Court Refuses To Order Shutdown of OpenBitTorrent

Last month, the Swedish ISP Portlane was sued by several Hollywood movie studios for hosting OpenBitTorrent, claiming that the tracker is a re-branded copy of one previously operated by The Pirate Bay. Now the Stockholm District Court has rejected calls to order the shutdown of the tracker.

Earlier this year a new BitTorrent tracker was launched. Due to its public nature, OpenBitTorrent (OBT) was seen by some as a possible replacement for The Pirate Bay tracker, which has recently closed down for good.

OpenBitTorrent is merely a tracker, carries no .torrent files and also operates a full DMCA-style notice and takedown policy. Despite this, during mid-November Hollywood movie studios moved to try and shut down the fledgling service.

However, rather than deal with the tracker’s operators (who we are told offered to co-operate) they instead sued the site’s hosting provider, Portlane.

OpenBitTorrent, Hollywood’s latest target

openbittorrent

“OpenBitTorrent is used for file sharing, and we suspect that it is the Pirate Bay tracker with a new name. It is added by default on all of the torrent tracker files on Pirate Bay,” Hollywood lawyer Monique Wadsted said in a comment.

Even though it was agreed that the tracker could be used to facilitate the distribution of copyright works, the Stockholm District Court has now rejected Hollywood’s request to shut down OpenBitTorrent.

The court ruled that in order for Portlane to be considered as contributing to copyright infringement, it must be guilty of more than just providing Internet access to the site.

“We are happy with the court’s decision. It is indeed the only correct decision. We as an ISP should neither act or get the task to police the Internet,” a Portlane spokesperson told TorrentFreak in a statement.

Hollywood lawyer Monique Wadsted is disappointed that the court didn’t consider their “suspicions” that OBT is linked to The Pirate Bay.

“The court has not touched on the link between the tracker and The Pirate Bay, and that all the .torrent files on The Pirate Bay include [OBT's] tracker as the default tracker,” she said in a statement, adding: “The day we checked, there were 550,000 works that file-sharers [could download] through the tracker.”

The District Court’s decision is interim and the issue will be settled fully sometime next Summer.

Previous Post | Next Post

Follow @torrentfreak

LiquidSun

Good News!!
testdriveme

great news
most_uniQue

Justice served =)
no

The Pirate Bay recently shut down, for good? Someone might want to tell THEM that, because thepiratebay.org is up and active and has current torrents as I write this (I just checked for last night’s episode of Sons of Anarchy, which is on there and was uploaded today).
Anthony

Internet neutrality is the most important aspect of this. It must be upheld, no matter what.

The internet must never fall under the control of any centralized power, because it would be too easy to abuse such control.

The fact that, in this and many similar cases, it is private -not public- interest that is pushing for internet control is something that should be watched and prevented. I might be willing to accept some restrictions on the internet if it was for the public good, but when it is only serving private interests, I will be damned before I accept such a thing.
tick tick tick

That court has finally done something right.
OJ

@4 “no”

I think enigmax meant that the pirate bay is down for good as far as trackers are concerned, not the site its self. Recently TPB removed all its trackers and now uses DHT or those magnet links.

Great news BTW!
Dan

”Earlier this yeah a new BitTorrent tracker was launched”

Earlier this yeah? lol
HNicolai

“Earlier this yeah” little typo :) Should be “year”
http://www.torrentfreak.com enigmax

That’s right OJ, we’ve made the distinction in several previous posts so hopefully this will have to be the last time ;)

and yeah, yeah should be year, thanks guys ;)
pleased (;p)

good news, its a kick in the teeth for anti-piracy groups, lets hope they stay down for awhile or even for good.
Pingback: Felten Fabulerar » Blog Archive » Stockholms tingsrätt verkar äntligen ha lärt sig
The doctor

Wow, isn’t this the same style court case iinet is currently waiting for a verdict on after over 22 days in court in Australia against AFACT.

ISP’s are not assisting copyright violations as it isn’t their role to be the internet police.

I wonder if the result will be the same on appeal?
ws

Who needs trackers when the future is decentralization, DHT, Peer Exchange and magnet links?

I figure it will take another decade.
Lachlan Hunt

So, does the movie industry now expect to be able to go to court and win with nothing more than a weak suspicion, rather than worrying about any solid evidence for OBT’s connection with TPB? I’m so happy justice has prevailed here.
neogoat|nvDX

one small step for file sharing one big kick in the ass for troll.s
Anonymous

pwnage now face the truth your bussness is over people sedom need outfits like now rot, rot away like natural selection suggest you do.

