BitTorrent’s popularity is growing every day. Despite the lawsuits that some of the larger torrent sites are involved in, they continue to grow traffic wise. Let’s take a look at how Google ranks the top torrent sites.
July 5th, 2008
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Google has been filtering its search results for years. That’s proven very useful for the Chinese government, and of course content owner representatives like the MPAA and RIAA. According to Google, the filtering of torrents from the search results is a response to the DMCA complaints they receive.
August 8th, 2007
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There had been rumours abound about The Pirate Bay launching a streaming video site. It has now been confirmed by the TPB guys that they are in fact in the process of building a YouTube competitor.
May 18th, 2007
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Google has released its annual year-end Zeitgeist. Amazingly, the word ‘mininova’ ranks 9 on Google’s list of most queried terms in 2006.
December 19th, 2006
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Sweden again. The Filesharing debate continues, and the Pirate’s vote might be an important one in the upcoming election. Justice minister Thomas Bodström is flirting openly with filesharers, while the Pirate Party is getting bigger and bigger.
Lars Ilshammar, an information-technology historian who recently suggested Sweden to impose a fee similar to the one proposed in [...]
June 19th, 2006
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Always funny to see how people get here. Here are some highlights of the past day.
March 22nd, 2006
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