torrent tracker

With WordPress pretty much anyone can set up a personal blog or small website in a few minutes, and thanks to the new WP-Trader plugin it becomes just as easy to start a fully operational torrent site.

Until the end of last month, the Russian torrent tracker Pornolab had operated happily out of a datacenter in Ukraine.

With previous market leaders Empornium and PureTNA dead and buried, Pornolab became the world’s largest adult BitTorrent site, serving around 2 million registered users.

The entertainment industry is famous for its bogus stats, claiming massive losses from things like file sharing.

However, when those reports are looked at by any credible source, it's not hard to realize they're totally bogus.

This also comes up in various lawsuits.

Yesterday we reported how a Swedish appeals court had upheld an earlier ruling which ordered an ISP to hand over the details of a torrent site operator.

If it fails to supply several movie companies with the name of the customer behind the SweTorrents site, ISP TeliaSonera faces a 750,000 kronor ($96,500) fine.

Goodbye, Pirate Bay.

Hello, Pirate Bay.

Hans Pandeya, the CEO of Global Gaming Factory (the Swedish company that had recently acquired The Pirate Bay for $7.8 million) has an ambitious plan for the new Pirate Bay.

It seems bold, perhaps even too bold at first, but Hans thinks he has a plan that will make everyone – the file sharers, the ISPs, the content providers – happy.

Let’s call a spade a spade: it’s no secret that file hosting service Rapidshare has long been a haven for distributing copyrighted content.