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Hacker Jacob Appelbaum to Testify at Pirate Bay Founder Appeal 27 Aug 2013 | 02:54 pm
Earlier this year Gottfrid Svartholm became the second person to serve out a jail sentence in connection with the operations of The Pirate Bay. Upon completion of that detention Gottfrid stool trial ...
Large Torrent Site to be Blocked by Russia’s SOPA 27 Aug 2013 | 01:21 am
It’s been an interesting first month for Russia’s new anti-piracy plan. After a tentative start with only a handful of rightsholders filing complaints, it quickly became clear that in order for the s...
Cheap MP3 Site Shuts Down, Keeps Users’ Cash, Blames Russian SOPA 26 Aug 2013 | 08:32 pm
There’s no shortage of ways to obtain music online for free, but surprisingly there are plenty of people who will pay hard cash to obtain MP3s, even though they aren’t buying them from official source...
Finnish Court Censors Website That Criticizes Censorship 26 Aug 2013 | 03:58 pm
All around the world there are initiatives that require Internet providers to block access to child pornography. The UK has the Internet Watch Foundation and in New Zealand there is the Digital Child...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week 26 Aug 2013 | 12:10 pm
This week we have four newcomers in our chart. Now You See Me is the most downloaded movie. The data for our weekly download chart is collected by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educatio...
Paysafecard Begins Banning VPN Providers 26 Aug 2013 | 01:01 am
Payment services are increasingly taking action against VPN providers, and as of today Paysafecard can be added to the list. Paysafecard is a popular prepaid coupon sold at 450,000 sales points in do...
File-Hosting Sites Blackmailed By Streaming Site Cloners 25 Aug 2013 | 04:46 pm
As our articles in recent weeks have revealed, when browsing some of the world’s most popular streaming sites it’s becoming increasingly likely that visitors aren’t using the real deal. Operators of ...
NSA Spying and Anti-Piracy Laws Boost Demand for VPNs 24 Aug 2013 | 10:43 pm
Over the past couple of months the PRISM scandal has dominated the news, with many people calling for stronger privacy protections as a result. While it may not come as a complete surprise that nearl...
Hive: A BitTorrent-Enabled Unlimited Cloud Storage Sharing Network 24 Aug 2013 | 03:16 pm
Even with the growing popularity of the Internet the majority of users still have a tendency to associate saving files with local hard drives, optical media and USB storage. In the past few years, ho...
Student Attacks Publishing Cartels to Make Textbooks Open Source 23 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Almost every year in August, just before the start of the new school year, TorrentFreak is contacted by individuals and groups determined to do something about a long-standing annoyance. That problem...
