p2pnet (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- With Global Gaming Factory boss Hans Pandeya reportedly on one end of another attempt to buy The Pirate Bay, and ex-TPB spokesman Peter Sunde (centre) supposedly on the other, his two former colleagues are having problems. The Stockholm district courtsays it’ll fine Gottfried Svartholm Warg (right) and Fredrik Neij [...]
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
On October 22, an Amsterdam court ruled that, within three months, The Pirate Bay has to remove a list of torrents linking to copyrighted works (I thought the Dutch were supposed to be liberal'). According to TorrentFreak, “The list is to be provided by BREIN,” who is the “joint anti-piracy program of authors, artists and producers of music, film and interactive software” in...
My uni life (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The Pirate Bay has been on the BBC technology news since February. Having been established as one of the worlds most 'high-profile' file-sharing sites The Pirate Bay now faces yet another new order to remove links to copyright material. However this is proving harder then it sounds as the founders of The Pirate Bay sold the website back in 2006, meaning they have no control over what now goes on on...
IPKat—IP news and fun for everyone (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Some IP news that caught this kat's eye this week include.... We learned from the BBC that The Pirate Bay , now officially owned by a Seychelles-based company called Riversella Ltd, was yet again involved in court proceedings. This time a Dutch court ordered The Pirate Bay's founders to remove all links to the material of a group of Dutch music and film makers. The case was brought by Stichting Brein...
TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Initially slated to begin next month, the appeal of the Pirate Bay Four (Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom) has been delayed significantly due to concerns regarding the objectivity of the judges assigned. Two of the judges are being accused of bias due to their ties with copyright organizations and until those claims are handled by the Supreme Court, the appeal cannot...
spincitydotorg (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
The first batch of panels for SXSW 2010 are up and include presentations from Clay Shirky, Andy Baio, Gary Vaynerchuk, Jeff Zeldman, Jim Coudal and Peter Sunde.
Ollie Tristram (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Taken from Wikipedia: The Pirate Bay is a Swedish website that indexes and tracks BitTorrent files. It bills itself as "the world's largest BitTorrent tracker" and is ranked as the 104th most popular website by Alexa Internet. The website is funded primarily with advertisements shown next to torrent listings. Initially established in November 2003 by the Swedish anti-copyright organization...
The Technology Blog (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Dutch copyright holders this week filed documents in court alleging that The Pirate Bay's mysterious owner, Reservella, is nothing more than a front for The Pirate Bay administrators, who have been in legal trouble for years. Pirate Bay spokesperson Peter Sunde calls the document a forgery. Source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/who-owns-the-pirate-bay-part-ii.ars
Web News Site (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
You may remember, back in July, that a Dutch court made an odd ruling against The Pirate Bay at the behest of BREIN, the local anti-piracy group. Now, there was a lot of things odd about the case. BREIN has always been quite aggressive in demanding that sites be blocked or that ISPs be forced to block sites, but this case went really far. BREIN was able to bring the case without even letting any of...
AfterDawn.com (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Google has admitted today that an internal error caused the search engine giant to block all results from the The Pirate Bay , although at first they claimed it was due to a DMCA complaint. Said Google in the morning: "Google received a (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) take-down request that erroneously listed Thepiratebay.org, and as a result, this URL was accidentally removed from the Google...
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
The Pirate Bay founders: Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, Fredrik Neij, and Gottfrid Svartholm (Credit: The Pirate Bay) From CNET: The Pirate Bay was down across the U.S. for at least three hours on Friday, an outage that comes as the site's latest bandwidth provider comes under pressure from entertainment companies. CNET noted that the site was down at 1:22 p.m. PDT but appeared to come back up at 4:50 p.m....
P2P Foundation (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Following a suggestion by Pirate Bay leader Rasmus Fleischer, Torrentfreak concludes: “The Pirate Bay will dissolve, but in its place many “new TPBs” will return, just without the familiar domain name and pirate ship logo. This is very similar to a concept Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde had in mind for the new Pirate Bay. A decentralized [...]
P2P Blog (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
The sale of The Pirate Bay hit another serious roadblock this week when shares of its prospective buyer, Global Gaming Factory X, were delisted from the Swedish stock exchange for allegedly misleading investors about the proposed transaction. AktieTorget claims that GGF misrepresented facts about its financial situation and its deals with the entertainment industry, though GGF CEO Hans Pandeya subsequently...
TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom, the four individuals that were sentenced to one year in jail in the (first) Pirate Bay lawsuit, can start preparing their defense once more as their appeal to the April ruling has been approved. Following a rather hasty trial, the four defendants were found guilty of helping people illegally download copyrighted content and, in addition...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
Policing the internet: The music industry has concluded that lawsuits alone are not the way to discourage online piracy THREE big court cases this year—one in Europe and two in America—have pitted music-industry lawyers against people accused of online piracy. The industry prevailed in each case. But the three trials may mark the end of its efforts to use the courts to stop piracy, for...
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