A good day for freedom long live shareing and long live humanity.

To hell with corps businesses and money.
Search better

Awesome! You can see OpenBitTorrent is growing nicely!!

http://www.sitereport.org/openbittorrent.com
daviddanut

@17

yes, but that site also says that there is an average of 87,021 page views per person per day for TPB…
Kickass_Sid

At least something good is happening!
Tigger

One very good consequence of the industries lobbying and sueing – websites just like this one have some real news to report, and thus get more and more readers. On the day that torrent sites and trackers all go down (IF that day comes), all it takes is ONE person on these forums to find a new filesharing service, tell the rest of us, and the industries are back to square one ;)

Trackers are good, but as #13 said, the future is decentralisation. DHT, Peer Exchange and magnet links will make us truely unstoppable forever =)

Humans are genetically predisposed to communicate, no matter how many court cases there are, we will never be stopped.
Ahmed1337x

Good news :)
fakename

this decision restores some faith in the Swedish justice system
Whichone

Hollywood ought to sue Microsoft for providing an OS that allows file sharing. Just a hint.
Emilio

@18

wtf?

33,352,886 (5.66 per visitor)

as for tpb.org
www.bitsnoop.com

Wait! Sites run on hardware produced by HP, Intel, Dell.

Sue HP! Sue Intel! Sue Dell!

Traffic is routed by Cisco hardware.

Sue Cisco!

Sites are accessed with web browsers.

Sue Opera, Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple!

Data centres are supported by utility companies.

Sue utility companies!

Semiconductors invented based on physics research.

Sue physics scientists!

Swedish court refuses to force ISP to cut OBT traffic.

Sue Sweden!
kenny_lex

It strange that they try to close open trackers, for there is lots of folks that use this trackers for legal stuff, like Meet The Gimp that uses OpenTracker to distribute a collection DVD of the show (ep 1 to 100).

So it is great that the media industry not longer has is finger in the laws rectum.
spaceballz

Thats funny, ill have to add this to my list of torrent sites. Blogger/Google keeps breaking my links… I wonder why?

http://myteev.blogspot.com/2008/04/torrents.html
Anonymous

May be the corporate parasites are finally running out of money and could not corrupt the judges?

May be these parasites are now collecting the money to try to corrupt the judges for the appeal.

Hopefully they will not make it.
redbaron

“OpenBitTorrent is used for file sharing, and we suspect that it is the Pirate Bay tracker with a new name.” I suspect that someone is a f*ckin’ idiot? Do I have to sue him for having a squashe potato instead of a brain? Don’t think so. You can not sue something/someone for offering a service that is intended for a global usage. Okay, illegal stuff is shared via a torrent-tracker. So whut? There is also legal stuff, right? Why does someone has to eat dung while sharing his/her own content legally and for free for someone who steals? And I totally agree with #25 – if they start to sue for sh*t like that, they have to start sueing large companies that provide browser, hardware etc. The problem will be that all those Hollywood suckers use services and products offered by the very same companies. :D It is so pathetic. And OpenBitTorrent doesn’t even give you the possiblity to browse torrents. Next TPB my a*se! Incredible how many illiterate people there are.
Kapcha

Good news ppl! Justice served – really )
I Heart Demonoid

OPENBITTORRENT FTW
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
=)
GP

Yo Monique, “suspicions” ain’t admissible as evidence in court, bitch! The court isn’t your detective agency!
>:)

Time for us to hit back. >:(
Virotelisa

Hollywood lawyer Monique Wadsted is disappointed that the court didn’t consider their “suspicions” that OBT is linked to The Pirate Bay.

So the law should be able to base a verdict upon people’s “suspicions” rather then on cold hard facts?

I have been “suspicious” for a long time that Hollywood is bribing law officials, so should we have a conviction on that basis as well?

