A few weeks ago Torrage, the world’s first torrent hosting service, opened up its source code to the public. With this code everyone can easily start a torrent hosting service to offer the BitTorrent community a little more redundancy, and Zoink.it is one of the first to do so.
EA’s new Need for Speed Shift is the most bug-ridden piece of code I have witnessed in recent times. But when the Xbox 360 version seemed to want to access the Playstation Store today, things had clearly gone too far.
When a torrent site disappears unexpectedly, many users jump to the conclusion that this could be down to anti-piracy groups. Private site ScL/Clover will be back soon and is quite alright, so don’t panic.
All around the internet, webmasters have blogs and forums showing rapidshare.com links for their downloads. However, unlike BitTorrent Rapidshare doesn’t have an official file index. That’s where Rapidshare.net comes in.
Torrext is a nifty new service that allows users to publish torrent metadata and make it searchable by search engines. The service runs on Google’s App Engine and the code is released into the public domain.
Do you consider yourself to be a supporter of The Pirate Bay and Pirate Parties? Here is a chance to show your support and to help a student out at the same time.
While the fun times of The Pirate Bay will no doubt linger for a number of years yet, eventually the memories will fade along with your TPB T-shirt. How about a nice replacement?
Last month the UK Pirate Party announced that they had become officially registered. Now just weeks later the party’s popularity is increasing – they now have more Facebook supporters than the Labour government.
Demonoid, the most prominent and frequently visited private tracker has closed the site for maintenance today. The operators are trying to solve some technical difficulties that have caused problems for several days already.
Customers of Ireland’s biggest ISP can no longer access The Pirate Bay. Eircom settled with Ireland’s music industry and agreed to block the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker.
Canada is planning to reform its copyright law and if the entertainment industries have their way, the rights and privacy of consumers will be thrown overboard. That is, unless Canadians have their voices heard.
According to an article published today on ComputerWorld, the main motivation for individuals blowing the whistle on companies using unlicensed software, is not about revenge, but morals. Yeah, right.
Pearl Jam’s ninth studio album ‘Backspacer’ is set to be released a week from now. However, a digital copy of the album leaked before the official release and close to 200,000 BitTorrent users have already added it to their collection.
When MC Lars released “download this song” on his fifth studio album back in 2006 he was urging the record labels to reconsider their outdated business models. Not much has changed in the three years that passed, let’s hope there will be some progress in 2012.
Four members of the Scene release group RNS have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement. They face five years in jail and a $250,000 fine.
The publishers of the PC version of Batman: Arkham Asylum are quietly laughing among themselves as their novel anti-piracy solution causes a pirate to break cover – for gaming tips.
Today it’s 090909, and this is also the name of a new experimental art project of filmmaker Anders Weberg that’s being released on BitTorrent trackers near you.
Every week thousands of people receive threatening emails form their ISPs, warning them that they’ve been caught downloading copyrighted material. It usually stays with a warning, but not for Sandy Johnson. Torrents ruined her life.
An artist who launched an attack on Spotify after he complained they paid him less than a busker could earn in a day, is angry again. Apparently Spotify won’t remove his music from their site.
isoHunt has been one of the leading BitTorrent search engines since 2004. The site has millions of active users, who today find that the site is inaccessible for unknown reasons.
The MPAA has teamed up with the Indian movie industry to educate theater staff about camcorder piracy as more and more Hollywood films are set for release in the region.
The Japanese government and music companies have set their sights on a “pioneering system” designed to stop the unauthorized copying of music on mobile phones. Persistent offenders could have their phone’s music capabilities disabled.
TorrentReactor.net has nested itself among the 5 most visited torrent sites on the Internet, which makes it a lucrative target for hackers and scammers. And indeed, for the second time in recent months TorrentReactor has been compromised and injected with a hidden iframe.
It’s not due for release for a few weeks yet, but Halo 3: ODST, the hugely anticipated release for Xbox360, has been leaked online.
Introducing a FreakBits guest post by Iras – an African rap lyricist, composer & storyteller who decided to release his entire discography for free.
Beep! Beep! Back up the Truck is a Dutch record label that offers torrent downloads of their entire catalog of music for free under a Creative Commons license. Freakbits had a chance to talk to the label’s co-founder to find out why.
Swedish writer Unni Drougge has spoken out in defense of The Pirate Bay, put her latest book on the site for free and also held a speech at a Pirate Party rally.
The makers of the film “X’s and O’s,” have piracy to thank for Hollywood’s renewed interest for their romantic comedy. Thanks to tens of thousands of illegal downloads the film will get a second chance.
According to reports circulating for the last couple of weeks, Hollywood is chasing down a movie cammer in France whose work is released under the ‘THX.FUCK’ pseudonym.
