A few hours ago Pirate Bay users were shocked to find out that their preferred torrent site was no longer loading. Unexpectedly the nameservers were removed from thepiratebay.sx domain, rendering it impossible to load the site in places where DNS records weren’t cached. The Pirate …
Read More »Browser Addon Sends Torrent Links to Anti-Piracy Group
Anti-piracy companies rely on their own web crawlers and Google to obtain infringing links and files. Once discovered they send DMCA notices to search engines, torrent and file-hosting sites, blogs and forums, in order to have that content brought down. A anti-piracy company that goes …
Read More »Google denies the removal of The Pirate Bay
In an attempt to make piracy sites harder to find, copyright holders are sending dozens of millions of takedown notices to Google every month. Music industry group BPI is one of the most active senders. Over the past year they have asked Google to remove …
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