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Anti-Blocking Website More Popular Than Spotify and Skype in the UK
While the UK High Court has been making busywork of blocking access to a myriad of popular torrent sites via the country’s ISPs, users apathetic to the restrictions have been using the sites anyway via the popular proxy site Unblocked.pw. Torrent fans have flocked to the site, using it to…
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Google Chrome Starts Blocking Torrent Sites
Since yesterday, Google’s Chrome browser has begun blocking torrent websites, including Torrentz, ExtraTorent, RARBG, and the popular KickAss Torrents, flagging them as containing “harmful programs”. When users attempt to visit the URL, a red banner bars access, warning that “The site ahead contains harmful programs,” and that “Attackers on [URL]…
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EZTV Closed After Hostile Takeover
TV torrent distribution group EZTV has been forced to close after the site domain was seized by scammers in what has been described as a “hostile takeover”. EZTV was born out of the ashes TVTorrents.tv and btefnet after they were taken down via lawsuit in 2005 and has been a…
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Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde: “F#@$ the Pirate Movement”
The co-founder of the world’s most notorious torrent site, The Pirate Bay, says that he regrets adopting the word “pirate” and that he couldn’t “give a flying f#@$” about the pirate movement, in an op-ed piece on TorrentFreak. In response to the idea that the “pirate movement” is dead, Sunde…
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The Pirate Bay Applies for .PIRATE Domain Name Registry
As a response to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) applying pressure on the domain name industry, Reservella Ltd., the parent company of The Pirate Bay, has applied to register the generic top-level domain (gTLD) extension .PIRATE. The move is hoped…
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KickassTorrents Domain Seized; Site Taken Down
Popular torrent site KickassTorrents (KAT) has had its Somalian kickass.so domain seized and the site is currently down. KickassTorrents had over one million unique visitors a day, making it the most popular torrent site in the world, more so than The Pirate Bay. Since The Pirate Bay was taken down…
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Strongest Sign Yet That The Pirate Bay Return is Imminent
The new front page of The Pirate Bay homepage, thepiratebay.se, is showing its strongest indication yet the site is primed for resurrection. Below the countdown that has been a fixture since December 2014, not long after the site was taken down after Swedish police raided the site’s servers, is the…
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Pirate Bay Code Decrypted by reddit User, Finds Arnold Schwarzenegger “I’ll Be Back” Video
Infamous torrent site The Pirate Bay went down on 9th December last year after a police raid on its Swedish data centre. After an absence of around a week, The Pirate Bay’s domain became accessible again, but only displaying a background image, a flip clock, now counting down to 1st…
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Thom Yorke May Have Earned up to $20m From BitTorrent Downloads in 2014
Last year, Thom Yorke, lead singer of Radiohead, released his second solo album as a digital download through BitTorrent, and figures suggest he could have made up to $20 million from the endeavour. Yorke released Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes as a BitTorrent Bundle, offering a digital download of the album for…
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Founder of IsoHunt Thinks Bitcoin Can Kill Piracy
Gary Fung, the original founder of torrent tracking site IsoHunt – long since closed, then resurrected by others – believes that Bitcoin microtransactions could eventually kill online piracy. Fung, who left IsoHunt after its initial closure back in 2013, told TorrentFreak, “Technologically, I envision studios and other media companies creating…
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The Pirate Bay Admits it Doesn’t Know if it Will Return
Five days after torrent site The Pirate Bay was taken down by a police raid in Sweden, a member of TPB crew has spoken about the future of the site in an exclusive interview with TorrentFreak. Mr 10100100000, an anonymous member of the TPB crew, told TorrentFreak over an encrypted channel,…
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Torrent Traffic Remains the Same, Despite The Pirate Bay Closure
The Pirate Bay has been offline for four days after Swedish police raided its servers, but that doesn’t seem to have made any kind of dent in the number of illegal downloads. According to anti-piracy firm Excipio, torrent traffic is now at the same rate as it was just before…
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Unreleased Sony Movies Leaked to Torrent Sites Following Hack
Sony Pictures has had a pretty bad week. First a massive hack, then rumours that North Korea could be involved, now the news that four high quality copies of Sony Pictures’ latest movies, most of them unreleased, have been leaked on the web. Copies of ‘Annie’, ‘Mr Turner’, ‘Fury’, and…
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White House Wants to Make Illegal Downloads a Felony Offense
The White House has weighed in on the issue of media copyright infringement online, asserting that illegal downloads should be made a felony offense. Alex Niejelow, Chief of Staff to the US Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator and National Security Council’s Head of Cybersecurity Policy, said in a statement, “we believe…
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