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About a week ago, HackRead reported that the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay (TPB) has been secretly using its visitors’ computing power (CPU) to mine cryptocurrency without their consent. Here, it’s noteworthy that The Pirate Bay did the same twice last year. However, now, the website has publically acknowledged the practice by deciding […]
After being offline for over a week, The Pirate Bay is back online with a cryptocurrency mining code. Last year, it was reported that one of the most popular torrenting websites The Pirate Bay (TPB) was using Coinhive’s cryptocurrency mining code to generate Monero coins by using computing power (CPU) of its visitors without their consent […]
Last week, the torrenting giant The Pirate Bay went offline and it has been over five days that the website has not surfaced back online. Those visiting The Pirate Bay can see a brief message from Cloudflare stating that “This page is currently offline. However, because the site uses Cloudflare’s Always Online™ technology you can continue to […]
It is a fact that The Pirate Bay has been suffering increasing service disruption since it moved from the SE domain to Org. In the last couple of months, the torrenting giant has gone offline over five times without informing its users what is going on. On June 20th, 2018, The Pirate Bay domain went […]
Another day, another irritating situation for The Pirate Bay fans. You are not alone, The Pirate Bay is down for everyone around the world. Those visiting The Pirate Bay right now can see error 502 message powered by Cloudflare stating that: “Thie page is currently offline. However, because the site uses Cloudflare’s Always Online™ technology you can […]
You are not alone, The Pirate Bay is down for everyone for over 7 hours. If you are a torrent fan and visiting The Pirate Bay website (ThePirateBay.og) right now you may see Cloudflare’s Error 502 message. This is because The Pirate Bay is currently down and offline for visitors around the world. The error […]
You are not alone – The Pirate Bay has been down for last seven hours. It is just another day with just another disappointing news for The Pirate Bay fans. Yes, you are not alone, the torrent search and downloading giant is down for everyone. Those visiting The Pirate Bay right now can see “Error 522 […]
Another day, another disappointing news for The Pirate Bay users – Today for the third time in 5 days The Pirate Bay domain has gone offline. Currently, those visiting the site can see “Error 522 Connection timed out” message generated by Cloudflare since The Pirate Bay uses its CDN and DDoS protection service. According to […]
In 2015, it was reported that uTorrent was secretly installing Epic Scale Bitcoin mining software on users’ computer to get generate revenue. Now, something similar has happened with The Pirate Bay (TPB), one of the most visited platforms for downloading pirated content. As Alexa shows TPB is among 87 most visited sites in the world while it […]
Law enforcement authorities in India have arrested four people for leaking the unreleased episode of HBO’s (Home Box Office ) popular Games of Thrones (GOT) TV series. GOT, since season one has been in the news for being one of the most pirated tv shows in the history. But season seven of the series made […]
Trevon Maurice Franklin, a Fresno, California resident uploaded the blockbuster movie Deadpool on Facebook in February 2016 just 8 days after its release in theaters. Now consequently he has been arrested by The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). 21-year-old Franklin was arrested last week and charged with copyright infringement. If convicted Franklin will face three years in a Federal prison. Deadpool movie […]
From the beginning, hacking were all about taking over servers and stealing data but for the last couple of years the trend has changed and hackers have been targeting giants like Hollywood and TV industry. Now, the DarkOverLord, a famous hacking group that had been responsible for leaking the first ten episodes of season 5 […]
The world renowned torrenting platform ExtraTorrent (ET) has been shut down on permanent bases. The announcement came just a few minutes ago when users visiting the site saw a brief message on its home page stating that ExtraTorrent along with all of its mirror has gone offline while all of its data has also been permanently […]
Don’t worry you are not alone ThePirateBay.org is down for many but the good news is that its Dark Web version is still up and running. This is the third time in the last couple of months that ThePirateBay has suffered an outage. Just last month ThePirateBay suffered a day-long service interruption when a United States-based multinational Internet […]
Update: Don’t forget to visit The Pirate Bay alternatives for 2018 After kickass was shut down, The Pirate Bay took over the throne as the best torrent site around, and chances are it will be at the top for many more years to come. But because of the sensitivity of the content, one can not […]
It’s been a while now since the BitTorrent giant The Pirate Bay is offline worldwide while only thing which users can see when visiting the domain is CloudFlare cache along with an alert that “This page is currently offline. However, because the site uses CloudFlare always online technology, you can continue to surf the snapshot […]
Google and Microsoft have vowed changes to their web indexes which will make life harder for Users looking for unlawful, copyrighted material. The parties that signed the deal include search providers Google and Microsoft (Bing), and rights holders Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Through the terms of the arrangement, web […]
You are not alone; the ThePirateBay.org (TPB) domain is offline worldwide. The reason for this outage is unclear, but the good news is that you can still access the site on the dark web through Tor browser, thanks to ThePirateBay’s .onion link. Currently, visitors can see a CloudFlare warning message on TPB domain revealing that the site is offline […]
As you may know in July KickassTorrents (KAT) websites was shut down by US authorities and its owner Artem Vaulin was arrested in Poland. Since then, several KAT mirrors popped up and then disappeared but there was no sign of the original domain or the team. Now, the good news is that KickassTorrents is back […]
Hollywood is taking strict action against piracy sites — This time it’s the Ukraine-based FS.to to go down. A complaint made by the Motion Picture Association of America led to the arrest of people behind FS.to. The cyber-crime department of Ukraine’s National Police force carried out a series of operations against the website which is used […]
CloudFlare was sued for providing CDN services to websites containing pirated content – In reply, the firm has made it clear that it will not stop providing its services to such sites whatsoever. Perhaps the most difficult of all things to understand in the world in terms of law is online piracy. After all, who […]