The Pirate Bay is down currently and with no apparent reason or information about the prolonged downtime, users are worried about the worst. About 10 hours after the signs of downtime emerged,…
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uTorrent team mulls new revenue model
uTorrent, the most used BitTorrent client in the world with an estimated user base of 150 million, is not happy with its revenue model and its makers are looking to generate money…
KickassTorrents forced to switch to kat.cr post kickasstorrents.im seizure
KickassTorrents has been on the radar of many government agencies and copyright holders owing to the huge amount of internet traffic it gets from people searching for free downloads of movies, games,…
UK ISPs at war with online piracy; block Pirate Bay proxies
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…
The Pirate Bay Facebook Page vanishes
Just days after The Pirate Bay was shuttered following a data centre raid by Swedish authorities, the torrent site’s official Facebook Page has vanished. There has been no official word from the…
Kickass Torrents gets new kickass.la domain; says it is having issues with Somalian host
Kickass Torrents has activated its new kickass.la domain even while the previous domain kickass.so continues to work as normal. The reason behind this transition according to kickass team is that they are…
The Pirate Bay clones: potentially malware laden, scam sites
The Pirate Bay has been down for a few days now and within that timeframe multiple clones of the torrent site have cropped up – some malware laden, while some asking for…
The Pirate Bay finds new abode just hours after police raid
The Pirate Bay is seemingly back online just hours after Swedish Police raided a data centre and seized computers, servers and other equipment resulting into thepiratebay.se going down. Currently accessible through thepiratebay.cr,…
The Pirate Bay goes down as Swedish police seize servers, computers, and other equipment
The primary domain of The Pirate Bay – thepiratebay.se – along with quite a few other known domains has been knocked offline after Swedish Police raided a data centre in Nacka and…
Popcorn Time 5.0 beta released; service is now ‘impossible’ to shut down
One of the most popular Popcorn Time forks ‘Time4popcorn.eu’ has released an updated version of its desktop app – Popcorn Time 5.0 beta, which not only packs new features, but is also…
Full copy of Doctor Who season 8 episode 2 ‘Into the Dalek’ workprint leaked online
BBC has failed miserably in containing the series of leaks that has plagued Doctor Who.
Game of Thrones season 4 finale sets new torrent swarming record
The last episode of the current season breaks all previous torrent swarming records with over 240,000 users sharing a single torrent file.
Game of Thrones season 4 episode 9 breaks swarming records
This is the third time in just as many months that the latest season of Game of Thrones has managed to break torrent swarming records.
Torrentz.eu domain name suspension revoked; back with a bang
Yet another registrar defies UK PIPCU’s attempt of unlawful blocking.
Torrentz.eu domain name suspended
PIPCU scores yet another major victory.