Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally(torrentfreak.com)

128 points by mgdigital 2 years ago | 64 comments

DMCA Notices Took Down 20,517 GitHub Projects Last Year(torrentfreak.com)

65 points by isaacfrond 2 years ago | 41 comments

Iconic Torrent Site Rarbg Shuts Down, All Content Releases Stop(torrentfreak.com)

191 points by notmine1337 3 years ago | 48 comments

BitTorrent Tracker Blocks 'Infringing' Hashes(torrentfreak.com)

47 points by gslin 2 years ago | 18 comments

DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked from GitHub(torrentfreak.com)

32 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 3 comments

Film Companies Seek 'Torrenting History' Related to Redditor(torrentfreak.com)

52 points by gslin 2 years ago | 17 comments

Google sues two men who weaponized DMCA notices to crush competition(torrentfreak.com)

351 points by HieronymusBosch 2 years ago | 155 comments

TorrentFreak article reporting that Google sued two men accused of using 65 accounts to send fraudulent DMCA takedown notices targeting competitors' URLs.

Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request(newpipe.net)

584 points by the-scrabi 3 years ago | 248 comments

NewPipe blog announcement that newpipe.net was removed from Google search results following a DMCA takedown request.

AI-Built Torrent Site Looks Inside Downloads to Catch Fakes and Malware(torrentfreak.com)

6 points by HieronymusBosch 14 days ago | 1 comments

TorrentFreak article on TorrentClaw, an AI-built torrent search engine whose TrueSpec feature inspects torrent contents, revealing a malware trick using a genuine VLC player as a decoy.

Rarbg Is No More(web.archive.org)

1275 points by 0___0 3 years ago | 519 comments

Archived RARBG shutdown notice explaining the torrent site is closing due to team deaths from covid, the war in Europe, energy costs, and inflation.

European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage(torrentfreak.com)

348 points by Brajeshwar 3 months ago | 98 comments

TorrentFreak article reporting that EuroISPA asks the EU Commission to hold rightsholders liable for damage caused by overblocking in site blocking orders.

South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware(tomshardware.com)

395 points by PROgrammerTHREE 2 years ago | 128 comments

Tom's Hardware news report that a South Korean telecom ISP allegedly deployed malware against 600,000 torrent-using customers, causing missing files and disabled PCs.