There have been multiple attempts to ban, digrace, discourage, litigate Pirate bay, but it has survived and will survive. Pirate bay, moved their domain from TLD .org to .se to get out of U.S.’s control. Now, they are actually becoming Torrentless. They are getting rid of all the torrent files as they move to magnet links, which make them 100% clean.

One of the advantages of the transition to a “magnet site” is that it requires relatively little bandwidth to host a proxy site. This is needed, because The Pirate Bay is currently blocked in several countries, and more are bound to follow in the months to come.

Without torrents, the Pirate Bay also becomes extremely portable which makes it possible for people to download a personal backup. Using script called  “allisfine” we managed to copy the title, id, file size, seeds, leechers and magnet links of 1,643,194 torrents. Comments were not copied to keep the files as small as possible, and the end result is a full copy of all magnet links on The Pirate Bay in a 90 megabytes file, 164 megabytes unzipped.

Download Pirate bay zip, while it lasts.

With the release of the copy everyone can now download a personal backup of The Pirate Bay in a few minutes. If you want to, you can search these text files to get almost any torrent but its not going to be convenient, but fun for sure.

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The hacker of the iPhone App store has come with a solution for Mac App store, and claims that they don’t encourage piracy but they hate a model where a user cannot try before buy. There should be app testing bracket before buying.

Why Mac App Store sucks:

1. You’ll have to Re-purchase many of your apps
2. No trials, no demos, no beta versions
3. Heavily restricted, controlled Apps.
4. Many apps would not be available on App Store, thanks to their policies (VLC media player included)
5. No System-related apps: Apps have no “root” permissions, whatsoever.
6. No downloaders: No ftp, http downloaders or even browsers. WTF?
7. Not many open source apps: Mac App Store violates GPL, most open source would never make it to app store.

Do you still need another reason ?

Disclaimer: This method doesn’t encourage Piracy. Try the apps, buy them if you like them, support the developers OR one day you wouls stop getting good apps.

Warning: The illegal app sharing violates the copyright and Apple App Store rules.

How to Crack / Pirate Mac App Store

1. Install the latest Snow Leopard update (10.6.6) from system updates.
2. Log in the new App Store (from your dock) and download Twitter (free app)
3. Now go to Applications folder, locate Twitter, right click, Show Package Contents, navigate to Contents folder and copy _CodeSignature, _MASReceipt and CodeResources.\
4. Download Angry Birds ( http://bit.ly/gy9wzk ) and run the dmg file.
5. Now drag Angry Birds into the Applications folder. Right click, Show Package Contents, navigate to Contents folder and delete _CodeSignature, _MASReceipt and CodeResources. Now paste in the files you copied from the Twitter.app in step 3.
6. Complete, now your Mac App Store is cracked. You can enjoy Angry birds and other .app file from the new Mac App store which you can find online.

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Despite all efforts, Piratebay has lived and its estimated that it will continue to do so, forever.  Its really hard to stop BitTorrent ffile sharing today coz of its peer-2-peer nature. however, it can be blocked at the gateways if ISP chooses to. But that is never the case, unless they wish to lose all the subscribers.

It is hard today, and could become impossible int eh future to block or censor content in the future. Piratebay founder has started to work on a new standard that would make it impossible to block P2P file sharing, and uncensor the Internet  forever.

For governments it is apparently quite easy to take over the DNS entries of domains. According to some, this setup is a threat to the open internet.

According to the project’s website, the goal is to “create an application that runs as a service and hooks into the hosts DNS system to catch all requests to the .p2p TLD while passing all other request cleanly through. Requests for the .p2p TLD will be redirected to a locally hosted DNS database.”

“By creating a .p2p TLD that is totally decentralized and that does not rely on ICANN or any ISP’s DNS service, and by having this application mimic force-encrypted BitTorrent traffic, there will be a way to start combating DNS level based censoring like the new US proposals as well as those systems in use in countries around the world including China and Iran amongst others.”

The Dot-P2P project was literally started a few days ago, but already the developers are making great progress. It is expected that a beta version of the client can be released relatively shortly. Being backed by some great developers and geeks, it bound to get popular and effective.

How it would work:

The .p2p domain registration will be handled by OpenNIC (OpenNic DNS), an alternative community based DNS network. OpenNIC also maintains the .geek, .free, .null and several other geeky top level domains.

