TorrentFreak

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TorrentFreak
Blog
languages English
operator Lennart Renkema, PhD
editorial staff "Ernesto Van Der Sar", "Smaran", Andy "Enigmax" Maxwell, Ben Jones
Registration No
On-line November 12, 2005 (currently online)
https://www.torrentfreak.com/

TorrentFreak is an English-language advertising-financed blog founded in 2005 , which is dedicated to news from the field of file sharing , copyright and data protection .

history

The blog was founded on November 12, 2005 by the Dutchman Lennart Renkema under the pseudonym "Ernesto Van Der Sar". Other contributors are Andy "Enigmax" Maxwell and CTO Ben Jones, who were added to the blogger team in February and May 2007, respectively, wrote "Smaran" for Torrentfreak from September 2006 to early 2008, and there are also some guest authors, the Pirate Party - Founder Rickard Falkvinge is a columnist. Today the blog is one of the most cited sources of information on the subject of file sharing.

Some of the most important stories published on TorrentFreak are the articles about the American Internet service provider Comcast , which violated applicable US and international law by violating net neutrality.

The content of the blog was under free Creative Commons licenses until 2012 . The content has been under the Creative Commons Non-Commercial license since 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Renay San Miguel: Pirate Bay Decides to Join the Navy . In: ecommercetimes.com . E-Commerce Times. June 30, 2009. Accessed January 31, 2015.
  2. ↑ Allen Injijian: Pwned: Final Project Interview # 2: Ernesto of TorrentFreak.com . May 14, 2007. Retrieved April 20, 2009.
  3. ↑ a b Ethan Smith, Sarah McBride: Web Piracy: The Enemy Within? . In: The Wall Street Journal . August 4, 2008. Retrieved April 20, 2009.
  4. ↑ About TorrentFreak . Retrieved April 20, 2009.
  5. ↑ The Canadian legal scholar Michael Geist states : "[TorrentFreak] is widely used as a source of original reporting on digital issues".
  6. ↑ Light Reading - IP & Convergence - Comcast Takes on TorrentFreak - Telecom News Analysis