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They have no option indeed, but it's interesting to see how easy this made it to connect the dots.

To clarify, this is not streamed from the actual location.

It's an RT live feed that's being pushed out as a BitTorrent live stream from a safe home, probably nowhere near Egypt.

One of our ad networks (big name) screwed up.

Removed the ads, sorry for in convenience.

I think this is coming from the (big name) ad network we're using.

Disabled the ads for now and will probably switch to Paypal donations... Oh wait...

TorrentFreak here...

They do censor these words right?

The title is correct but we can't always include all nuances. We hope most of our readers will take the time to at least read three sentences :)

I considered " Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More From Their Autocomplete and Instant Services Until A User Types In The Complete Term" but that seemed a bit too much.

But yeah, I'm very ashamed.

This is true, but by Google's filter is not as smart as you would expect and the filter is too broad.

Why include the word "BitTorrent" as it's the trademark of a fine US tech company?

Why include ALL variations of searches with the dictionary word "torrent"?

These decisions appear to be quite arbitrary, which is dangerous when we're talking about censorship.

Thanks, fixed it :)

I see what you mean there. I have the same thing with reading press releases from the MPAA ans RIAA.

I just did.. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1942998

Ok, since I'm partly responsible for the article I'll share my take and explain why we ran the story.

1. Yesterday we reported on the site rapgodfathers.com which was seized and pointed to the same landing page (+ analytics).

This was confirmed by the owner (plus another source) and a search warrant from a US district Court. See http://torrentfreak.com/music-linking-site-raided-by-dept-of...

2. Today reports came in on more sites. We've known the owner of torrent-finder for a few years and spoke with him about what happened.

He confirmed that ICANN was involved and that Godaddy knew nothing about the actions. He also told us some more information that we were told not to post in public. Combined with yesterday's raid the story added up.

3. About the analytics... My guess would be that the hosting company put that there, but it may also be the authorities.

4. Dozens of sites are involved in this, all with different owners.

A hoax seems to be impossible. But then again, we're just simple bloggers, and thought we had enough info to back the story. If anyone disagrees, please say so.

Thanks :)

I don't mind critique at all, but it's frustrating if people call it untrustworthy when we spend hours every day checking facts and gathering sources.

Should have thought about that 5 years ago ;)

Bias is something totally different than being untrustworthy.

I write for TorrentFreak and while I agree that we have our own look on things, we do check all facts carefully, possibly more than the average 'news' outlet.

Please back up your untrustworthy claim or stick to the bias one.