Tag: PIRATE BAY

Pirates unite! Earlier this week, we reported that The Pirate Bay had to change ISPs in response to a legal challenge from the MPAA in a German court. Well, the site is up and running again after migrating to its new provider ... the Swedish Pirate Party. That's right, The Pirate Bay's biggest political supporter is now its ISP. Talk about a hands-on approach to policy! In an interview with ...

The Pirate Bay, one of the web's most well-known torrent trackers, may have been sailing into choppier waters than anyone realized when its owners agreed to sell to games company GGF and its eccentric CEO, Hans Pandeya. The deal eventually collapsed, but it turns out that The Pirate Bay wasn't the only major torrent site GGF wanted to buy. Today, TorrentFreak is reporting that knowledgeable ...

If you woke up this morning hoping to download last night's episode of Mad Men (of course, I totally wouldn't know anything about that) you'll have to look somewhere other than The Pirate Bay. The popular, controversial torrent site was taken down by the Swedish government earlier today, and is still unreachable as of this posting. Authorities got to the Bay by threatening the site's hosting ...

Perhaps it's a blatant F.U. to content creators everywhere or maybe it's just an F.U. to Rockstar, but the Pirate Bay has gone out of its way to temporarily rename itself "Liberty Bay" in honor of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV. The purpose for the publicity stunt is unclear, but -- considering the company's line of work -- it's likely to get the word out on the highly-rumored rumored Grand ...

It looks like torrents isn't the only business the Pirate Bay is concerning itself with. First there was image hosting and now there's blogging. BayWords is the site's foray into the world of blogging services, aiming to provide a service that does not want to restrict "uncomfortable thoughts and ideas" and let people say and link to what they want (as long as it complies with Swedish law). ...

In what appears to be a continuing trend, popular BitTorrent site Demonoid, has shut down. Again. On November 9, 2007, the site went dark, displaying nothing more than a cryptic message that seems to say, "the fuzz turned up the heat on our landlord and we had to bail." It's a sad, sad day for file sharers. Oh wait, that was October 23, when the really awesome site was shut down. Or the first ...

During the last week, highly anticipated fall TV pilots have made their way on to Bittorrent trackers in record numbers. Shows like NBC's "Bionic Woman," ABC's "Pushing Daisies," The CW's "Reaper" are popping up like wildflowers, and network executives are tight-lipped about the matter. According to TV Week, "Network representatives expressed surprise that the full-length pilots were on the Web ...

Torrent tracker, The Pirate Bay is launching yet another side project. The team has already announced that it's working on a video sharing site, and a stealthier way to download files using BitTorrent. But first, they want you to look at some pretty pictures. The Pirate Bay's latest project is called BayImg, and it's described as a "free uncensored image hosting" site. This may or may not be a ...

The LA Times ran a profile of The Pirate Bay this weekend. The BitTorrent indexing site sticks up its nose at the MPAA and copyright holders around the world. The Stockholm-based site has garnered support in Sweden, and the state-registered Pirate Party has almost as many members as the Green Party in that country. Probably the most interesting tidbit in the article though, is a quote from Pirate ...