displa... |
11 March 2013
11:17 GMT |
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Google has removed The Pirate Bay from its search results for queries such as "pirate bay" on its UK site. The Pirate Bay doesn't show up in the top 100 results and probably isn't listed at all. Searches for "tpb" or other related queries do return results pointing to The Pirate Bay site. TorrentFreak fi... |
6 March 2013
12:12 GMT |
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In an effort to escape persecution, The Pirate Bay has fled to North Korea. It sounds like headline from the Onion, but it comes from an official Pirate Bay blog post. Granted, Pirate Bay blog posts are more often than not interchangeable with Onion articles.
"Today we can reveal that we have been invited by the lea... |
5 March 2013
05:11 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay bandwidth "saga" is finally over, at least for now. For a few years now, the site has been connected to the internet via the Swedish Pirate Party which has been providing it with bandwidth.
However, pressure has been mounting recently and legal threats were made against the party.
The party members... |
26 February 2013
04:23 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay has always been under attack. Yet, so far, the pirate ship hasn't sunk. The media corporations and the organizations they pay to push their agenda aren't giving up.
Seeing that going after the people who built the site didn't result in it going down and with no idea who runs the site n... |
22 February 2013
09:55 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay, for all the attacks against it, seems to be the most reliable pirate site around, aside from being the biggest. No matter what's been done against it, the site is still up and working as well as ever. Still, it may be gone tomorrow, there are no guarantees. However, there are backups and you to... |
20 February 2013
10:43 GMT |
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True to its promises, The Pirate Bay has went ahead and reported the Finnish anti-piracy group CIAPC to the local police for infringing The Pirate Bay's copyrights with a "parody" site.
The group outright copied The Pirate Bay's CSS code and only replaced the logo on the homepage with an image of a sinking... |
18 February 2013
08:37 GMT |
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A few days ago, there was some fuss over a Finnish anti-piracy group, CIAPC, "stealing" website code from the Pirate Bay and passing it as its own in a website dedicated to fighting piracy. The group seems to think that doing the very thing they oppose the most somehow proves something.All it proves is that they don&... |
16 February 2013
08:51 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay doesn't have many fans among rights holders and their representatives. Still, despite plenty of attempts, the site is still going strong and is still the largest pirate site in the world, certainly the best known. So one anti-piracy group decided to return the favor and copied the site's des... |
14 February 2013
14:53 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay is still the most popular pirate site in the world, despite all of the attempts to shut it down or at least block access. Still, the blocks are remaining in place, the Finnish Court of Appeal has ruled that the block ordered on the site is to stay.
ISPs have been ordered to block the site by a lower c... |
12 February 2013
08:05 GMT |
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It's been almost four years in the making, but The Pirate Bay documentary is here, available for download, for free on The Pirate Bay, where else. TPB AFK has been getting some attention lately as, ahead of the launch, a few clips have stirred interest. If you've ever been interested in the history of the ... |
8 February 2013
11:22 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay documentary is coming a week from now, but if you can't handle the wait, director Simon Klose has now put out a new clip from the movie. It's not a trailer – you can find that here, it's an actual (albeit small) extract from the documentary itself.
Pirate Bay spokesperson Peter Sunde t... |
30 January 2013
11:55 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay has been operating independent of its founders for years, but it's the three men put on trial for their connection to the site that are still the people associated with it.
A documentary about them and about the site's early years is finally coming out, dubbed TPB AFK, or The Pirate Bay Awa... |
23 January 2013
14:01 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay has been hounded over the years, yet no one managed to take it down just yet, even as the people associated with it are paying a hefty price for the public's right to free information and culture.
While the fact that the site is still up and going strong is encouraging for anyone that believes i... |
14 January 2013
10:12 GMT |
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People have been trying to kill The Pirate Bay for close to a decade now. Even if they finally succeed, it's hard to deny the site's legacy; for many, The Pirate Bay is synonymous with piracy. And, no matter what you believe about the site or its legacy, you can't deny it.
That seems to be the idea be... |
10 January 2013
16:31 GMT |
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With 2012 out of the way, the file sharing world and the BitTorrent world in particular look quite different at the start of 2013 than they did a year ago.
In the first category, MegaUpload is gone, in the latter, BTjunkie and Demonoid are as well. But that only means that others rise up to take their pla... |
7 January 2013
18:21 GMT |
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The UK Pirate Party has caved to the threats, it seems, as the proxy site they've been running for The Pirate Bay is down. The Pirate Party hasn't provided any explanation, but has said that an official statement is coming.
