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  | Pirate Bay Renamed Beijing Bay Over Olympics Tracking Found at 8/18/2008 via blog.wired.com
The Pirate Bay, the world's most notorious and illicit torrent-tracking service allowing millions of users to download copyrighted movies, software, games and other works for free, has tentatively renamed itself The Beijing Bay. The name change was in protest to the International Olympic Committee seeking Sweden's assistance in stopping the site from tracking footage of the ongoing Olympics in ... More...
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| µTorrent silently fixes long-standing zero-day vuln Found at 8/14/2008 via go.theregister.com
No fanfare here Popular BitTorrent client µTorrent has quietly patched a vulnerability that created a means for hackers to load malware onto the PCs of file-sharers simply by persuading them to open a poisoned Torrent.? More...
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| Italy blocks access to The Pirate Bay Found at 8/11/2008 via www.geek.com
According to information coming from ISPs located in Italy, The Pirate Bay Bittorrent tracker site is currently the recipient of a country-wide block. It is unclear why this block has been requested, but a similar action was taken to shut down the Columbo-BT torrent site a few weeks ago involving a prosecutor aided by the [...] More...
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| Report: BitTorrent laying off 22 percent of staff Found at 8/6/2008 via news.cnet.com
Valleywag says the company is cutting its entire sales and marketing team due to a deal for its Torrent Entertainment Network falling through. More...
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| [World and Nation] Click here to download textbooks Found at 8/6/2008 via www.mndaily.com
Torrent sites have seen an increase in the number of e-books being shared. More...
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| Illegal downloading here to stay, says study Found at 8/4/2008 via www.guardian.co.uk
New study claims downloading through P2P and torrent sites is 'entrenched' More...
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| Interview with Anomos - Encrpyted, Pseudonymous BitTorrent Client Found at 7/30/2008 via 
Where's did that Bit Torrent go? More...
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| Two Oink uploaders go free Found at 7/30/2008 via www.theinquirer.net
SIX MEMBERS of the music file-sharing torrent tracker Oink, have been waiting for the results of a criminal investigation for some time. More...
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| YouTorrent Relaunches, Fully Legal Now Found at 7/18/2008 via www.biosmagazine.co.uk
YouTorrent has to be most talked about newcomer in the BitTorrent scene this year. The site initially indexed all the popular torrent sites, but switched to purely ?verified' torrents after receiving legal threats. Now, YouTorrent officially relaunches with 67,1... More...
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| YouTorrent Relaunches as Legal Torrent Aggregator [BitTorrent] Found at 7/17/2008 via lifehacker.com
YouTorrent, the BitTorrent search aggregator with a great interface that proved too popular to stay online with a, er, laissez-faire attitude about legality, has re-launched as a meta-search for... More...
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| Speckly Searches Multiple BitTorrent Trackers [BitTorrent] Found at 7/16/2008 via lifehacker.com
Web site Speckly is a barebones BitTorrent search engine that scours multiple popular torrent trackers and returns the results in a simple interface. In fact, you'll notice the site's design is a... More...
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| Speckly - The Simplest Way To Search Torrents Found at 7/16/2008 via mashable.com
Although the entertainment and software industry is crying foul over torrent trackers, dubbing them little more than havens for piracy, the fact is that not all users are happy about pirated content and some of the effects it inevitably has on torrent sites. Most of them are overwhelmed with misleading, huge ads, intentionally riddled in [...] More...
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| BREIN Continues Dutch Anti-Piracy Mop up Found at 7/13/2008 via
Torrent.to offline, Razorback remnants as well. More...
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| Fedora 8 Release Candidate 3 has been released . Found at 7/5/2008 via www.newmobilecomputing.com
"Fedora 8 Release Candidate 3 has been released on the torrent site . Both DVD and Live images have been provided. Unless something goes terribly wrong, these will be the same bits (modulo gpg signed SHA1SUM files) that will go to the mirrors for the final Fedora 8 release." More...
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| Torrent site encrypts piracy for privacy Found at 6/25/2008 via www.theinquirer.net
THE PIRATE BAY , perhaps the world's most notorious source for internet downloads, has announced that it is going to be implementing SSL and VPN connectivity to private added security and privacy to its users. More...
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