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Pirate Bay Taken Offline By ISP
Under threat of £43,000 fine 5,092 reads
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Pirate Bay Site Archive Released
Anticipating switchoff 3,905 reads
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Pirate Bay Is Back Online
Thumbs nose at Swedish courts 2,904 reads
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FlashFoward Proves BitTorrent Hit
Tens of thousands download new ABC show 2,691 reads
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FlashForward proves a hit on BitTorrent
Tens of thousands download new ABC show 25 September 2009 10:31 GMTFlashForward, a television show just launched in the US from the creators of Lost and based on the book by Robert J Sawyer, has proved a surprise hit on filesharing websites.
At the time of writing, Mininova and the Pirate Bay are both displaying nearly 10,000... -
Pirate Bay is back online
Thumbs nose at Swedish courts 25 August 2009 14:25 GMTThe Pirate Bay, having seen its connection terminated by a Swedish court yesterday, is already back online and running normally. As previously reported, Stockholm's district court instructed Black Internet to take the site off the web under threat of a £43,000 fine.
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Pirate Bay taken offline by its ISP
Under threat of £43,000 fine 24 August 2009 17:07 GMTHope you got all those episodes of Lost downloaded in time - the Pirate Bay has been taken offline by its ISP - Black Internet. The ISP was ordered by a court to take the site down or face a penalty of 500,000 Swedish kronor - about £43,000.
Stockholm's district... -
Pirate Bay archive released as torrent
Anticipating switchoff 17 August 2009 9:40 GMTThe Pirate Bay is due to be handed over to its new owners in a matter of days, assuming nothing derails the deal before then. In preparation for the move, an anonymous uploader has released a full copy of the site, complete with 873,671 torrents.
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Pirate Party UK officially registered
Can now raise funds and put forward candidates 13 August 2009 10:58 GMTThe UK's own version of Sweden's Pirate Party has been officially recognised by the British electoral commission as a legitimate political party, according to a blog post from the party's leader, Andrew Robinson.
That means that it can now raise funds and put... -
Peter Sunde resigns from Pirate Bay
Brokep calls it quits as site spokesperson 3 August 2009 18:09 GMTPeter Sunde, Pirate Bay founder and site spokesperson has quit his post in advance of the site's sale to Swedish company "Global Gaming Factory X".
He posted on his personal blog, Copy me happy, "I have decided to not be the spokes person for The Pirate Bay... -
Pirate Bay sale heading for choppy waters?
Rosso walks out 29 July 2009 9:55 GMTThe closing of the multi-million-dollar Pirate Bay buyout is due within a week, but there are signs that the deal may be on the rocks following the walkout of Wayne Rosso - the man responsible for making it happen.
Rosso joined Global Gaming Factory X in mid-July,... -
Pirate Bay founder labels 3D printers "the future of sharing"
Open source RepRap gets tipped for the top 14 July 2009 15:21 GMTFollowing the news, reported on Pocket-lint, that usage of peer-to-peer networks is down this year compared to legitimate streaming services, much discussion has taken place over what will happen to the file-sharing community.
Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde... -
OpenBitTorrent launches, aims at Pirate Bay refugees
Tracker launches with no indexing site 6 July 2009 10:10 GMTSince the Pirate Bay announced that it was selling out, many in the Bittorrent community have predicted the death of the filesharing community.
Many others however, confidently predicted that the masses would just move to another tracker, as they did when Napster,... -
Pirate Bay acquired by Swedish Software Company for £4.7m
Decentralises torrents and tracker system 30 June 2009 9:46 GMTIn shock news, Swedish software company Global Gaming X has agreed to buy infamous Bittorrent tracker The Pirate Bay in a deal worth 60 million Swedish Kronor - about £4.7 million at current exchange rates.
Global Gaming Factory X has also agreed to buy the... -
Pirate Bay vows to take fight to European Court Of Human Rights
Trial judge ruled unbiased by appeals court 29 June 2009 12:28 GMT"The Pirate Bay will now file charges against Sweden for violation for Human Rights", defiantly stated Pirate Bay defendant Peter Sunde on Twitter over the weekend.
He made the comment following the news that the appeals court has cleared the judge in the original... -
Pirate Bay launches Video Bay
Currently just in beta 29 June 2009 10:11 GMT2 years ago, when the copyright issues surrounding YouTube first started to surface, the Pirate Bay announced that it was working on a video sharing site to rival Google's, where content wouldn't be taken down.
