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Pirate Bay gets a new name: Liberty Bay?

Posted Apr 26th 2008 10:00AM by Danny Mendez
Filed under: Fun, Internet, Web services, P2P

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Perhaps it's a blatant F.U. to content creators everywhere or maybe it's just an F.U. to Rockstar, but the Pirate Bay has gone out of its way to temporarily rename itself "Liberty Bay" in honor of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV.

The purpose for the publicity stunt is unclear, but -- considering the company's line of work -- it's likely to get the word out on the highly-rumored rumored Grand Theft Auto IV torrents that all the young kids blab about nowadays. Though we don't think the site's blog will address the gutsy move unless Rockstar starts throwing a fit, we'll let you know if things gets messy.

[via Kotaku]
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BayWords: Pirate Bay's blogging service

Posted Apr 17th 2008 9:00AM by Romeo Wahed
Filed under: Internet, Blogging, Web services

BayWords - Pirate Bay's blogging serviceIt looks like torrents isn't the only business the Pirate Bay is concerning itself with. First there was image hosting and now there's blogging. BayWords is the site's foray into the world of blogging services, aiming to provide a service that does not want to restrict "uncomfortable thoughts and ideas" and let people say and link to what they want (as long as it complies with Swedish law).

Apparently one of the Pirate Bay captains, Brokep, had a friend who's blog was shut down by linking to copyrighted material. This inspired him to offer this alternative, which runs on a customized version of a multi user install of Wordpress. The site plans to continue adding features, updates, and themes, and encourages users to "blog your heart out."

If you've been looking for a place to take your blog, BayWords might offer a nice home, as long as you don't mind having "myname.baywords.com" as your address. Or maybe you just want to be able to tell people that your blog is hosted by Swedish pirates. Or something like that. Unfortunately, it does look like ads will be implemented eventually to cover expenses, but information on bandwidth or other stats are not available at this point.

[via TorrentFreak]
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Another one bites the dust: Demonoid is dead

Posted Nov 10th 2007 1:00PM by Christina Warren
Filed under: Internet, Web services, P2P

In what appears to be a continuing trend, popular BitTorrent site Demonoid, has shut down. Again. On November 9, 2007, the site went dark, displaying nothing more than a cryptic message that seems to say, "the fuzz turned up the heat on our landlord and we had to bail."

It's a sad, sad day for file sharers. Oh wait, that was October 23, when the really awesome site was shut down. Or the first time Demonoid was hit (a few years ago), or back in June, or when the servers went crazy, or when they killed Canadian access...

Not to minimize the pain, but we think many people expected this. The only mainstream public torrent site brazen enough to boastfully do its thing is The Pirate Bay. In the past six months alone, Demonoid, ISOHunt (and all the sites/trackers hosted by ISOHunt), OiNK, and Torrentspy have either shut-down or become crippled to the point of being unusable. This all comes nearly three-years after the first major torrent site, Suprnova.org, shut its doors in December 2004.

Perhaps a proper memorial is in order. We at DownloadSquad, call for November 10, 2007 to stand as the "BitTorrent Day of Mourning."

Dedicated to the brave thieves who risked their internet service so we could get poor quality screeners of Million Dollar Baby...

Thanks to everyone who sent this in.
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Fall TV shows make it to Bittorrent before they make it to TV

Posted Jul 30th 2007 7:40PM by Grant Robertson
Filed under: Video, News, P2P

During the last week, highly anticipated fall TV pilots have made their way on to Bittorrent trackers in record numbers. Shows like NBC's "Bionic Woman," ABC's "Pushing Daisies," The CW's "Reaper" are popping up like wildflowers, and network executives are tight-lipped about the matter.

According to TV Week, "Network representatives expressed surprise that the full-length pilots were on the Web and alerted their studio partners. Some said they were anticipating that critic and industry screener copies would leak eventually as smattering of fall pilots have found their way online during the past few years. All networks contacted declined official comment."

[via Digg]
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The Pirate Bay launches image hosting service for some reason

Posted Jun 21st 2007 1:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Internet, Web services

BayImgTorrent tracker, The Pirate Bay is launching yet another side project. The team has already announced that it's working on a video sharing site, and a stealthier way to download files using BitTorrent. But first, they want you to look at some pretty pictures.

The Pirate Bay's latest project is called BayImg, and it's described as a "free uncensored image hosting" site. This may or may not be a response allegations that Flickr is censoring images uploaded by users, but it kind of makes it sound like BayImg could become a repository for child pornography.

There is a line on the home page that reads "As long as your pictures are legal they will be hosted here," but there's not definition of "legal." Somewhat surprisingly, a look at the tag cloud shows more video game images, LOL cats, and cartoons than porn... so far.

[via TorrentFreak]
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Pirate Bay developing super-stealth file sharing technology

Posted May 2nd 2007 12:30PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: P2P

The Pirate BayThe LA Times ran a profile of The Pirate Bay this weekend. The BitTorrent indexing site sticks up its nose at the MPAA and copyright holders around the world.

The Stockholm-based site has garnered support in Sweden, and the state-registered Pirate Party has almost as many members as the Green Party in that country.

Probably the most interesting tidbit in the article though, is a quote from Pirate Bay software designer Peter Sunde, who says the group is working on a new file-sharing technology that will make file exchanges "untraceable." No word on exactly how this technology will work, but it will be an open-source program.

[via Wired's Epicenter]
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