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At Long Last, The Pirate Bay Shuts Down Its Tracker
The Pirate Bay has been in Zombie Pirate™ mode for months now, but one of the last remnants of its halcyon days has been sent to sea on a burning boat: their tracker—the biggest in the world—is gone. More »More Tips for Torrenting Your Brains Out
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This is weird: the next version of µTorrent, currently in beta, uses an updated version of the BitTorrent protocol that decreases your speed (usually uploads) when it detects network congestion. Will it slow downloads? Not necessarily…apparently. More »This Movie Theater Tells It How It Is
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µMonitor is little iPhone app that lets you remotely control µTorrent back at your computer. But like Transmission's Drivetrain app, it's been banned by Apple on anti-piracy grounds. Usefully, however: Jailbreakers can still pick it up via Cydia. More »Bram's Cube Takes the Rubik's Cube and Makes It Devastatingly Hard
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The Pirate Bay we know and love, though still harboring torrents for now, is going away. But that doesn't mean BitTorrent is dead. Far from it. Here are five places to get your torrent on after it closes for good. More »Ahoy! Cloned Pirate Bay Site Sets Sail
Remember that Pirate Bay user who archived the site's entire torrent index earlier this week? It's available for all to download, but he's now used it to create a full replica site. You can check it out at BTArena.net. [TorrentFreak] More »Get The Pirate Bay's Torrent Archive With One Massive 21.3GB Download
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Your worst fears about The Pirate Bay acquisition might be coming true: Peter Sunde told Torrent Freak that they are indeed closing down TPB's tracker and decentralizing to the point listed torrents won't be hosted on the site anymore. More »Man Sent to Jail For Six Months For Pirating, Uh, The Love Guru
This is embarassing. Jack Yates has been sentenced to six months in jail for pirating the horrible Mike Meyers movie The Love Guru. It might have been worth it for Star Trek, but come on, The Love Guru? More »Nearly Final Windows 7 Build 7229 Now Available at Your Local Pirate Bay
A new post-release candidate 1 build of Windows 7—specifically, build 7229—has creeped onto BitTorrent. This is supposedly one of the last builds before Windows 7 is released to manufacturing. As always, grab at your own risk. [Thanks Bouke!]BitTorrent App for iPhone Gets Rejected on Anti-Piracy Grounds
Adding to their anti-boobies policy—which apparently may disappear with the new application parental controls in 3.0, Apple has rejected a BitTorrent application for the iPhone stating that it may be used for piracy: More »The New Blockbuster: Godawful Wolverine Downloaded Over 4 Million Times
I saw Wolverine in theaters. I paid $8 for my ticket and $5 for popcorn, heavy on the heart attack sauce. But I still don't know why 4 million people downloaded that piece of poo. More »Has Piracy Made You More or Less Interested In The Wolverine Movie?
As you know, a rough version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine leaked online. Starting today, we will learn if it ended up helping or hurting the film. How will it affect your weekend plans? More »Swedish Pirate Party Expected to Win (Not Plunder) a Seat in E.U. Parliament
It looks like Europe is just as taken with the Pirate Party as we at Giz are, because a recent electoral poll shows them with enough votes to secure a seat in the E.U. Parliament. More »Windows 7 RC1 (Build 7100) Now Available at Your Favorite Torrent Site
We knew this was coming—a day after it was in the hands of partners, legit copies of Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 (build 7100) have hit your favorite torrent site. Watch out for fakes. [ZDNet]