Archive for the ‘ernesto’ Category

TOP 10 MOST POPULAR TORRENT SITES OF 2016

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 ...

THE PIRATE BAY IS BACK ONLINE!

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 ...

PIRATES FAIL TO PREVENT AMERICAN SNIPER’S BOX OFFICE RECORD

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. American ...

THOM YORKE SELLS NEW ALBUM VIA PROTECTED TORRENT

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 ...

TOP 10 MOST POPULAR TORRENT SITES OF 2014

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 ...

isoHunt FOUNDER PROMOTES ‘FREEDOM TO SHARE’ WITH NEW CLOTHING LINE

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 ...

DEMONOID SHOWS SIGNS OF LIFE ON NEW .HK DOMAIN

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, ...

PIRATE BAY MOVES TO THE CLOUD, BECOMES RAID-PROOF

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 ...

PIRATE BAY CELEBRATES 9th ANNIVERSARY, A BRIEF HISTORY

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 ...

PIRATE BAY AND isoHUNT RESPOND TO GOOGLE SEARCH RESULT PUNISHMENT

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 ...