It's one thing if your friends, family, and neighbours find out that you've been doing some torrenting. It's a bit worse if they find out what kind of porn you like. Unluckily for smut pirates everywhere, a new "pay-up-now" letter that's doing the circuit pretty explicitly threatens to go around telling people exactly that. Read More >>
Game of Thrones season three premiered last night, and that's kind of a big deal. If you're a fan, you'll need no convincing. But if you need proof of its potency, here you go: according to numbers collected by TorrentFreak, the Game of Thrones season three premier now holds the record for the biggest BitTorrent swarm ever. Read More >>
It's not just the Pirate Bay that's feeling the sting of High Court-infused blocking orders. Three more torrent sites, KickassTorrents, H33T and Fenopy, have been given the special treatment thanks to the BPI, just like TPB, with BT, Virgin, O2 and Be already blocking them off the face of the UK internet. Read More >>
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Everybody's got their grand plans to put an end to piracy -- ISPs are blocking The Pirate Bay, and as for the FBI, they like to take down sites like MegaUpload. But that doesn't mean they don't torrent themselves. TorrentFreak dug up a little list of what's been being pirated from FBI IPs. Read More >>
Featured comment by macmann:
"Hey, you've convinced me. Let's shut down the FBI, the Met Police and every other governmental body because they're all rotten to the core.
Or... may..." More »
Watch out pirates, you may not be as anonymous as you think, especially if you upload to the Pirate Bay. Researchers have recently published a tool that lets you get all kinds of data, including location, about some of the most prolific accounts. Read More >>
Torrenting, despite its many legitimate uses, has always had its reputation plagued by the rampant piracy it allows. Get ready for that all to get drudged up again because uTorrent, a very popular client, just announced it's getting ad-support. Read More >>
MSN's widely used Messenger software has started filtering links to the Pirate Bay, taking security matters into its own hands and setting a rather worrying censorship precedent in the process. Read More >>
Featured comment by Boopop:
"Whilst MSN uses the HD-yness of my (admittedly Microsoft) HD webcam and Skype doesn't, I've found the sound quality in Skype to be better. Not by a la..." More »
Binero, the Swedish company that hosts the Pirate Bay's new .se domain name, says it has received a letter from the country's Prosecution Authority and police force, asking for certain details about the owners of the controversial file-sharing portal. Read More >>
The Pirate Bay, the largest torrent site on the Internet, is no more. Or well, it's not like it once was. As of this moment, they've taken down all torrent links on the website and will now only use 'magnet links'. Read More >>
Featured comment by Shallow Depression:
"Just click onto the file, then go to the info section along the bottom of the torrent program (Bit torrent), then right click and select 'don't downlo..." More »
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