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

  
  CrunchGear — Authority: 796
  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 ...
  23 hours ago

• The Pirate Bay Tracker Shuts Down for Good

  
  CyberLaw Blog — Authority: 141
  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. ...
  2 days ago

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

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 507
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• 3 Count: Who’s Next?

  
  PlagiarismToday — Authority: 423
  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 ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  NewTeeVee — Authority: 722
  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, ...
  6 days ago

• Hollywood group claims The Pirate Bay tracker still lives

  
  Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment — Authority: 678
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Studios Sue Swedish ISP, Demand Closure of OpenBitTorrent

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 593
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Ill Miss You: Pirate Bay Tracker Shut Down

  
  Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome — Authority: 753
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• The Pirate Bay shuts down its torrent tracker for good

  
  Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment — Authority: 678
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  People Buzz — Authority: 157
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Hollywood Takes OpenBitTorrent’s ISP to Court

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 736
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Pirate Bay Ship Hijackers Let Logo Hostage Go

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 736
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  P2P News! — Authority: 137
  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, ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 161
  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, ...
  1 week 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 ...
  1 week ago

• What We’ve Forgotten about Software Maintenance, The Pirate Bay Shuts Down Its Tracker, and More

  
  The Command Line — Authority: 133
  MPAA, Sony ask courthouse to restore its wireless access Mike Masnick has the follow up at Techdirt, including that the industry folks followed up with an offer to help filter against future infringement. I think the quote from Broadband Reports has it right and I am a little less skeptical than Mike. If they can ...
  1 week ago

• The Pirate Bay kills its tracker, tries to usher in the DHT age

  
  CrunchGear — Authority: 796
  Pretty big news to share with y’all today: The Pirate Bay is no more . Well, “no more” in the sense that the site’s admins have decided to kill the tracker once and for all. The site will continue to serve the BitTorrent community, but will instead rely upon trackerless technology, such as DHT and PEX . ...
  1 week ago

• The Pirate Bay Trackers Go Offline Forever

  
  CyberLaw Blog — Authority: 141
  The Pirate Bay Trackers Go Offline Forever : “Any other time in The Pirate Bay’s history, news about their centralized tracking servers going offline would be cause for celebration within the entertainment industry. Today, the crew of The Pirate Bay (whoever they are) have announced just that – the centralized ...
  1 week ago

• 3 Count: Twilight Tonight

  
  PlagiarismToday — Authority: 423
  Got any suggestions for the 3 Count. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday . 1: The Pirate Bay Tracker Shuts Down for Good First off today, The Pirate Bay has announced its plans to shut down its tracker for good. However, it isn’t for copyright reasons, but rather, to encourage file sharers and other ...
  1 week ago

• The Pirate Bay Permanently Shutters File-Sharing Tracker

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 593
  Stockholm, Sweden - Marking "the end of an era,"the operators of file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay on Tuesday shut down theirBitTorrent tracker, which grew over six years to become the largest hub forfinding copyrighted materials for download in the world, TorrentFreak reported. "Now that thedecentralized system for ...
  1 week ago

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