Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the UK have started blocking some of the biggest file sharing sites said to carry copyright infringing material including the Pirate Bay as per the orders of…
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Google wipes off Rapidgator URLs from its search results
The dark side of DMCA takedown requests shows its presence yet again.
Game of Thrones season 4 episode 2 breaks previous torrent swarming records
Episode 2 of Game of Thrones season 4 has managed to break previous torrent swarming records with over 193,000 people sharing a single copy of the latest episode yesterday evening, a new…
BlackBerry brings stickers to BBM users
BlackBerry on Tuesday announced a new update to BlackBerry Messenger that allows users to further personalise and enhance their chat experiences making them look more colorful and expressive. The new version of…
BBM update to bring larger file sharing, bigger emoticons
The next BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) update will bring with it support for larger file sharing and bigger emoticons among other things, BlackBerry has announced. Currently the file sharing limit on BBM is…
The Pirate Bay transforms to ‘Research Bay’ for a three day survey
The Pirate Bay has announced that it is teaming up with Sweden’s Lund University Internet Institute to research about the latest round of the largest file-sharing in history. The survey is aimed…
Dropbox file sync and sharing issues continue after Friday’s outage
Dropbox hasn’t recovered fully after Friday’s outage as there have been scattered reports of users experiencing file sharing and syncing issues even on Sunday. “We’re still seeing service issues for a small…
Google to pull Bump and Flock file-sharing apps on January 31
Google has announced that it will pull Bump and Flock sharing apps on January 31 and both the apps will stop working starting that day. Google acquired Bump back in September and…
The Pirate Bay switches to thepiratebay.pe, says new system will make domain names irrelevant
The Pirate Bay has switched to a new domain name again in the matter of days – from thepiratebay.ac to thepiratebay.pe, and has revealed that the new system they are developing will…