The Pirate Bay Accepting Bitcoin Donations, Other Torrent Sites Follow
The most famous torrent site in the world, The Pirate Bay, has just started accepting Bitcoin donations, placing a donation address on their front page. The initiative quickly proved to be very successful, raising over 10 BTC ($1,300) in little more than a single day, and other major torrent sites have quickly started to do the same thing. EZTV,....
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The Pirate Bay has been the world’s most popular torrent web portal for the last eighteen years. Despite a few hiccups during that time, the site remains accessible via mirrors and proxy websites. In addition to remaining online, Pirate Bay has been accepting bitcoin for donations since 2013 acquiring more than $4.5 million worth since then. The Pirate Bay’s Bitcoin Stash Since 2003, when it was founded by the Swedish think tank Piratbyrån, the Pirate Bay has been the most popular, and perhaps the most beloved torrent website in the world. The web portal is basically an....
A growing number of peer-to-peer file-sharing sites -- among them the notorious The Pirate Bay -- is starting to accept bitcoin donations from their users. The main page of The Pirate Bay's website now lists a bitcoin address, presumably for donations. OpenBitTorrent has also joined the party, as has PublicBitTorrent. Istole.it also features a bitcoin address. As of yet, though, there is no sign of bitcoin adoption at Isohunt or its sister sites. Bitcoin's perceived anonymity makes it the perfect donation mechanism for file-sharing operations, many of which track copyrighted content being....
In response to a local pirate party's inquiry regarding accepting political donations in the form of bitcoin, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has given group the green light to collect the digital currency - but not without with strict rules. The Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance wrote that the pirate party may accept bitcoin from any United States Citizen not exceeding $500. The funds cannot be spent by the pirate party themselves (treated similarly to stock donations, and must be converted to U. S. dollars within 5 days of receipt at a high-volume exchange that....
The Pirate Bay's PirateBrowser just hit 2.5 million downloads but the notorious torrent site has much bigger plans in store for the new year. The team behind the site is developing a new tool that doesn't rely on domain names or server farms. Instead, users will serve as the P2P hosts of the sites, with the system running its own alternative DNS. Today, the Pirate Bay team shares some more details on the technology. Over the past few years The Pirate Bay has had to deal with its fair share of censorship, mostly through court-ordered blockades. In response to these efforts the site launched....
Yesterday we reported that the MPAA is discussing site blocking with major movie studios and law firms. They hope to implement site blocking within the United States using existing laws while avoiding a SOPA-style response from the public. While the use of site blocking to deal with copyright infringing sites is starting to take off in Europe, the United States has not yet experienced this type of censorship. Also read: Torrent Directory Pirate Bay Raided Again, Currently Offline. Google has been cooperating with the MPAA so far, by removing torrent sites and other sites that host....