It finally happened: in a bid to secure $3.6 million for the fine, The Pirate Bay founders sold the site for $7.8 million.

Back in May 2007, The Pirate Bay gang announced that they are working on a copyright-free video sharing site. Today, VideoBay became available to public as an early beta.

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

After a botched The Pirate Bay trial, Pirate Party rode the mainstream Swedish and European media and won a seat in EU parliament with 7.1% of all Swedish voters.

Microsoft released Windows 7 beta in January, RC in April. Can we expect a final, RTM [Release To Manufacturing] version end of July - to be in time for Back To School 2009 period?

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.

While western countries are attacking China, at the same time they're putting even worse censorship antics. Great Firewall of UK, Germany, Australia... and now, a dangerous precedent for search engines: The Pirate Bay verdict

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.

If there was any discussion about the museum value of Intel Pentium 4-powered servers, now there's one: Swedish museum acquired one of confiscated servers and display it as a permanent fixture.

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?