Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Pirate Bay

  • TalkTalk has become the latest UK ISP to block access to The Pirate Bay file sharing site, as legal action continues against the site elsewhere in Europe.
  • (PC Advisor)
  • The Recording Industry Association of Americas CEO, Cary Sherman, testified before Congress today on The Future of Audio.
  • (CNET News)
  • Several UK Internet Service Providers one-by-one started blocking the popular file sharing site, The Pirate Bay, after a British High Court ordered ISPs to block the file-sharing site in April.
  • (LongIslandPress)
  • Summary: The Pirate Bay is down for me. Is it down for you? It may be, since the site has confirmed it is experiencing "a quite big" Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. It's unclear who is behind it.
  • (ZDNet)
  • File-sharing specialist The Pirate Bay has launched a site that appears to be designed to help subscribers get around court-mandated blockades in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy.
  • (CNET News)
  • TalkTalk customers can no longer access the Pirate Bay directly from the UK, as the ISP has begun to cooperate with the High Courts order that the site must be blocked.
  • (Wired.co.uk)
  • The Pirate Bay has seen another broadband provider slam down the shutters, with BeBroadband confirming it has blocked UK access to the controversial torrent search site.
  • (SlashGear)
  • TalkTalk became the final major telecoms company in the UK to comply with a High Court judges order to block access to The Pirate Bay via its network.
  • (The Register)
  • This is just the latest string in cases that finds attempts against The Pirate Bay to only prove futile, but extremely profitable for The Torrent Tracker.
  • (WebProNews)
  • Be Broadband has confirmed that it has blocked access to The Pirate Bay website in the UK. The great Pirate Bay cut-off comes in the wake of a court ruling in April that ordered five ISPs to prevent their users accessing the Swedish torrent site.
  • (Techradar.com)

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