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• Why Everybody Lost The Pirate Bay Trial

  The victory for the entertainment business was Pyrrhic, although this initial success is dampened by a possible mistrial. Nevertheless, four Swedes have been martyred. Yet content creators and consumers are no closer to new business models that solve the problem.

• Piracy is a Negotiation, not a Fight

  The sale of Bebo.com to AOL for $850 million last week sparked a fresh wave of opining about music piracy, with Billy Bragg and Michael Arrington both stepping into the ring. The problem is, they are both wrong.

• The Pirate’s Dilemma: To Compete or Not To Compete

  It’s hard for large organizations that move at glacial speeds to compete with individuals taking their content and creating new distribution systems, revenue streams and business models, but the fall of the major record labels taught the rest of the corporate world a lesson. In many cases, piracy it is helping people to innovate and create new legitimate market spaces.

• 5 Reasons Why Illegal Downloaders Will Not Face a UK Ban

  There’s been a lot of buzz about a story The London Times ran this morning under the headline “Internet users could be banned over illegal downloads,” which also appeared on the BBC website under the even more alarming headline “Illegal downloaders ‘face UK ban.” Time to get a couple of things straight.

• How Pirates Will Change The Entertainment Industry

  The Internet is in its infancy. Electronic information still travels along copper wires left over from the industrial revolution, but the information age is about to hit puberty. Fiber optic cables are sprouting in unexpected places. The piracy and chaos we are collectively experiencing is growing pains.

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

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• Copyright Trolls Threaten to Call Neighbors of Accused Porn Pirates

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• Game Pirates Whine About Piracy in Game Dev Simulator

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• Netflix Says It’s ‘Killing’ BitTorrent Traffic

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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...