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The Pirate Bay says move to North Korea was a hoax

The Pirate Bay says move to North Korea was a hoax
  • 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…

The Pirate Bay lands in North Korea, granted virtual asylum

The Pirate Bay lands in North Korea, granted virtual asylum
  • 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…

Swedish Pirate Party stops hosting The Pirate Bay due to legal threats

Swedish Pirate Party stops hosting The Pirate Bay due to legal threats
  • 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…

The Pirate Bay sues anti-piracy group for copying its design

The Pirate Bay sues anti-piracy group for copying its design
  • 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…

Minecraft: The Story of Mojang uploaded to TPB by the producers

Minecraft: The Story of Mojang uploaded to TPB by the producers
  • Posted December 26, 2012, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Gaming With 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…

The Pirate Bay ditches its servers to become raid-proof

The Pirate Bay ditches its servers to become raid-proof
  • 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…

Pirate Bay's missing co-founder arrested in Cambodia

Pirate Bay
  • 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…

TPB fines to be used to fight more piracy cases, not refund artists

TPB fines to be used to fight more piracy cases, not refund artists
  • 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…

The Pirate Bay circumvents ISP blocks with new IP address

The Pirate Bay circumvents ISP blocks with new IP address
  • 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…

Virgin Media censors Pirate Bay in UK, results in 12 million more visitors

Virgin Media censors Pirate Bay in UK, results in 12 million more visitors
  • 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…

The Pirate Bay's registrar, Binero confirms site is under second investigation

The Pirate Bay
  • 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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