Pirate Bay Documentary

The Pirate Bay documentary trailer for their new movie "TPB AFK" was released on Friday, and the Pirate Bay documentary trailer is drawing a great deal of buzz. Centered around the popular piracy and file-sharing...

Pirate Bay Servers Raided in Warez Scene Bust

Pirate Bay Down after Raids on Servers: Warez Scene Targeted The Pirate Bay was temporarily offline after a series of coordinated raids on its servers in several European countries. Most of the raids took place in...

Pirate Bay Logo Patented By Swedish Retailer, Intent to Exploit

Oh the irony. An online Swedish retailer has registered a patent to the infamous Pirate Bay logo of a pirate ship flying a cassette-tape image and crossbones sail. And get this: the company, Sandryds Handel, intends to exploit the image by selling USB drives splashed with...

Users' groups must go to bat for their users

The traditional users' group has largely been a semi-informal, unstructured gathering of users of some particular technological or electronic development, particularly those developments which are computer-based or oriented. The earliest users' groups, and many current users'...

Black Internet Sabotaged After Pirate Bay Blockage

Black Internet, a Swedish ISP, was sabotaged shortly after it cut off access to the Pirate Bay under threat of a $70,600 fine. The actual Pirate Bay outage only lasted a few hours, since the Pirate Bay found a...

Pirate Bay Sale is Looking Less Likely

The Pirate Bay's deal with GGF is looking increasingly unlikely. Even as the Pirate Bay's legal issues mount, Wayne Rosso, who joined the Pirate Bay team to help manage the deal, has already quit. Meanwhile, GGF...

Stallman, the Swedish Pirate Party, and copyleft

A few days ago, Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation published an op-ed to the GNU project's website, in which he criticized the copyright views of the Swedish Pirate Party, which had recently succeeded...

Pirate Bay Sued by Disney, Universal, Warner Bros

The Pirate Bay is getting sued by Disney, Universal, Warner Bros, and Colombia Pictures, along with six other film companies. The suit demands that the Pirate Bay cease distributing copyrighted materials, though the Pirate Bay founders argue that no infringing material is...

Pirate Bay Sold to Global Gaming Factory X for $7.8 Million

The Pirate Bay has sold for $7.8 million to Global Gaming Factory X, which manages Swedish Internet shops. This means that the world may bear witness to a legit Pirate Bay. A fairly bold move, considering that Global Gaming Factory X is a public company, and the founders of...

Mega Torrent Site Pirate Bay Sold for £4.7m

A Swedish software firm, Global Gaming Factory X, says it has bought Pirate Bay for £4.7m. The software company says the deal would include right to use Pirate Bay's domain.Pirate Bay is one of the largest file sharing sites having about 20 million users. Few months ago, 4...

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...

Anonymous Iran: Pirate Bay and 'Anonymous' Back Iran Activists

Sweden's infamous copyright-thwarting torrent site The Pirate Bay along with the notoriously-masked global crew of anti-Scientology activists known as Anonymous are throwing their joint cyber-influence behind another...

Pirate Bay May Get Retrial As Judge's Copyright Links Found

The lawyer for the four pirate bay spokesmen convicted of copyright violations says he will be pushing for a retrial after new evidence came out that says the head judge in the case is involved with numerous copyright organizations. News broke last evening that the judge in...

Pirate Bay Launches iPREDator against Swedish Copyright Law

In response the Sweden's iPRED online intellectual property law, the Pirate Bay launched a tool called iPREDator, which runs an anonymizing VPN (virtual private network) service to hinder attempts to track a user's location, indentity, and Internet usage. The Pirate Bay...

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...

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