Nintendo has revealed in its Special 301 report that it is suffering huge losses because of piracy and illegal file sharing and wants US government to put pressure on foreign governments to…
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USTR: The Pirate Bay, Extratorrent, others involved in piracy and counterfeiting
US Government on Wednesday released the annual list of “Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets” – online and physical marketplaces that “reportedly engage in and facilitate substantial piracy and counterfeiting.” The list, based…
The Pirate Bay to be unblocked in the Netherlands
The Court of The Hague, Netherlands, ruled today that the two local internet providers in the country are not required to block access to The Pirate Bay as the blockade is a…
KickAssTorrents blocked in Ireland by some ISPs
KickAssTorrents, one of the most visited torrent sites in Ireland, has been blocked by many ISPs in the country including Eircom. The blockades started about three days back with reports trickling in…
The Pirate Bay insider reveals the torrent site’s censorship-beating plans
The Pirate Bay had a difficult domain hopping 2013, but team behind the torrent indexing site is steadily progressing towards its goals of beating censorship by circumventing IP and domain name blockades…
Top three pirated movies of 2013: The Hobbit, Django Unchained, Fast and Furious 6
Some of the top grossing movies of 2013 also made it to the top pirated charts of 2013 including the likes of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Iron Man 3 and Django…
Legit RapidGator URLs delisted by Google over false DMCA notices
Google has reportedly removed multiple legit RapidGator URLs from its search results because of false DMCA notices. RapidGator is one of the top filesharing sites, which is used by hundreds of thousands…
The Pirate Bay domain hopping continues as site switches back to thepiratebay.se
The Pirate Bay has switched once again and this time has landed right back into Swedish waters with thepiratebay.se domain as its .GY domain was blocked within hours of going online. This…
The Pirate Bay moves to thepiratebay.gy after Peru suspends thepiratebay.pe
The Pirate Bay has rented a new home, thepiratebay.gy, for the fourth time in a week after Peru decided to suspend thepiratebay.pe. The Pirate Bay has moved on to Guyana-based .GY ccTLD…
YIFY-Torrrents unblocked in the UK; thanks to CloudFlare, GeoDNS
YIFY-Torrents has been reportedly unblocked in the UK for users of at least two ISPs thanks to the brilliant work by the networking experts over at YIFY. As of this writing YIFY-Torrents…
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…
The Pirate Bay moves to new .AC domain after thepiratebay.sx seizure
The Pirate Bay has moved to a new .ac domain after domain name registry of Sint Maarten seized thepiratebay.sx domain name. The Pirate Bay was rendered inaccessible apparently because of an overnight…
H33t.com alternative H33t.to is now live
After nearly two months of waiting h33t.com alternative h33t.to is finally live and kicking. Originally slated for a go live of October 16, the h33t.to domain has been showing the below message…
UK ISPs block Solarmovie three weeks after court order
Solarmovie has been blocked by at least two ISPs in the UK after a court ordered its blockade three weeks back following a copyright lawsuit from Motion Picture Association (MPA) and its…
Hotfile shuts down for good
Hotfile has permanently shut down for good without any prior warning just hours after $80 million settlement with the MPAA. The decision is rather drastic considering that the digital locker isn’t providing…