While the UK High Court has been making busywork of blocking access to a myriad of popular torrent sites via the country’s ISPs, users apathetic to the restrictions have ...
August 2, 2015 at 8:29 pm by Ashley Allen
Since yesterday, Google’s Chrome browser has begun blocking torrent websites, including Torrentz, ExtraTorent, RARBG, and the popular KickAss Torrents, flagging them as ...
July 12, 2015 at 7:00 am by Ashley Allen
TV torrent distribution group EZTV has been forced to close after the site domain was seized by scammers in what has been described as a “hostile takeover”. EZTV was born ...
May 20, 2015 at 3:58 am by Ashley Allen
The co-founder of the world’s most notorious torrent site, The Pirate Bay, says that he regrets adopting the word “pirate” and that he couldn’t “give a flying ...
April 7, 2015 at 1:58 am by Ashley Allen
As a response to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) applying pressure on the domain name industry, ...
April 1, 2015 at 10:58 pm by Ashley Allen
Popular torrent site KickassTorrents (KAT) has had its Somalian kickass.so domain seized and the site is currently down. KickassTorrents had over one million unique visitors a ...
February 9, 2015 at 6:58 pm by Ashley Allen
The new front page of The Pirate Bay homepage, thepiratebay.se, is showing its strongest indication yet the site is primed for resurrection. Below the countdown that has been ...
January 22, 2015 at 8:58 am by Ashley Allen
Infamous torrent site The Pirate Bay went down on 9th December last year after a police raid on its Swedish data centre. After an absence of around a week, The Pirate Bay’s ...
January 13, 2015 at 4:55 am by Ashley Allen
Last year, Thom Yorke, lead singer of Radiohead, released his second solo album as a digital download through BitTorrent, and figures suggest he could have made up to $20 ...
January 7, 2015 at 4:55 pm by Ashley Allen
Gary Fung, the original founder of torrent tracking site IsoHunt – long since closed, then resurrected by others – believes that Bitcoin microtransactions could eventually ...
January 3, 2015 at 12:30 am by Ashley Allen
Five days after torrent site The Pirate Bay was taken down by a police raid in Sweden, a member of TPB crew has spoken about the future of the site in an exclusive interview ...
December 16, 2014 at 3:47 am by Ashley Allen
The Pirate Bay has been offline for four days after Swedish police raided its servers, but that doesn’t seem to have made any kind of dent in the number of illegal ...
December 15, 2014 at 12:37 am by Ashley Allen
Sony Pictures has had a pretty bad week. First a massive hack, then rumours that North Korea could be involved, now the news that four high quality copies of Sony ...
November 30, 2014 at 10:42 pm by Ryan Simmons
The White House has weighed in on the issue of media copyright infringement online, asserting that illegal downloads should be made a felony offense. Alex Niejelow, Chief of ...
November 25, 2014 at 1:45 am by Ashley Allen