And to ridicule it even worse: How many complot theorists have been “suspiscious” of the USA’s involvement with alien experiments, medical malice, the attack on the twin towers and so on and on? I assume that would also be a basis for conviction? :)

Lawyers at times… Just L O L.
Search better

@18 what are you talking about man, it says Visits Per Day: 5,892,736

http://www.sitereport.org/thepiratebay.org

Seems about right IMO
Everything..In its right place

Presumably, the judge was bribed, bought or something, cause, lets face it every decision in it the courts re file sharing involves a bought judge… \oh wait this one went FOR the filesharers. oh well opinion changed then, obviously
qwer

@25
Don’t forget:
Hollywood provides data with copyrights – which is an open invitation for piracy.
Sue Hollywood!
Flat Land

my suspicious is that Monique Wadsted is retarded
KsbjA

@13 – but the present is both trackers and decentralized sharing. As I, unlike you, don’t have magical powers of destiny and can’t look into the future, I can say only one thing: time will show which method is more effective.
KsbjA

Oh, and @35 – he meant that the site FROM THE OTHER POST says that there is 82k visits PER PERSON, in other words, that site (not TPB) is unreliable.
(Sorry for screaming in caps, there’s no italic here. :-/ )
UK in da house

I’ve been torinting 4 3 years and i never once, y do ppl even complain…whiny retads
Nelson Cruz

“The court has not touched on the link between the tracker and The Pirate Bay, and that all the .torrent files on The Pirate Bay include [OBT's] tracker as the default tracker”

Perhaps Ms. Monique Wadsted, that’s because it is irrelevant, no? :)
Xcel

Baaahhhhh, I susspect Monique is just “PMS’n” and needed something like OBT to keeep her mind off of it, LoL, thats my suspicion…

“OPEN” bit Torrent <~~~Monique, pay attention to the name…it is for everybody and not just one sites tracker…

Im beginning to suspect you have your head up (you know)..
Please go to the Jeopardy set in hollywood and ask Vanna White to sell you a clue (or 3!!)
ws

@39 Dec 02, 2009 at 20:33 by KsbjA

I’m already not including trackers in the few torrents I contribute.

If there was a way to just publish the magnet link I can create from that torrent on TPB, I wouldn’t even upload the torrent to TPB. (hint, hint)

I know it can be published anywhere (even here), but nobody is going to look anywhere. They still want a centralized site.
Hans Pandeya

monique thats not an appropriate place to put your head please take it out.
Thraprod

Honestly, if I were the court, I would focus on the fact that these Hollywood studios did not even -attempt- proper arbitration. I would think it would be considered an abuse of the system (financially if nothing else) to attempt to sue the ISP without even bothering to work with the operators. This is futher impacted by the fact that the site publically offered to cooperate. Even if the studios didn’t think the site was serious, they should have documented at least a token attempt to complain to the operators. Following the, at least, vague attempt, THEN they could have moved up the chain of command. You simply CANNOT skip a few steps when it comes to the law or court procedure. “Court: So you want to evict this person who has a lease. Did you give them proper notice? Landlord: Nah, I figured they’d fight it anyway, so I thought I’d just jump ahead to court. Court: Case Dismissed. Do it right next time.” Seen it happen myself.
www.bitsnoop.com

@46

Very true. They are blind-shooting (and sadly they have resources for that) – what if provider will just bend over after a mention of lawsuit (which might happen if ISP is a small one and cannot/don’t want to afford legal expenses)?

I wonder, when courts actually will start charging **AAs for frivolous lawsuits ’cause it’s getting out of hand.
lolzor

You feel the frustration building up ? u wont to get back to people messing with ur freedom and u can cause they hide inside their multimillion mansion ? oh well f**k em u can just drop a mail to that retard wonnabe lawyer . Here is the email … let your imagination run wild.

monique.wadsted@se.maqs.com

P.S. TPB Still owns the copyrights for retractable button jokes :>
www.bitsnoop.com

@48

Button is what you push.

Baton is what you retract. And beat people with. And use in TPB-approved way too. :)
Pingback: La justice suédoise refuse de fermer OpenBitTorrent | HADOPINFO
Whichone

@25
Manufacturers of keyboards and mice shouldn’t be left out in your calculation, since they are used to finding and browsing torrents, apparently.
diarRIAA

Ouch! This must’ve really stung the RIAA/MPAA. ROFFLE! xD

Now the RIAA/MPAA are wondering how to get access to the judge,lawmakers and they ISP so they can wine, dine, bribe and brainwash them in to thinking their way.
diarRIAA

BTW…does anyone have the STUNNED C*NT look on her face when the in-court decision was made?

ANYONE? xD
Wolfy

“The court has not touched on the link between the tracker and The Pirate Bay, and that all the .torrent files on The Pirate Bay include [OBT's] tracker as the default tracker,” she said in a statement, adding: “The day we checked, there were 550,000 works that file-sharers [could download] through the tracker.”
How the hell did she check the trackers for 550k torrents? Did she hack their servers or something?
Xcel

@ Wolfy
She probaably took the stats right from TPBs front page, LoL
Cujo

what u corperate dudes got to understand is that u can never stop what we’re sharing ,, u have to tag along ,, it’s what the folks want ,, ur copy protection is busted ,, accept ur position and move on and give the public what they want ,, access to all the wonderful things that so many can’t afford ;)
me

@36 on bought judges: it’s just a preliminary decision. If you will, that’s the legal system’s usual way of asking for higher bribes. I guess, next time Monique will have to be a little bit more “generous” with the judges, and keep a little bit less corruption money for herself.

