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BitTorrent Raid Aftermath: The Seas of Piracy Are Calm Again

Three days after a huge international BitTorrent raid, we take a look around, and find that the pirate system is still (mostly) standing.READ»

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Massive International BitTorrent Raid: Where Will We Download Mad Men Now?

The Pirate Bay. BTJunkie. Mediafire. All these sites are down or struggling today, after a 14-nation police force raided a Swedish hosting center and a Czech university. It's one of the biggest crackdowns ever, but that doesn't mean pirates are out of options.READ»

LCD Soundsystem's Anti-Piracy Plea to Fans Goes Unheeded

LCD Soundsystem played a secret gig in New York the other day, and the band used the event as an opportunity to make an unusual plea, direct to their fans: Please don't leak our upcoming album on the Web. It fell on deaf ears.After ...READ»

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Did Sinking Pirate Bay Cause More Piracy? And Does It Matter Anyway?

Pro-copyright activists celebrated while file-sharers cried at rulings on the Pirate Bay's illegality, and the subsequent attempts to sink the site. But some new data suggests piracy sites tripled in the aftermath, which really ...READ»

Acquisition of the Pirate Bay Collapses

Hackers and Web nerds worldwide were distressed when torrent search engine The Pirate Bay announced last month that it had be sold into a legitimate channel of business. A company called Global Gaming Factory had a plan that would ...READ»