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• Targeted by Hollywood, OpenBitTorrent lives to fight another day

  
  CrunchGear — Authority: 788
  Not a day goes by without coming across one or more stories related to The Pirate Bay . Today is no different, with OpenBitTorrent (a tracker that Hollywood has accused of being The Pirate Bay’s spiritual successor, serving some 550,000 “works”) being given a new lease on life by a Swedish court. The gist is, ...
  3 hours ago

• Court Refuses to Shutter Tracker Linked to Pirate Bay

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 504
  Court Refuses to Shutter Tracker Linked to Pirate Bay : Via Threat Level . A Stockholm court is refusing to order a Swedish internet provider to cut off a site the studios claim is The Pirate Bay’s new torrent tracker. The Pirate Bay, the world’s most notorious filesharing website, announced two weeks ago it ...
  18 hours ago

• Pirates of the HD: The Pirate Bay Still Sailing

  
  State of Affairs — Authority: 415
  So I’ve wanted to write about this for a while, but as some of you have pointed out, my research skills have been somewhat less than “mad” recently, owing to a distinct lack of passion on my part. On that note, let me be the first to apologize for my spotty update schedule of [...]
  3 days ago

• Never Back Down – Pirate Bay Adapts To Stay Alive

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 729
  In the face of a massive and sustained legal onslaught orchestrated by the combined might of the global music and movie industries, one might have expected The Pirate Bay to fold up and die. Yet as we sit here on the brink of December 2009, the site remains open. No other site in BitTorrent history has ever weathered ...
  3 days ago

• BitTorrent Site Mininova Goes Totally Legit

  
  Tech-Ex — Authority: 504
  All it takes is a little loss in the legal arena, and boom! Mininova, the worlds largest BitTorrent site, has removed all torrents except those that were uploaded through its Content Distribution service. That service allows producers and artists to easily publish and distribute their content through Mininova for ...
  6 days ago

• Pirate Bay co-founder now part of digital receipt start-up

  
  CrunchGear — Authority: 788
  Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay , is now part of spiffy Web site Kvittar —“does not matter” in Swedish, according to the Google. It’s a site that purports to do away with paper receipts. You need to sign up with a credit card. The concept is easy enough to understand: you create an account on ...
  1 week ago

• The Pirate Bay Tracker Shuts Down for Good

  
  CyberLaw Blog — Authority: 140
  The Pirate Bay Tracker Shuts Down for Good : “ In the fall of 2003, a group of friends from Sweden decided to launch a BitTorrent tracker named ‘ The Pirate Bay ’. It soon became one of the largest BitTorrent trackers on the Internet, coordinating the downloads of more than 25 million peers at its height. ...
  1 week ago

• It’s Alive! Hollywood Claims Pirate Bay Tracker Lives

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 504
  It’s Alive! Hollywood Claims Pirate Bay Tracker Lives : Via Threat Level . Did The Pirate Bay really shutter its tracker, as claimed on Tuesday? The Motion Picture Association doesn’t think so. Hollywood’s overseas lobbying organization claims OpenBitTorrent, billed as an independent “open tracker ...
  1 week ago

• 3 Count: Who’s Next?

  
  PlagiarismToday — Authority: 422
  Got any suggestions for the 3 Count. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday . 1: Hollywood Takes OpenBitTorrent’s ISP to Court First off today, now that The Pirate Bay’s tracker has shut down, though in its case to force users to use decentralized methods of downloading, the movie studios have turned their ...
  1 week ago

• BitTorrent After The Pirate Bay: Do You Still Need Trackers?

  
  NewTeeVee — Authority: 708
  The Pirate Bay made headlines earlier this week with yet another dramatic announcement, this time that the notorious BitTorrent site’s tracker has been officially shut down. But the move won’t impact downloading, site admins explained on a blog . Trackers are no longer needed to facilitate BitTorrent transfers, ...
  1 week ago

• Hollywood group claims The Pirate Bay tracker still lives

  
  Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment — Authority: 656
  Just a day after operators of The Pirate Bay announced they had shut down the sites controversial BitTorrent tracker, a movie-industry lobbying group is accusing them of trying to pull a fast one. On Tuesday the beleaguered website, which for the past six years had indexed torrents to facilitate often-illegal ...
  2 weeks ago

• Studios Sue Swedish ISP, Demand Closure of OpenBitTorrent

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 583
  Los Angeles - Several Hollywood movie studios have filed suit against a SwedishISP that is hosting OpenBitTorrent, an independent BitTorrent file-sharingtracker site that was launched in the wake of the The Pirate Bays announcedsale to Global Gaming Factory, TorrentFreak reported. The studios sued hostingprovider ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ill Miss You: Pirate Bay Tracker Shut Down

  
  Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome — Authority: 738
  Well folks, it happened. The Pirate Bay BitTorrent tracker officially kicked the bucket yesterday. What does this mean for Pirate Bay users? Although the site will remain operational for now, millions of BitTorrent users will lose the use of its tracker and will instead have to rely on DHT and alternative ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Pirate Bay shuts down its torrent tracker for good

  
  Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment — Authority: 656
  Operators of The Pirate Bay have shut down the sites controversial BitTorrent tracker, saying that advances in technology have made it unnecessary. Established in November 2003 in Sweden, The Pirate Bay tracked and indexed torrents, allowing users to search for and download comics, music, video games and movies ...
  2 weeks ago

• I’ll Miss You: Pirate Bay Tracker Shut Down

  
  People Buzz — Authority: 159
  Well folks, it happened. The Pirate Bay BitTorrent tracker officially kicked the bucket yesterday. What does this mean for Pirate Bay users? Although the site will remain operational for now, millions of BitTorrent users will lose the use of its tracker and will instead have to rely on DHT and alternative trackers to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hollywood Takes OpenBitTorrent’s ISP to Court

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 729
  After the news broke that The Pirate Bay owners would sell the site to Global Gaming Factory, an independent tracker OpenBitTorrent (OBT) was launched. Due to its public nature, OBT was seen by some as a possible replacement for The Pirate Bay tracker. Even though the sale never went through, OpenBitTorrent has ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pirate Bay Ship Hijackers Let Logo Hostage Go

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 729
  On Monday, we reported that after noticing the iconic Pirate Bay logo had no commercial protection, a Swedish company took the first steps towards hijacking it for their own. “The idea is to sell USB drives using this brand,” said Sandryds Handel spokesman Bengt Wessborg. “We saw that it was not already ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Pirate Bay Tracker Closes Its Doors as DHT Takes Over

  
  P2P News! — Authority: 138
  TPBs new logo suggesting magnetic links are the future in downloading files After six years of turbulent existence, time in which P2P and file sharing have become everyday words, the Pirate Bay crew shuts down the site’s BitTorrent tracker permanently as they hail the beginning of a new era where a distributed, ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Pirate Bay Tracker Closes Its Doors as DHT Takes Over

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 160
  TPBs new logo suggesting magnetic links are the future in downloading files After six years of turbulent existence, time in which P2P and file sharing have become everyday words, the Pirate Bay crew shuts down the site’s BitTorrent tracker permanently as they hail the beginning of a new era where a distributed, ...
  2 weeks ago

• TPB Tracker Down for Good

  
  What The Christ? — Authority: 155
  After more than six years, the minds behind The Pirate Bay have abandoned the BitTorrent tracker, switching to a de-centralized peer to peer network called DHT that all modern torrent clients join by default, even if they aren’t downloading any torrents. TorrentFreak has the report . You can also read more ...
  2 weeks ago

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