TorrentFreak is proud to present TorrentPod episode 18 ... Enjoy..

For the last ten days, Swedish ISP Perspektiv Bredband has been blocking Russian Website AllOfMp3.com. This conduct has led to protests from various sources. For example, The Pirate Bay, working together with the pro-piracy lobby Piratbyrån, decided to block all Perspektiv's customers from accessing its site.

One of most popular BitTorrent sites, mininova just got a complete overhaul. They've launched a new site design, and relocated to a new host and datacenter.

Last weekend, the Swedish Pirate Party founded its youth organisation, "Young Pirates". The Young Pirates have over 1000 members, and are therefore eligible to receive funding from the Swedish government. We got the chance to interview its chairman Hugi Ásgeirsson. Hugi is 18 years old, and lives in the northern…

Scott McCausland, one of the admins of the private BitTorrent tracker Elitetorrents was sentenced to five months in prison. He was convicted of "conspiracy to commit copyright infringement" and "criminal copyright infringement".

Exactly two years ago today the legendary BitTorrent site Suprnova.org was taken offline. December 19, 2004, is a milestone in the history of BitTorrent. But how did it all start? Who was behind this legendary site? And what happened after is was taken down?

The popular BitTorrent client, Azureus has just struck a deal with the BBC to offer TV shows on its recently launched content store/website, Zudeo.

Google has released its annual year-end Zeitgeist. Amazingly, the word 'mininova' ranks 9 on Google's list of most queried terms in 2006.