The most popular torrent site in the world is, once again, monetising the droves of users it attracts daily by using their CPUs to mine cryptocurrencies, this time without the ability to opt out.
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An ever-controversial musician/entrepreneur, Kanye West has put his foot in it again on Twitter, accidentally posting evidence of searching for torrents, and sparking a feud with EDM artist Deadmau5.
While efforts failed to devise a voluntary anti-piracy code in Australia, Foxtel and Village Roadshow have now sought to compel ISPs to block access to The Pirate Bay, IsoHunt and other sites.
Peter Sundre, founder of The Pirate Bay, has created a device dubbed the 'Kopimashin' that generates roughly $10 million of 'loss' for the music industry on a daily basis.
Visit the site and you'll be greeted with a waving pirate flag with a timer counting down to the first of February. Can this mean that the revival of The Pirate Bay is coming soon?
"I've not been a fan of what TPB has become...", these are the words of the site's co-founder Peter Sunde as he expressed his thoughts about why he hopes the site stays closed forever.
The Australia Government has given ISPs and US movie studios until April 2015 to agree on a new industry code which would address online piracy, or the Government will intervene with its own code.
Google continues its efforts to eradicate piracy after facing harsh criticism. The latest includes removing Pirate Bay related apps from the store, much to the dismay of the respective developers.
The founder of Pirate Bay and his accomplice have been found guilty in what is now being called the the biggest hacking case in Danish history. Both could face a maximum of six years in prison.
The Pirate Bay co-founder, Peter Sunde, is launching a "secure and beautiful" messaging app, focusing on user privacy, knocking rivals like WhatsApp and MessageMe for maximising profit over privacy.
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.
Google's Takedown requests have increased by over 1,000% compared to last year. The search giant now handles more than a million takedown requests weekly, from various groups and reporters.
With the closure of Demonoid, there had been hopes that the site would return. These hopes seem to have been dashed by the discovery that you could buy the rights to the infamous domains.
The IFPI won a judgement of €550,000 against the owners of Pirate Bay, but have stated that they will not give this money to the artists and will instead help fund their anti-piracy programs.
After The Pirate Bay was blocked in an attempt to curb illegal downloading, it has been found that the exercise was ineffective. Even information shared by ISPs seem to correspond with this.
Indian internet providers have taken steps to reduce the amount of piracy ongoing in the country, blocking sites such as The Pirate Bay, as well as Vimeo, for seemingly no discernible reason.
Gottfrid Svartholm, the co-founder of the well known Pirate Bay web site, was sentenced this week to one year in prison for copyright infringement charges. But no one seems to know where he is.
One of the biggest sites on the Internet devoted to pirated software cannot be accessed by a number of Internet users at the moment. Engadget reports that some Comcast users are reporting that they have...
The Pirate Bay just can't catch a break these days. Fresh of the heels of more European regulatory action against their previous hosts, German private ISP Cyberbunker, the infamous torrent aggregation portal is facing a...
Peter Sunde, co-founder of the popular BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay, has launched a new service this week aiming to revolutionize how people pay and get paid for content on the internet. ...
It seems the world is not yet finished in its attempt at wiping BitTorret search engine The Pirate Bay from the pages of internet history. According to reports from PCWorld and MacWorld, a new trial...
According to an article posted on The Next Web, the latest chapter regarding the acquisition of The Pirate Bay, may prove difficult to complete. The Global Gaming Factory or GGF for short, is the...
The purchase of The Pirate Bay by Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X AB (GGF) has looked unlikely for several weeks now as the firm has been struggling to raise enough funds for the...
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...
According to the Local, it appears that Tomas Norström, the judge who presided over the case against the Pirate Bay Four, may have had a conflict of interest which could have led to bias and...
In just seven hours following the sentencing of the "Pirate Bay Four" earlier today, more than 3,000 people have joined the Piratpartiet, the "Pirate Party". The influx of new people make Piratpartiet larger in terms...
According to the Local, various members of the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) have taken the stand in the ongoing trial against the Pirate Bay now unfolding in Sweden. At one point, John...
