Never far from the headlines, both The Pirate Bay and MediaDefender clashed once again, with the Swedish outfit making allegations against MediaDefenders clients. These claims, reported to the Swedish police, focus on general cybercriminal activities committed against the popular torrent site, by Scandinavian subsidiaries of many major media conglomerates
As more and more people hear about BitTorrent, each day the major sites get bigger, with more and more visitors, members, seeds and peers. Mainstream awareness of P2P is driving this new surge but with copyright and law enforcement agencies clamping down hard, some are considering tactics for survival.
The second part of “Steal This Film” is currently in production. The documentary will cover the (r)evolution of piracy, and p2p in general. The filmmakers interviewed people like Bram Cohen, and admins from The Pirate Bay and Mininova, but they also want to hear from YOU! Get your 15 frames of fame, and upload your message to the RIAA and MPAA.
Good Copy Bad Copy is a great documentary discussing the current state of copyright, piracy and free culture. A .torrent can be downloaded over at The Pirate Bay, for free of course.
Today it’s exactly one year since the controversial raid on The Pirate Bay. Unlike the MPAA would have wanted, TPB is still online, more popular than ever. Let’s look back at last years events.
ISPs facilitate the illegal swapping on copyrighted music on a grand scale according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). This is one of the 10 inconvenient truths about the music industry they published today. Most of the “truths” are simply not true of course, they are nothing more than cheap propaganda.
The ever controversial Pirate Bay is messing with Hollywood again. They’ve put up a new logo which links to pirated copies of the blockbuster movie “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End”. To make it even more juicy, they are also selling a T-shirt with the logo on it in the new and improved Pirate shop.
BitTorrent is the most widely used P2P protocol. New BitTorrent sites emerge regularly and we at TorrentFreak often get requests from people to write about their BitTorrent startups. Because it is nearly impossible to showcase all the new sites here on TorrentFreak, we decided to post a selection of some promising and / or innovative BitTorrent sites.
It has been almost a year now since the controversial raid on The Pirate Bay. Recently, Prosecutor Håkan Roswall said that he was determined to press charges against the admins of The Pirate Bay. However, new information has leaked which shows that the Swedish police has nothing to give to the district attorney, and doesn’t have a strong case.
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.
It seems that hardly a month goes by without another malicious BitTorrent client appearing for download, hoping to dupe inexperienced and unsuspecting file-sharers into installing malware. As new kid on the block ‘Get-Torrent’ hits the web, we scratch below the surface to find the same old malware and the same old story.
