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Pirate Bay told to block Netherlands access
News A Dutch court has ruled in favour of antipiracy foundation Brein, giving three of The Pirate Bay's co-founders 10 days to block traffic to and from the Netherlands, effectively revoking access to its residents.
[July 31, 2009, 9:31]
Google: Pirate Bay removed from search due to error
News Google said on Friday that an error caused the search engine to remove The Pirate Bay from its search pages. For more on this story, see Google: Pirate Bay booted off search by mistake at CNET News.com.
[October 5, 2009, 9:16]
Pirate Bay sale under criminal investigation
News Sweden's Economic Crimes Bureau has begun an investigation into some of the events surrounding the planned acquisition of The Pirate Bay by Global Gaming Factor X. Swedish newspaper SvD reported on Saturday that authorities are looking for possible...
[August 24, 2009, 8:42]
Pirate Bay's potential buyer has assets seized
News A Swedish court has seized control of all assets belonging to Hans Pandeya, the chief executive of Global Gaming Factory X and the man who wants to acquire The Pirate Bay. He told the court that taking away his assets could harm the Pirate Bay...
[September 28, 2009, 8:36]
Pirate Bay defendants set course for retrial
News Just days after The Pirate Bay's anti-piracy trial resulted in a guilty verdict, a Swedish radio station has claimed that judge Tomas Norström was biased, owing to his involvement in numerous copyright-focused organisations.
[April 23, 2009, 15:55]
Pirate Bay confirms it has filed appeal
News Days after four defendants in the high-profile Pirate Bay case were found guilty of violating copyright law, the website implored fans to stay calm, not to send donations, and to stay united. Based in Sweden, The Pirate Bay has been accused of...
[April 21, 2009, 9:53]
Pirate Bay defendants found guilty
News The four men who run The Pirate Bay website have been found guilty of being accessories to copyright infringement. The Stockholm District Court sentenced them to a year in prison each and a 30 million kronor (£2.4m) fine to be shared between them.
[April 17, 2009, 12:40]
Pirate Bay trial draws to a close
News Defence lawyers representing the operators of the Pirate Bay made their final case on Tuesday for the legitimacy of the site, as the Pirate Bay trial in Stockholm came to a close. Defendants Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde...
[March 4, 2009, 8:05]
Pirate Bay trial to begin in Sweden
News The four men behind the popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay go on trial Monday in Stockholm, accused of helping millions of internet users illegally download protected movies, music, and computer games.
[February 16, 2009, 12:57]
Pirate Bay closure sparks rise in P2P sites
News The closure of the Pirate Bay this summer led to a temporary 300 percent increase in the number of file-sharing websites, as users created sites to replace the Swedish BitTorrent tracker, according to security company McAfee.
[November 3, 2009, 14:35]
Music industry claims cut from Pirate Bay sale
News The music industry will attempt to seize money paid to acquire the Pirate Bay, according to a high-level music industry source and a spokesman for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, the trade group representing the music...
[July 17, 2009, 16:38]
Music execs put pressure on Pirate Bay owner
News Music industry executives in Europe are pressuring Global Gaming Factory X (GGF), the company that intends to buy the Pirate Bay, to turn over any money it pays to acquire the site to them. Oliver told Pandeya that the group will ask authorities in...
[August 7, 2009, 16:53]
Swedish court orders ISP to shut Pirate Bay
News A Swedish district court has ordered an internet service provider there to stop servicing The Pirate Bay. Citing a source close to The Pirate Bay, TorrentFreak said the tracker was still down but would be back up on Tuesday.
[August 25, 2009, 8:53]
Swedish company to buy Pirate Bay
News The Pirate Bay file-sharing site, which is at the centre of a music piracy court case, is to be bought by a Swedish software company. The company, which provides digital distribution tools for internet cafes, will buy The Pirate Bay for cash and...
[June 30, 2009, 13:15]
Half the charges dropped in Pirate Bay trial
News On the first day of the long-awaited criminal trial involving The Pirate Bay file-sharing site, Swedish prosecutors unexpectedly dropped half of the charges against the site's operators. Instead, The Pirate Bay acts as a search engine that points...
[February 19, 2009, 8:07]
Fund will help alleged Swedish pirates hit by new law
News A sentenced Pirate Bay defendant and two politicians from Sweden's Green party are launching a fund to help people accused of copyright violations under the country's new antipiracy law. Ferm is starting the fund along with Lage Rahm, a Green party...
[April 24, 2009, 10:12]
Adobe CS4 storms BitTorrent sites
News For example, on The Pirate Bay, hundreds of people were downloading the Mac OS X version of Photoshop (a 1GB file), while others were splashing out for the 7.2GB Master Collection edition, which appeared to be a leaked pre-lease version of the...
[October 2, 2008, 12:00]
Net traffic dips on first day of Swedish antipiracy law
News A similar effect occurred after The Pirate Bay raid three years ago. The country is also home to the world's largest BitTorrent sharing site, The Pirate Bay. In response to the IPRED law, the fast-growing Pirate Party, which lobbies for more...
[April 2, 2009, 9:17]
Swedish police claim major internet-piracy bust
News The police raid took place just before the individuals behind The Pirate Bay website went to court to defend themselves against charges of helping millions of internet users illegally download copyright-protected movies, music and computer software.
[March 10, 2009, 13:46]
France passes controversial antipiracy bill
News France's strict piracy legislation comes less than a month after a Swedish court found the founders of the peer-to-peer site The Pirate Bay guilty of infringing copyright. The Pirate Bay has already been mentioned as one of the sites that could be...
[May 13, 2009, 11:06]
