TechWHack Torrent News Database (History)

Pirate bay the biggest torrenting site this time offered to catch criminals. A Few years back pirate bay helped the authorities to root out some most wanted criminals. But now the copyright came in their way. Also the pirate bay is the most disrespectful site of laws. They don’t believe in the authorities as well. Thats why police disinterested their help.

Demonoid is down while moving to a new server. It is down since 2 days already. A message was posted on their twitter wall as well. Please don’t panic.

• Fact- The most pirated movie of this week is the accountant. This is the movie which is downloaded the most of the times by bit-torrent. These are estimated by torrent-freak. Most of these movies are available in HD over the torrent network.
• Google with the new year forced most of the torrent sites to get encrypted. Many torrent and other illegal sites like 123movies is now using https SSL certificate to serve its users.
• Also Experts have warned pirated kodi users, as the false kodi sellers will be the next hit.
• Guys today’s biggest facts: Due to kickass confiscation. The pirate bay is now the biggest and most popular torrent site. Even the site torrentz.eu’s giveaway has vacant the position for the pirate bay. It is not simple to tell but extra torrent as well is on second position. As torrenthound was the another contributor for it.
• The pirate bay will remain the king. Arterm vaulim the owner of kickass expected to release from prison in February is now suffering from some serious health issues. It is believed that he has some techniques and  formulas to rebuild the kickass as well as to beat other sites like the pirate bay. But now chances are less of him being rebuilding the site.
• There is no news about the release MR. Vaulim the owner of kat. But the good news it that. Kat is back. The staff members, admins, maintainers together built a site katcr.co. They are doing a lot of hardwork in uploading content. Earlier it was just a community. Now it is back but requires a lot of improvements. Also extra torrent faced a lot of problem in december as well as in early January. It received a lot of DDOS attack due to which it was down. Member of the site told that :- the site received 40-50 million requests in a second due to which it got down for days.
• Many new and small torrent sites are appearing as well. Even the original kat is not as good as others. Many clones of illegal sites are appearing which are even better than these original sites. While kat’r original site is not so good, they don’t even have good servers and requires some uploaders as well.
• The Pirate Bay meets yet more legal trouble this week, with European courts banning the website throughout the continent. European internet providers are fighting for the right to have the popular torrent site to be blocked from use, despite the website claiming to harbour no actual illegal material. Despite the owners of The Pirate Bay claiming to have broken no laws, the website is under a lot of scrutiny and soon may be no longer in use.
• Just like The Pirate Bay above, the popular Spanish website, Rojadirecta has been ordered by Spanish courts to shut down. The initial complaint which set the ruling in motion was delivered by Broadcaster Movistar, which now order the Spanish website owners to pay damages. It’s not looking good for Rojadirecta and their parent company, Puerto 80.
• If you enjoy watching football (soccer to you Americans) online, you will be interested in knowing that the UK Premier League issued a complaint to an ISP in Spain for the illegal distribution of pay-for-view football matches. The culprits were two British citizens who aired the free football from their home in Malaga, Spain, which the Spanish police then proceeded to raid for evidence.
• A popular BitTorrent tracker has basically been ordered by Russia’s telecoms watchdog to eliminate itself, due to the claims that it is producing illegal content that is detrimental to the Russian telecoms. The complaint comes from Rozcomnadzor, who have ordered the site to block its main URL. However, in response, the site claims that it neither carries nor presents any infringing content.
• There has been news today that the popular petition website, Change.org, which brings in thousands of charitable users, has been hacked. Online pirates have been abusing the website by posting vicious links to movies and other media, which has thus caused more harmful activity online.
• It’s bad news for the torrent giant website, The Pirate Bay in Sweden. A court has ruled that the torrent download site must be blocked, after complaints were issued in favour of the Swedish Film Industry, Sony Music, Warner Music and Universal Music. The court has appealed to popular Swedish ISP ‘bredbandsbolget’ to block the sites for the next three years.
• Following yesterday’s court ruling in Sweden regarding the blocking of the Pirate Bay ISP, copyright holders across the world have been lauding the decision. However, the boss of ISP bahnhof has criticised the action and has declared that it may be some of the earliest signs of the collapse of the copyright industry. He has also hinted at a solution.
• Google have teamed up with copyright holders to bring forth some new and sturdy laws to ensure that the appearance of copyright and other infringing material is destroyed when using the search engine. If this doesn’t come to pass, there will be an amendment to the Digital Economy Bill, which,when set in motion, will place anti-piracy codes on search engines.
• After being blocked by Cogent following some fierce court orders, The Pirate Bay and many more download sites are again now free to visit online. The websites have apparently been moved to new IP addresses by CloudFlare, which now asks the question, will the new home IP addresses now also be targeted for blocking? For now, the sites have slipped by the law order.
• Following all of the recent controversy surrounding the blocking of The Pirate Bay and the war on copyright, Sweden have conducted a survey on young internet users. The survey asked how many young people were using sites like The Pirate Bay for free movies and TV shows, and around 70% of those surveyed admitted using online piracy. With such a large number of people downloading for free, can online piracy really be stopped?
