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In April 2007, a rumour was confirmed on the Swedish talk show Bert that The Pirate Bay had received financial support from right-wing entrepreneur Carl Lundström. This caused some consternation since Lundström, an heir to the Wasabröd fortune, is known for financing several far-right political parties and movements like Sverigedemokraterna and Bevara Sverige Svenskt (Keep Sweden Swedish).
RuTracker.org (also stylized as rutracker★org; known as torrents.ru until 2010) is the biggest Russian BitTorrent tracker. [1] As of December 2024, it has 14.9 million registered active users, 2.484 million torrents (2.479 million of them being active), and the total volume of all torrents is 5.8 petabytes .
YIFY Torrents or YTS was a peer-to-peer release group known for distributing large numbers of movies as free downloads through BitTorrent.YIFY releases were characterised through their small file size, which attracted many downloaders.
Torrents with multiple trackers can decrease the time it takes to download a file, but also have a few consequences: Poorly implemented [59] clients may contact multiple trackers, leading to more overhead-traffic. Torrents from closed trackers suddenly become downloadable by non-members, as they can connect to a seed via an open tracker.
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In 2020, the National Diet passed a law expanding the penalties to the download of manga, academic texts, and magazines, as well as banning "leech websites" that provide users hyperlinks to download torrent files of pirated materials, pasting hyperlinks of illegal websites on an anonymous message board, or providing "leech apps" for similar ...
TamilRockers is a torrent website based in India which facilitates the distribution of copyrighted material, including television shows, movies, music and videos. [1] The site allows visitors to search for and download copyrighted material with the help of magnet links and torrent files, which facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing.
KickassTorrents on its website claimed that it complied with the DMCA and it removed infringing torrents reported by content owners. [ 7 ] On 28 February 2013, Internet service providers (ISPs) in the United Kingdom were ordered by the High Court in London to block access to KickassTorrents, along with two other torrent sites.