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 Confident of Trial Victory

Torrent aggregator The Pirate Bay awaits the verdict of their copyright infringement trial, which is due on Friday. According to the site's founders, the actual verdict will not affect day-to-day operations, as,...

Pirate Bay Trial Day 8: Prosecutor Shifts Charges

Day 8 of the Pirate Bay trial... The prosecution once again demonstrated that it doesn't understand exactly what torrents are or how they work (they could have interviewed a few 13-year-old kids to sort this out,...

Day 3 - The Pirate Bay’s ‘King Kong’ Defense

Day three of the trial started with presentation of the amended charges and ended early again with all sides retiring for pizza! " The lawyers representing all four called on the court for the acquittal of their...

Pirate Bay Trial: Half of Charges Dropped

During day 2 of the Pirate Bay trial, the prosecution has dropped half of the charges against the popular torrent aggregator's founders: Frederik Neij (TiAMO), Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (anakata), Peter Sunde...

Quantum of Solace .torrent already on the Internet

Despite stringent security, the new James Bond film, 'Quantum of Solace', has already been found on torrent sites all over the net -- prior to the US release date. While it's only a cam, torrenters have hailed...

Double Agency: "Monetizing" Illegal Content

It's interesting that Youtube seems to be playing for both teams here: on one hand, doing nothing to discourage the uploading of copyrighted material by non-copyright-holders, and, on the other hand, hosting tools...

OiNK Founder, Several Users Charged

Prior to being shut down by authorities, British bit torrent site OiNK was an amazing place to discover and share new music. But despite its file-sharing modus operandi, it's surprising to learn that the site's...

Torrent site sues recording industry, sets precedent

In the wake of threats and Cease and Desist letters from the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) against numerous torrent sites, isoHunt is launching a retaliative strike against the CRIA with a lawsuit...

U2 Tracks Leak from Bono's Window

Paul McGuinness, U2's vehemently anti-file-sharing manager, will be most displeased with the source of the recent leak of several songs from his star band's forthcoming album... Bono himself.Actually, a healthy...

RIAA pays File Sharer $107,951

That single mother who got sued by the Recortind Industry Association of America has won the battle, getting a rather large payout in the process. Though the RIAA won a few high-profile cases, it looks like the courts are souring on the whole sue-your-customers approach to...

Don't Screw Us Over: Porn Studios Form Their Own MPAA

Though suing file-sharing sites has no effect on the proliferation of file sharing, the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America)- and its lawers- sure feel better about themselves for doing it. However, there...

YouTorrent Relaunches with Legal Torrents

In a Napster-like rebirth (minus the downtime), YouTorrent is reinventing itself as an index of legal torrent files. Once the fastest-growing torrent site on the web, YouTorrent began to lose traction once it stopped indexing sites that linked to copyright-violating files...

Canadian Court Shuts Down Quebec Torrent Site

In a move many people see as controversial, a Quebec court has ruled that a torrent tracker site based out of Quebec, and hosting mostly french-language content, must shut down. This is a tricky situation, because it could leave the potential open for shutting down any...

Midwest floods worsen overnight, 15 now dead

Floods in the Midwest continue to threaten communities in several states. At least one town has been all but destroyed, while ruined crops will likely raise food prices across the US."LAKE DELTON, Wis. - Storms...

closeSign in to NowPublic

is reporting from