While the reason isn't known for now, it's pretty clear that the mountin... |
19 December 2012
05:41 GMT |
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The battle between the BPI, the British Phonographic Industry, a recording industry body in the UK, and the Pirate Party is escalating.
At the heart of it is the Pirate Bay proxy that the group has been running for the past few months, after the Pirate Bay was blocked in the country, at the request of the BPI.
Th... |
17 December 2012
11:21 GMT |
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It happens from time to time, so it's probably not cause for concern, but The Pirate Bay is down. The team is on it and, unless it's something serious, the site should be going back up soon.
It's not an attack or anything of legal nature, most likely the cause of the outage is technical.
Users tend ... |
12 December 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Normally, private companies know better than to go against a political party, it's much easier just to pay lobby to get them on their side. That's not the case of The Pirate Party we're talking about, both because it has little political power and that it still has some integrity. The UK branch has b... |
10 December 2012
07:11 GMT |
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The blockade on The Pirate Bay had some collateral damage, apart from the users; The Promo Bay, an offshoot of The Pirate Bay but a completely legal site, was also blocked before it even launched. The move was ironic at best, since it's a site dedicated to promoting artists, and pure censorship at worst. The ... |
6 December 2012
05:10 GMT |
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Blocking The Pirate Bay certainly raised a few eyebrows in the UK, but it wasn't hard to defend the move, "because pirates." People who know about history know that there's no such thing as a little or as good censorship. Once you're down that road there's no turning back.
A great example is the... |
3 December 2012
09:10 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay has been blocked in the UK for several months now. It hasn't stopped piracy, it hasn't even stopped that many people from using The Pirate Bay, in fact the entire thing only attracted more people to the site, people who may not have heard of it otherwise. Part of the reason the block hasn�... |
30 November 2012
09:53 GMT |
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Being "featured" in a major site like The Pirate Bay may not be most artists' biggest dream, but for plenty it's a big break, the amount of new fans these artists get far outweighs the value of the "lost sales."
As such, more and more creators have a more open view towards piracy, some even going so far a... |
30 November 2012
08:50 GMT |
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One nine year old girl, her father anyway, became famous overnight after police stormed their apartment and seized the tool allegedly used for copyright infringement, the girl's Winnie the Pooh laptop. The two became the latest victims of a common money-making scheme, threaten people, pirates or not, with expens... |
29 November 2012
18:01 GMT |
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The fight against piracy is starting to get results, though maybe not the results that media companies were hoping for. Pro-copyright abusing or bending the law and treating law enforcement agencies like their private bodyguards is nothing new, but it's also something that most people, thankfully, don't hav... |
22 November 2012
07:46 GMT |
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Zeiko Anonymous, the hacker who launched distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against several BitTorrent websites last week, is back. He has turned his attention to The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, Fenopy, Bitsnoop and TorrentPortal.
On this occasion, the hacker’s first target has been The Pirate Bay (thepira... |
14 November 2012
04:12 GMT |
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Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm, arrested in Sweden for his alleged involvement in the hack on IT company Logica, now faces additional charges. Prosecutors are accusing him of being involved in a second hacking case.
The man has been held in solitary confinement after being shipped to Sweden by Cambodian au... |
12 November 2012
05:42 GMT |
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It seems like the "court ordered" blocking of The Pirate Bay by UPC in Ireland didn't happen. Well, it did happen, users were blocked from getting to the site and were notified of a court order forcing the ISP to do it. But there was never any court order.
In fact, in the meantime, UPC has removed the block and... |
25 October 2012
04:44 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay is making more and more enemies and the site is starting to be blocked in more and more countries. It's blocked in the Netherlands, it's blocked in the UK and a few other places.
There are efforts to get it blocked in even more countries. Ireland seems to be next, the ISP UPC has quietly bl... |
24 October 2012
09:53 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay's recent switch to the clouds has one more benefit, apart from making the site more resilient and harder to track down, it also means that the site uses up far less energy than before. In fact, it's now one of the greenest, if not the greenest site in the world's top 100.
The site'... |
22 October 2012
08:42 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay is now moving to the clouds. It's the latest trend and pirates are not immune to tech fashion. Actually, The Pirate Bay, as always, just wants to be better protected against raids and moving to the cloud makes it harder to find the servers and to minimize the damage if they are found.
"Now we... |
17 October 2012
05:45 GMT |
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