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 [...]

isoHunt sues Canadian Recording Industry Association over legality of torrent search
isoHunt is one of the largest BitTorrent file search engine on the web.
The people behind this web service have now filed a lawsuit against the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association).
They aim to find out the court’s point of view regarding the legality of torrent [...]

IsoHunt announces a partnership with Jamendo
Popular torrent search service IsoHunt has announced a collaboration with Jamendo.
Jamendo specializes in providing access to Creative Commons licensed music.
This deal has resulted in IsoHunt now offering more than 10,000 albums.
Laurent Kratz, CEO of Jamendo spoke about their collaboration with IsoHunt: Jamendo uses the Creative Commons licensing scheme to keep [...]