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SurfTheChannel Owner Found Guilty of Conspiracy to Defraud
At its height in 2010, SurfTheChannel.com was among the most-visited streaming link websites on the Internet with more than 400,000 visitors a day. This popularity didn’t go unnoticed by the UK and US...
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Webhost Refuses To Censor Its Own ‘Pirate Bay’ Anti-Censorship Tool
Back in January we reported on the fruition of a new anti-censorship project. The resulting ‘RePress’ tool was developed by webhosting company Greenhost and allows anyone with a WordPress blog to...
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Copyright Used to Censor Enbridge Pipeline Satirical Criticism
A cartoonist is currently witnessing what is commonly referred to as the Streisand effect. Over the last week, a cartoonist released a satirical criticism of the Enbridge pipeline advertisement. At...
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Leap Second Crashes The Pirate Bay
Panic ensued over The Pirate Bay going down. The problem for about two hours was that no one knew why until now. It turns out, the infamous leap second is to blame for the Pirate Bay going down ....
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ISP: BitTorrent Traffic Increased After Pirate Bay Blockade
This week anti-Piracy group BREIN celebrated a victory against The Pirate Bay. Now 90% of the Dutch Internet users can no longer access the BitTorrent site directly, the site’s Alexa traffic rank in...
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Censoring The Pirate Bay is Futile, ISPs Reveal
The Pirate Bay is arguably the most censored website on the Internet. Courts all around the world have ordered Internet providers to block subscriber access to the torrent site, and more are expected...
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Largest BitTorrent Trackers Go Offline in Protest
OpenBitTorrent (OBT) and PublicBitTorrent (PBT) are two non-profit BitTorrent trackers running on the beerware licensed Opentracker software. Neither service hosts or links to torrent files and both...
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Google Builds Largest Database of Links to Pirated Media
Under the DMCA copyright holders have the right to demand that websites disable access to infringing content. Without doubt, one of the top recipients of these notices is Google. To give the public...
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Blocking The Pirate Bay In UK Had No Effect, Says Major ISP
As we all know by now, UK’s biggest ISPs blocked access to the largest online torrent portal – The Pirate Bay – due to a High Court ruling. As it seems, this had little to no effect on file-sharing....
View ArticlePirates Want To Go Legal But Convenience, Choice & Availability Come First
Following years of wrangling, last month the Danish government officially announced its new strategy for dealing with unauthorized file-sharing. But against the wishes of rightsholders and in stark...
View ArticleUK ISPs Secretly Expand “Futile” Pirate Bay Blockade
In April, the UK High Court ruled that several of the country’s leading ISPs must censor The Pirate Bay since the site and its users breach copyright on a grand scale. In the weeks that followed...
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Download Portals Reject YouTube Converter Over Piracy Concerns
Last month one of the web’s largest YouTube conversion sites was hit with threats from Google . YouTube-MP3, a site with more than 1.3 million daily visitors, was threatened with legal action over its...
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Young Pirates Evicted From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles
It sounds like a joke, but it isn’t . As described by Gustav Nipe, chairman of Young Pirate and one of the people giving out waffles at the festival. “Today a lady walked by and complained that we...
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Leaked Report Reveals Music Industry’s Global Anti-Piracy Strategy
Dated April 2012, the IFPI report obtained by TorrentFreak was put together by the music industry group’s chief anti-piracy officer Mo Ali. The 30-page report presents a global view of IFPI’s...
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NBC and IOC Ready to Crackdown on Olympic Pirates
Four years ago the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing was downloaded millions of times on BitTorrent. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) saw The Pirate Bay as one of the major...
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Music Labels Won’t Share Pirate Bay Loot With Artists
February this year, Sweden’s Supreme Court announced its decision not to grant leave to appeal in the long-running criminal case against the founders of The Pirate Bay. This meant that the previously...
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BitTorrent Trackers Cease Strike After Protocol Improvement
OpenBitTorrent (OBT) and PublicBitTorrent (PBT) are two non-profit BitTorrent trackers running on the beerware licensed Opentracker software. Neither tracker hosts torrent files, but they do...
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Pirate Bay Proxies Force Nasty Crapware on Visitors
In recent months Pirate Bay proxies have become extremely popular. After several large ISPs in the UK and the Netherlands were ordered to block the BitTorrent site earlier this year, reverse proxy...
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Band Shows Fans How To Unblock The Pirate Bay
Finland is one of many European countries where The Pirate Bay is censored. May last year the Finnish branch of the music industry body IFPI and the local Anti-Piracy Center filed a lawsuit against...
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Beware Of Pirate Bay Proxies: Malware Detected
After The Pirate Bay was blocked in several parts of the world, including the UK and The Netherlands, the only way to access the portal is via proxy websites. Apparently, some of them turned to the...
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