The Pirate Bay Goes Web 2.0

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Those Pirate Bay folks are really cool, open minded, and ready to embrace new technologies. Some might argue that they’re also dirty, rotten pirates, but we won’t let some minor copyright issues stand in the way of progress, right? Anyway, The Pirate Bay has a new feature: click on an audio ...

Pirate Bay Cancels Plans for BOiNK

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

The Pirate Bay, the infamous torrent tracking site, has canceled their plans to fill the gap left by OiNK. In the days following the take down of OiNK, The Pirate Bay had said they would work on a new site called BOiNK to re-launch all the trackers.  It seems it is ...

Costly Hack Amounts to $825K. Pirate Bay’s Secret Source?

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

A hacker group called Mediadefender-Defenders has caused quite a ruckus for the actual Mediadefender anti-piracy group, which provides anti-piracy tools. A hack that found its way to a Mediadefender employee’s Gmail account among other things cost the company at least $825,000. That’s a hefty price to pay, and ...