When you’re as infamous as The Pirate Bay, this inevitably leads to attention, not all of it positive. Unfortunately, the guys at the bay have had a run in with some undesirables who took copy of the site’s user database. However, prepared as ever for disaster recovery, The Pirate Bay crew had already taken measures to limit the value of this booty.
The Pirate Bay dismissed the rumor that they sympathsize with right-wing (or left-wing) political views. In fact, the only wings they treasure are their Phoenix wings. It looks like the anti-pirates have loaded their cannons, but so far The Pirate Bay has dodged their bullets, as they continue to sail on.
In a public statement, Prosecutor HÃ¥kan Roswall made it clear that he intends to press charges against the admins of The Pirate Bay. Tobias Andersson from the Pirate Bay was not impressed by Roswalls statements, and said they will simply move to another country if they are outlawed in Sweden, without downtime!
The micronation Sealand is offering asylum to Gary McKinnon, a British hacker who’s facing extradition to the United States. Prince Michael Bates of Sealand apparently prefers hackers to pirates. Earlier this year he refused to sell its micronation to the Pirate Bay because this would upset his friends in Hollywood.
ThePirateBay’s brokep made a cryptic post on TPB’s blog a little over an hour ago. “It’s coming” he tells us. If that post was made on any other torrent site, you might get a little bit of interest but of course this is not ‘just another torrent site’. This is The Pirate Bay, the most infamous BitTorrent tracker on Planet Earth.
Torrent101, Torrentq and Bitroll are three malware supported BitTorrent clients which are heavily advertised on BitTorrent sites. They try to lure naive users into downloading these clients wiith catchy phrases like “We use unique technology to increase the download speed of your torrents”. We decided to turn the tables around and advertised with malware warnings on their websites.
The absolute winner of the OscarTorrent night 2007 is Pan’s Labyrinth with 6 Oscars, including the Oscar for best foreign language film. Blood Diamond is runner up with 3 Oscars. An Inconvenient Truth, The Departed, and Children of Men were all rewarded with 2 Oscars, and Marty Scorsese got his first award from the pirates.
A web traffic analysis shows that BitTorrent is popular among Australians, more popular than in every other country in the world. Australia is followed by Romania and Greece, the US ranks 12th
Sweden is considered to be a safe haven for Pirates, and received a special mention in the piracy report that was published this week by the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA).
The Pirate Bay and its young owners have reached a new level of fame. They’re no longer just Internet personalities, they’re now mainstream celebrities. The March issue of Vanity Fair is carrying a 6 page article on BitTorrent, movie piracy, torrent sites, and in particular, The Pirate Bay.
The Pirate Bay is removing the Ads for Bitroll and Torrent101, two malicious BitTorrent clients. These clients promise ‘high speeds downloads’, but all they do is install malware, and hijack your browser.
