Tag: TORRENTFREAK

Remember when the Pirate Bay tried to raise enough money to buy the Principality of Sealand? Well, this is a bit different. Torrentreactor.net, one of the most popular torrent sites on the Internet today, says it has bought the small village of Gar, in the Tomsk province of Russia. The single requirement was that the town rename itself to "Torrentreactor." Whether this is legit or not is still ...

Image via TorrentFreak (click image for full size). In an ironic twist, The USCG seems to have been caught quite red-handed in an attempt to lazily steal code from a competitor's website. They didn't just take bits and pieces, either; the site they had "built" was a nearly complete reproduction of the original. To further deepen the irony of the incident, it was the crew at TorrentFreak who ...

You may remember all the rumors about The Pirate Bay selling out to Global Gaming Factory's Hans Pandeya, and Pandeya's repeated failures to come up with the money. Well, now he's claiming he has the required 10 million bucks this time, and that he'll buy The Pirate Bay and turn it legal within two months. Pandeya has been issuing press releases and plenty of bluster this week. TorrentFreak, a ...

TorrentFreak reports that Warner Brothers UK is now looking for computer-literate students in the university of Manchester for a 12-month paid internship (£17,500) that will allow them to be part of the glorious fight against online piracy! Students will open and maintain accounts on torrent sites, hang around forums and IRC channels, maintain and develop link-scanning bots, and issue ...

TorrentFreak is reporting that three top BitTorrent tracker sites--The Pirate Bay, mininova, and Torrentspy--have accomplished the inevitable and entered the Alexa 200, the top 200 most-trafficked sites on the web acccording to Alexa. Torrentspy has the highest rank at 153, followed by mininova at 165, and The Pirate Bay barely squeezing in at 198. While nobody argues that Alexa's rankings are ...