The Pirate Kiosk is a local and public backup of the Pirate Bay’s torrent catalog broadcast from a WiFi router, allowing peer-to-peer file sharing without the need for the internet.

A few days ago The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker, announced that it has been sold to the Swedish software company, Global Gaming Factory X AB for almost 8 million dollars.  According to a Pirate Bay blog post, the surprisingly influential owners of the piracy site will be passing the reigns to the new owners without altering the core policies of mocking legal threats and carrying out the most expansive piracy sites on the net.  Last month, the so-called “Pirate Party” even captured a Swedish seat in the European Union’s Parliament which points to the power of Pirate [...]

Today the largest and most important court case in file-sharing history starts in Stockholm, Sweden. The trial against The Pirate Bay is expected to be followed by countless others around the world. TorrentFreak explains:
Almost three years have passed since The Pirate Bay’s servers were seized by the Swedish police.
In the years since the raid a lot has changed. For one, The Pirate Bay grew to become the largest BitTorrent tracker on the Internet and one of the most prominent sites in the world (as of right now the site is ranked 102nd largest with 25 million unique users). Some estimate [...]