The Pirate Bay was recently down for over a week due to a DDoS attack

It seems like the prolonged downtime and technical difficulties faced by The Pirate Bay over the past several weeks were due to a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against the widely-popular torrent website by malicious actors.

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The Pirate Bay Founders Ordered to Pay Music Labels $477,800 in Compensation

Two of the three co-founders of The Pirate Bay—Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg—have been ordered by a Finnish court to pay record labels $477,800 in compensation for copyright infringement on the site.

Last year in a similar case, Helsinki District Court in Finland ordered Peter Sunde, the third co-founder of The Pirate Bay, to pay nearly $395,000 (350,000 Euros) in damages to

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ExtraTorrent, Popular Torrent Site, Permanently Shuts Down!

After the shutdown of Kickass Torrents and Torrentz.eu, it’s time for the torrent community to say goodbye to the second most popular torrent site in the world, ExtraTorrent.

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Kanye West, Who wants to destroy ‘The Pirate Bay’, Caught using Torrent Site

The 38-year-old rapper Kanye West is at the centre of controversy once again.

West is himself a Pirate Lover just like everyone else, and he proved it today by sharing a photo of his laptop screen on Twitter.

The rapper tweeted an ill-judged picture on Tuesday night to show what he was listening to on YouTube (Sufjan Stevens’ ‘Death With Dignity’ song), but his fans discovered something he

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