Torrents Archive

  • Outrage: School accused of using laptop to take photos of student at his home without his knowledge

    Outrage: School accused of using laptop to take photos of student at his home without his knowledge

    Posted on February 20, 2010 | No Comments
    It's the start of yet another lazy Saturday, so let's make things a little more interesting with a side dish of outrage. A 15-year-old student in Pennsylvania has accused his high school of spying on him using a school-supplied MacBook. The school had accused the boy “inappropriate behavior” that it found him engaged in via the built-in Webcam. Lawsuits are flying, as you might imagine.

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  • You probably need this $600k HP datacenter

    You probably need this $600k HP datacenter

    Posted on February 4, 2010 | No Comments
    I can think of so many valid reasons why you need this massive 10 rack HP datacenter: Folding@home, downloading torrents, compiling your homemade videos, backing up your precious ROMs and so on. Just stick it in the backyard and you'll be good to go. What's that? $600k only gets you the enclosure and not the blade servers? Oh, well. Maybe you don't need it after all.

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  • Finally, a dishwasher safe carbon fiber wallet

    Finally, a dishwasher safe carbon fiber wallet

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Geez, not to sound ungrateful but it’s like hey wallet industry, what took you guys so long? I’ve been sitting on this dirty wallet of mine for years with no obvious way to clean it. Thanks to the miracle of carbon fiber (it’s seriously a cool material, I’d wear a carbon fiber sweatsuit if I could), this $50 wallet from Hammacher Schlemmer “will never stretch, fade, or develop cracks like a leather billfold.”

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  • Targeted by Hollywood, OpenBitTorrent lives to fight another day

    Targeted by Hollywood, OpenBitTorrent lives to fight another day

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Not a day goes by without coming across one or more stories related to The Pirate Bay. Today is no different, with OpenBitTorrent (a tracker that Hollywood has accused of being The Pirate Bay's spiritual successor, serving some 550,000 “works”) being given a new lease on life by a Swedish court. The gist is, Hollywood wanted the tracker shut down, but said Swedish court denied the action.

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  • Review: Fonera 2.0n

    Review: Fonera 2.0n

    Posted on October 24, 2009 | No Comments
    Short Version The Fonera 2.0n router essentially gives you free WiFi anywhere in the world for a one-time fee of $100. It may or may not work, but it’s worth a try. Review If there’s one thing I hate about travel it’s paying for WiFi. WiFi, like air and a nice piece of sausage, is the birthright of [...]

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  • Dutch court orders, again, TPB to delete torrents, block Dutch users

    Dutch court orders, again, TPB to delete torrents, block Dutch users

    Posted on October 23, 2009 | No Comments
    More news about The Pirate Bay to bore you all! (Seriously, it's not like people are still talking about the old Suprnova or Torrentspy anymore, yet the TPB has stuck around.) Some time ago, a Dutch court ordered TPB to delete a number of torrents and block Dutch IP addresses from being able to visit the site. Using a sledgehammer on a thumbtack, yes. Then TPB protested, as it does all the time, saying that it had no idea about the court case to begin with, so it couldn't make a proper defense, etc. The Dutch court agreed to give TPB a a little bit of time to work out its issues, and has now reached another, similar verdict: remove the torrents, and block Dutch IP addresses. Fun all around, really.

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  • Hexagon.cc: Now it’s BitTorrent’s turn to go ‘social’

    Hexagon.cc: Now it’s BitTorrent’s turn to go ‘social’

    Posted on September 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Social this, social that. Looks like everything is being socialized these days—but not the American health care system, zing!—so it only makes sense for someone to try to socialize BitTorrent. It doesn't hurt when that “someone” is the people behind IsoHunt, who just launched Hexagon.cc, a message board/social network hybrid built around sharing content.

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  • Global Gaming Foundation X approves acquisition of The Pirate Bay

    Global Gaming Foundation X approves acquisition of The Pirate Bay

    Posted on August 27, 2009 | No Comments
    Oh, God. Well, it looks like Global Gaming Foundation X, the company that wanted to buy The Pirate Bay, has approved the acquisition. All the financing is in place (the deal will be financed by GGF itself, which means that nobody else wanted anything to do with the deal), and GGF is ready to roll, officially. Total price: 60 million Swedish kroner, or about $8.3 million. In the immortal words of Greg “Opie” Hughes, “Good luck, bro.”

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  • Copies of The Pirate Bay are already popping up

    Copies of The Pirate Bay are already popping up

    Posted on August 20, 2009 | No Comments
    This goes to show you just how quickly someone will replace The Pirate Bay if it ever goes “legit.” As you're probably aware, someone downloaded every single torrent fie hosted on TPB's servers; that torrent file was the uploaded back to TPB, where it's now being seeded from hundreds of sources. What's new is that someone took that copy of TPB and uploaded it to another Web site, creating, in essence, a copy of TPB.

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  • MPAA will hound isoHunt founder till the End of Days

    MPAA will hound isoHunt founder till the End of Days

    Posted on July 14, 2009 | No Comments
    You wouldn't want to be isoHunt founder Gary Fung these days. He's currently facing an MPAA lawsuit that could well result in fines in the millions of dollars. (TorrentSpy was ordered to cough up $100 million last year.) And even if Mr. Fung doesn't have that kind of money, and he doesn't, the MPAA is prepared to pursue any judgment “for the rest of his life.” The MPAA sounds like it means business.

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