Yet another instance of a fake torrent packed with Bitcoin miner
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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…
uTorrent v3.4 speeds up downloads thanks to new peer selection method
Latest version of the famous BitTorrent client uTorrent, version 3.4, is powered by a completely new peer selection method that promises improved download speeds, “When a bittorrent client joins a swarm, it…
Extratorrent was down due on issues with hosting provider
One of the most visited torrent site on the Internet, Extratorrent, suffered from connectivity issues with many believing that the site was taken down by law enforcement authorities on piracy grounds. The…
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…
IsoHunt.to is the 8th most popular torrent site
In just two months IsoHunt.to has managed to feature in the top 10 most popular torrent sites in the world at the eighth position with an estimated 15 million unique visitors in…
Demonoid tracker is live, but users skeptical
BitTorrent tracker Demonoid is back after 18 months hiatus and is already linked to nearly 400,000 torrent files and over 1 million peers, but suspicions have been raised considering that the tracker…
What.cd, Broadcasthe.net, PassthePopcorn.me down following DDoS attacks
What.cd, Broadcasthe.net, and PassthePopcorn.me – three of the world’s largest private BitTorrent trackers – are under prolonged DDoS attacks following which all of them have been down since days. Despite being invite…
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…
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…