Hacker explains reason behind Reliance attack, provides a fix

18 May, 2012, 10:16 am IST Aaron Almeida General

At the beginning of the month, the Internet community was in uproar over the move to block file hosting sites, ... More

Supreme Court website hacked in response to TPB, Vimeo block

17 May, 2012, 4:46 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Web services 19 Comments

An official report by BGR.in, who also managed to secure a copy of the John Doe order confirms that Indian ISPs ... More

The Pirate Bay, Vimeo blocked in India

07 May, 2012, 1:15 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Web services 55 Comments

Although not official at the moment, news has it that India is the latest to have joined the ‘BitTorrent sites ban’ ... More

Microsoft blocks The Pirate Bay links on Live Messenger

27 Mar, 2012, 10:43 am IST Rossi Fernandes Web services

Microsoft is a large company and there’s a whole bunch of software that they make. The Pirate Bay, on the ... More

BTJunkie voluntarily shuts down

06 Feb, 2012, 4:07 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai Web services 9 Comments

BTJunkie, the file sharing and torrents index voluntarily decided to shut down after being in existence for 7 years. More

The Pirate Bay founders to go legit with BayFiles

31 Aug, 2011, 11:16 am IST Aaron Almeida Web services

Pirate Bay is a very well known bittorrent client where one can easily download data over the net for free. This has led the founders to face legal actions and More

The Pirate Bay in the Courtroom Again

26 Oct, 2009, 2:44 pm IST Siddharth Bhatia Windows

The three founders of The Pirate Bay have been hit by a Dutch court a with new order, to remove copyright material links. More

MPAA Trains Swedish Police on Digital Piracy

21 Feb, 2007, 6:18 pm IST Priyanka Pradhan Windows

MPAA and FBI train Swedish police officers to combat digital piracy. More

US version of 'Pirpartiet' Launches

21 Jun, 2006, 3:30 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani Windows

It's just been a few weeks since a rather deluded RIAA announced to the world that the Pirate Bay had been sunk. Alas much to their chagrin and to t... More

Companies To Sue Sweden Over Pirate Bay Takedown

15 Jun, 2006, 11:45 am IST Jayesh Mansukhani Windows

In the backlash against the Pirate Bay takedown, ten companies which had their servers confiscated during the police's raids against file-sharing site... More

Seizure of The Pirate Bay Causes Big Loss to Small Sites

03 Jun, 2006, 1:00 pm IST Priyanka Pradhan Windows

Two days after The Pirate Bay was seized by the Swedish police, smaller websites have alleged that the move has adversely affected their busi... More

The Pirate Bay Closed Down by Swedish Police

01 Jun, 2006, 11:00 am IST Jayesh Mansukhani Windows

In what has to be one of the biggest deathblows to online sharing via BitTorrent, the Swedish police on Wednesday closed the lid on The Pirate Bay, on... More