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 »UK Taking Action Against Pirate Proxies
The censorship first started with Newzbin and The Pirate Bay, but soon evolved into a massive censorship campaign fueled by money. Now, the largest torrent and P2P sites in the world are all blocked in the UK, of course, that’s not ending pirates from accessing them. Bypassing the …
Read More »Megaupload Set to Launch on Police Raid Anniversary
With 50 million visitors per day at its peak, Megaupload was one of the largest file sharing siteson the internet. When the police raid in January of this year forced Megaupload to take down it’s service and many of it’s key employees where arrested. In spite of the current …
Read More »The PirateBay Co-founder arrested in Sweden Friday
The co-founder of The Pirate Bay peer-to-peer website was on detained Friday in Sweden, days after his exile from Cambodia, officials said. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 27, faces a one-year prison sentence for promoting copyright infringement in his home country. Warg was given a one-year prison …
Read More »New “Pirate Patch” Unblocks The Pirate Bay
Due to court enforced blockades, millions of Pirate Bay users rely on proxy sites to access their favorite BitTorrent site. About 5% of all Pirate Bay users now access the site via a proxy address, and thanks to “The Pirate Patch” app they can now …
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