All the stories tagged with torrent
The Pirate Bay Becomes #1 File-Sharing Website
04/01/2013, The Pirate Bay moving its servers to the U.S. to become “The Freedom Bay“ is obviously the popular torrent-tracking website’s April Fools’ Day joke, but its popularity over the years has been slowly rising with it reaching the top of the [...]
BitTorrent Intros Live Streaming Service That Makes Buffering A Thing Of The Past
03/12/2013, Torrents have been used over the years mainly as a way to effectively share content with other users who are also interested in that piece of content, using all the bandwidth of the connected parties in order to deliver that [...]
Comcast Offers Glimpse Into Copyright Alert System Messages
02/28/2013, We reported a few days ago some big-name ISPs would begin incorporating the Copyright Alert System (CAS) into their systems, which would send out alerts to users who they believe may have download copyrighted material through “peer-to-peer” services. Verizon and Comcast [...]
Game Of Thrones’ Director Is Not Worried About Piracy
02/27/2013, The common perception regarding piracy is that it hurts the sales of the product, i.e. music, video games, television shows, movies, software and etc. On the flipside there are developers and artists who fully embrace piracy, claiming that this helps [...]
ISPs Adopt Alert System To Warn Users of Illegal Downloads
02/26/2013, If you’re a person who downloads torrents on a regular basis, you might want to watch what you do from today on as Internet service providers will begin cracking down on users who download copyrighted material. The Copyright Alert System [...]
Game of Thrones Season 3 Preview Describes The Nature Of Chaos
02/11/2013, Do you sense that? Winter is indeed coming this spring as HBO’s Game of Thrones will start its third season starting March 31. Seeing as we’re over a month away from Game of Thrones’ premier, HBO has started the hype [...]
9-Year Old’s Winnie The Pooh Laptop Confiscated By Authorities
11/26/2012, The authorities tend not to have a good impression on the masses, case in point, CIAPC, a company that managed to get ISPs in Finland to block The Pirate Bay, is said to have tracked down an alleged file-sharer, asking [...]
Google Censorship List Now Includes Pirate Bay Domains
09/10/2012, Google has recently introduced a number of anti-piracy measures to discourage users from looking up pirated content online. While the search giant hasn’t removed the indexes of piracy sites from its search results, it is taking steps to ensure that [...]
Popular torrent site Demonoid shut down as gift to the United States
08/06/2012, Demonoid fans were quite worried last week when their site was offline, but were relieved to find out that it was just a large DDoS attack. Fans will be even more upset when they hear that the site has been [...]
