Kudos to Netflix for doing what some thought impossible; making paid content an easier and better choice than hitting the torrents. This from the their CEO at the D9 Conference: “One of the things that we’re most proud of is we’re now finally beating BitTorrent,” Hastings told AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher. Thanks to services like Netflix, Hastings said [...]
TorrentFreak reports that the Hollywood funded Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) has been successfully convincing police into busting down doors of some of the lesser known torrent sites of the world. What’s interesting is that after the whole scare-down, no real action seems to have taken place. Read more below: While sites like The Pirate Bay grab most of [...]
American authorities have spooked some torrent site owners to take the path of least resistence. This from TorrentFreak: The Internet’s second biggest BitTorrent site is dumping its .COM domain. In an apparent response to the US Government’s Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement recent seizures of domain names, the site moved to [...]
If only all days could be blessed with this sort of outlandish wimsy. Four years ago The Pirate Bay attempted to buy the mirconation of Sealand to get away from copyright laws that were bringing them down. Although it didn’t work, it did get the Pirate community dreaming. And dreaming they’ve done as recently the [...]
AC/DC Makes Download History
Breaking News: AC/DC will release its new album ‘Black Ice’ worldwide on October 20th, in physical format only since the band doesn’t sell its music online. However, the upcoming album has already been digitized by pirates, as it leaked to BitTorrent five days ago. In that time it has taken the trackers by storm, racking [...]