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Hollywood and the major music labels frequently describe The Pirate Bay as a piracy haven that ruins their businesses. On the other side, however, there are many independent artists who would like nothing more than to be featured prominently on the world’s largest torrent site. For the latter group The Pirate Bay team have just released a new platform where artists can have their content promoted on the site’s homepage, free of charge.

In a month The Pirate Bay will no longer offer downloads of .torrent files. Instead, the largest torrent site on the Internet will only provide so-called magnet links to its visitors. The first step in this direction was made today with The Pirate Bay replacing the current default torrent download links with magnets. Could this be the end of an era?

Here we go again… In the fall of 2010 “Anonymous” started Operation Payback, the longest and most widespread attack on anti-piracy groups, lawyers and lobbyists in history. Initially DDoS assaults were started against the MPAA, RIAA and anti-piracy company AiPlex Software because these outfits had targeted The Pirate Bay. Those DDoS attacks were later replicated [...]

Two weeks ago the Antwerp Court of Appeal ordered the Belgian ISPs Belgacom and Telenet to initiate DNS blockades of 11 domains connected to The Pirate Bay within 14 days or face fines. Today the 14 days expired and people who are trying to visit The Pirate Bay now see the following message. “You have [...]

The Pirate Bay crew finally woke up and added a new category to the site. “The summer is over and we’re slowly waking up to do some serious computer stuff. Putting 0′s and 1′s in the right order. You know, super serious hacking stuff,” TPB staff announced today. “we have read on the internets that [...]

The Pirate Bay founders have launched a new file-sharing platform today. After leaving the world famous torrent site, two of the original founders are now back with a one-click file-hosting service called Bayfiles. Although Hollywood wont be cheering them on, unlike The Pirate Bay the new service is dedicated to respecting copyrights while offering its users a great platform to store and share files.

The Pirate Bay has gone AFK. Last time this happened was little over a week ago after a memory upgrade, when the server failed to autostart. When The Pirate Bay suffers a few minutes for downtime, thousands of people start to worry that something awful has happened to their beloved site. However, 99.9% of the [...]