Torrent Site Pirate Bay Claims To Have Moved Servers To North Korea

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The Pirate Bay, a popular bit torrent website, is claiming they've found a new source of refuge: the "hermit kingdom" North Korea.

Various international litigators have chased The Pirate Bay all around the globe, insisting they cease and desist aiding anonymous internet users seeking cheap access to high-end, pirated content.

From Torrentfreak:

Last week the Swedish Pirate Party was forced to shut down its routing services to The Pirate Bay. The Party and its leaders took this difficult decision after they were threatened with a lawsuit by a local anti-piracy group.

Piratebay and the Swedish Pirate Party are only loosely affiliated — they share political goals — but the Piratebay website does not represent the party, and vice versa.

The Pirate Bay says they've been offered "virtual asylum," but haven't taken it yet. Nonetheless, they say they are using the North Korean network to connect to the rest of the globe.

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Pirate Bay Founder Submits Emotional Plea for Pardon

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After being convicted for his role in operating The Pirate Bay, site co-founder Peter Sunde should soon serve eight month jail sentence in a Swedish prison. Serving this sentence would be a disgrace to the justice system and a personal disaster, says Sunde, who submitted an emotional plea for pardon to the Swedish authorities this week.

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The Cops Are Reportedly About To Raid The Pirate Bay

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The Pirate Bay claims they're about to be shut down again. Sources within government have reportedly told leaders at the file-sharing portal that the Swedish authorities are planning to raid them.

The Pirate Bay recently removed all of the torrent links from its website after a series of court judgements against the controversial organization. But a blog post this morning claims the conspiracy against it sn't satisfied.

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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent

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The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, ‘Real Steel’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’. ‘Cowboys and Aliens’ completes the top three.

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Small Business Snapshot: Online Piracy Act Could Kill Small Biz

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Today’s snapshot starts with news that the Stop Online Piracy Act may hurt small businesses and includes a story about how small business owners are struggling to pay health care premiums and a piece on how to legally spy on your competitors.

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U.S. Anti-Piracy Bill Endangers The Internet - Video

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Today the House version of PROTECT IP was made public, and as many feared it is even worse than its predecessor.

Named the E-PARASITES Act, the legislation aims to make it easy for the authorities and copyright holders to shut down sites they deem to ‘facilitate’ copyright infringement.

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How piracy ruins it for paid apps

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Mounting piracy is the dirty little secret in the world of mobile applications.

Piracy isn't talked about a lot, but it has quietly grown into a major problem for many developers. It's more of an issue in Android because its open nature and loose authentication tools allow pirates to rip off and distribute paid apps.

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What Can Google Do to Thwart Android App Piracy?

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A new report from research firm Yankee Group shows that Android developers are facing a huge problem when it comes to piracy. Nearly 75% of Android developers surveyed said it was easy to copy an Android app and republish it. Half said it was "very easy."

This is affecting the bottom line of developers, a third of whom said the consequences of piracy cost them more than $10,000 in revenue and support costs. The report says that developers claim they get no help from Google battling Android application piracy and that the Android Market is too soft. What can Google do to help protect developers?

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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent

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The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, ‘Fast Five’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’. ‘Thor’ completes the top three.

This week there are three newcomers in our chart.

Fast Five is the most downloaded movie this week.

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