Pirate Bay

• Globally, the trillion dollar entertainment industry and anti piracy lobby is working overtime to force websites promoting free download of movies and music including TPB to shut down operations and give up business.
(International Business Times)
• 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)
• Last night thousands of websites, including Reddit, ran into trouble due to the "leap second." According to some reports The Pirate Bay also crashed due to this unfortunate bug, but this is certainly not the case.
(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)
• Summary: The chief lawyer for the .
(ZDNet)
• 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)
• Cases of alleged infringement include Kim Dotcom's "MegaUpload", Richard O'Dwyers "TV Shack", resilient "The Pirate Bay", and of course peer-to-peer sharing via torrent software.
(jdsupra.com)
• 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)
• COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Military prosecutors say a Danish soldier very likely caused the death of two hostages while stopping a pirate vessel off Somalia earlier this year.
(Inside Bay Area)
• 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)