Posts Tagged ‘Torrent Sites’

IsoHunt, one of the oldest BitTorrent sites on the Internet, turns 10 years old today. The site has been fighting Hollywood in court for more than seven years but has not backed down. IsoHunt founder Gary Fung is determined to protect and facilitate people's right to share culture legitimately. "One would think the people of the Internet are losing to the copyright cartels, but ... Full story

After more than five months of downtime Demonoid's website is showing signs of life again. Instead of timing out, demonoid.me has started to redirect to a new demonoid.hk domain, displaying a "403 Forbidden" HTTP status after initially showing a "nothing to see here" notice. While Demonoid is not back yet, these recent developments show that there's activity behind the scenes.Source: Demonoid Shows Sign ... Full story

Continuing a long-standing New Year's tradition, today we present an up-to-date list of the world's most-visited BitTorrent sites. At the start of 2013 The Pirate Bay continues to pull in the most visitors, followed by KickassTorrents and Torrentz. Household names BTJunkie and Demonoid have dropped off the list as both sites are no longer online.Source: Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2013 Full story

The Pirate Bay has launched a new website, entirely dedicated to promoting the work of independent musicians, filmmakers and other content creators. The Promo Bay website was badly needed to archive the many promos and streamline the thousands of incoming artist submissions to the project. In addition, the idea is to provide artists with details on where their content is most downloaded. Source: ... Full story

BitSoup, one of the Internet's most established private BitTorrent trackers, has been under attack during the past two weeks. The site has been comprised and defaced, with the hackers gifting ratio credits to site users alongside unsubstantiated claims that money generated by a recent Hurricane Sandy fund-raiser might be misappropriated. BitSoup say the matter is being brought under control and that the new year will ... Full story

After three and a half months of downtime Demonoid's tracker is now back online. The unexpected revival of the tracker is the first sign of life in weeks and suggests that the Demonoid team is working to bring the full site back online. While the index and forum remain offline, the many thousands of torrents tracked by Demonoid have been brought back to life.Source: ... Full story

While the major record labels and movie studios do what they can to shutter The Pirate Bay, thousands of lesser known artists are eager to become featured on the site's homepage. Since the start of the "Promo Bay" initiative in January, 10,000 independent artists have signed up to be promoted by the world’s largest torrent site. Those who were lucky enough to be featured have ... Full story

On the first day of October, police in Sweden raided so-called "bulletproof hoster" PRQ. The action took dozens of file-sharing sites offline, but it was later announced that the main target was Tankafetast, Sweden's second favorite torrent site. A few days later Antipiratbyran confirmed the site's demise but now, just three weeks later, Tankafetast is back, taunting the anti-piracy group not only with a return ... Full story

After its move to the cloud earlier this week The Pirate Bay became more portable and raid-proof than ever before. The entire website and six months of database and code backups have a storage footprint of just 500 gigabytes. At the same time, The Pirate Bay claims to be the greenest site in the list of 100 most visited websites on the Internet. In its ... Full story

The Pirate Bay has made an important change to its infrastructure. The world's most famous BitTorrent site has switched its entire operation to the cloud. From now on The Pirate Bay will serve its users from several cloud hosting providers scattered around the world. The move will cut costs, ensure better uptime, and make the site virtually invulnerable to police raids -- all while ... Full story