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Original Staff Brings KickAssTorrents Back to Life
At the height of its popularity, torrent site KickAssTorrents (KAT) was downed back in July this year after its owner was arrested by US law enforcement. While a number of mirrors of the site have popped up in the meantime – some of which have been maliciously collecting user details…
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The Grand Tour Becomes Most Illegally Downloaded Show Ever!
The Grand Tour is settings plenty of records, and not all of them as desirable as far as their production team is concerned, but a record is a record. The Grand Tour has now become the most illegally downloaded show… … … in the world. According to data from Muso, the…
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KickassTorrents Mirrors Maliciously Taking Your Details
People love torrents. Be it to download a piece of software they own legitimately or to get a copy of Game of Thrones just hours after it airs on TV. KickassTorrents was a favourite location for many, but thanks to a court order the US Department of Justice seized the…
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Torrentz – The World’s Largest Torrent Meta-Search Engine is Dead!
Torrentz.eu, the world’s largest torrent meta-search engine, has suddenly closed down. The site was founded in 2003, and offered links to torrents indexed on sites such as The Pirate Bay, KickassTorrents, which was recently seized by the US Government, and a plethora of popular BitTorrent sites. “Torrentz was a free,…
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FossHub Hack Replaces Software With Malware!
When you download some popular software, you often end up using a mirror to gain access to all of your favourite bits of software. A popular place to upload and share your software is FossHub but recent hacks have left a selection of software replaced with malware. The malware was…
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KickassTorrents Seized – Site Owner Arrested
KickassTorrents, the world’s most popular torrent site, has been seized by the US Government and the site’s owner has been arrested. The website and its domains were ordered to be seized by the Chicago District Court and its owner, 30-year-old Ukrainian Artem Vaulin, was taken into police custody in Poland…
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NBC Universal Patents Pirate-Hunting Tech
NBC Universal has filed a patent for a new technology designed to track and collect data on online pirates. The tech uses a high-volume file sharing swarms detection system to determine popular torrents and gather data on those downloading and sharing those files. The patent filing, entitled “Early Detection of…
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Filmmakers Pressure Alleged Pirate to Take Lie Detector in Court
Movie studio Voltage, the makers of the Oscar-winning Dallas Buyers Club – starring Matthew McConaughey as an AIDS sufferer who illegally sells medication to those similarly afflicted with the disease – loves to sue BitTorrent users. The company has filled over one hundred lawsuits in US Federal Courts against alleged…
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YIFY Founder Opens Up About Five Years of Movie Piracy
Toward the end of last year, famed torrent uploader YIFY, and its home website YTS, was closed following a settlement between its owner and the MPAA. Now, its founder – using his old YIFY alias – has revealed the history of the popular upload group, from its inception to its…
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The Pirate Bay Introduces In-Browser Streaming
The Pirate Bay, despite losing the ‘heads’ of its Hydra domains faster than it can grow them back, has introduced embedded streaming, so at the click of a button you can watch the latest torrents in your browser. Using the Torrents Time browser plug-in, The Pirate Bay now features a…
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Warner Bros and Intel Sue Creators of 4K Copy Protection Stripper
Warner Bros. and Intel subsidiary Digital Content Protection have filed a lawsuit against LegendSky, the creator of the HDFury series of devices that can be used to bypass HDCP 2.2 copy protection on 4K video content. 4K video content flooded torrent sites at the end of November last year, indicating…
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Archive.org Releases 30GB Torrent of Lost 80s Cassette Tapes
The wonderful Internet Archive (Archive.org) has released a 30GB torrent of lost music which dates from the Eighties to the Early-Nineties. The songs are sourced from a massive archive of cassette tapes – the format by which music was shared before the advent of home writeable CDs – courtesy of…
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4K Content From Netflix and Amazon Floods Torrent Sites
Did you spend all your money on a 4K television in the Black Friday sales, leaving you unable to afford food, clothing, or legal on-demand video streaming services? Well, fear not, because 4K content from Netflix and Amazon has hit torrent sites with a vengeance. Granted, it won’t fill your…
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Popcorn Time Ramps Up For Full Comeback
When the main fork of popular torrent video-on-demand app Popcorn Time closed in October, citing legal issues and splits within the development team, many suspected that the so-called “Netflix for pirates” was a goner. But it seems that reports of Popcorn Time’s demise has been greatly exaggerated, with the developers…
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YTS Closure Down to Deal Struck With Hollywood
YTS, the website that was home to the infamous YIFY torrents, closed for good last week, calling time on years of good quality, low file size HD pirated movies. YIFY, which was the primary source of content for popular pirate streaming app Popcorn Time, nor YTS revealed what had motivated…
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