Archive for August 27th, 2009

Choppy ride for software group that wants Pirate Bay site (EARTHtimes.org)

Stockholm – Trading in the software group that wants to buy the Pirate Bay file sharing site remained halted Thursday as shareholders met to discuss the Pirate Bay deal. Global Gaming Factory X AB (GGF) in June said it made an offer to buy the Pirate…

The Pirate Bay is back with a vengeance (TechRepublic)

Attempting to secure revenue streams, US media conglomerates targeted The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker. TPB is fighting back. Contributor “enigmax” at TorrentFreak reported The Pirate Bay Taken Offline by Swedish Authorities on Monday, the 24th of August: Today, Stockholm s district court took action to completely remove The Pirate Bay from the [...]

Pirate Bay back in business (UPI)

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Aug. 26 (UPI) — The Swedish Pirate Bay file-sharing Web site is back online after it was temporarily shut down by its former Internet Service Provider.

Court Castrates Mininova, The Pirate Bay Alternative (Wired News)

BitTorrent file sharing suffered another setback on a global scale Wednesday when a Dutch-based court ordered Pirate Bay rival – Mininova — to remove all its copyrighted works