Posted March 6, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
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…
Posted March 4, 2013, 3:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
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…
Posted February 26, 2013, 3:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
The Pirate Bay has vacated its Swedish homeland in hopes of dodging legal troubles brewing for Piratpartiet, otherwise known as the Pirate Party of Sweden. A local anti-piracy group, Rights Alliance, threatened to sue Piratpartiet for providing bandwidth to The…
Posted February 15, 2013, 8:30 AM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
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…
Posted December 26, 2012, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in GamingWith Video
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…
Posted October 17, 2012, 12:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web, Industry News
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…
Posted September 3, 2012, 1:00 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in The Web
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…
Posted July 30, 2012, 4:00 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in The Web
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…
Posted May 23, 2012, 11:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in The Web
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…
Posted May 4, 2012, 9:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in The Web
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…
Posted March 15, 2012, 1:00 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in The Web
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…
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