Pirate Party of Canada launches Captain Tracker!
Pirate Party of Canada has announced the launch of their own private tracker.
They are using this tracker to promote artists who wants to release their content through creative commons.
The aim of this tracker is to show that the bittorrent technology is not just used for online [...]
The Pirate Bay server on display at National Museum of Science and Technology
National Museum of Science and Technology is now displaying one of the servers of The Pirate Bay which was confiscated in a police raid last year.
The curator of the museum Nils Olander had this to say: “This is an object of contemporary [...]
The Pirate Bay is down at the moment?!
The Pirate Bay website seems to be down at the moment.
TorrentFreak states that it is not connected to the ongoing trial involving the people who operate this web site.
And they are working at this moment to get it back online.
TorrentFreak further states: “The problem can’t be fixed [...]
China blocked access to torrent sites for sometime?
TorrentFreak is reporting that China blocked local traffic to torrent sites in the country.
The users trying to visit the BitTorrent sites were redirected to a popular search engine Baidu.com.
Some of the sites which were affected include: VeryCD, Mininova, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay.
The problem seems to be fixed [...]
TorrentSpy.com told to pay $111 million to media companies
Motion Picture Association of America has now won a major lawsuit against the torrent search engine service TorrentSpy.com.
Incidentally, TorrentSpy has already closed their operations.
The service has been told to pay $30,000 per violation for nearly 3,700 illegal movies and TV show downloads.
MPAA said that this judgment would [...]
Demonoid is back online!
The popular BitTorrent service Demonoid is back online.
The service has been down since the last couple of months after it faced legal pressures in the country it was hosted.
The administrator of the service recently handled over the charge to another member who is now managing the service.
A message on the service stated:
The [...]
UK want laws to punish ISPs to allow illegal file sharing
UK government has said that they want to enact laws in the country which would require the internet service providers in the region to block sharing of illegal files on their networks.
They are for now considering statutory solutions to stop internet piracy in the country [...]
Mininova introduces streaming music from torrents
One of the largest torrent search engine out there Mininova has now launched a new feature which would enable the user to listen to music torrents through streaming.
They are using the technology provided by BitLet and it would work with any Java compatible web browser.
The service said that this new [...]
Recording Industry Association of America now targeting Usenet
The RIAA has become infamous for their lawsuits in the US market targeting web users who share or download pirated media from the internet.
They are now targeting Usenet services with the similar aim of hitting the sources where such media is easily accessible.
Usenet is however not a centralized [...]
TorrentSpy blocks access to US web users
Popular torrent file search engine TorrentSpy has now implemented a ban on users visiting from USA.
TorrentSpy’s lawyer, Ira Rothken said that they had to take this step as a result of a Federal court order which required the search firm to start logging users’ IP addresses and activity.
The web [...]
