Apr 03
One hundred games, all in a bundle you can only get on the world’s most infamous piracy website.
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Mar 15
That was quick. After closing up shop yesterday among the usual copyright questions
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Dec 29
There isn’t one central BitTorrent search engine to release top searches queries of the year, but Kickass Torrents is pretty close. It’s definitely a go-to for standard stuff. And the most searched terms in 2013 were all over the place. Let’s dig in.
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Dec 27
Another year comes to a close, and another year of gratuitous television show pirating is in the bag. Who wins the award for the most illicit views? According to numbers from TorrentFreak, Game of Thrones keeps the crown for the second year in a row by a hefty margin. At 5,900,000 downloads, it beats (fantastic) runner up Breaking Bad by almost two mil.
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Dec 01
Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems are used on things like ebook and movie files to make them more difficult to share. During the Napster era the major record labels got on board with DRMs in a big way hoping that they could reduce piracy by locking their music files down. But a new study shows what we’ve all thought for a long time. It doesn’t help. And in fact it DRMs hurt sales.
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Oct 08
"Torrenting" is kind of a dirty word. It makes you think piracy, doesn’t it? Well it shouldn’t. Torrenting isn’t illegal. It’s not even morally ambiguous. It’s just a way to send data
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Oct 01
The fallout from the NSA spying scandal has left many people unsure about what they should and shouldn’t share across the tubes. But now BitTorrent has an answer: an instant-message chat client that uses decentralized data transfer to keep your communications safe.
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Sep 11
You’ve seen it in ever war movie ever: soldiers trying desperately to get in touch with command. Well soon they’ll hardly have to phone home at all, at least if DARPA has any say in it. They’ll get all their data the same way pirates do. Torrents, basically.
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Aug 10
File sharing site The Pirate Bay set sail ten years ago. While the site and its founders have had plenty of
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Jun 22
With the spring TV season drawing to a close (MAD MEN SEASON FINALE TOMORROW YOU GUYS!!), TorrentFreak has done the wonderful service of rounding up a top 10 list of the most torrented shows out there this time around. Can you guess number one? (You can definitely guess number one.)
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