The Pirate Bay may hold a special place in your heart and a thorn in content owners’ sides, but love it or hate it a new service is being born from the same mind. The site is called “BayFiles” and is partially founded by Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij. Different from The Pirate Bay, however, is that BayFiles” will allow users to anonymously upload files for public sharing with a few anti-piracy measures. First and foremost, BayFiles does not...

Fancy a torrent or ten and fall under Comcast’s service area? If so, you may be noticing some issues getting to The Pirate Bay today. TorrentFreak is reporting that accounts of Comcast users being unable to reach the infamous torrent website are growing. A few tests show that a traceroute stops at the correct address — thepiratebay.piratpartiet.se — and that the block isn’t DNS related. ThePirateBay team has confirmed that U.S. traffic has dropped...

The Pirate Bay trackers may be down for the count, but that infamous sailing ship will live on, plastered against countless clothing items from t-shirts and hoodies to sweatbands and underwear. In an odd turn of events, that iconic logo used by The Pirate Bay is in the process of becoming patented. Yes, patented. But it isn’t by founding members or anyone related to the company. Instead, a Swedish clothing and technology retailer called Sandryds Handel is taking it...

I usually try to start off each morning with something happy or exciting, but this is neither of those. The Pirate Bay team has announced that starting today, torrent users will no longer be able to use TPB trackers for downloads and will have to rely on other trackers instead. Whether you were for or against PB, you have to admit that in a relatively short time span (since 2003) TPB grew explosively, evolving to a digital giant with upwards of 25 million peers in...

Wondering what’s been going on with The Pirate Bay the last couple of weeks? A big move, that’s what. The official new home of TPB servers is CyberBunker. CyberBunker just so happens to be contained within some random nuclear bunker deep with what appears to be some Netherlands forest. You may be wondering as to the reason for the move. As if it were too hard to figure out, with all of the controversy and lawsuits surrounding TPB, Sweden wanted them out of...