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• Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data: The Pirate Bay Lives On

  Responses have been overwhelmingly negative to the news that The Pirate Bay will soon be sold to Global Gaming Factory. But what if there is a method to the apparent Pirate Bay madness — one that, as Peter Sunde has hinted, could actually be good for the P2P community?

• G8 Pushes Anti-Piracy Trade Agreement

  During their annual summit meeting in Japan, the G8 members agreed to get the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) ready for implementation by the end of the year. The agreement, pushed by multimillion dollar companies, will open the doors to a digital police state, much to the pleasure of the MPAA and RIAA.

• Stage6: The Beginning of the End for Streaming Video

  So DivX Corporation’s Stage6 has croaked. The service’s ‘goodbye, cruel word’ note says it was a victim of its own success, but that it proved ‘it’s possible to distribute true high definition video on the Internet’. What it really showed is how deliriously inefficient streaming video is, whether it’s high def or otherwise.

• Buying The DVD: Unhelpful And Unethical

  These last few years P2Pers have got used to TV entertainment ‘our way’: unfucked, de-loused, delivered efficiently in economical, good-looking codecs. Because we rarely turn it on, it’s been easy to forget just how cynical, unsatisfying and downright venal television, as a distribution medium, has become.

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• The Pirate Bay Isn’t Down Completely, Just Having a Few Issues

  Twitter and Facebook, not to mention the TorrentFreak inbox, are currently alive with complaints that The...

• Pirate Bay Founder Gottfrid Svartholm on Freedom of Speech

  Freedom of speech is a highly valued commodity, but should people be allowed to say whatever...

• Blu-ray Anti-Piracy Tech Stops Discs and Promotes Purchases

  An anti-piracy system present in all official Blu-ray players since 2012 has received a fresh update...

• Foxtel Breeds Pirates by Locking Up Game of Thrones

  One of the main reasons why people turn to piracy is the lack of legal alternatives....

• UK Student Admits Breaching Sony Copyrights With Leak of PS3 SDK

  Last year an Internet user known as El Nomeo leaked version 3.70 of Sony’s Playstation3 SDK...

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• Pirate Bay Takes Over Distribution of Censored 3D Printable Gun

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• Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain

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• Copyright Trolls Threaten to Call Neighbors of Accused Porn Pirates

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• The Pirate Bay Moves to .SX as Prosecutor Files Motion to Seize Domains

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• Game Pirates Whine About Piracy in Game Dev Simulator

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PopularArticles

A selection of some TorrentFreak's classics dug up from our archives.

• VPN Services That Take Your Anonymity Seriously, 2013 Edition

  More than a year ago TorrentFreak took a look at a selection of the web’s VPN...

• Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2013

  Continuing a long-standing New Year's tradition, today we present an up-to-date list of the world's most-visited...

• Which VPN Service Providers Really Take Anonymity Seriously?

  Last month it became apparent that not all VPN providers live up to their marketing after...

• What’s The Best VPN / Proxy for BitTorrent?

  Privacy is important on the Internet, and BitTorrent users are certainly not excluded. Already, hundreds of...

• BTGuard Review: How Does it Work?

  With the entertainment industries lobbying for increased powers to spy on BitTorrent users, many downloaders are...

• Optimize Your BitTorrent Download Speed

  BitTorrent can be fun, as long as you get decent speeds. Not satisfied with your current...