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A few years in the making, magnet links are finally becoming a reality for BitTorrent users. Leading the charge is The Pirate Bay which recently switched to magnet links by default and will drop .torrent files almost entirely soon.
In fact, The Pirate Bay has just announced that come February 29, most .torrent files... |
13 February 2012
11:11 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 Pirate Bay has survived for almost nine years, despite being one of the most hunted "pirate" sites out there. It's surprising in fact, when many other smaller BitTorrent sites were shut down through various means, the most notorious of which being domain name seizure.Because generic domain names, .com, .org,... |
1 February 2012
13:31 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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The Pirate Bay hasn't been in the news quite so often lately, but that just means that the site is moving forward as it always had. It's still the biggest BitTorrent indexer out there despite the many, many attempts to take it down.
But at the heart of the Pirate Bay is not BitTorrent, it's not even f... |
25 January 2012
11:41 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay is once again leading the way in the BitTorrent way as it has announced that it is making magnet links the default download link rather than the link to the .torrent file as until now. The Pirate Bay was also the first big BitTorrent indexer to start using magnet links. The site believes the technology... |
13 January 2012
05:11 GMT |
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Earlier this year, in an effort to appease copyright holders, mostly the music industry, Google started to apply some self-censorship to its searches. It started removing suggestions and auto-complete for things like "bittorrent," "torrent," "rapidshare" and so on.
The ham-fisted approach didn't really do much ... |
24 November 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Two of the largest internet service providers from the Netherlands stated in a court of law that blocking their account holders from accessing the infamous Pirate Bay website could have undesired effects on their network.TorrentFreak reports that BREIN, a Dutch anti-piracy outfit, wants to order ISPs to implement a b... |
12 November 2011
14:11 GMT |
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After Swedish prosecutors won the battle against the founders of The Pirate Bay, sentencing them to prison and forcing them to pay million dollar fines, they now believe that a further appeal at the Supreme Court is unnecessary.
According to TorrentFreak, one of the co-founders, Peter Sunde, reveals that they don�... |
26 October 2011
10:53 GMT |
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The recent debates regarding piracy and the controversies that surround torrent websites make most of those who use such services find a way to make themselves anonymous while surfing the web.The partial results of a survey made by The Research Bay ( the new name of The Pirate Bay) in collaboration with Cybernorms we... |
22 October 2011
05:44 GMT |
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A Stockholm court sentenced Gottfrid Svartholm, Pirate Bay co-founder, to one year in prison after he missed out on his appeal trial. He will also have to pay a fine of $1.1 million (770,000 EUR).
According to Torrent Freak, the one known on the internet as Anakata, has missed out on the appeal trial last year bec... |
14 October 2011
09:41 GMT |
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A German ISP that's known for supporting The Pirate Bay was recently in the middle of a scandal between A2B, a Dutch provider, and the Spamhaus Project, a somewhat controversial organization that built its reputation on tracking and fighting spam sources.
According to The Register, many internet service provi... |
13 October 2011
09:56 GMT |
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After losing the battle to anti-piracy groups, all the ISPs in Belgium were ordered to block all the domains relating to the Pirate Bay, but thanks to some technical errors in the court order, the website could live on. TechDirt reveals that 11 URLs were blocked, but the list didn't contain the location's ... |
11 October 2011
09:27 GMT |
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In the attempt to stop piracy, Belgian authorities decided to force internet service providers to block their account holders from accessing the popular Pirate Bay(TPB) torrent website. Upon hearing the news, Pirate Bay representatives yawn and thank the government for the free advertisement.
