The Pirate Bay

Microsoft Live Messenger blocks links to The Pirate Bay, claiming the site is unsafe.

Ziggo and XS4ALL, Dutch ISPs, have been ordered to block access to The Pirate Bay or face fines of 10,000 euros per day.

The CEO of prospective Pirate Bay buyer Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) is about have large parts of his assets frozen after a decision in the Stockholm district court. If his stake in GGF is frozen it could spell even more trouble for a deal that already seems to be doomed.

Internet cafe operator Global Gaming Factory X will be delisted from a Swedish stock exchange if it engages in illegal activities involving the file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, which it plans to acquire, a stock exchange official has warned.

The owners of The Pirate Bay have agreed to sell the site to a Swedish Internet cafe operator for 60 million Swedish kronor (US$7.8 million), the company said on Tuesday.

The Pirate Bay is the target of yet another legal case -- the Dutch antipiracy organization BREIN wants to close the file-sharing site in the Netherlands, and wants to see its founders appear in the Amsterdam district court on July 21, it said Tuesday.

The Swedish court of appeals will look into allegations that the judge who handled a case involving the Pirate Bay file sharing service had a conflict interest, the court said on Wednesday.

The four people involved in running BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay have been found guilty of being accessories to crimes against copyright law.

The founders of widely used BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay is getting ready to launch IPREDator, which makes people online more anonymous by using a VPN.

Hackers defaced the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's (IFPI) Swedish Web site on Wednesday as The Pirate Bay trial continued.

The eyes of the file-sharing community remained on Sweden on Tuesday as the trial of four men from The Pirate Bay search engine continued in Stockholm.