Empornium.us, the world's largest adult-material tracker, has been blocked by Google and Firefox today. Currently those who search Google for Empornium are met with a warning under the URL: "This site may harm your computer". If they choose ignoring the warning and clicking the link on IE, the site main page will load but then anti-virus software may periodically show virus/malware warning messages. Users using Firefox 3 to access the site URL also meet a "Reported Attack Site" warning as the ...

The download site of the infamous Firefox add-on "Pirates of Amazon" which offers users a download link to pirated copies of products from The Pirate Bay when you visit Amazon online store is offline now illustrated with a sinking ship. After installed, the add-on will add "Down 4 Free" button into the Amazon product page when the same title is also available at The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay, however, has no relation with the add-on owners. "We are not affiliated ...

Yesterday the world largest BitTorrent tracker, The Pirate Bay, celebrated its 5th anniversary. It was a long trip for the Sweden-based crew confronting numerous of cannon firing from lawsuits, efforts (and rumors) to take its ship down, yet it is now still standing and appears stronger than ever. Just last week, the site's tracker reached 25 million peers which means "at any given point in time, more than 25 million people actively trade files thought the Pirate Bay tracker" explained Ernestor, ...

μTorrent, the world most popular BitTorrent client which Windows users have been using for long, is now officially released for (Intel) Mac OS X though still in a beta. μTorrent is designed to use minimal computer resources while still efficient. Mac version, said, continues being as lightweight and speedy as Windows counterpart. "The main reason I like uTorrent so much is because downloads are considerably faster in it than in any other BitTorrent client. This held true when I compared uTorrent Mac ...