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Founder and Editor-in-Chief of TorrentFreak. I'm in my late twenties and started TorrentFreak because I'd like to share news and knowledge about filesharing, peer to peer technology, piracy and BitTorrent. I have no background in journalism, but I'm obsessed with news. For TorrentFreak, I mostly write about innovations and news in the p2p community, copyright issues, piracy and free culture. Feel free to get in touch.

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  • Polish Protests Put ACTA ‘On Hold’

    Last week the European Union has officially signed the controversial “anti-piracy” trade agreement ACTA. This brings ACTA a step closer to passing, but individual EU Member States and the European Parliament still have to ratify ACTA later this year. But this may not happen. All across Europe people are opposing the secret treaty, and in [...]

  • Ex.ua Makes a Miraculous Comeback

    A few days ago we reported that the Ukrainian authorities shut down the popular file-hosting site Ex.ua. The police confiscated 200 servers which stored 6,000 terabytes of data, and the site’s domain was taken over as well. Usually, such aggressive actions mean the end of a site, but not in this case. Out of nowhere [...]

  • uTorrent Gets a Browser Control Add-On

    The uTorrent team just released browser add-ons for Firefox, Chome and IE. uTorrent Control allows users to directly manage torrent in their browser. “Just like your tiny-but-mighty desktop client, uTorrent Control makes it easy to start/stop/pause torrent downloads, add/remove torrents, check on the status of your downloads, launch uTorrent Remote and much more – all [...]

  • Rogers Finally Stops BitTorrent Throttling

    Rogers, one of Canada’s largest Internet providers, has been slowing down BitTorrent traffic since 2005. Recent data revealed that the ISP is throttling roughly three-quarter of all BitTorrent traffic on its network. All this time the company has defended itself by arguing that they have to “manage” BitTorrent traffic to guarantee good connectivity for all [...]

  • Seized Sports Streaming Site Makes a Blazing Comeback

    Firstrow, one of the sites that had several of its domain names seized by the Feds yesterday, is furious at the US Government. Convinced that the service they are providing does not violate the law, the site continues to operate under a new domain name. One of the owners told TorrentFreak that they don’t intend to stop until a court shuts them down.

  • Feds Arrest Streaming Site Operator for Copyright Infringement

    A 28-year old man from Comstock Park, Michigan, has been arrested and charged with criminal copyright infringement. Yonjo Quiroa is the alleged operator of nine of the sixteen streaming related domain names that were seized a few hours ago as part of ‘Operation Fake Sweep’.

  • Feds Seize Sports Streaming Domains in New Super Bowl Crackdown

    In a new round of seizures the US authorities have taken control of domain names belonging to several popular sports streaming sites including Firstrowsports.tv, Firstrowsports.com and Soccertvlive.net. All affected sites now redirect to a notice from DOJ/ICE. In common with last year’s campaign, the new round of seizures appears to be part of another “Super Bowl Crackdown” targeting sites that link to unauthorized sports streams.

  • Piracy Is The New Radio, Says Neil Young

    Neil Young has been making music for nearly 50 years, so we have to assume that he’s an expert at the topic. Speaking at D: Dive into Media, Young discusses the state of the digital music business. While the singer is concerned about the fact that many people share low quality MP3′s, he’s not falling [...]

  • White House Declines Comment on MPAA Bribery Petition

    Two weeks ago we reported on a “we the people” petition asking the White House to investigate the MPAA’s alleged bribery practices. A few days ago the petition reached its goal of 25.000 votes, and the Obama administration has now issued an official response. “We appreciate your participation in the We the People platform on [...]

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