Tag: TPB

The Pirate Bay's database of over 4 million registered users has been compromised. All user names, along with their associated email and IP addresses have been obtained and are now in the hands of three Argentinian 'researchers'. Speaking to KrebsOnSecurity, and on his own blog, ringleader Ch Russo says that The Pirate Bay's defenses fell to a few simple SQL injections. He's even been kind ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/07/03/pirate-party-to-host-pirate-bay-swedish-parliament/'; You may remember that, back in May of this year, the Swedish Pirate Party became the new ISP of the Pirate Bay. That alone was not only surprising, but proved to be politically spectacular in the rawest sense of the word. Now the Pirate Party wants to take their stand even further, ...

In rather shocking news this morning, The Pirate Bay (TPB) has shut down its torrent tracker. The search engine remains, but instead of dishing up torrents it will instead serve as a magnet-link repository. TPB cites that the concept of the BitTorrent tracker is dead. "There is no need to run a tracker any more" says their blog. Long-live DHT and PEX -- dynamic, decentralized torrenting ...

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 ...