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The Pirate Bay moves to the Caribbean, remains alive
- While many of us can appreciate the irony of 'The Pirates of the Caribbean', you can be sure that the site's search for a safe haven is hardly walking on the beach singing with a bottle of rum on one…
The Pirate Bay says move to North Korea was a hoax
- Apparently April Fools’ Day comes a month early if you run the world’s largest torrent website. Earlier this week a number of media outlets (TechSpot included) reported that The Pirate Bay had left their Swedish homeland and had been granted…
The Pirate Bay lands in North Korea, granted virtual asylum
- Late last month The Pirate Bay vacated its Swedish homeland after local anti-piracy group Rights Alliance threatened to sue Piratpartiet for supplying bandwidth to TPB. After a week sailing the high seas for a new home, the torrent site has…
The Pirate Bay sues anti-piracy group for copying its design
- In an attempt to further propel its anti-piracy message, a Finnish organization known as the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Center has launched a new website (piraattilahti.fi) which shamelessly duplicates the look and feel of the The Pirate Bay. Piraattilahti, by the…
Watch this: TPB AFK, The Pirate Bay documentary is out
- The Pirate Bay documentary TPB AFK premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival today after four years in the making. The film, directed by Swedish filmmaker Simon Klose and partially funded by Kickstarter, chronicles the site’s three founders during their…
Minecraft: The Story of Mojang uploaded to TPB by the producers
- Minecraft: The Story of Mojang premiered this past weekend but if you happened to miss the showing for whatever reason, fear not as the producers have since uploaded the film directly to The Pirate Bay for all to download free…
Police raid targets 9-year-old pirate, Winnie the Pooh laptop seized
- The fight against online piracy reached new levels of absurdity after the Copyright Information And Anti-Piracy Centre (CIAPC) in Finland cracked down on a 9-year-old suspected pirate and had the police seize her Winnie the Pooh laptop. Her crime was…
The Pirate Bay ditches its servers to become raid-proof
- The Pirate Bay has been making a few adjustments to how they operate the infamous file-sharing site over the years to avoid potential takedowns from authorities. They shut down its tracker in November 2009, stopped hosting .torrent files in favor…
Hackers accuse The Pirate Bay of collecting personal user data
- Hackers citing affiliation with Anonymous have recently taken to Twitter claiming that torrent file and magnet link sharing site The Pirate Bay has been logging personal user information. @pokex says the site collects information like email and IP addresses –…
Swedish police raid hosting firm PRQ, takes down "pirate" websites
- Swedish police officers recently conducted a raid on web host PeRiQuito AB, or PRQ. Law enforcement officials confiscated four servers according to PRQ owner Mikael Viborg although it’s unclear at this hour which site(s) were hosted on the machines. Unsurprisingly,…
Pirate Bay's missing co-founder arrested in Cambodia
- The Swedish authorities have finally caught up with the Pirate Bay’s missing co-founder after local police in Cambodia arrested him at a home he had rented in the capital, Phnom Penh. An international warrant had been issued by Swedish officials for the…
TPB fines to be used to fight more piracy cases, not refund artists
- After a lengthy legal battle, last February the founders of The Pirate Bay were ordered by the Swedish Supreme Court to pay $675,000 to music labels in order to compensate artists who lost out on royalties due to piracy. Except…
Google might have to filter piracy-related searches in France
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Google might be required to filter filesharing-related search terms in France, pending a decision by the nation's Court of Appeal. In early 2010, French recording industry group SNEP sought legal action in an effort to have terms like "torrent," "Rapidshare" and "Megaupload" censored from...
TPB blockade makes no difference, says ISP XS4ALL
- Despite European courts forcing ISPs to block access to The Pirate Bay, the move has had little impact on the internet's most well known, longest-running torrent website. In fact, according to a blog post by one of Europe's largest ISPs, XS4ALL,…
The Pirate Bay circumvents ISP blocks with new IP address
- After being banned in the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy as part of court-mandated blockades, infamous file sharing service The Pirate Bay appears to have circumvented the blocks in a bid to help subscribers from affected countries accessing its…
DDoS attack sidelines The Pirate Bay, Anonymous to blame?
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In what can only be described as a bit ironic, The Pirate Bay has been taken down not by court order of ISP blockades but by a DDoS attack of unknown origin. The popular torrent sharing site has been sidelined for the better part of...
Virgin Media censors Pirate Bay in UK, results in 12 million more visitors
- The UK High Court ruled last week that several of the country's Internet Service Providers (ISPs) must censor access to The Pirate Bay, following up from a verdict in February saying that it was guilty of sharing copyrighted material on…
The Pirate Bay's registrar, Binero confirms site is under second investigation
- According to the Pirate Bay’s Swedish domain registrar, Binero, the world famous torrent site is being investigated by the Swedish authorities after they received requests to release the personal details of the person who registered the site’s new .se domain…
The Pirate Bay completes switch to magnet links
- After announcing more than two years ago that they intended to stop supporting .torrent links, The Pirate Bay has made the switch to "trackerless" magnet links official yesterday. In a post on their official blog, the team said the switch…
Download the entire Pirate Bay in just 90 Megabytes
- It is now possible to download a copy of The Pirate Bay via a single 90MB zip file. The recent switch to magnet links and a script written by Pirate Bay user ‘allisfine’ made the small backup possible, according to…
Final appeal rejected in Pirate Bay case, founders face prison time
- After fighting copyright infringement charges for years, the four founders of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay may be headed for prison in Sweden as the country's Supreme Court has denied to grant them a final appeal. The Stockholm-based court, which…
The Pirate Bay: you'll download your own shoes in 20 years
- The Pirate Bay has been a thorn in the side of big media companies for years, and though there's no end in sight for their battles over piracy, the controversial site is already looking at the next frontier of copying…
The Pirate Bay launches project to promote artists
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Although it's condemned by the media industry for providing access to illegal content, there is a positive side The Pirate Bay. If nothing else, the world's largest torrent site can shine a spotlight on little-known artists, allowing them to rise from obscurity and ascend to stardom...
The Pirate Bay will stop serving .torrent files, switch to magnet links only
- Following a decision to shut down its tracker in November 2009, file-sharing titan The Pirate Bay now says it is completely abandoning .torrent downloads a month from now and instead will only provide so-called magnet links. Although little will change…
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