Topic: File-sharing

What The Pirate Bay is Doing to Survive

The Pirate Bay

Though several of the world's governments have painted them as thieves or at least enablers of thieving, The Pirate Bay is taking broad strides to understand how file-sharing works on its site rather than ban it altogether.

By Adam Clark Estes

Feb 21, 2012

The Pirate Bay's Downloading Ship Vows Never to Sink

Everyone's favorite law-dodging, file-sharing site The Pirate Bay isn't bothered one bit by a recent High Court decision that threatens to ban the service in the United Kingdom. 

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By Adam Clark Estes

Feb 6, 2012

BTjunkie Bows Out of the Piracy Business

Only a few weeks after a team of commandos stormed Kim Dotcom's compound outside of Auckland, the file-sharing site BTjunkie is shutting its doors. 

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jan 19, 2012

Citing SOPA-Like Charges, The Feds Just Shut Down Megaupload

Anonymous brought down the the Department of Justice's website on Thursday afternoon after it admitted to arresting several Megaupload affiliates in a Thursday afternoon press release, calling the site a "international organized criminal enterprise."

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