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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
JUST TO LET YOU KNOW
To reduce spamming, the BigO website is going through Cloudflare. What it does is scan your browser to ensure the visitor is not a spam. Do not be alarmed as this usually takes only a few seconds. Email us if you still have difficulty accessing the ...
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
The Pirate Bay has risen from its digital ashes once again. TPB was back online on January 31, 2015 , more than seven weeks after its servers were raided. The notorious torrent site is operating from the familiar .se domain and it appears that data loss is minimal. By Ernesto ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2015
Liar, liar, pants on fire. You see them in their corporate offices. In suits and ties. Dressed like gentlemen. But out from their mouths come statistics, charts and threats. Too bad the sniper shot dead their argument that piracy will eat their profits. It's called sharing. By Ernesto of TorrentFreak.
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2014
In a surprise move Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has released a new album, not through the regular channels, but via BitTorrent. Yorke is not sharing his work for free though, instead he's selling the album via a new paywalled torrent format which can't be shared with non-paying fans. By Ernesto ...
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Thursday, January 9th, 2014
Continuing a long-standing New Year’s tradition, today we present an up-to-date list of the world’s most-visited BitTorrent sites. At the start of 2014 The Pirate Bay continues to pull in the most visitors, followed by KickassTorrents and Torrentz. Household name isoHunt.com disappears after settling with the MPAA, but its replacement ...
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Sunday, November 24th, 2013
After being shut down in October 2013, isoHunt reappeared online last weekend (November 17), directing visitors towards legal platforms to enjoy movies and TV shows. However, the notice doesn’t mean that isoHunt founder Gary Fung no longer supports file-sharing. On the contrary, “Freedom to Share” is one of the pillars ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2013
After more than five months of downtime Demonoid’s website is showing signs of life again. Instead of timing out, demonoid.me has started to redirect to a new demonoid.hk domain, displaying a “403 Forbidden” HTTP status after initially showing a “nothing to see here” notice. While Demonoid is not back yet, ...
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Saturday, October 20th, 2012
The Pirate Bay has made an important change to its infrastructure. The world’s most famous BitTorrent site has switched its entire operation to the cloud. From now on The Pirate Bay will serve its users from several cloud hosting providers scattered around the world. The move will cut costs, ensure ...
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2012
The Pirate Bay turned nine years old on September 15, a truly remarkable achievement considering the history of the site. What started out in 2003 as a fun project of a small group of friends turned into one of the largest websites on the Internet. The site has become a ...
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Sunday, August 19th, 2012
We have now begun to see the first signs of Google’s announced punishment of “pirate” websites. The changes are resulting in lower search rankings for many file-sharing sites, but that doesn’t seem to bother The Pirate Bay. They are, however, disappointed that Google is giving in to the demands of ...
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