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… ago Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN chalked up another victory. On May 10th, the Court of The Hague ordered an additional five ISPs - …
… be unpredictable. The Rickroll meme started life on the notorious 4chan message board in 2007 and developed into a worldwide sensation … by YouTube in 2010 but reinstated shortly afterwards. TorrentFreak contacted both AVG and Google-owned YouTube for comment and we’ll …
… block all sorts of nasty and offensive content, including TorrentFreak. While we’re not banned by all providers the Open Rights Group …
… Dotcom’s lawyer Paul Davison demanded access to the data stored on the 135 computers and hard drives that were taken into custody. … the raid. The raid was captured by CCTV data which is stored on the computers in question. The FBI, however, is objecting to the …
… from the standard site. The Pirate Bay team told TorrentFreak that the new site is setup to guarantee maximum compatibility with …
… the historic protests in January SOPA and PIPA were ‘shelved’. In a keynote …
… probably due to Sweden’s historic connections with The Pirate Bay, many Swedes consider file-sharing to be … plus numerous prosecutions of file-sharing site operators and their users. But do tougher laws actually encourage people “to do the … 15-25 year old people,” researcher Marcin de Kaminski told TorrentFreak. “Our conclusion is that repressive actions that lack societal …
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Left Quote“The Pirate Bay has been one of the most important movements in Sweden for freedom of speech, working against corruption and censorship.
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