Supreme Court rejects Pirate Bay appeal, jail sentences and fines stand
Back in February 2009 legal proceedings due to copyright infringement charges against The Pirate Bay founders Peter Sunde, Carl Lundstrom, Frederik Neij, and Gottfrid Svartholm began. Soon after, half...
View ArticleUnlike Megaupload, Tribler Bittorrent client can never be taken down
File-sharing afficionados might be starting to get a little worried about where they’ll get their next fix from, what with high-profile site shutdowns and other services running scared. First it was...
View ArticleThe Pirate Bay aims high with bizarre flying server scheme
What’s a pirate to do when the seven seas have long since been pacified? Take to the skies, of course. That’s exactly what the folks at The Pirate Bay are promising to undertake…
View ArticleThe Pirate Bay expanding “Promo Bay” artist features
The Pirate Bay is often cited by the entertainment industry as a threat to artists and the creative business alike. However, a recent initiative undertaken by The Pirate Bay might be changing that…
View ArticleMegaupload hosting provider asks court to rule on fate of user data
It’s been a long, strange ride for Megaupload’s hosting provider, Carpathia Hosting. The company is spending in excess of $11,000 per-day to preserve petabytes of user data from the now defunct...
View ArticleMicrosoft updates Skype to use secure Linux servers instead of P2P supernodes
Everyone expected things would change when Microsoft bought the VoIP provider Skype last year. It appears that Redmond is now making Skype its own. According to security researcher Kostya Kortchinsky,...
View ArticleThe Pirate Bay sees traffic spike as blocking begins in the UK
The UK High Court last week ruled that the nation’s largest ISPs would have to block subscribers from accessing the notorious BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay. This is part of an effort to…
View ArticleFormer BitTorrent exec says Pirate Pay is probably ineffective and illegal
You probably heard the news about a little Russian company that claims to have the silver bullet that will end BitTorrent piracy once and for all. The confusingly named Pirate Pay (I love…
View ArticleUbisoft chief claims PC game piracy rate as high as 95%
Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft has a long and storied history combating game piracy on the PC, much to the chagrin of many gamers. Uibsoft’s head Yves Guillemot recently revealed in an interview that…
View ArticleThe Pirate Bay launches free VPN service PrivitizeVPN (Updated)
With organizations like the RIAA and MPAA actively seeking out individuals via IP address and attemtping to prosecute or demand money from them, the popularity of virtual private networks (VPN) has...
View ArticleQualcomm offers developers $370,000 in cash and prizes
Qualcomm has done well for itself in the mobile sector of late, and especially when it comes to uptake of its Snapdragon family of system on chips. Now it is giving something back…
View ArticleOnline file sharers buy a lot of legitimate music
Although the Recording Industry Association of America would have you believe that people who connect to online peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks are the worst criminals on the face of the...
View ArticleThe Pirate Bay is now hosted anonymously in the cloud
Even with the entertainment industry laser-focused on it, lawsuits and fines being handed out, and police raids grabbing its servers, The Pirate Bay (TPB) continues to stay online serving its users....
View ArticleThe Pirate Bay runs on 2500 Watts and 500GB of storage
Last week The Pirate Bay (TPB) made a big change to its infrastructure that saw it move all operations into the cloud. Instead of owning all the servers used to operate its service,…
View ArticleVerizon sued for blocking mass p2p lawsuits
In recent years, a great number of Internet users have found themselves on the receiving end of a file-sharing lawsuit, but now it’s Verizon that’s in the crosshairs. A coalition of three adult…
View ArticleBBK BitTorrent box brings P2P to your HDTV
A little company called BOL has unleashed the first ever BitTorrent-certified set top box. At its core, the BBK BitTorrent Box is an Android networked media player — and similar to the hundreds…
View ArticleBitTorrent Surf performs torrent discovery and downloading inside Google Chrome
For years, uTorrent has been one the smallest, simplest apps available for managing torrent transfers. BitTorrent is always looking for ways to improve its peer-to-peer software, however, and has set...
View ArticleBitTorrent preps secure, private Dropbox alternative called Sync
BitTorrent Sync is coming, and it’s going to offer a very different take on multi-device file synchronization than what current apps like Dropbox, SkyDrive, and SugarSync do. Sync shoves aside the...
View ArticleGears of War: Judgement leaks, torrent appears for download
It’s an all too common occurrence: just as a video game is being manufactured ready for launch a version of the game leaks and appears for download in torrent form. And today it…
View ArticleBittorrent Live beta delivers P2P broadcasting to all comers
It’s no secret that Bram Cohen thinks that most peoples’ perception of BitTorrent is far too narrow. He’s got to be thrilled, then, about the fact that his company’s new peer-to-peer live streaming…
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