Collaborate Disseminate
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.
Fo… Continue reading The Pirate Bay was recently down for over a week due to a DDoS attack
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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The Pirate Bay — a widely popular file-sharing website predominantly used to share copyrighted material free of charge — is once again in trouble, this time in Europe.
The European Union Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled today that Dutch ISPs can block access to The Pirate Bay, as the Swedish file-hosting website facilitates an “act of communication” by allowing users to post and obtain torrents
Continue reading ISPs Should Block ‘The Pirate Bay’ Torrent Site: Top European Court Rules
KickassTorrents is back from the dead!
Back in July, the world’s largest and most notorious BitTorrent distribution site KickassTorrents (KAT) with millions of unique daily visitors was shut down by the U.S. authorities following the arrest of its all… Continue reading New Kickass Torrents Site is Back Online by Original Staffers
Over two weeks after the shutdown of Kickass Torrents and arrest of its admin in Poland, the world’s biggest BitTorrent meta-search engine Torrentz.eu has apparently shut down its operation.
The surprise shutdown of Torrentz marks the end of an era.
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One of the founders of notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has been ordered to pay a fine worth nearly US$400,000 to several major record labels after their content was shared illegally via the platform.
The penalty has been imposed on The … Continue reading The Pirate Bay Founder Ordered to Pay $395,000 Fine in Lawsuit he didn’t even know about
The Pirate Bay has fought many legal battles since its launch in 2003 to keep the website operational for the last 13 years.
However, this time The Pirate Bay is suffering a major blow after the Swedish Court ruled Thursday that it will take away the … Continue reading The Pirate Bay loses its Main Domain Name in Court Battle
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
Continue reading Kanye West, Who wants to destroy ‘The Pirate Bay’, Caught using Torrent Site