On the other hand, there are also thoughts that favor distributed domain registration, which would keep the system entirely decentralized. Unlike the popular domain registrations, the domain registrations on p2p network will be totally free, but registrants will have to show that they own a similar domain with a different extension first, to prevent scammers, spammers from taking over a brand.

However,  new P2P-based DNS system will require users to run an application on their own computer to access the domains, but there are also plans to create a separate root-server (like OpenNIC) as a complimentary service for all its .p2p domains.

Technology always stays ahead of rules, the more aggressive law enforcement gets, the more creative and motivated adopters of the Open Internet will respond in ways no one has thought about before.

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How successful is uTP in eliminating congestion is still a matter of discussion. According to some owners of private BitTorrent trackers, uTorrent is no longer playing fair. Since uTorrent users are the only ones using the new protocol, uTorrent favors its own kind over other clients. What this means is that that when connecting to other clients, uTorrent users will give preference to other uTorrent users, behavior that some have declared as ‘unfair’.

Simon Morris, BitTorrent’s VP of Product Management admits that the tracker owners have a point, but says that it is very hard to innovate without having to face such technical downsides.

BitTorrent Inc. has opened up the specifications of the uTP protocol and hosted a conference in their San Fransisco offices a few weeks ago to discuss uTP in detail with developers of some of the most popular Bittorrent clients. According to Morris, other popular client developers have shown interest in implementing uTP into their own applications.

Widespread support for the new protocol would of course be the easiest way to get rid of the unfairness allegations, but uTorrent’s major competitor Vuze has no plans to support uTP in the short term.

So far, only a few private trackers have decided to ban uTorrent and there is no word on how long it would continue. So for the meantime moving to other clients like Vuze makes alot more sense till the issue is resolved.

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Today is an important day in the history of Mininova. From now on, we are limiting Mininova.org to our Content Distribution service. By doing so, we comply with the ruling of the Court of Utrecht of last August. Unfortunately the court ruling leaves us no other option than to take our platform offline, except for the Content Distribution service.

The Lawsuits had been going worldwide to hunt Pirates down.  Mininova had been warned by the Court and seems like they accepted the defeat for the good of the industry.

PirateBay, the leader of all pirates, has been able to survive all attempts for shutdown. PirateBay, proved that Pirates are more powerful than a government can reach-out to. Recently, they stopped their Torrent trackers and encourage the use of DHT which make them more anonymous and almost impossible to stop.

After months of Tiring legal controversy and Lawsuits, which were followed by months of uncertainty about the future of the service, the Pirate Bay’s popular torrent tracker has been shut down for good.

On August 24th, we had  reported “PirateBay is Dead“, after being unpligged by ISP on a special threatening order to ISP that feeds PirateBay. But Piratebay somehos managed to get back up via another ISP proving how Ineffective a Government can be when Pirates go supreme.

Since last 2 months, it had been a cat-mouse game, governments trying to catch PirateBay without success.

But todays shutdown wasn’t a court-ordered takedown or the result of regulatory shuffling, the old Pirate Bay torrent tracker simply became obsolete. As a result, the Pirate Bay is no longer running its old tracker, and has switched over to listing “magnet links,” a method for locating DHT (Distributed Hash Table) or PEX (Peer Exchange) nodes. This finds our tutorial very helpful for enthusiasts who still seek to get the service: 

Download Torrentz without .Torrent file

The Pirate Bay team posted in its blog today,

“DHT (combined with PEX) is highly effective in finding peers without the need for a centralized service. If you run uTorrent you might have noticed in the tracker tab of your torrents that the [Peer Exchange] (PEX) row is often reporting a lot more peers than the trackers you might have for that torrent. These peers all came to you without the use of a central tracker service! This is what we consider to be the future. Faster and more stability for the users because there is no central point to rely upon.”

This might be a step to make PirateBay more anonymous to the Legal authorities. Even if PirateBay does shutdown (which is very difficult, their are already several mirror images of the Torrents, enough to keep the service up for next century. (Why Pirate Bay Won’t R.I.P. Not atleast Till Next Century)

This Ship, just won’t Sink

We know that it’s hard to get PirateBay down, or rather it’s impossible.

Now, just because the board has approved the purchase doesn’t mean that it will happen that easily. There continue to be questions about the company’s ability to raise money to complete the deal, and the Swedish government is investigating the company.

So does this change anything? Theoretically, maybe, but in reality, the Pirate Bay as it was once known is still gone, if it does come back it won’t be the same service, and users have already migrated out to other BitTorrent sites for their file sharing needs. What’s next?

