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The Pirate Bay Banned In UK | High Court Rules ISPs Must Block Infamous Filesharing Website

The Pirate Bay has effectively been banned in the UK after the High Court issued a court order demanding ISPs block...
Dave Parrack
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Google Censors Search Results Against Torrent Sites – The Pirate Bay, isoHunt Amongst Victims

In many ways Google owns the Web. The majority of people use its search engine to find what they’re looking for,...
Dave Parrack
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The Pirate Bay Shuts Torrent Tracker Forever | Decentralized DHT System Evolves Instead

If an entity is being threatened with extinction it has two options: evolve, or die. The Pirate Bay has chosen the...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Pirate Bay News Round-Up | Sale In Doubt, TPB Torrent Live, Alternative BitTorrent Sites

The Pirate Bay was one of the biggest and most notorious torrent sites around. Loved by users, hated by content owners....
Dave Parrack
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The Pirate Bay Sells Out For $7.7 Million | Future Of The The Site Mired In Confusion

The Pirate Bay has sold out, to a Swedish company no one has ever heard of. The acquisition has been confirmed...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Video Bay Opens For Business | Can The Pirate Bay Compete In Streaming Video Sector?

The video streaming sector of online video is already a very crowded place. Lead by YouTube, there are also many other...
Dave Parrack
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The Pirate Bay Heading For A Retrial?

We knew it wouldn’t stick, and even if it had, what difference would it really make? As expected, the Pirate Bay...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Why The Pirate Bay Court Case Verdict Is Meaningless – File-sharing Will Soon Evolve

The news that The Pirate Bay lost its much-publicized court case produced many differing points of view as to the effect...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Pirate Bay Found Guilty & Sentenced to 1 Year in Prison for Assisting Copyright Infringement

The verdict on the The Pirate Bay court case has been announced by the Swedish court. All four defendants, Peter Sunde,...
Chris Tew
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The Pirate Bay Trial Verdict – Guilty | Piracy Will Never Die But Linking Deemed Illegal

The verdict on The Pirate Bay Spectrial has been announced, with the four defendants found guilty. But despite this obvious setback,...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

IPREDator Grabs 100,000 Users In First Week As Facebook Blocks The Pirate Bay Torrent Links

With a verdict expected in the “spectrial” of The Pirate Bay next week, the site isn’t exactly keeping a low profile....
Dave Parrack
2 min read

The Pirate Bay Becomes Anonymous – For A Price | IPREDator Launches To Protect Pirates

The law is slowly but surely evolving to try and prevent piracy from taking place, and when it does, to prosecute...
Dave Parrack
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The Pirate Bay Court Case Ends – Verdict Hanging In The Balance Until April 17

The court case which saw The Pirate Bay in the dock facing charges of assisting copyright infringement has ended after just...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

The Pirate Bay Trial Begins In Sweden | IFPI Begins Fight Against File-sharers Everywhere

The Pirate Bay today went on trial on charges of copyright theft, promoting copyright infringements, and profiting from the file-sharing of...
Dave Parrack
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The Pirate Bay Goes To Court | What Are The Consequences If The BitTorrent Tracker Loses?

On February 16, 2009, a three-years in the making trial against The Pirate Bay will begin in Sweden. What, if any,...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

ThePirateCity.org Video Streaming Site? | Irony: The Pirate Bay Gets Pirated

Anyone who regularly downloads over peer to peer networks or torrent sites will have heard of The Pirate Bay. But have...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Olympic Torrents Hugely Popular | The Pirate Bay Becomes ‘The Beijing Bay’ To Taunt IOC

What happens when the IOC runs to the authorities rather than approaching the pirates themselves? A round of pure and utter...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Pirate Bay Resumes Search For Own Island | Torrent Site Ramps Up Anti Big Media Plans

The Pirate Bay is continuing its search for an island to call its own. You have to hand it to brokep...
Paul Glazowski
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Prince To Sue YouTube For Copyright Infringement | eBay & Pirate Bay Also Cited

Prince is planning on suing YouTube and a host of other major companies for supposed copyright infringement after they used his...
Phil Butler
1 min read

Suprnova.org Universal Bittorrent Source | Relaunched Thanks To The Pirate Bay

Suprnova.org was the be all and end all of Bittorrent sites before The Pirate Bay came along. And now it has...
Russell Heimlich
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Ivi TV Sued By ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, PBS And Others – Any Hopes For Fledgling Company?

As expected ivi TV is being sued for its re-streaming online TV service. The range of broadcasters and networks involved in...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Lost Final Episodes Break BitTorrent Download Record | Piracy Is Clearly Still Alive And Well

Several file-sharing sites have been forced offline or forced to seriously limit their offerings in recent months thanks to the efforts...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

2010 Oscars Best Picture – District 9 Beats Avatar, The Hurt Locker In Pirating Terms

The 2010 Academy Awards are being held tonight, and Avatar and The Hurt Locker are the front-runners for the coveted ‘Best...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

TV-Links Wins Copyright Court Case Brought By FACT | OiNK Creator Cleared Last Month

The results of two recent court cases in the U.K. suggest that linking to but not hosting copyrighted content isn’t illegal,...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

VODO Filmmakers Use BitTorrent To Distribute Movies For Free | Torrents Used Correctly

Torrent sites continue to be blamed for the many ills of society. But wait, is it not just a case of...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

MPAA War On Piracy Becomes ‘Content Protection’ | No Attempt At Improving Legal Alternatives

What do you do if your current policy is failing to pay dividends? Change your strategy and try something new or...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Hollywood Myth On Movie Piracy As Summer 2009 Sets New U.S. Box Office Record

Hollywood has just enjoyed a record breaking Summer at the U.S. box office. This despite the studios and filmmakers constantly warning...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Ustream Sued By Square Ring Over Roy Jones Jr. Boxing Match Copyright Infringement

Ustream is being sued by Square Ring, a company owned by boxer Roy Jones Jr. over the alleged streaming of a...
Dave Parrack
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