Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, is fed up with ICANN and working to create a P2P DNS alternative.
He sent out a frustrated tweet and Dot-P2P was born. Dot-P2P, a decentralized, BitTorrent-powered DNS system, will pass DNS information through peer-to-peer transfers, working with a new .p2p domain extension.
Source:
http://blogs.computerworld.com/17444/p2p_dns_to_take_on_icann_after_us_domain_seizures
Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, is fed up with ICANN and working to create a P2P DNS alternative.
He sent out a frustrated tweet and Dot-P2P was born. Dot-P2P, a decentralized, BitTorrent-powered DNS system, will pass DNS information through peer-to-peer transfers, working with a new .p2p domain extension.
Source:
http://blogs.computerworld.com/17444/p2p_dns_to_take_on_icann_after_us_domain_seizures
It's been a while since the four Pirate Bay founders lost their case in a Stockholm district court -- April 2009, to be more precise.
The verdict was of course appealed, but alas, it was not to be.
Source:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/26/pirate-bay-founders-lose-appeal-jail-time-reduced-fines-raised/
Exactly a year ago The Pirate Bay team surprised friends and foes when it announced that the worlds largest BitTorrent tracker was shutting down for good.
The sites torrent index would remain online, but millions of users had to find alternative trackers or rely on trackerless technologies to share their torrents from then on. In addition, The Pirate Bay suggested a move away from .torrent files entirely in the future.
Source:
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-one-year-after-the-tracker-shut-down-101117/
Exactly a year ago The Pirate Bay team surprised friends and foes when it announced that the worlds largest BitTorrent tracker was shutting down for good.
The sites torrent index would remain online, but millions of users had to find alternative trackers or rely on trackerless technologies to share their torrents from then on. In addition, The Pirate Bay suggested a move away from .torrent files entirely in the future.
Source:
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-one-year-after-the-tracker-shut-down-101117/
Over 2 years ago the IFPI and other copyright groups brought action against Danish ISP Telenor demanding that it should block its subscribers from accessing The Pirate Bay.
Following a hearing which began a week ago, the Denmark's Supreme Court has ruled that The Pirate Bay must continue to be blocked, upholding previous rulings by lower courts
Source:
http://torrentfreak.com/supreme-court-rules-pirate-bay-must-stay-blocked-100527/
After failing in their case against The Pirate Bay, a music copyrights group has announced it will give up trying to get sites blocked and will leave file-sharers alone.
Not forever though. They will instead put all their efforts into getting the law changed. The IFPI said yesterday that it wants to bring this same strategy to your country soon.
Source:
http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharers-safe-until-music-biz-change-law-100409/
Following a DMCA takedown request from Fox regarding an Avatar torrent, Google has removed the BTJunkie homepage from its search results.
A few months ago Google erroneously banned The Pirate Bay homepage for which it later apologized. Whether or not the BTJunkie ban is also a mistake is unclear.
Source:
http://torrentfreak.com/google-removes-btjunkie-from-search-results-100301/
The Pirate Bay has always made it clear that they dont obey takedown requests from content owners.
That doesnt stop Hollywood from going after the Pirate Bays users, however, and they do so on a large scale. The Pirate Bay is well aware of these pirate tracking outfits, and does what it can to give them a hard time.
Read the full story here:
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-tricks-anti-pirates-with-fake-peers-081020/
