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The Pirate Bay and other major torrent websites could be dealt a hammer blow next year as the crackdown against online piracy continues. The Pirate Bay is the world’s leading torrent portal, and for almost 15 years has been helping online pirates access free movie and TV downloads. However, one big change to the internet […]
Rare’s cartoony pirate simulator Sea of Thieves sets sail for your Xbox One and Windows 10 March 20th. Microsoft’s stab at breaking out of its Forza, Gears of War and Halo release cadence can’t get here fast enough, and if you’re feeling impatient you can preorder right now to unlock some bonus bits. What’re those, […]
The Pirate Bay has been hard to reach for the past few days, with users of the torrent download site reporting issues accessing it. Pirate Bay fans have reported the world’s most popular torrent portal as down or slow to load up. TorrentFreak revealed that are lot of people are still seeing a Cloudflare error […]
Enlarge / Not creepy at all. Thirty years ago today, a person or persons unknown briefly hijacked the signal of two Chicago television stations, broadcasting a bizarre taped message from a man wearing a Max Headroom mask. The “broadcast intrusion” interrupted a primetime news broadcast from Chicago’s WGN, and then (more successfully) the 11:00pm broadcast […]
The Pirate Bay has been hard to reach for the past day, with users of the torrent download site reporting issues accessing it. When people have tried accessing The Pirate Bay recently they’ve been treated by a CloudFlare error message. The Error 520 message says the “web server is returning an unknown error”, according to […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Priscila Zambotto) TV piracy services are being used by about 6.5 percent of North American households with broadband access, potentially costing legitimate TV providers billions of dollars a year, a new analysis found. Pirate services that offer live TV channels are apparently responsible for more downstream traffic each night than […]
Google and The Pirate Bay have had an interesting relationship over the years, to say the least. This week, users pointed out that The Pirate Bay can appear significantly lower down in search results (and definitely not on the first page), depending on which country you are searching in. We reached out to Google, which […]
The Barbary corsairs didn’t have to work very hard to capture their prey. Most ship crews were so afraid of the vicious pirates that they threw down their weapons rather than fight. Aligned with the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century, the privateers targeted primarily Christian vessels, plundering them mercilessly, and robbing and enslaving those […]
Space Pirate Trainer is finally poised to exit Early Access and release its 1.0 version on October 12, 2017, for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift as well as on the Windows Store for Windows VR headsets (when those are available, of course). There’s a short list of introductory VR apps that I cycle through anytime […]
Piracy websites can’t really depend on ads, so how do they make money? By using your PC’s processor cycles, apparently — whether you want to or not. Visitors to The Pirate Bay have discovered JavaScript code in the website that ‘borrows’ your processor for the sake of mining Monero digital coins. It doesn’t always happen […]
