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Tech The Pirate Cloud
Pirate Bay Moves to the Cloud to Become “Raid-Proof”

The Pirate Bay has made an important change to its infrastructure. The world’s most famous BitTorrent site has switched its entire operation to the cloud. From now on The Pirate Bay will serve its users from several cloud hosting providers scattered around the world. The move will cut costs, ensure better uptime, and make the site virtually invulnerable to police raids — all while keeping user data secure.

Tech The Pirate Bay's Google influenced logo
Google Starts Punishing “Pirate” Sites In Search Results

Google announced today that it will lower the search engine rankings of websites that receive a high number of DMCA takedown requests, independent of whether the linked content is lawful or not. The algorithm change is the result of extensive lobbying efforts by Hollywood and the major music labels, and could severely degrade the rankings of websites such as The Pirate Bay, FilesTube, and even YouTube.

Tech Microsoft Windows 8
Windows 8 Leaks Online

The final build of Windows 8 has leaked to the internet, just a day after Microsoft confirmed it had finished the development cycle for its latest operating system