After its failed experiment in North Korea, The Pirate Bay has set course to the land of the free, the United States of America. The infamous BitTorrent site has renamed itself to The Freedom Bay and is promising to censor all torrents uploaded by hostile nations. With help from the U.S. Government the site is now able to withstand any retaliatory nuclear attacks Kim Jong Un may have planned.
Yes it’s that time of the year again. As we publish this article, a few dozen owners of torrent sites, file-sharing blogs and other piracy related websites are rubbing their hands with excitement. They planned the most brilliant April fools joke in history, one that will soon shock their visitors. They – clever as they [...]
Here’s an announcement we don’t read every day. As of today The Pirate Bay is the proud owner of eBay. The torrent site plans to use eBay technology to code a better rating system for torrents. How much was paid for the auction site is still a mystery. TorrentFreak talked to one of The Pirate [...]
As we publish this article, a few dozen owners of smaller torrent sites, file-sharing blogs and other piracy related websites are rubbing their hands with excitement. They planned the most brilliant April fools joke in history, one that will soon shock their visitors. They – clever as they are – came up with the idea [...]
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