According to Torrent ... |
5 October 2011
03:49 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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Security researchers advise users who visited The Pirate Bay recently to scan their computers, because new malicious ads were spotted on the popular website.Jerome Segura, a researcher with security vendor ParetoLogic, notes that while surfing thepiratebay.org yesterday, a Java icon appeared in his computer's ta... |
29 September 2010
09:14 GMT |
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Hackers have managed to get malicious advertisements listed on The Pirate Bay by exploiting a vulnerability in the advertising software used by the website.The rogue ads attempted to infect visitors with malware, which caused cltomedia.info, the domain they where served from, to be blacklisted by the Google SafeBrows... |
14 September 2010
16:58 GMT |
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A group of Argentinian hackers have managed to obtain access to the user database and administration panel of The Pirate Bay by exploiting several SQL injection vulnerabilities. The exposed data involved user names, MD5 hashed passwords, e-mail addresses and IPs. The hacker who reported the attack goes by the name o... |
8 July 2010
00:20 GMT |
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The Swedish Appeal Court has ruled in the appeal filed by the Pirate Bay defendants accusing judge Tomas Norström of bias in the Pirate Bay case, which he presided. The defendants asked the court for a retrial on account of bias based on the fact that the judge was part of several pro-copyright groups, which was... |
26 June 2009
02:52 GMT |
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BREIN, an organization created by the movie, music and gaming industries, located in the Netherlands, recently went after Mininova, the largest torrent indexer in the world, and took the site to court for copyright infringement. Part of its claim was that Mininova blocked bittorrent trackers known to have illegal con... |
25 June 2009
06:00 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay, the infamous torrents search site, has announced the launch of a new service, called Ipredator, aimed at making file sharing, and Internet use in general, anonymous. The VPN service was made public in March 2009 and now it has become available to 3000 users who signed up for it in April. The announc... |
16 June 2009
06:37 GMT |
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Swedish courts have rejected the demand made by lawyers representing the entertainment business that The Pirate Bay be fined for every day the site stays up. The lawyers also called for a gag order, preventing The Pirate Bay's founders to speak publicly until the matter was settled in court but this too was reje... |
26 May 2009
05:53 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay trial isn't called the “spectrial” for nothing. Following latest developments, the judge assigned to review if his fellow public official in the first trial was biased was removed – and this is the best part – also for bias. The first judge, Tomas Norström, came under ... |
22 May 2009
05:32 GMT |
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Rights holders still aren't happy with the outcome of The Pirate Bay trial and have appealed the verdict asking for bigger fines and the charge for “infringing copyright” restored after being dropped in the early part of the first trial, which ended with Pirate Bay founders Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svar... |
22 May 2009
02:31 GMT |
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A white-hat hacker going by the nickname of Vektor has located several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the website of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). In order to prove the existence of the flaws in a humorous manner, he decided to inject a "Thank you" page with a rogue IFrame, which loads th... |
4 May 2009
04:35 GMT |
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Piracy is one of the biggest problems that has been plaguing both the gaming and software industry for quite some time. As such, a lot of organizations like the Entertainment Software Association have been created in order to militate against pirates and show people just what toll downloading a pirated copy of a vide... |
21 April 2009
03:03 GMT |
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Jail sentences and a $3.6 million fine came with the guilty verdicts in the Pirate Bay case. The four defendants, namely Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Carl Lundstrom, were convicted to 1 year in jail and a financial penalty of $3.6 million. The four were found guilty of facilitating access to... |
17 April 2009
09:59 GMT |
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The lawsuit initiated against four individuals, all connected to the Pirate Bay, the Sweden-based biggest Bittorrent tracker, was delayed until the end of the year. Although the Stockholm District Court previously announced that the litigation would begin by the end of the summer, it seems that now it needs more time... |
29 August 2008
05:06 GMT |
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A couple of weeks ago, we reported that the Pirate Bay, the infamous torrent tracker, had been banned in Italy. The first reaction on part of one of the Pirate Bay's founders was a virulent post on the official blog of the tracker, where Italy was described as having a "really bad background, as one of the IFPIs... |
22 August 2008
11:17 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay is no longer a stranger to the court because it's probably one of the websites which recorded the largest number of lawsuits, most of them filed for piracy. Well, add one more complaint to the list because Websheriff, a copyright organization, prepares to sue the BitTorrent website for publishing ... |
19 May 2008
