Over the years there has been plenty of negative reaction from content creators when they find their product indexed by The Pirate Bay. The threatening letters sent to the site are well known and were given a...

Unlike 150 million or more Internet users, Apple is not a fan of BitTorrent. Every time someone submits a perfectly legal piece of torrent-related software to their App Store, the company issues a blanket ban. In September...

Which torrent sites get the most visitors at the start of 2013? Traditionally BitTorrent users are very loyal, which is reflected in the top 10 where most sites have had a consistent listing for more than half...

Online censorship is a controversial subject. It’s often used in an attempt to ‘protect’ a group of people from something, but it rarely works as intended, and once in place feature-creep often sets in. Unfortunately, in the...

Many people have a dream to the see the world and a few years ago Michel, a Canadian from Montreal, decided to turn his into reality. After spending the past few years traveling around Europe, eight months...

After its launch in 2008, the StudentBay e-learning torrent site quickly became associated with The Pirate Bay due to its familiar logo, Swedish roots and other alleged links to the site. StudentBay began with a promise to...

This week an Italian court ordered all Internet providers to block access to the domain names and IP-addresses of both TorrentReactor.net and Torrents.net The verdict follows a police investigation that was initiated after complaints by the local...

In its latest “Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets” report the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has listed some of the world’s largest file-sharing sites as venues for prolific copyright infringement. “The Notorious Markets List identifies selected markets,...

Every year Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN claims to shut down a few hundred torrent sites, but SumoTorrent has never been among them. Back in 2007 BREIN managed to kick the torrent site out of the Netherlands where...

Early 2010 the French music industry group SNEP initiated legal action against Google in an attempt to force the search giant to filter certain terms from its “Instant” and “Autocomplete” features. SNEP argued that when users enter...