As we reported earlier today, The Pirate Bay is being sold to another Swedish company Global Gaming Factory X (GGF). The publicly listed software company stated that the acquisition will have an effect on the business model of The Pirate Bay which has been known to be the most popular BitTorrent site on the Internet. In addition to these changes some less expected changes are going to happen too.
Peter Sunde, co-founder of TPB, has told TorrentFreak that The Pirate Bay will be shutting down their tracker and remove torrent files from their servers. After closing the tracker The Pirate Bay will use the torrents of an upcoming third party service which will introduce an API accessible by other torrent sites as well.
It’s still unclear how GGF intends to compensate the content providers and copyright owners. Neither has the company revealed further information how the acquisited Peerialism and its file-sharing technology will affect The Pirate Bay.
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The civil trial against Mininova, brought forward by the Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN, has been postponed one month today.
The outcome of the case will determine whether the torrent indexing site will have to “actively filter” torrents from its index daily. If BREIN is triumphant, Mininova will be forced to remove all .torrent files that lead to unauthorized content such as pirated movies, music or TV shows.
“The reason for this postponement is solely due to personal circumstances of our attorney and has explicitly nothing to do with the content of the case,” says Mininova’s staff.
Additionally, Mininova President Erik Dubbelboer notes:
“The case wont say much about the legality of torrent sites, but it will give more insight into what measures BitTorrent indexers and similar services have to take in order to make sure that they don’t link to illegal content. In particular, it deals with the question of whether or not website owners have to actively filter content. In other words, is a notice and takedown policy sufficient or not.”
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Recently, we have begun notifying you of the recent changes or updates to Afterdawn in an effort to keep you all informed.
For those that missed it, we recently expanded Afterdawn to Sweden, marking a third language for the site.
We have also added a number of guides aimed at playback of all types of video files on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Finally, the staff has been updating the Glossary section since the beginning of the year with many Glossary items added and others completely revamped.
Now for the new news
In an ongoing effort to improve and update our P2P guides the staff has completely revamped a couple of the most popular P2P guides, with aims to update all of them.
Using and Maxing out your download speeds with uTorrent- This guide has been completely updated even down to the structure of the guide. uTorrent is the most popular torrent client so we hope this will be of use for many users and torrent fans.
Guide to using Vuze (Azureus 3.0) (BitTorrent Client)- This guide has also been completely updated. It will now walk you through every step of using Azareus or Vuze to download legal HD content or normal torrent files.
We hope you will check all of these updates and have a great weekend
