In cooperation with the military intelligence, French police shot down Snowtigers - the biggest French Bit-Torrent tracker that counted about 250.000 users.

Torrents are going mainstream: after The Pirate Bay launched its Facebook Connect application, now group around TorrentTwitter are combining file sharing with micro-blogging.

BSN* and GigaTribe teamed to give a 90-day Ultimate account (a $14.97 value) to all readers of Bright Side of News*.

Formula One's ringmaster Bernie Ecclestone arrived in Bahrain for this weekend's GP full of joy. Reason for smile was demonstration of F1 2009 and F1 2010 games.

The Pirate Bay appeal the court's decision - But they may have a lucky break in getting the ruling overturned as the judge is in "conflict of interest", as he is a member of copyright protection organizations.

Geoff Lloyd, one of most popular radio hosts in UK publicly stated that he is supporting The Pirate Bay in its fight against the record industry.

The four defendants of The Pirate Bay: Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij, and Carl Lundström were found guilty of having made 33 copyright-protected files accessible for illegal file sharing via ThePirateBay.org

The verdict has passed and three founders plus enterpreneur Carl Lundstrom all received verdicts - follow the press conference on TPB.

An ISP [Internet Service Provider] in Sweden has decided to not cooperate with the movie and record companies in their zealous crusade against file sharing.
 

So The Pirate Bay added a function to share the torrents you want to download with your friends on the Facebook. Now, is this really a good idea?

Looking for lighter side of news can be difficult in today's sea of serious and unserious news. Thus, we bring you several stories to light up the day.