Many of our readers may be interested in removing ads simply because they’re mildly annoying, while others may be in favor of ad support simply because it’s a way to maintain the websites and the free software that they’re using live. Still, when it comes to the ads promoted by the major torrent clients (and […]
The struggle between torrent websites and the web blockade they face tightens. While opinions may vary a lot between feeling optimistic for websites like Rutracker (and the rest of the so-called pirate side of the internet) and feeling pessimistic for their chances of fighting the official and lawful system, the balance of forces sure seems […]
Last week, Kanye West released his new album in a somewhat controversial manner, making said album available only on Tidal and on his personal website. Because of the relative scarcity of Kanye West – The Life of Pablo and because of the hype surrounding its release, fans took to illegally downloading the album in even […]
What Is It? We all like keeping an eye out for good file sharing opportunities, since the internet is becoming more and more regulated against torrent download sites and torrents in general. Video streaming websites have so far eluded the same restrictions (as we discussed in this previous post about the Google pirate algorithm), so […]
Earlier this year, in June, the online world was in turmoil over the long-awaited most recent Google update that finally was released. Expected by SEO experts and by the copyright debate groups to be first and foremost a pirate update, targeting copyright infringing sites and making their activity impossible or more difficult, the new update […]
A recent blitz move on the proxy websites supporting the popular files and torrents of major file sharing sites like Pirate Bay and Kickass Torrents made many of these files unavailable to site users. Proxy websites (like Proxy House, one of the proxies most hit by the recent operation) have all risen in popularity in the […]
According to recent reports, Google Chrome blocked its user’s access to a few major torrenting websites due to an alleged threat posed by ‘harmful programs’ supposedly hosted by said sites. The blocking began a few days ago back on the 10th of July and caused a growing concern among the browser’s users. The list of torrent sites blocked by […]
It is not that uncommon for torrent sites to have occasional periods of downtime, so when users found EZTV down, there weren’t any immediate reasons to worry. Through their very nature of existing somewhere on the Wild West-like fringes of the Internet, top torrent sites frequently encounter either server problems or legal issues that can […]
I’m sure you all remember the 63 year old Romanian woman arrested for file sharing with a BitTorrent client. The international crackdown on file sharing has struct once again. In the last week of May 2015, the police in Poland reported that they made quite a few arrests following a long investigation into ‘cybercrime’ hubs (websites […]
The popular torrenting news website TorrentFreak recently reported on an unusual case involving the arrest of the world’s oldest pirate. The woman in question, well past her prime, has been busted for using BitTorrent and other similar file sharing software to distribute copyrighted works. Though the case is still under investigation, it calls attention to […]
