Tag: Piracy
With the Pirate Bay raid, the internet’s most iconic piracy site is gone. But have no fear, because Delft University researchers just released the safest way to torrent yet. Tribler is an open-source, peer-to-peer decentralized — and now anonymous — BitTorrent client. Tribler is an easy-to-use application, much like Popcorn Time, a Netflix-like BitTorrent app […]
TorrentFreak (TF) is reporting that The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest torrent network, has been raided by Swedish authorities. The torrent news site began looking into the situation this morning when users noticed the site was down for the first time in months. At first it was believed to be a technical glitch, but TF says […]
One of the founders of The Pirate Bay, Frederik Neij, has been detained in Thailand and is currently awaiting extradition to Sweden. Neij, 32, has been on the run after being convicted of aiding copyright infringement by a Swedish court in 2009. While he was attempting to cross the border between Laos and Thailand, Neij […]
BitTorrent is the most popular way to pirate games, music, films and every other form of media that can be made into ones and zeroes, and it just got a hell of a lot easier to do. The new site joker.org gives you a simple way to copy-and-paste a torrent link and just stream it right […]
It’s not like the NSA honoree who want’s the NSA abolished, though. Pirate Bay co-founder Tobias Andersson believes his baby should be shuttered, but only to make way for newer, more powerful torrenting networks. “The Pirate Bay in its current form must end. It’s not built and meant for what is coming,” he said. “The future […]
Canpire, a Canadian company with the stated mission of “[utilizing] advanced technologies and investigative techniques to mitigate piracy loss resulting from the illegal distribution of digitized content,” was caught, um, illegally distributing digitized content. On its website, the company used this image, clearly labeled “All Rights Reserved” from photographer Steve Houk, without obtaining his permission. Houk told […]
It’s a sad day for a weirdly specific brand of media pirate, as Spotify has plugged a loophole that allowed tracks to be illegally downloaded from the streaming music service using Google Chrome. With a non-sanctioned Chrome extension called Downloadify, users could exploit a feature of Spotify’s web player that allowed premium users to save […]
Prompted by an anecdote about a group of priests who regularly watch torrented films together, the good people at TorrentFreak decided to do a little digging to find the Vatican’s preferences in piracy. What they found was not altogether unsurprising. Coupled with a distaste for Hollywood films and popular music, holy city denizens have a […]
