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The Pirate Bay (TPB) is the king of torrent download websites; however, there has been an increase in its server downtime as of late. Its space on the darknet has likewise been disconnected and the site blocked in several parts of the world. On two separate occasions, the site has been found mining for cryptocurrency […]
Many top torrent websites add an option to donate them via bitcoins. They also provide .onion address to help you access them via dark web. In a first, The Pirate Bay torrent has been found to be using a cryptocurrency miner. It was found that the JavaScript code in the website uses your processor to […]
Short Bytes: The world of the top ranking torrent websites has seen a lot of changes since the last year’s list of the best torrent websites appeared on Fossbytes. In 2017, the original torrent king, The Pirate Bay, is back at the same top position in this year’s list of the best and most popular torrent […]
Short Bytes: What.cd, a widely popular music torrent website that first appeared in 2007, has shut down. This is a result of an operation by cybercrime unit of the Gendarmerie (C3N) in France. While French news sources claim that the authorities have seized the data, What.cd says that all the data has been destroyed in […]
Short Bytes: World’s second most popular torrent website ExtraTorrent has lost its three key official domain names. While Czech domain registrar Subreg.cz was blamed by the ExtraTorrent operator, Subreg has denied any involvement. Meanwhile,extratorrent.cc, website’s most popular domain, is working fine. After the demise of KickassTorrents and Torrentz, the pirates found comfort in the form of The Pirate Bay and ExtraTorrent. […]
Short Bytes: Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox users who are trying to access torrents on thepiratebay.org are being greeted with a bright red warning page. This is happening as Google’s Safe Browsing service has labeled The Pirate Bay “Partially Dangerous” due to, probably, some malicious ad network and popups. After the demise of KickassTorrents and […]
Short Bytes: In a shocking move, the Government of India has asked different ISPs to block the torrent websites and serve the users a new warning. It states that just by visiting a torrent website, one can face three years in prison and Rs 3 lakh fine. While this move could be seen as a legitimate […]
Short Bytes: It looks like the world’s most popular torrent website KickassTorrents is back with a new domain dxtorrent.com. The website features the same layout and seems like a mirror of notorious torrent sharing website KAT. The original KickassTorrents domain was recently seized by the U.S. Government. Just a couple of hours ago, I wrote a […]