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Kickasstorrents.com Seized by the Feds. Google Points to a Clone…

Paul Resnikoff
August 7, 2016
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Kickasstorrents.com isn't quite dead, at least not yet. On July 20th, the US Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, as well as the IRS, jointly seized and shut down Kickasstorrents.com, the largest to... Read More...
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Kim Dotcom Lawyer Will Fight the Feds Pursuing KickAssTorrents Case

Daniel Sanchez
July 29, 2016
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Ira Rothkoen, the same man who’s worked in keeping Kim Dotcom out of U.S. hands for the past several years, will also represent Artem Vaulin in his case against U.S. federal authorities. Charged with one count ... Read More...

Wednesday: KickassTorrents Raided by Federal Authorities. Friday: KickassTorrents Back Online…

Paul Resnikoff
July 25, 2016
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KickassTorrents was the new Pirate Bay. Actually, maybe it still is. After getting raided and forcibly taken offline last week by the US Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, KickassTorrents has now ... Read More...
ExtraTorrent Closes For Good. These Are the Hottest Alternatives

Thought ExtraTorrent Was Dead? We Just Found 10 Torrent Alternatives

Daniel Sanchez
December 2, 2015
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After earning millions of dollars in advertising revenue, ExtraTorrent unexpectedly shut down this year.  Undeterred by the closure, users have quickly flocked to a number of different alternatives. The foll... Read More...
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Your Favorite Torrent Site Is About to Get Blocked In Germany

Paul Resnikoff
November 30, 2015
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Once upon a time, broadband ISPs offered unfettered access to sites offering unlicensed, illegally-uploaded content.  And that includes torrent sites.  But all of that is now changing, on both sides of the At... Read More...
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T-Mobile Flatly Refuses to Block the Pirate Bay

Paul Resnikoff
August 31, 2015
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It's funny: access providers are all about the music, until it comes time to protect it.  Which brings us to Austria, a fresh battleground for serious access-level blocking of pirate domains, and potentiall... Read More...
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Google Is Now Aggressively Pointing to the Pirate Bay…

Paul Resnikoff
February 3, 2015
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Less than 3 days after resurfacing...  ... Read More...

The Pirate Bay Is Baaaaaaaaaaaaack….

Paul Resnikoff
February 1, 2015
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Yeah, it works... ... Read More...
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IsoHunt Resurrects The Pirate Bay…

Nina Ulloa
December 12, 2014
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Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde thinks the site deserved to be shut down. The eighth most-notorious pirate site doesn't agree. IsoHunt.to has created oldpiratebay.org, a working copy of The Pirate Bay. T... Read More...
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Updated: Pirate Bay Raided and Taken Offline, Fake Sites Pop Up

Nina Ulloa
December 9, 2014
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Updated 12/10/14: The Pirate Bay is still down, although it could pop back up since the site was hosted on multiple cloud hosts. TPB's link archive was widely available, and many proxy sites and mirror site... Read More...

Thom Yorke’s BitTorrent Bundle Hits 1 Million Downloads…

Paul Resnikoff
October 3, 2014
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The following is a statement issued by Matt Mason, chief content officer of BitTorrent, early this morning. " Friday, Thom Yorke released an experiment: a new album called Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes; a new way of... Read More...

BitTorrent: “The Major Labels Only Care About a Spotify IPO”

Paul Resnikoff
September 30, 2014
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Have the major labels given up on selling music, and instead started praying for a Spotify windfall? Absolutely yes, according to BitTorrent CEO Matt Mason, who helped to orchestrate the recent Thom Yorke de... Read More...
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