@Monique: Judges can be bought, but they ain’t THAT cheap. :)
Soundwave (Have A Cigar)

^And they can also be arrested for it.
Soundwave (Have A Cigar)

And there is nothing worse than corrupt justice or law enforcement.

The biggest threat to freedom.

Imagine a cop getting thrown in jail with all of the criminals he locked up. Yeah, they don’t like crooked justice very much.
jon7272

release movies around the world at the same time and cheapen the theater price and dvd prices make online medium available .join with the isps and make the streaming not count towards your bandwidth for a slight increase in your monthly plans. prob solved . stop spending billions on copy protection and frivolous court cases this would make this happen over night lol
zeebart

@59:

that`s great and all…but as you`ve been reading, extortion seems to pay alot more… :(

@58:

that`s kind of like the thing @ how cops break the law to bust the law breakers…wtf? really?

it`s legal? humm… :( ?
kriegstreiber

You are absolutely right on jon7272. It’s ridiculous the prices charged for American products in Europe. I would not blame a Swedish person for downloading a game that costs $60 in the U.S. when they charge them the equivalent of $100 in Euros. It’s bullsh*t. And the movie companies impose region-coding on everything just to make sure the Europeans pay more. I’d download too. Screw them.

America has some laws that are better than the EU, but the justice system is ridiculous. “Sue McDonalds’ because you got fat!” Sue the gun companies because a criminal stole someone’s gun and committed a crime!” “Sue cigarette companies because you can’t read the warning on the pack!”

THAT is unfortunately the mentality of trial-law in the U.S. Ways to make money off of someone and avoiding real responsibility.

So honestly: I can not find fault with a European downloading media that they are getting price-raped on by greedy corporations both in the U.S. and their respective lands.
jovialau

DEAR ENIGMAX AND ERNESTO.HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND THANKS FOR A DAMN FINE YEAR OF REPORTING AND ENTERTAINMENT.PLEASE KEEP UP THE GOOD FIGHT!!!
Pingback: Court Refuses To Order Shutdown of OpenBitTorrent – TorrentFreak | Telecommunications Blog
Pingback: Court Refuses To Order Shutdown of OpenBitTorrent – TorrentFreak | Telecommunications Blog
Brudda

Maybe we should sue everybody with eyes that can be used to watch illegally obtained video, or ears that are used to listen to illegally obtained music…
Pingback: === popurls.com === popular today
Pingback: Delaware Real Estate News: Georgetown Delaware Benefiting From … | Delaware Real Estate
A Pirate

I’ll donate to a popular torrent site like PoT just to pi** them off.
http://www.plentyoftorrents.com/donations#tip
Anonymous

I won’t use plentyoftorrents just because YOU WON’T STOP SPAMMING! And I damn sure are not going to donate to your shite site! Your worse than the effing trolls. The TF mods should ban you and trackeraccess for spamming on every post. I also find it interesting that both sites are hosted by godaddy and are private, so no info as to who the real people are behind both sites. Seems odd to me, when every other site you can find info on!
heh

@64
Wow…. someones pretty paranoid.
digital future

If open trackers continue to pop up, and sites no longer need to store torrents (use magnet links or torrage) then the boys at TPB will have achieved their goal: that of reducing reliance on one source, while creating something so ubiquitous that chasing trackers, indexing sites, torrent storage sites, etc. will become like a flea taking on an elephant – no contest.
massive

We need more open trackers. The more trackers there are the harder it will be for the maffia to shut down.
pirate lover

wow, someone in the mafiaa is gonna be executed tonite for their failure, mitch bainwhore wont be pleased at this result
eviltracko

What about trackers hosted @appspot ;) MAAFIA will sue individuals and google for making possible to create free bittorrent tracker ?
Pingback: Today’s Top 7 Reads From Elsewhere: | The Anime Blogger
Pingback: Healthy Care!! » Court Refuses To Order Shutdown of OpenBitTorrent (Enigmax/TorrentFreak)
Pingback: Healthy Care!! » Court Refuses To Order Shutdown of OpenBitTorrent (Enigmax/TorrentFreak)
Turbis

