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…  August, Swedish artist and composer Magnus Uggla launched a scathing attack on the owners of Spotify. After discovering …

…  down their tracker since DHT and Peer Exchange have matured enough to take over, was coupled with the news that they had added Magnet …  nobody is being forced to use Magnet links or trackerless torrents. While these long-standing technologies may prove to be the future, …

…  will present the Digital Economy Bill which will include measures aimed at reducing illicit file-sharing. Yesterday parts of the bill leaked …

…  the past months the UK government has tried to tackle the issue of online piracy. This has resulted in a proposal from Lord Mandelson, who …  Doctorow has the scoop on BoingBoing and he told TorrentFreak that the information comes from someone “very close to the Labour …

…  trial continues in the copyright infringement case of AFACT – representing several Hollywood studios – and Aussie ISP iiNet (multiple links to all our earlier coverage can …  that DtecNet investigators did not behave as normal BitTorrent users would. Regular users would allow their torrent client to connect …

…  founded in January 2005, grew out to become one of the most successful torrent sites with millions of daily users. The site has grown steadily …

…  the news broke that The Pirate Bay owners would sell the site to Global Gaming Factory, an independent tracker OpenBitTorrent (OBT) was launched. Due to its public nature, OBT was seen by some as a possible …

…  hijacking it for their own. “The idea is to sell USB drives using this brand,” said Sandryds Handel spokesman Bengt Wessborg. “We …  and Registration Office. Ex-Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde was not happy with the move. “They [Sandryds] knew that [the logo] was …

Public torrent have their critics, who mostly comment that they’re slow, unverified or unreliable. Only the latter is down to the tracker itself – the …

…  the fall of 2003, a group of friends from Sweden decided to launch a BitTorrent tracker named ‘The Pirate Bay’. It soon became one of the largest …

…  is a great divide between artists on how music piracy should be addressed. On the one hand there are the Lily Allens who believe that tough anti-piracy legislation will increase their profits, while others including …