• Attentions are turning towards Russia today, after a shocking state was made by the powerful Rozcomnadzor. The head of Rozcomnadzor claimed that kids under 10 years of age in Russia should not be using the internet, and furthermore, that there is “nothing good about a 3 year old kid who uses a tablet to watch cartoons”. Could the head of this powerful internet regime start cracking down on children using the internet?
• Piracy sites are well and truly receiving tough opposition these days due to recent laws designed to crack down on all illegal and infringing piracy activity online. Reports have shown that a relatively unknown website mp3toys.xyz was received millions of piracy complaints after certain laws were brought forth 6 months ago.
• Kim Dotcom is in trouble with the New Zealand high courts today, after some serious instances of fraud. The felony that Dotcom has supposedly committed can lead to extradition in Dotcom’s case, which sees him facing possible extradition to the USA. Dotcom, however, says that he will continue to fight against the charges.
• Following the recent decision by Swedish courts last week to block a popular ISP due to copyright infringement, it is reported that the decision will won’t have a knock on effect for other similar ISP and pirate websites. Popular Telecoms, Telia, has stated that court ruling does not apply to them, and that they will therefore continue work as usual.
• The attention shifts today to the USA, where federal Californian judge, Judge Wu, has claimed that website Steadfast is not automatically liable for the hosting of a piracy website. After considering the alleged evidence against Steadfast, Wu has declared it insubstantial and that more solid evidence is needed.
• The head of Google’s copyright information and business, William Patry, has claimed that he will not be investing his company’s data in Australia. Due to restrictions on fair dealing arrangements, Patry has declared that it would be unproductive and altogether unsuitable for him to take his business to the sunny continent.
• American video giant, Warner Bros., after bringing to light and enforcing legal action against a talent agency accused of pirating its content, has reportedly settled the lawsuit. The allegation was against Innovative Artists, who allegedly ripped DVD content belonging to Warner Bros. and streamed it online, causing piracy to spread on torrent sites.
• It’s been a long time since internet copyright issues have received good press, but today there are some positive remarks regarding copyright measures enforced by the law. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has claimed that extreme anti-copyright measures put in place by the law could destroy free speech and innovation, as well as other basic human rights. Ultimately, the blocking of certain websites, internet filters and other blockades are to be avoided rather than utilised, claims The Electric Frontier Foundation.
• The Russian Government has launched a fresh attack on online piracy websites. The legislation draft has requested that websites like Google and Yandex begin shutting down pirate websites, and that should any site resist the request, they will be immediately targeted.
• In 2014, many servers were confiscated by the Swedish police, servers which belonged (or allegedly belonged) to the disreputable piracy website, The Pirate Bay. The search since then for more criminal online activity has apparently been ongoing, but there has been no evidence or reports of the mission obtaining any success since. Ultimately, the prosecutor in the case has essentially declared that the law are loosing this fight against piracy.
• It’s bad news for the free movie giant Putlocker today, as a court decision has effectively banned its domain name. The decision was made in favour of an entertainment industry, which was suffering at the hands of the piracy created by the popular Putlockers.ch website.
• Kickass Torrents, another online giant dealing in torrents and free online goodies, is under attack again. The owner of the website, Artem Vaulin, may very well be expedited to the USA, after a lawful investigation by the Polish courts has uncovered that his website has unlawfully distributed illegal, copyrighted material worth around 1 billion.
• It’s more bad news for some of the world’s leading torrent sites. News has emerged that ExtraTorrent has has lost its domain name due to another lawful crackdown on online piracy. The domain name has been disconnected by the registrar, rendering the site almost impossible to reach. The only way to access the site now would be through backups, but even so, ExtraTorrent is on its last legs.
• A professor of the university of Idaho in the USA has warned that anti-piracy laws passed by the MPAA last year may become the first steps to something much more damaging and sinister in regards to free speech online and general freedom online. The MPAA signed its first anti-piracy deals last year, and already many sites have taken a beating from the copyright laws. DNS filtering is to be bewared and not to be praised, claims prof. Bridy.
• A rather extreme case of piracy has emerged wherein a German father is being held accountable for his young 11 year old son’s non-purposeful piracy actions. The young boy illegally downloaded an ebook and his father is now dealing with the consequences at court.
• These days torrent sites and pirate sites are often shut down after a complaint - it’s very common and not surprising when such a site suddenly disappears. However, what isn’t very common is a piracy website advertising itself through Google’s Adsense, and the movie streaming website Pubfilm is currently doing just that.
• The UK Trading Standard has done some investigating into the illegal nature regarding online piracy. Allegedly, Trading Standards claim that if people only stream movies and music for free online, they may not actually be breaking any laws. In sum, the Trading Standards for the UK abhor downloading, but streaming may be fine with the law.
• Online anti-piracy movements are taking effect in Italy today, with several piracy websites targeted for shut down. Hundreds of websites are being forced to close by Italian ISPs, one of which was the popular free movie site, 123movies. Nevertheless, the question remains regarding how effective these measures really are.