PirateBay Clone Threatened with LegaAction

Mininova, possibly the world’s largest torrent listing site, started in early 2005 after the entertainment cartels-initiated demise of the famed Suprnova.org, yesterday chalked up another milestone.

It had already reached three billion torrent downloads and now, “Torrent number 1,000,000 was uploaded yesterday by an anonymous user,” says Torrentfreak, going on;

“Unfortunately, the memorable torrent has no seeds, which makes it likely that it won’t be around much longer.”

Anyway, this time, the lawsuit focussed on Mininova, a bitorrent search engine similar to The Pirate Bay. Like The Pirate Bay case, this one was also started by BREIN, the Dutch variant of the RIAA/MPAA, and again, just like the previous suite, BREIN won. However, it’s easy to misread the actual verdict.

The judge in the case actually makes it quite clear that Mininova itself is not doing anything illegal, that it’s not breaking the law. The judge sentenced Mininova not because it is performing an illegal act, but because Mininova is not doing enough to stop the illegal act. Since downloading copyrighted content in The Netherlands is legal, said ‘illegal act’ is not downloading, but uploading.

More specifically, the judge said that Mininova made it possible for people to breach Dutch copyright law, Mininova promoted these acts, and profited from these acts. Currently, Mininova employs the “Notice and Take Down-procedure”, in which rightsholders can contact Mininova so that they can then remove offending content. This procedure is not enough, the court states.

The verdict, therefore, reads that Mininova must remove all offending torrents from their website, and from here on out, they must actively prevent such torrents from being uploaded to the website. The fine for not complying within three months of this verdict is as follows: Mininova will have to pay 1000 EUR per offending torrent to BREIN, with a maximum of 5000000 EUR.

Mininova co-founder Erik Dubbelboer isn’t particularly pleased with the verdict, obviously. “We are obviously not happy with the verdict,” he said in a statement. Mininova will most likely appeal the decision, for which they have three months’ time.

“The court believes it’s generally known that commercially made films, games, music and TV series are copyrighted and that these works are only copyright-free in exceptional cases,” it ruled.

Mininova said it was mulling an appeal.

“We are obviously not satisfied with this ruling,” said Mininova co-founder Erik Dubbelboer.

“The result of this ruling for Mininova is that we have to re-evaluate our business operations. At this time, we cannot determine what this will actually entail or imply. We will have to examine the verdict thoroughly first.”

You’re fighting the tides, and sooner or later you’ll have to face the new reality of the modern, 21st century entertainment industry. While it may not seem so today, it is still the case that laws should exist to serve the people – not the other way around.

Elsewhere in the land of the freeloaders, The Pirate Bay sale – which has faced fierce opposition and accusations of insider trading since the Global Gaming Factory first stepped in to buy the BitTorrent tracker earlier this summer – is meant to complete tomorrow.

Google translation For Mininova verdict from Dutch to English is here.

As the peer-to-peer community was preparing to put to rest their favorite file sharing site The Pirate Bay, their vigil has been disturbed. Black Internet, the ISP that supplied much of the site’s bandwidth, says it has been sabotaged.

Faced with a $70,000 fine, Black Internet complied with the Swedish court’s decision yesterday and has cut off The Pirate Bay. But a few hours later, TorrentFreak is reporting a mysterious “intentional” attack on Black Internet, which caused substantial damage.

Black Internet has called in experts and the police, as its infrastructure is said to be suffering substantial damages and its customers experiencing “serious disruption” to their Internet service, according to TorrentFreak. The attack is said to have been deliberate.

Back in April, a Swedish court found The Pirate Bay co-founders guilty of copyright violations and ordered them to pay $4 million in damages and also spend a year in jail. A ray of light then emerged for the peer-to-peer sharing site, as Global Gaming Factory X (GGFX) offered to acquire The Pirate Bay for almost $8 million and turn it into a legal business.

I had my reservations on whether a legal Pirate Bay would thrive, but it didn’t even go that far in the end. The Pirate Bay acquisition by GGFX was hit by the cold Swedish weather last week, as controversy surrounded the acquiring company. GGFX’s trading stock was stopped on Friday, as the company’s chairman resigned just days before finalizing the deal.

However, there is still hope out there for keen peer-to-peer file sharers. Torrent sites are like weeds, you cut them off and they grow stronger, or multiply in this case. There are dozens of Pirate Bay alternatives out there, which work just as well the popular original.

