Neowin News Feed for: Tpb

Not torrents, but illegal live-streaming sites are the biggest enemy of the 2024 Olympics

Martin Hodás — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 06:46:01 +0000

Piracy evolves, too. The Olympics demonstrated that torrents are a threat of the past, as websites with illegal live streams are now main cause of headaches for intellectual property rights holders. Read more...

AdBlock Plus can now stop sites from mining cryptocurrencies on your PC

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 04:48:01 +0000

In response to The Pirate Bay's dabbling with the use of visitors' PCs to mine cryptocurrency, the developers of AdBlock Plus have now pushed out a filter that prevents sites from doing so. Read more...

Telstra: First Aussie ISP to block subscriber access to The Pirate Bay; defeated in seconds

Steven Parker — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 07:28:01 +0000

Following an order from the Federal Court in Australia, ISPs must block dozens of warez related domains and proxies by the end of the year. Telstra implemented the weakest of these blocks. Read more...

The Pirate Bay is now blocked as a malicious website in Google Chrome and Firefox

Justin Luna — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 10:46:02 +0000

Visitors of the popular torrent website The Pirate Bay on Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox will now be greeted with a warning message, stating that the site contains harmful and unwanted software. Read more...

The Pirate Bay rises from its digital ashes -again

Usama Jawad — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:09:31 +0000

The Pirate Bay is back online with a few changes; the site's logo is changed as well as the staff. The site is not fully functional yet but will probably be restored to its original form soon. Read more...

The Pirate Bay possibly looking to make a comeback

Usama Jawad — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 12:12:01 +0000

The Pirate Bay was shut down almost two weeks ago with no solid indication of making a return. However, now the website is back online with a waving pirate flag giving some hope to its fans. Read more...

The Pirate Bay crew "couldn't care less" about raid, may still return

Steven Parker — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:25:18 +0000

An administrator for The Pirate Bay has now spoken up about the server farm raids that occurred a week ago, and aside from not caring, has hinted that The Pirate Bay could still return. Read more...

Three more torrent sites disappear from the UK radar

Paul Ferson — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:00:00 +0000

Three more torrent sites have disappeared in the United Kingdom, producing the same error message as The Pirate Bay and ensuring people don't even think about breaching copyright regulations. Read more...

The Pirate Bay lands in North Korea. Glorious leader breaks out the rum!

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:56:47 +0000

The Pirate Bay has found the most unlikely new home imaginable for their activities: North Korea. At the invitation of Kim Jong Un the website has moved operations trying to find a safer place. Read more...

Pirate Party UK defies record industry demand for Pirate Bay proxy shutdown

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:34:02 +0000

The UK Pirate Party has denied the record industry's demand to shut down its Pirate Bay proxy. This proxy remains one of the few ways by which some UK residents can access the file sharing site. Read more...

The Pirate Bay sale looking more and more unlikely

Owen Williams — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:55:50 +0000

Over the last few weeks, if you've been following The Pirate Bay case, GGF (Global Gaming Factory) has been very adamant that the purchase of The Pirate Bay for 60 million Swedish crowns ($7.7 million)... Read more...

Further threats thrown at The Pirate Bay, owners unfazed

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:34:09 +0000

As if it couldn't get much worse for the The Pirate Bay, bit torrent tracker and generally swashbuckling group, it seems more "harassment" is being thrown their way. Earlier on this year in April,... Read more...

Swedish software firm agrees to buy Pirate Bay, go legal

Tom Warren — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:48:19 +0000

Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X AB said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy file-sharing website The Pirate Bay for 60 million Swedish crowns ($7.7 million). The Pirate Bay is one of the... Read more...

The Pirate Bay trial, '80% of our torrents are legal'

Brad Sams — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:03:15 +0000

The ongoing trial for The Pirate Bay is attracting international attention over the court case that could change the internet forever. Neowin has been keeping up with the trial and the latest argument from... Read more...