torrentfreak.com - 8/17/2009
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pirate bay In fact, every TorrentFreak reader can easily store a backup of The Pirate Bay on his or her hard drive. Everyone can download it straight from The Pirate Bay, conveniently packed into a massive torrent amounting to 21.3 Gigabytes of data. The anonymous uploader who compiled this huge ...
driverheaven.net - 8/25/2009
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driverheaven.net —
File-sharing website The Pirate Bay (TPB) is back
online after its former internet service provider (ISP) was...
forced to take down the site. Stockholm district court made the order on 21 August, saying ISP Black Internet would be fined 500,000 kronor (£43,000) if it did not comply. _________ ...
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Pirate Bay website back online
tweaktown.com - 8/21/2009
arstechnica.com - 8/24/2009
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Download a backup of The Pirate Bay before it sets sail
TechSpot —
... and the infamous torrent distributor will be just another martyr in the battle for freedom of information. Rather than accept its fate, a member of the site's massive community has decided to take some preventative measures . The anonymous patron has compiled and uploaded a copy of The Pirate Bay's massive torrent index. Conveniently ...
Weekend of Aug. 20 – 23 in review
Icrontic —
... the site’s assets and brand to Global Games Factory for £4.72 million. GGF proposed a new subscription model that would reimburse users for their bandwidth and copyright holders for their IP if they opted to approve and monetize the download. You might imagine how well this was received by The Pirate Bay’s community. Indeed, in response to the impending sale to GGF, an enterprising user collected the site’s body of torrents into a 21GB archive available for download. The backup includes a mockup of the site’s design, some 874 thousand torrents, and a working search feature. ...
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Pirate Bay sale steams ahead, but who's doing the selling?
arstechnica.com 8/7/2009 —
Who owns The Pirate Bay? It sounds like a simple question, but it turns out to have a surprisingly complicated answer. As Swedish company Global Gaming Factory X tries to round up the money to purchase the site's ...
New Pirate Bay Will Become a Pay Site
torrentfreak.com 7/17/2009 — tpb Thus far the plans revealed by GGF concerning the future of the site and tracker have been rather vague and uncertain. However, today the freshly appointed Wayne Rosso - who has previous experience with failing P2P services - came out with a few ...
Pirate Bay 2.0: Pay Pirates to Become Consumers
wired.com 7/2/2009 — The Swedish gaming executive who’s gambling nearly $8 million buying The Pirate Bay is convinced he can turn the 20 million users of the world’s most notorious file sharing site into well-behaved consumers — even amid a deluge of ...
Next up for Pirate Bay defendants: Italian trial?
news.cnet.com 5/4/2009 — Having just made it through a high-profile trial in their native Sweden, four men closely associated with The Pirate Bay may now have to face justice in Italy.
IDG is reporting that that country is now considering initiating its own prosecution ...
50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped
torrentfreak.com 2/17/2009 — pirate bay What has been shown in court today is that the prosecutor cannot prove that the .torrent files he is using as evidence actually used The Pirate Bay’s tracker. Many of the screenshots being used clearly state there is no connection to the ...
The Final Day of The Pirate Bay Trial
torrentfreak.com 3/3/2009 — As The Pirate Bay returns after being offline all night, the lawyers of defendants Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Swartholm, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström present their closing statements to the court. Apparently, Fredrik (TiAMO) got the site back up from ...
Big Content appeals Pirate Bay case—damages were too low
arstechnica.com 5/21/2009 —
No one's happy about The Pirate Bay verdict. The site admins, who are now on the hook for a collective 30 million kronor in damages plus one year each in jail, have charged that the judge was biased . But the movie and music businesses ...
Pirate Bay trial starts Monday; pirate bus en route
arstechnica.com 2/13/2009 —
The Harvard Law students defending accused file-swapper Joel Tenenbaum are doing their best to turn his upcoming trial into a media event, but when it comes to pure spectacle, they have nothing on The Pirate Bay. The Swedish trial against the notorious BitTorrent tracker opens next ...
The Pirate Bay verdict: guilty, with jail time
arstechnica.com 4/17/2009 —
The Pirate Bay "spectrial" has ended in a guilty verdict, prison sentences for the defendants, and a shared 30 million kronor ($3.5 million) fine. According to the Swedish district court , the operators of the site were guilty of ...
Global torrent connections mapped out by The Pirate Bay
arstechnica.com 2/5/2009 —
Have you ever wondered how many people around the globe are seeding and leeching torrents? The Pirate Bay, one of the most popular torrent trackers, has published an interactive map with data for each country, both in terms of an exact percentage of users and how many connections ...
GGF plans to steer The Pirate Bay freeloaders straight —
The Register 8/19/2009
Cosies up to copyright owners Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) hopes to transform millions of file-sharing freeloaders on The Pirate Bay into upstanding customers by letting copyright owners remove content or authorize files and receive compensation.… ...
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