Members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have been rumbled using their (ruggedised) official computer equipment to download torrent files, or at least that's what IP searches conducted by pro-freedom internet groups appear to suggest. Read More >>
Yo ho yo ho, a pirate's life for me. And for you! And for everyone! Because downloading BitTorrent files just got a lot easier. BitTorrent is finally pushing its torrenting browser plug-in, BitTorrent Surf, to beta for you to try. That means you don't have to deal with pesky desktop clients, your browser (Chrome or Firefox) effectively becomes the only BitTorrent client you need. 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 >>
Featured comment by Sharky66:
"Yes, it is the same thing - I like it as it's easy to use, not expensive and gives a wide choice of servers to access." More »
The Pirate Bay will be turning ten this year, quite the ripe old age for any website, much less one that's been the target of such controversy. In preparation for celebrating that birthday, TorrentFreak went looking for the oldest Pirate Bay torrent they could find, and came across Revolution OS. Read More >>
The High Court has ordered our ISPs to start auto-blocking three more sites linked with piracy, as a new batch of torrent providers are made to sit with The Pirate Bay on the inaccessible step. Read More >>
The Pirate Bay is leaving Sweden, because pressure from a local anti-piracy group representing the entertainment industry is getting too much for it. Instead, the 'Bay will be hosted across Norway and Spain, reports Torrent Freak. Read More >>
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 »
Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs has been placing fake pirated material up on the country's most popular file-sharing networks, which attempt to shame media-stealers into changing their ways by delivering a polite warning once downloaded. Read More >>
Featured comment by thelawr:
"Actually the most fool proof would be to do exactly what various corporations are doing to kill their own business. Switch the illegal downloads for v..." More »
There's not going to be much of a trade in low-res "screeners" of the Pirate Bay movie, thanks to a decision to sell it and give it away online to everyone on the day it receives its premiere next month. Read More >>
Featured comment by magicguppy:
"Yeah, the guy would be making a rod for his own back if he didn't give it away.
I think, though, in pirate times, it wasn't totally unheard of for..." More »
Two long-running piracy cases in Sweden have been resolved in the favour of The Man, with ISPs forced to hand over identifying information that could lead to prosecutions for those currently being made an example of by The System. Read More >>
Featured comment by T:
"Downloaders get option to cancel uploading but this is affecting everyone regardless. I think masking with proxies and socks won't help because ISP wo..." More »
Three Canadian travelers who met each other in Australia decided to become the next big thing in torrent tracking, setting up their own search site at the end of November. And even though it had no users, it was enough to get their visas cancelled and have them thrown out of the country. Read More >>
After successfully helping get (direct) access to the Pirate Bay officially blocked across all of the UK's key ISPs, the BPI is now said to be trying to add more torrent sites to the piracy blockade. Read More >>
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