Torrent indexers, sites that have a searchable directory of torrent files but don’t host a tracker of their own can give access to thousands of files. Some of the most used indexers are Mininova, isoHunt, and Torrentreactor. Other full Pirate Bay alternatives, open to everyone and also have their own working tracker are Torrentbox and 1337x. Demonoid is a site of the sort as well, but is semi private and users need an invitation code to join.

Even if Government takes every step to take down Piratebay and it’s ancestral torrent info, still its unstoppable-

PirateBay backup exists - Several Terabytes of Torrent tracker data – and It’s not hard to bring it up again. It could be up anytime soon. As per Torrentfreek.com -

The Piratebay moved their servers to the Netherlands and is (almost) fully functional. They changed the title of the BitTorrent tracker to “The Police Bay”.

After the years of Lawsuits held against the Piracy Giant, today Swedish district court has ordered the Internet service provider(ISP) that used to power PirateBay, to stop servicing The Pirate Bay immediately or the ISP could face heavy fines of 500,000 Kroner ($70,600 US) a day. The Pirate Bay’s ISP had no choice but to comply and disconnect the website from the Internet.

If you are Torrent fan, no doubt you love PirateBay. It’s indeed a sad day in the history of P2P and File-sharing. The most popular BitTorrent tracker in the world appeared to be inaccessible to many in the U.S. on Monday morning but the blog TorrentFreak reported that the site had found a new connection to the Web and there were reports from readers that they were able to log on to the site. Citing a source close to The Pirate Bay, TorrentFreak said that the tracker was still down but would be back up on Tuesday.

The take down of The Pirate Bay comes 3 days earlier than expected, as the site was going offline on August 27 or legalize the site before then, which was unlikely to happen. Black Internet, The Pirate Bay’s largest bandwidth supplier is not the only connection to the Internet the website has, technically the website could go back online until other ISP’s are sent cease and desist orders.

“This is absolutely ridiculous. The Court seems to consider themselves above the Constitution”, said the leader of The Pirate Party, Rich Falkvinge.

As one of the world’s largest torrent trackers goes offline, dozens more will surface in its place. The Pirate Bay had over 25 million unique peers and 3.6 million registered users downloading from its website.

The future of The Pirate Bay is uncertain as the owners will face one year in prison and a fine of $2.4 million US.

A Mysterious Update: A Pirate Bay insider has told sources they have “got a new connection to the net” for their website. The owners of the website were prepared for take down actions such as today’s and have secured another Internet connection for the website, with minimal down time. The Pirate Bay should return by tomorrow morning for almost all users.

The Pirate Bay team added this, “The MAFIAA has spent millions of dollars and endless amounts of time to get this ban in order. Our guess is that they also bribed a bit to get it since it violates so many laws not only in Sweden but also in the EU, not to mention violations against human rights. And what do they have to show for it? 3 hours of partial downtime.”

An executive with Black Internet told Swedish newspaper SvD that the court informed the company that it would either shut off The Pirate Bay or face penalties. The founders of The Pirate Bay were found guilty of copyright violations last April.

The executive told the newspaper that Black Internet is not the only ISP servicing The Pirate Bay but is probably the largest. He said none of the other ISPs were affected by the decision. He added that the company is considering options.

It’s unclear how long Black Internet will be forced to stop service for The Pirate Bay. The company may not be able to resume service until the appeal filed by The Pirate Bay founders is settled, SvD reported.

The news comes on the heels of a victory for the founders of The Pirate Bay.

Sweden’s government run debt-collection agency, commonly referred to as the bailiff, said it could find no attachable assets belonging to three of the four founders of the site. A group of media companies had asked the bailiff to collect the $4 million a court had awarded them after finding the four Pirate Bay founders guilty of copyright violations.

At this point, the future of the site, at least in name, appears to rest with the software maker Global Gaming Factory X, the software maker and operator of Internet cafes. The company said in June it would pay $8 million to acquire The Pirate Bay and the deal is supposed to close on Thursday. But Swedish regulators halted trading in Global Gaming on Friday over questions about the company’s financial readiness to complete the transaction.

At the very least, the launch of a new Pirate Bay, one with authorized film and music copies, is unlikely to happen anytime soon.

But there is a good news for Pirates and Bad news for Authorities -

PirateBay backup exists - Several Terabytes of Torrent tracker data – and It’s not hard to bring it up again. It could be up anytime soon. As per Torrentfreek.com -

The Piratebay moved their servers to the Netherlands and is (almost) fully functional. They changed the title of the BitTorrent tracker to “The Police Bay”.