Monday, July 2, 2012

Pirate Bay

  • As part of the punitive measures against both The Pirate Bay and its founders, a Swedish court previously banned two of the torrent site's founders from having anything to do with its future operations.
  • (TorrentFreak)
  • BT has joined other UK internet service providers (ISPs) in blocking access to The Pirate Bay (TPB), a ban the group says users have already circumvented.
  • (BBC News)
  • Famous bittorrent search engine The Pirate Bay is down again.
  • (Reason Unknown - Legit Reviews)
  • Two founders of notorious BitTorrent search website, The Pirate Bay, are bidding to get an earlier Swedish court verdict overturned at the European Court of Human Rights.
  • (The Register)
  • SOPA and PIPA were intended to curb the illegal download of copyrighted materials from foreign rogue sites, like The Pirate Bay. Technology companies and websites banned together to opposed the two bills, which many speculated went too far.
  • (CBS News)
  • Summary: Nearly 10 years ago, Cleanfeed was designed to protect the British public from child abuse imagery. A decade later, the same system is used to enforce ISP blocks on file-sharing and Magnet-link websites like The Pirate Bay.
  • (ZDNet)
  • Telefonica, which owns the O2 brand and fixed-line provider Be Broadband, is implementing a High Court order to block conventional web access to file-sharing search engine The Pirate Bay.
  • (The Register)
  • The Pirate Bay's co-founders Peter "brokep" Sunde and Fredrik "TiAMO" Neij filed an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights Wednesday to get the Swedish court verdict against them overturned.
  • (Gigaom.com)
  • BT joined those who were forced to block Pirate Bay in the UK and within seconds the site was shifted to a new IP address and made the blocking moot. Now Big Content is forced into a blocking war which is like a game of wack-a-mole.
  • (Fudzilla)

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