BPI extends Pirate Bay block request to O2, Orange, Sky, Talk Talk and Virgin
musicweek.com
UK music trade body has extended its request to block access to the world's largest illegal BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay, to five of the UK's largest ISPs. The organisation has written to O2, Orange, Sky, Talk Talk and Virgin …

Happy Birthday Pirate Bay, You've Just Turned 8 Years Old Today
TorrentFreak
We're talking about the life of The Pirate Bay, the world's most resilient BitTorrent site. Today the site celebrates its 8th birthday, a massive achievement which may not ever be bettered in terms of longevity, sheer volume of members and material …

Pirate Bay User Heavily Fined For Sharing Single Album
TorrentFreak
The 34-year-old, who made his upload using The Pirate Bay, will have to sacrifice ten days' worth of his salary and pay a total of around 900 euros so that rightsholders don't take him to court. In 2009, following the raids against the OiNK BitTorrent …

Pirate Bay Founders Launch "Legal" File-Sharing Site
Tom’s Guide
But unlike the Pirate Bay's BitTorrent roots, Bayfiles' HTTP-based file-sharing won't be throttled or filtered by ISPs – at least not yet – making it a more reliable option for storing and sharing files. Even more, storage and transfers on Bayfiles …
Pirate Bay Founders Launch BayFilesXBiz
Pirate Bay founders launch copyright friendly file-sharing service BayfilesWestword (blog)
Pirate Bay founders launch new file-sharing sitePC Advisor
Moneycontrol.com -bit-tech.net -Wired.co.uk
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Comcast Users Blocked From The Pirate Bay
TorrentFreak
During the last few hours reports have been trickling in from Comcast subscribers who are unable to access The Pirate Bay website. Although there is no sign that Comcast is actively blocking user access to the largest BitTorrent site on the Internet, …

The Pirate Bay: “The Battle of Internets is About to Begin”
TorrentFreak
One of the sites that has a fair share of experience with being blocked is The Pirate Bay. The popular BitTorrent site is currently censored in Ireland, Italy and Denmark, and almost lost its domain name to the US Government last year. …

100 P2P Users Produce 75% Of Files Downloaded
InformationWeek
The research team examined 55000 files being hosted on Mininova and The Pirate Bay — the two main portals for files being hosted on the BitTorrent P2P …
25% of files downloaded from The Pirate Bay are fakesArs Technica
Pirate Bay planning new uber-file-sharing serviceUNLIMITED CMU (blog)
Tiny group of pirates responsible for most of unauthorized file sharingAfterdawn.com
TG Daily -Gearlog (blog) -TechRadar UK
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WikiLeaks Still Funded by Pirate Bay Founder's Startup
BayNewser
Flattr, a micropayment startup created by Peter Sunde, co-founder of the infamous BitTorrent sharing site The Pirate Bay, still accepts donations on behalf …
WikiLeaks Can Still Get Cash – Thanks To Pirate Bay's Co-FounderForbes (blog)
Startup helps Wikileaks continue to receive donationsExaminer.com
Small Startup Keeps Cash Flowing to WikiLeaksThe Atlantic
Firedoglake -TechCrunch
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Pirate Bay Founder's Startup Still Funds WikiLeaks
BayNewser
Flattr, a micropayment startup created by Peter Sunde, co-founder of the infamous BitTorrent sharing site The Pirate Bay, still accepts donations on behalf …
WikiLeaks Can Still Get Cash – Thanks To Pirate Bay's Co-FounderForbes (blog)
Startup helps Wikileaks continue to receive donationsExaminer.com
Small Startup Keeps Cash Flowing to WikiLeaksThe Atlantic
TechCrunch -Firedoglake
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The Pirate Bay is Down Yet Again
Erictric
The Pirate Bay — the largest BitTorrent website in the world — appears to be down yet again. It's currently unknown what's causing the outage today. …