5 Alternatives to The Pirate Bay
The admins of The Pirate Bay have stressed that in order for the Bay to stay alive, they need to adapt the site to a legitimate one, selling the site for $7.8 Million in the process. While some users showed their support for the infamous website, others are already jumping ship, demanding that their [...]
Piracy Investigators Infiltrate Private Torrent Sites
Speaking with Guardian Unlimited primarily regarding piracy counter-measures, Peter Anaman, a senior internet investigator for legal firm Covington and Burling has admitted that his organisation has infiltrated unnamed private BitTorrent tracker sites and shares their method of gaining access;
“Many groups didn’t start off as private. They became private because they felt threatened, so we were [...]
What countries have the riskiest websites?
One of the world’s leading security technology companies breaks down the world’s countries that have the most number of web sites with malicious downloads, browser exploits and spam.
McAfee recently announced the results of its SiteAdvisor research report which created a global road map of the riskiest, and the safest, places to surf and [...]
The Pirate Bay abandons plans for a sovereign nation
The world’s most famous BitTorrent pirates decide to drop anchor in their home country of Sweden, saying the whole affair was really for them to be able to “look on Google Maps and find ourselves there”.
It was January 9th of last month that The Pirate Bay fired the proverbial “shot heard around the world” when [...]
Azureus – A Beginner’s Guide to BitTorrent Downloading
Easy step-by-step guide that will help you start downloading movies, music, TV shows, and more in no time at all.
The subject of much debate between those who regularly use the BitTorrent P2P protocol is what the best client server to use is.
Three are those who swear by uTorrent with it’s low memory footprint. [...]
EliteTorrents Admin To Serve Jail Time
The admin for EliteTorrents, which uses the BitTorrent technology to file share, was hit with jail time. EliteTorrents.com was the largest US based BitTorrent tracker and the administrators of the site are seeing the law put to full use against them. They are expected to be sentenced in December with jail time and [...]
RIAA: One Month of Torrents is Worth More Than the GDP of France
According to the RIAA’s own figures, the math is catastrophic!
In January 2006, there were approximately 2370 music torrents posted. By estimating that each music file is 5 megs, we can estimate the number of infringements as the number of downloads multiplied by the estimated number of songs. I ran my program, and when I saw [...]
