Tag: mininova
Illegal File-sharers spend more on music
The figures suggest that file-sharers "try-before-they-buy", and are happy to support bands and artists whose downloaded music they enjoy.
The Pirate Bay enters internet top 100
And so, the rise of the crazy ABOVE THE LAW Swedish Bittorrent site continues.
According to shaky-but-all-we-have internet traffic monitor Alexa, The Pirate Bay has just eased itself into the global top 100 at a cool 97th. No doubt the launch of GTA IV helped it shift up a place or two.
With a total monthly unique user count of something around 25 million – up from 3 million in 2006 – The Pirate Bay is clearly doing…
Torrent site Mininova notches up four billionth download
Bad news for the music industry: its efforts to stamp out file-sharing haven’t prevented BitTorrent site Mininova from notching up more than four billion downloads by its users. It passed the three billion mark just four months ago, indicating that it’s getting more popular, not less.
PickyPirate mashes up Metacritic with BitTorrent
Those crafty online pirates, what will they come up with next? While the music and film industries set about taking down the most popular BitTorrent servers, elsewhere new and more innovative services are popping up to take their place. One such is PickyPirate, which mashes up BitTorrent search engines Mininova and The Pirate Bay with Metacritic…
