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Student Hit With $675,000 Fine in RIAA File-Sharing Case

Tenenbaum, a graduate student from Boston admitted to downloading and sharing 30 songs in 2004, faced a fine up to $4.5 million – $150,000 per infringement. After a week long trial the jury eventually decided to award the RIAA $22,500 per song based on “willful infringement” mounting up to a total fine of $675,000 for [...]

Napster’s $10 Million Bid for The Pirate Bay Rejected

Earlier this week Wayne Rosso cast doubt over the ability of GGF CEO Hans Pandeya’s ability to raise the funding for the Pirate Bay takeover. In a response to these allegations the board of GGF has revealed that there is more interest than some had expected. One of the parties that offered a 2 million dollar [...]

Italian RIAA Sues The Pirate Bay For 1 Million Euros

If the seas of BitTorrent have proven a little choppy for the crew of The Pirate Bay in the last few years, the last few weeks have seen some of the most turbulent waters so far. They have the fallout from the planned sale to Global Gaming Factory to contend with, a new lawsuit initiated [...]

The Pirate Bay Ordered To Close In The Netherlands

In an Amsterdam court last week, BREIN’s lawyer argued that The Pirate Bay is responsible for millions of copyright infringements every day, and that the site should therefore be blocked to visitors from The Netherlands. Interestingly, the news came as a total surprise to Fredrik, Gottfrid and Peter who said they received no official summons and [...]

Dutch Court Refuses To Inform Pirate Bay Defendant

At the Amsterdam court last week, BREIN’s lawyer demanded that the operators of The Pirate Bay block access to all Dutch visitors. The lawyer claimed that The Pirate Bay is assisting in copyright infringement by allowing millions of visitors a day to download copyrighted content. Today, the verdict in the case will be announced to the [...]

GGF: Pirate Bay Purchase Will Happen August 27

This week, pulling out of his fledgling partnership with prospective Pirate Bay buyer Global Gaming Factory X, ex Grokster CEO Wayne Rosso told TorrentFreak that he wasn’t prepared to ruin his reputation by associating himself with GGF any longer. Citing broken promises and a lack of “straightforward” talking from GGF CEO Hans Pandeya, Rosso jumped [...]

The Hidden Tracker – Anonymous tracker anyone?

The Hidden Tracker. It sounds promising already, right? Well, delving further into the project won’t diminish that. With all of the pending court ordeals and corporate sales going on for The Pirate Bay, its future is quite vague at best. Will the ship sink – or get outfitted with all sorts of new weaponry through legal means? [...]

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BitTorrent Behind the Scenes: isoHunt

This summer TorrentFreak features the workstations and offices belonging to some of the leading figures in the BitTorrent community. In our first article in this series the founder of BTjunkie was kind enough to give us a little insight into his daily operations, and today we continue with isoHunt. Founded in 2003, isoHunt is one of [...]

Italy’s Most Prominent BitTorrent Site Hacked

One of the problems with running a website or any Internet presence is the constant threat of malicious attacks. Almost everyone will recall the terrible mauling experienced by MediaDefender after their confidential emails leaked onto the Internet, and since then many anti-piracy groups and related companies have felt the wrath of hackers. But of course, being [...]

Pirate Bay Sale Dead in the Water

Last month the BitTorrent community was shaken up when GGF publicly announced that it would take over The Pirate Bay and turn it into a legal outfit. They said they would harvest computing resources from some of its users, money from others and pay off copyright holders and indeed some of the users with money [...]