It’s called Baywords. Baywords is a free wordpress blog hosting service provided by The Pirate Bay to protect freedom of speech. They claim you can post whatever content you like as long as it complies with Swedish law. Once you sign up you will be provided with your own subdomain (yoursite.baywords.com) and TPB will enforce minimal advertisements.

http://baywords.com/

Demonoid, the highly popular bittorrent site and tracker has returned with a new admin. Users of this invite-only site would know it has been down for months and there was doubt it would ever return.

http://demonoid.com

Here is the message from new admin Umlauf:

Welcome back!

Since a few months ago, Deimos, the site administrator, lacks the necessary time to take care of the website, because of personal matters he’s been needing to attend to. For this reason, he has decided to leave the site staff.

Before leaving, he assigned a new site administrator from among his friends to take care of the site. The old moderator team will continue helping with the site, unchanged. We will try to keep running everything just as it always has been.

The trackers and website seem to be working properly, and should any issues arise, they will be taken care of as soon as possible. The site might be going on and offline over the next days as we work out any problems.

Welcome back, and enjoy your stay!

- Umlauf
Demonoid Site admin

Well I stumbled along this video and thought I would share it. Wouldn’t we all like one of these blenders in our office?

Well most internet users have probably heard of torrentspy.com It was a very large p2p (peer to peer) torrent site that allowed sharing of all types of material including copyrighted files. It appears the site has now been shut down to legal reasons. Torrentspy will join Demonoid on the list of sites that have been shut down to pressure by anti p2p organizations like the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America.)

Here is the message displayed on their site:

Friends of TorrentSpy,

We have decided on our own, not due to any court order or agreement, to bring the Torrentspy.com search engine to an end and thus we permanently closed down worldwide on March 24, 2008.

The legal climate in the USA for copyright, privacy of search requests, and links to torrent files in search results is simply too hostile. We spent the last two years, and hundreds of thousands of dollars, defending the rights of our users and ourselves.

Ultimately the Court demanded actions that in our view were inconsistent with our privacy policy, traditional court rules, and International law; therefore, we now feel compelled to provide the ultimate method of privacy protection for our users - permanent shutdown.

It was a wild ride,

The TorrentSpy Team