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File sharing services are not as popular today as they were four years ago. It’s not that people are sharing any less. Rather, they just found easier ways to do it. Would you upload a funny video from a friend’s email to any of those services or would you search for it on Youtube and [...]

Your days of downloading WAREZ are at an end… Swedish software firm Global Gaming Factory X this morning announced it has agreed to buy file-sharing service The Pirate Bay for 60 million Swedish crowns (which currently converts to approx. $7.7 million). Read more…

There are a few widely-accepted ways to anonymize your browsing or torrent activity, but they all have their drawbacks. TOR is free, but it’s poor etiquette to use it for torrents and put a strain on the bandwidth of the nice folks who run TOR servers. Not to mention that it’s incredibly, stupefyingly slow. You [...]

If you’ve ever run your drive out of space while a long-running download is still going, the Online Tech Tips weblog writes up a simple solution to change your download location to another drive.

We’re all about ways you can start BitTorrent downloads on your home computer no matter where you are, and now popular BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay adds one more way: personal RSS feeds.

We Love Torrents, so when you are away from your home computer, and still want to start up any download at a moment’s notice. Solution: Use file-syncing application Dropbox to sync torrents between computers.

Torrents are great, they are the best way to share large files with your friends, or even with people you don’t know at all. But surprisingly enough, not many people create torrents when they need to share something. I have “a lot of” friends who know how to download torrents, but when they need to [...]

Fredrik Neij, one of the PirateBay admins currently on trial in Stockholm, admitted that he was rebooting his servers from the courtroom while the lawyers were making closing arguments: “A server was down and I restarted it”, Neij tells expressen.se. He is one of the four founders of The Pirate Bay that stand accused of [...]