Certainly good news!
General Armorus

“Monique Wadsted is disappointed”

oh poor girl. tell here to go choke on a black cock
Pingback: Court Refuses To Order Shutdown of OpenBitTorrent | Cell-Systems
paula

Over the years, “Wealthycupid.org” has experienced tremendous success in bringing wealthy singles and their admirers together. It’s the largest dating club for CEOs, pro athletes, doctors, lawyers, investors, entrepreneurs, beauty queens, fitness models, and Hollywood celebrities and their admirers. No exaggeration, no falseness, check it out , you will believe what I have said. You never know who you’ll meet.
Cordelia

The current Swedish government isn’t actually Social Democrats (as they usuall are) but something a tiny bit more to the right, called “Moderates”. This party likes the USA far too much. I am worried that the US will eventually manage to bully / trick / bribe Sweden into stopping that tracker from operating. As happened with TPB.

People in Sweden were disgusted because they immediately realised what had happened.

Will the feelings of regular people be enough to stop the government from acting like a US puppet?
So far, well done of the court to dismiss the complaint about OPenBT.
Mystik

@61 kriegstreiber

I just need to correct you a bit here. So you understand the situation correctly.

“I would not blame a Swedish person for downloading a game that costs $60 in the U.S. when they charge them the equivalent of $100 in Euros.”

The $60.00 game is the cost of the game in the store before tax in the US, In EU taxes are included in the price you pay. It is $66.00 after tax. In the EU there is a High VAT added to all items. I am sure there are other taxes or import costs added I am not aware of. You need to take all factors into account before you rant about it ;)

“And the movie companies impose region-coding on everything”

With Movies the theaters have had a lot of say in that. They don’t want someone to be able to get a DVD of a movie before it shows in the theatre else why would anyone go to the theatre..

The DVD market is the honeypot for the studios. More and more studios are releasing movies at the same time globally. They know they get more money from that and piss off less people than they do if they grant exclusive rights to theaters. However region coding has not went away yet… Hollywood is like a turtle, and thus is why they are having serious issues and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

When it comes to TV shows it is not Hollywoods fault for region coding. It is the fault of the networks which, like NBC, own a large percentage of their shows. They only sell the ‘Home Video’ rights out to studios. This situation is much more complex than I feel like going into now (trying to stay away from long posts LOL ;) ) If we removed the networks from the equation we could have global same time streaming of all TV shows, which would be a good thing :) Hulu is NBC and other networks, so don’t expect them to break with their current strategy anytime soon.

“America has some laws that are better than the EU, but the justice system is ridiculous. “Sue McDonalds’ because you got fat!””

Yeah, in the US Civil cases really get strange. Made only more strange by the 12 people on the Jury that actually gave out those verdicts. Like the guy who jumped through a glass patio door to rob a house and was seriously injured and 12 jurors awarded this guy millions in damages due to his injuries from him jumping through the glass while trying to rob the house. What is worse is that if you have enough money the laws don’t apply to you. Take this one guy I ran into who had 4 DUI’s (Driving While Intoxicated – Drunk off his ass) for $15-20K each he managed to get out of every one of them. Or the man who shot his ex-wife and got away free because there was not enough proof and he had no prior arrests and was well respected. Not to mention had a damn good lawyer. Yes it is very screwed up here. But I can assume that money plays a part in the justice systems around the globe as well.

It is funny there are more personal injury lawyers and general law related (Traffic,DUI, Speeding, etc) lawyers in the US than any other kind.

To the actual article :D, and to other related articles.

It is not about bribing or payoffs as you define it. The studios (Who are not even fully owned by US citizens… Ie: Sony, EMI, BMG, etc) put pressure on the US government, who in turn puts pressure on the country, who in turn puts pressure on the parliaments and courts. In the TPB case in sweden a ton of pressure from the US government and the MPAA was put on the swedish government. They did not want sanctions or other leverage the US could put against them. So they put pressure on the police and the justice system and the legislature to get the problem removed. It was not a cash bribe as much as a threat to take away cash from the country. If you don’t do what the US govt. says expect sanctions or other remedies that we will employ to make you bend to the US govt.

The US doing things like this loses respect in the eyes of the world. As a US citizen I despise my country’s government for it’s actions globally. I wish things would change, but it is so damn hard to fight the money! in this country. Worst is I am ashamed to say I am even from the US….

