The Pirate Bay has 5000+ artists supporting ‘The Promo Bay’
Sent in by James C. Record labels and Hollywood have described The Pirate Bay as one of the biggest threats to their business, but thousands of artists clearly disagree with this view. In recent weeks more than 5000 independent artists have signed up to be promoted by the world’s largest torrent site. Those who were … Continue reading
No more torrents on The Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay, the largest torrent site has just removed all popular torrents from the site and has made a magnet switch. People can still download torrents but with Magnet links. The people at TPB think that it was a necessary move to future-proof the site and they also said “Just click the red button instead … Continue reading
Police plans to raid The Pirate Bay
Is this the final call? Is this the end of another major Torrent site? Is The Pirate Bay going to be the next Mininova? Maybe it is. The Pirate Bay has been raided before, in 2006 the 65 member police raid convicted 4 from the office and now the team running the TPB believes that … Continue reading
The Pirate Bay and EZTV are probably dead or halfway there
Two of the biggest torrent sites The Pirate Bay and EZTV are down, not responding to user requests. Many on Twitter are reporting the problem and when you ping the sites (trace route) its breaking at the very beginning. This could be a problem from the host of the websites and who can bring the … Continue reading
Major Torrent sites consider shutting down due to pressure
Raids, arrests, seizures, extraditions and jail time in the file-sharing world hasn’t gone unnoticed by the operators of major BitTorrent sites. Yesterday, the owners of BTjunkie decided to close their site because the stress became too much, and there are others who consider doing the same. While there are still plenty site owners who are … Continue reading
