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 »DEFCAD – 3D Printing Torrent Site
Late last year the 3D print torrent website Thingiverse announced that they banned 3D gun designs, citing their terms of service which clearly prohibit files used to make weapons. In a reaction, Defense Distributed opened, the people behind the first 3D printable gun, opened a website to host the designs …
Read More »TorrentFreak Blocked by British ISP Sky
The four million customers of the popular British ISP Sky are reporting trouble accessing piracy and copyright news website TorrentFreak. Sky has not blocked the site deliberately. Instead, TorrentFreak has really been made inaccessible by EZTV.it, the popular torrent site that’s being blocked by six …
Read More »TorrentFreak trolls Prenda Law Firm
Prenda Law is one of the law firms involved in the ongoing mass-BitTorrent lawsuits in the US. TorrentFreak was informed that Prenda Law was using a recent article to threaten alleged BitTorrent downloaders. While TorrentFreak (TF) generally encourages people to promote their content, being used as a …
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