Well, over the weekend, The Video Bay finally winked... -
Pirate Party gets German Parliament seat too
Follows European parliament success 22 June 2009 16:32 GMT2 weeks after gaining 230,000 votes in the European parliament elections in Sweden, the German wing of the copyright activism organisation has scored a similar victory.
German politician Jörg Tauss has defected from the Social Democratic Party to the Pirate... -
Band puts success down to piracy
Fleet Foxes call worrying over P2P "petty" 17 June 2009 10:50 GMTOne of the most buzzy new bands of 2008, Fleet Foxes, have come out wholly in favour of music fans downloading their records for free. The band sold over 200,000 copies of its debut record, despite it being widely available on filesharing networks.
Singer Robin... -
Pirate Bay becomes the Persian Bay
Shows support for Iran 17 June 2009 9:51 GMTThe Pirate Bay has rebranded its homepage as "The Persian Bay" in an attempt to raise awareness of a forum set up by the internet protest group "Anonymous" to allow Iranians to communicate free of government surveillance.
Anonymous is a loose collective of many... -
Pirate Party enters European Parliament
Swedish copyright activists heading to Brussels 8 June 2009 10:06 GMTAfter months of campaigning against established parties, the Swedish Pirate Party (Piratpartiet) has managed to win at least one, and perhaps two, seats in the European parliament. It gained 7.1% of the Swedish vote.
The Pirate Party was founded in 2006 with... -
Pirate Bay bias judge judged by another biased judge
Are there any Swedish judges who aren't connected to pro-copyright organisations? 22 May 2009 9:39 GMTThe judge appointed to decide whether or not Tomas Norström (the judge in the Pirate Bay's trial) was biased or not has been removed due to accusations of bias.
Yes, you read that right. New judge Ulrika Ihrfelt's task was review whether Norström's claims of... -
Major labels demand extra fines for the Pirate Bay
Universal, EMI, Sony and Warner want cash for every day site continues to operate 20 May 2009 14:36 GMTDespite the Pirate Bay four being found guilty of "assisting making available", remember that the site itself was never on trial. No mention was made of shutting it down, so it's still there, happily ticking over, with 20 million peers seeding Sims 3 leaks and Dangermouse...
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Pocket-lint readers say no prison for Pirate Bay four
Over three-quarters of you disagree with jail sentence 24 April 2009 16:36 GMTThe majority of Pocket-lint readers have shown their support for The Pirate Bay four.
In our recent poll we asked if you agreed with Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde's 1-year jail term for breaking copyright law.
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Pirate Bay judge accused of bias
Retrial demanded 23 April 2009 14:59 GMTNews is coming in from Sweden that the Pirate Bay case could see a dramatic retrial, following revelations that the judge was allegedly biased.
These allegations come from a Swedish radio station which has revealed that the trial's judge, Tomas Norstrom, is... -
COMMENT: Could Google founders be next in line for jail?
Why hasn't the music and film business gone after Sergy and Larry? 20 April 2009 17:05 GMTGoogle's founders could find themselves being sent to jail based on the same ideology used in the Pirate Bay verdict.
Why? Well because the Google search engine does virtually the same job as Pirate Bay by giving you access to illegal files allowing you to... -
The Pirate Bay four found guilty
Facing a year in prison and fines 17 April 2009 10:39 GMTThe verdict is in for The Pirate Bay trial in Sweden and the individuals behind the multi-million user file-sharing site have been found guilty.
A Swedish court found Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde guilty of breaking copyright... -
Music-sharing websites to be blocked in Ireland
Irish music industry threatens ISPs with legal action 25 February 2009 16:09 GMTIrish internet users will soon be blocked from accessing popular music sharing websites, after pressure from the country's music industry was placed on service providers.
Eircom, the country's biggest internet provider, has agreed to start blocking its internet... -
Follow the Pirate Bay trial on Twitter
Hashtags will collate updates into news feed 12 February 2009 21:17 GMTThe court case against P2P file sharing site Pirate Bay begins on 16 February in Stockholm, but you'll be able to follow the trial wherever you are via Twitter.
The four men on trial are charged with assisting copyright infringement and face up to 2 years in... -
Pirate Bay peers hit 22 million mark
Growth rate of nearly 100% in just over half a year 7 November 2008 16:44 GMTThey may riding a storm of controversy, but the swahbucklers behind the notorious P2P website, The Pirate Bay, are celebrating massive growth.
Despite measures by the music and movie industries, and several governments, to shut them down, it seems, as Ars Technica...
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