Category: P2P
-
Pirate party, 1, 2, 3
There was already a Pirate Party in Sweeden (along with ThePirateBay.org): Piratpartiet. But things are speeding up neatly in those days with the appearance of two French-speaking parties: In France, le Parti Pirate prepares actively the Presidential elections of next year. In Belgium, le Parti Pirate. But, of course, this is only part of it…
-
ThePirateBay is back online
Merely a few days after their server computers were seized by the Swedish police, ThePirateBay.org is already back online. It appears that as any global private company, ThePirateBay.org really had a crash recovery plan prepared to correct extreme circumstances like those found last Wednesday. The new server is located in Netherlands (an additional server has…
-
ThePirateBay: some more
The latest news in the battle between the entertainment industry and the (previously) world’s largest BitTorrent tracker site. The owners of ThePirateBay.org, still very sure of the legality of their web site (and it seems that they some good points drawn from the Swedish law), announced that they would be seeking for compensation from the…
-
ThePirateBay: We’ll be back
That’s the message that the owners of ThePirateBay.org are sending right now. They expect to come back within a day or two. Woa! If they go as quick as that, it seems they were ready or prepared. I’m not sure that the entertainment industry was expecting such a fast move. I did not.
-
ThePirateBay.org: Servers seized by police
The world biggest indexation site for BitTorrent contents, ThePirateBay.org, would consider itself totally immune from actions from copyright holders associations (like the American RIAA and MPAA) because of its geographical location in Sweeden. As a matter of fact, in this Scandinavian country indexing contents (showing where to find them and not providing them by yourself)…