… a group of friends from Sweden decided to launch a BitTorrent tracker named ‘The Pirate Bay’. It soon became one of the largest … the recent downtime of the tracker did not slow down or stop many transfers, as DHT and PEX seamlessly took over. Those BitTorrent …
… nowadays, the film ended up being ripped and put on BitTorrent just a few days ago. In this short time span it was downloaded by … alone, earning it a spot in TorrentFreak’s chart of top 10 most pirated movies this week. For most Hollywood bosses this is …
… the same kind of action could be taken against other sites and ISPs with possibly far-reaching implications. “This is the first time in Sweden that an operator has been ordered to stop delivering Internet to someone. We want to know if it’s correct to do …
… sharing using BitTorrent increased rapidly in popularity during 2004/2005, the MPAA could wait no longer and moved to pressure and shut down several sites. Bragginrights, ShunTV, Btefnet, CDDVDHeaven, SciFi-Classics and … were also made against LokiTorrent, s0nicfreak and TorrentStop. While others faded away, users and admins of some of these sites …
… description of Files24 is a mashup between IMDb and BitTorrent. All the movies listed on the site have a plot description and list of … hand this is also one of the upsides, since this will stop a great deal of spam and fake files from being uploaded. Files24 went …
… setup, Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN asked Leaseweb to stop passing on traffic to the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker. Although Leaseweb doesn’t allow torrent sites to be hosted …
… TorrentFreak readers will be only too aware of so-called ‘Scene’ groups. These … Bureau whom have identified all of our members and sites.” The Swedish Antipiracy Bureau – Antipiratbyrån (APB) – is home to … including a raid earlier this year against a large Swedish topsite. At the time Pontén said that APB had managed to identify the …
… only option left for these unfortunate souls is to use BitTorrent, or wait. However, it seems that people don’t want to wait for … and Mininova, The Pirate Bay and isoHunt are all in the top 100. Stopping TV piracy is not that hard though. TV distribution …
… companies,” Patrik said today. He had no choice but to stop servicing TPB. His company cut off the site’s bandwidth last night but The … European nation is becoming an attractive location for torrent site hosting, with several large sites and services showing …
… industry continues to pressurize anyone it believes can stop illicit file-sharing, its main focus remains ISPs. These service providers … but to our knowledge none have offered to help block BitTorrent sites voluntarily – until now. Charles Dunstone, chief executive of …
… that are popular on BitTorrent are usually not the same as bestsellers in book stores. The top 10 list of most pirated books of 2009 thus far is populated by geek … to this rule. The book appeared on several file-sharing sites just hours after its official release and has been downloaded by more …
