The Pirate Bay Will Stop Serving Torrents
TorrentFreak
In a month The Pirate Bay will no longer offer downloads of .torrent files. Instead, the largest torrent site on the Internet will only provide so-called magnet links to its visitors. The first step in this direction was made today with The Pirate Bay …
The Pirate Bay says it will no longer serve Torrents, shifts to Magnet linksThe Next Web (blog)

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BT Pressured to Block PirateBay
The Red 99
By mark.james · November 5, 2011 · No comments In news which is sure to trouble swash-buckling digital pirates worldwide, the Motion Picture Association is putting pressure on BT to block access to torrent website, PirateBay. Last week, the same group …

Newzbin2 Team Up With The Pirate Bay To Defeat Site Blocking
TorrentFreak
From today their anti-censorship client now includes a feature to bypass DNS blocking not only on Newzbin2, but on the world's most famous torrent site, The Pirate Bay. All the experts warned what would happen but governments around the world didn't …

Bayfiles: The Pirate Bay Founders Launch File-Hosting Site
TorrentFreak
The Pirate Bay founders have launched a new file-sharing platform today. After leaving the world famous torrent site, two of the original founders are now back with a one-click file-hosting service called Bayfiles. Although Hollywood wont be cheering …

Palin movie debuts to an audience of empty seats
Salon
I will just wait until it comes out on beta max or maybe I'll look around The Pirate Bay for a torrent. Then again, TPB might flag it as a virus. "…Four other people joined him in the audience, 'including a brother and sister who stumbled upon the …

Anonymous Hacks FBI Contractors IRC Federal
Gizmodo
Together, we have the power to change this world for the better." I think it's safe to assume they're going to keep going with these hacks then? You can find the torrent to download the leak files at The Pirate Bay. [@AnonymousIRC, The Pirate Bay]

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H33t.com Goes Down Too
TorrentFreak
Following in the footsteps of The Pirate Bay, another major torrent site went down as well. H33t has been unresponsive for a few hours now. TorrentFreak contacted the owner of the site for more details on the situation, but he has yet to reply. …

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Anti-Piracy Outfit Threatens Pan-Indian Torrent Site Ban
TorrentFreak
AiPlex Software, the Indian anti-piracy outfit that made a name for itself when it allegedly DDoSed several major BitTorrent sites including The Pirate Bay, …

The Pirate Bay Goes Down on Christmas Weekend
Erictric
Yes, you're not the only one having issues reaching torrent-tracking website The Pirate Bay this Christmas weekend. The website is currently down, …

The Pirate Bay is Down
Erictric
Now, popular torrent-tracking website The Pirate Bay has also gone down, leaving pirates from across the world in the dark. It is far too soon for us to …