Instaudio, a file-hosting service specialized in audio, has stopped accepting new uploads. The site is shutting down completely in a few weeks. According to the site’s operator, rising costs, abuse from users and the associated legal pressure from rightsholders, are the main drivers behind this decision. In the spring of 2013, more than six years […]
The Pirate Bay has been around since 2003 and is still going strong. The longest surviving torrents on the site recently turned 15 years old. While these torrent files are still being seeded after many turbulent years, the file-sharing world and the web itself have completely changed. When The Pirate Bay launched in the second […]
News A man who faced four criminal prosecutions for copyright infringement has become the first person jailed in Greece for running a pirate site. After switching domains and evading enforcement efforts for a decade, the man has now been handed a five-year prison term by an Athens court. For almost a decade, an anti-piracy group […]
