Black Internet, the Pirate Bay's largest bandwidth supplier, just shut down the notorious BitTorrent tracker after a court ordered it to pay a fine of 500,000 kroner ($70,800). Since about 9:30am PT, the site has been inaccessible.

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Pirate Bay Getting Legal Using Your Computer

We heard a few weeks back that the Pirate Bay was getting sold to Swedish Internet Cafe company Global Gaming Factory X. Today we got a look at how Pirate Bay 2.0 is going to work.

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With 10 days still to go until release; a version of of Resident Evil 5 for the Xbox 360 has appeared on file sharing networks. That means for the remaining 9 days we'll probably see a number of grainy spoiler images and videos appearing across the 'Net.

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This company is offering Lifetime anonymous Bit Torrent for $50.00. Comes with a Virtual Private Network (VPN) too.

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Windows 7 build 7000, supposedly is the beta version of Windows 7 has been leak to the public and is now available on any torrent networks. Microsoft reaction to the leak can be found in this article.

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Following the banks and the car companies, the movie industry might be the next to be hit by the economic downturn.

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The timing of the 'Pirates of the Amazon' launch could not have been more (un)fortunate.

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Eventually, particularly when trying to download old torrents, most BitTorrent users find themselves with a transfer which stops due to the swarm having no seeds, not enough peers to cover the full release, or the tracker going down.

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"As the rumors predicted, Microsoft is indeed planning to debut Windows 7 ahead of schedule.

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Piracy is stealing @!$%# on the high seas, not copying and sharing music.

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Yesterday, the FCC ruled that Comcast's network management practices that specifically targeted BitTorrent users, were unfair. The ruling is a small victory for Net Neutrality, but it wont stop ISPs from going after the heavy bandwidth users, not at all.

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This week, close to two million people have downloaded the Olympics opening ceremony, which makes it the most pirated TV-show of the week - again. The International Olympic Committee is not too happy about it, and they are urging the Swedish government to take on The Pirate Bay.

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The TorrentPrivacy software has been developed so that anybody can use it, from BitTorrent novices through to experts. TorrentPrivacy uses a pre-configured version of v1.7.7 uTorrent, so there are no settings that have to be entered manually.

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Funny advert.

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BT is throttling all of its broadband customers' bandwidth at peak times, not just heavy users, according to independent monitoring data.

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The music industry should embrace illegal file-sharing websites, according to a study of Radiohead's last album release that found huge numbers of people downloaded it illegally even though the band allowed fans to pay little or nothing for it.

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This month's announcement of a back-room deal between ISPs (internet service providers) and the big record companies to spy on suspected copyright infringers and reduce the quality of their internet connections is just the latest paragraph in the record industry's long, self-pity …

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It turns out that the MPAA will do pretty much anything to obtain information about BitTorrent sites and its users. Back in 2006, they made a deal with a "hacker", better known as Robert Anderson, to steal e-mail correspondence and trade secrets from TorrentSpy.

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The Amsterdam court concluded that Leaseweb has to permanently shut down the BitTorrent tracker everlasting.nu, and hand over the admin's personal information.

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A draft treaty proposes draconian measures to protect copyright.The US (surprise, surprise) has circulated a draft (ACTA) for the next G8 meeting. Any border guard, in any treaty country, can check any electronic device for any content that they suspect infringes copyright laws.

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Starting this week, Comcast is running trials in three US local markets of a new method to manage traffic on its fiber broadband network.

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It seems the music industry's desire to paint OiNK as a criminal network focused on the ruination of the music business, has so far led them to direct the police into arresting users who allegedly pre-released albums, i.e shared albums before their stated retail release date.

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Data collected by the BitTorrent client Azureus shows that Comcast might only be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to BitTorrent throttling ISPs.

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RIAA! Bring it! What you got now?!?!?

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