The Pirate Bay Moves to Egyptian Desert Island
As part of their efforts to fight against ever increasing restrictions regarding intellectual property in Sweden, the Pirate Bay has moved from their long-time home in Sweden for pastures new.
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Yahoo! Filters Pirate Bay From Search Results
As of this weekend, Yahoo started to filter some of Pirate Bay’s pages. For some mysterious reason, several pages from the tracker disappeared from Yahoo’s index. Unintentionally or not, a search for “The Pirate Bay” doesn’t show a link to the homepage of the popular BitTorrent tracker.
Download from BitTorrent and Usenet with Your Web Server
With TorrentFlux B4RT you can easily transform any webserver into a powerful, all-in-one filesharing portal. You can either pimp an old and unused desktop PC, or install it on a remote server.
WeStream: Streaming Music From A Torrent File
WeStream is a new applet that allows you to listen to individual music tracks, streamed from .torrent files. The applet is developed by BitLet, has a great interface, and is compatible with all Java-enabled browsers.
YouTorrent: Great New BitTorrent Search Engine
New BitTorrent sites are launched every day, but only a few stand out or have something new to offer. YouTorrent is such a new site; feature-wise it’s just a meta-search engine, but the design and user interface make it one of the best I’ve seen.
What.cd To Launch New BitTorrent Tracker Script
What.cd, one of the private BitTorrent trackers that aims to be a replacement for OiNK, also has plans to replace the slightly outdated TBSource script. When ready, it will be released to the public under either a GPLv3 or AGPL license.
Mininova Enters List of 50 Most Popular Sites on the Internet
Today, Mininova reached another milestone by entering the list of 50 most visited websites on the Internet. Together with most other BitTorrent sites, Mininova has experienced some massive growth over the past year, which proves that BitTorrent’s popularity continues to grow.
OinkPlus Adds Music Discovery to BitTorrent Sites
A greasemonkey script that was supposed to enhance music discovery for OiNK users has now expanded to include other BitTorrent sites and is available for download.
Pirates say ‘Narrgh’ to EU Terrorism Censorship
Pirate Parties around the world are protesting against a recent Net censorship proposal by EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini. Frattini has recently been urging ministers at the European Union to consider censoring certain search keywords in a bid to curb terrorism.