07:21 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay is surely one of the most popular BitTorrent services on the web and this not necessarily to the quality of the services it provides but also thanks to the way it got promoted on the Internet. In the latest few months, The Pirate Bay was brought in the spotlights every once in a while as several copyri... |
19 May 2008
03:52 GMT |
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The battle between The Pirate Bay and MPAA continues with a new dispute: this time, the Motion Pictures Association of America demands damages of no less than $15.4 million due to the fact that the BitTorrent website published pirated copies of several of its movies and allowed Internet users to download them. Accord... |
9 May 2008
02:55 GMT |
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Although file-sharing is not necessarily an illegal activity as long as you share your own files and don't infringe the copyright laws, some people get fined and are sent to prison for file-sharing. Such a case occurred some time ago when a 31-year-old Swedish file-sharer, Andreas Karlsson, was sent to court, be... |
7 May 2008
10:47 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay is one of the most popular names on the web nowadays even if it comes from that side of the market which is often accused of piracy and copyright infringement. In fact, The Pirate Bay is one of the most attacked services as several copyright holders and anti-piracy groups have sued the BitTorrent track... |
25 April 2008
04:02 GMT |
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The short story so far: Warner Bros. and The Pirate Bay are the plaintiff and the defendant of a copyright lawsuit in which the BitTorrent website is accused of providing access to pirated material. Nothing new until now because we've seen lots of similar cases when BitTorrent websites were sued for infringing c... |
24 April 2008
02:30 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay is again brought in the spotlights, but this time to what seems to be one of the most important glitches of the lawsuit versus the copyright holders: Jim Keyzer, the chief police investigator who was responsible for the investigation of the case, was recently hired by Warner Bros, one of the companies ... |
18 April 2008
08:41 GMT |
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The dispute between The Pirate Bay and IFPI, an organization that fights for the copyright of several artists, tends to reach the first page of every newspaper around the world as every new day comes with hot and extremely important information. Following TPB's announcement that the website will demand compensat... |
17 April 2008
05:09 GMT |
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A rather strange decision of the World Trade Commission was awarded last December to Antigua, should its negotiations with the United States fail. The problem in question is that of the US rules, more or less blocking foreign gambling sites. Even Europe is going at the regulations, as many sites based there (bwin amo... |
20 March 2008
14:26 GMT |
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After splitting with its record label, legendary band Nine Inch Nails (NIN) has opted to upload itself the first part of the four-volume work 'Ghosts' to the BitTorrent network. It might sound like something the band might do out of revenge, but the members strongly endorse file sharing. "We encourage you t... |
4 March 2008
08:48 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay had it good before the IFPI decided to stick its nose in the Peer-to-Peer file sharing tracker's business. When the piracy assist lawsuit was slugged in the Swedish site's face, it joined a vast slew of other similar legal actions being already aimed at the world's biggest BitTorrent tra... |
21 February 2008
07:06 GMT |
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In what is probably going to be one of the biggest faux pas in the history of search engines everywhere, should it be demonstrated that it was not forced upon it, Yahoo! has decided to ban, or, in milder words, filter the site out of its search results. Querying for the popular BitTorrent tracking site will no longer... |
19 February 2008
14:16 GMT |
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The already certain-looking decision of Denmark Internet Service ProviderTele2 to comply with banning Peer To Peer file sharing tracker The Pirate Bay has been revoked. Flying its colors high and boasting with the way others understand to respect and protect copyrights, the IFPI must have felt like a piano fell over ... |
14 February 2008
11:46 GMT |
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The action the world renowned peer-to-peer torrent tracker The Pirate Bay is trying to undertake is distracting the Police's attention from the matter at hand, namely it being charged for assisting copyright infringement, and brought to attention on the blog it has been keeping that it tried to cooperate with th... |
7 February 2008
07:36 GMT |
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The anti-piracy movement from the authorities is strong, but unfortunately not very successful. The torrent tracking site has a very large fanbase and about 2.5 million subscribers ready to give hell to everybody moving against their 'coup de foudre'. The only way a Danish court thought it could prevent the... |
5 February 2008
03:37 GMT |
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Theres no case against the owners, everybody supporting the Peer-To-Peer site claims. The Pirate Bay is not hosting anything, it is merely a search engine for BitTorrent files, they say.+ However, one prosecutor said that a case for "assisting copyright infringement" of 4 software applications, 9 films and 22 music ... |
1 February 2008
21:56 GMT |
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The war against the BitTorrent websites continues with Fred Goldman, the father of Ronald Goldman, as the main character. Fred Goldman, the copyright holder for O.J. Simpson's book "If I Did It" sued The Pirate Bay, for publishing the book on the Internet. This move caused a loss of about $150,000, the complaint... |
3 December 2007
10:15 GMT |
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