Just a comment…
Zoklet

sounds like the courts are getting sick of the anti piracy groups. So good to hear it.
zeebart

@72 paula;

please go away…
Pingback: Infosfera » Blog Archive » Corte se recusa a ordenar fechamento de site de torrents
Pingback: OpenBitTorrentin yhteydet säilyvät | Digilelut
Mike

You can’t win a lawsuit, with your evidence based on suspicion, dumbasses. I suspect the MPAA and RIAA of using terrorism, but that doesn’t mean I can prove it in court. Or does it?
Pingback: The Technology Blog: Court Refuses To Order Shutdown of OpenBitTorrent
www.rockhospital.com

every tracker has a connection to each other, they help spreading information and builds the so called bittorrent-infrastructure.
Pingback: Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minute | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
branty

I found a HOTTEST interracial club ===MixedConnect–*__*– om====for black Women and white Men, or black Men and white Women, to interact with each other. Interracial is not a problem here, but a great merit to cherish!
Pingback: MakinMo's Tech Blog
Pingback: Court refuses to order shutdown of OpenBitTorrent | Photosgraphein
Pingback: Links 03/12/2009: New Linux, X Server 1.7.3 Released | Boycott Novell
Anonymous

If it isn’t the trolls its the damn spammers. Somebody needs to ddos these spammers. Or better yet hack their network and install a BT client and get them busted for downloading pr0n!

Careful who you piss off spammers, we are geeks and we know how to take you down!
flaky

I found a HOTTEST interracial club =MixedConnect *.* C0M=for black Women and white Men, or black Men and white Women, to interact with each other. Interracial is not a problem here, but a great merit to cherish!
EbilPhish

Hmm fuck, Since when did OpenBT have a DCMA takedown policy?, I thought the whole point was that they where an impartial cog in the system and blocking hashes wasn’t possible for ‘technical reasons’. Not to mention they don’t have to be in a country that even has the DMCA (ie any country that isn’t America).

Well I guess trackers are no longer an issue thanks to DHT+PEX, although it would suck for it to be taken down.

On the plus side they have a .txt file containing all the torrent hashid’s. Anyone looking to setup their own .torrent index site has an instant 2 million torrents up for grabs in a few minutes (well a few min followed by months worth of scraping DHT for metadata to get names and complete .torrent files, but you could do it in order of ).
Duh

Hollywood should be sued for trying to waste the court time.
Pingback: Salvo il provider di OpenBitTorrent
Borderliner

There are no “technical reasons” which would forbid blacklisting a known hash. What OTB however doesn’t do is verifying the content to which the hash belongs thus there is no “pre-screening” process which would blacklist the hash before publishing.
The media companies have to specifically tell OTB that hash X point to copyrighted material and should be blacklisted.

Which is good for pirates because minimal modification to the torrent data will create a different hash ;)
Vlican

#84
i agree!
Ninja

Another failure. Wonderful. Actually, when you add openbt on the torrent you may be (re)registering even if they had the ability to delete hashes..

Nice work Hollywood, you keep failing for our entertainment ;D
rocker

way to go OBT.
Pingback: Salvo il provider di OpenBitTorrent « YBlog

TorrentFreak

The place where breaking news, BitTorrent and copyright collide

Court Refuses To Order Shutdown of OpenBitTorrent

OpenBitTorrent, Hollywood’s latest target

Related Posts

Previous Post | Next Post

NewsBits

Pirate Bay Founder Gottfrid Svartholm on Freedom of Speech

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

Foxtel Breeds Pirates by Locking Up Game of Thrones

UK Student Admits Breaching Sony Copyrights With Leak of PS3 SDK

Pirates Can Be Identified Despite Sharing IP Addresses, ISP Claims

MostDiscussed

Pirate Bay Takes Over Distribution of Censored 3D Printable Gun

McAfee Patents Technology to Detect and Block Pirated Content

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

Copyright Trolls Threaten to Call Neighbors of Accused Porn Pirates

Game Pirates Whine About Piracy in Game Dev Simulator

CopyQuote

PopularArticles

VPN Services That Take Your Anonymity Seriously, 2013 Edition

Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2013

Which VPN Service Providers Really Take Anonymity Seriously?

What’s The Best VPN / Proxy for BitTorrent?

BTGuard Review: How Does it Work?

Optimize Your BitTorrent Download Speed

The place where breaking news, BitTorrent and copyright collide

Search TorrentFreak

OpenBitTorrent, Hollywood’s latest target

Related Posts

NewsBits

MostDiscussed

CopyQuote

PopularArticles