Pirate Bay Retrial Request Rejected by Swedish Appeal Court

The Pirate Bay founders’ request of a retrial has been thrown out by a Swedish Appeal court. The four men, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde behind the Pirate Bay file sharing hub, were sentence to 1 year in jail and ordered to pay 30m...

Swedish Web Traffic Drops 33% after Anti-Piracy Law

Internet traffic in Sweden dropped by a staggering 33% following the imlementation of a new anti-piracy law, which allows copyright-holders to seek a court order to force Internet service providers to reveal the IP addresses of file-sharing computers.This is likely a...

Bit Torrent Reversed 'Stranglehold' on Distribution - Former BT President

Ashwin Navin, the former yahoo employee who co-founded BitTorrent Inc., left the company after four years. He's staying on the Board, but is moving onto a new project with Youtube's Steve Chen, amongst others....

Paulo Coelho: Free Books for Online Alchemy

So giving it away is not just for those wanting to get the word out... The movers and shakers of the literary world are getting onboard as well, including Paulo Coelho:"Paulo Coelho, the best-selling author of...

Pirate Bay Mirror - Back Up Servers

"The website 'www.thepiratebay.co.nr' has been set up by piratebay addicts. If ThePirateBay.org is shutdown again, all BitTorrents and links will be kept on their servers. Owners have asked for donated to help this service."

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