Mininova goes legit. Remove all pirated media torrents!
Mininova has been one of the most popular torrent search engines on the web.
This is going to change now.
Mininova has removed all torrents related to pirated digital media content from their website.
The service is now hosting legitimate torrent files.
They had to take this drastic step after they [...]
The Pirate Bay is back in Google Search Engine
Google has admitted that The Pirate Bay website was removed from their index because of their own mistake.
The search engine giant said in a statement: “Google received a (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) take-down request that erroneously listed Thepiratebay.org, and as a result, this URL was [...]
The Pirate Bay homepage disappears from Google SERPS
Google has apparently removed some of the front-end pages of the torrent search engine The Pirate Bay from their search engine.
The company did this to comply with a DMCA complaint.
However, inner pages of the Pirate Bay can still be discovered using Google search.
Google had this [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
TorrentSpy closes down torrent search engine service
TorrentSpy has been one of the most popular search engine services for finding torrent files.
The people behind TorrentSpy have now announced that they are closing down the operations of the service globally.
A message on the website now states:
We have decided on our own, not due to any court order [...]
Content Distribution service by Mininova
Mininova is one of the largest torrent indexing services on the internet. The company has now introduced the launch of a content distribution service to enable small companies and artists to make available their content online.
The service is being provided free of cost and it would provide them with a popular [...]
