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href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner</th><td class="infobox-data">Lennart Renkema PhD<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Created by</th><td class="infobox-data">Ernesto van der Sar<br />Andy Maxwell<br /><a href="/wiki/Rickard_Falkvinge" class="mw-redirect" title="Rickard Falkvinge">Rickard Falkvinge</a><br />Ben Jones (modified <a href="/wiki/WordPress" title="WordPress">WordPress</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Editor</th><td class="infobox-data">Ernesto van der Sar</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Revenue" title="Revenue">Revenue</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Advertisements</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">URL</th><td class="infobox-data url"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://torrentfreak.com">torrentfreak<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launched</th><td class="infobox-data">12 November 2005<span class="noprint">; 19 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2005-11-12</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Content license</div></th><td class="infobox-data">CC BY-NC 3.0 (text only)<sup id="cite_ref-torrentfreak1_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-torrentfreak1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>TorrentFreak</b> (<b>TF</b>) is a <a href="/wiki/Blog" title="Blog">blog</a> dedicated to reporting the latest news and trends on the <a href="/wiki/BitTorrent" title="BitTorrent">BitTorrent</a> protocol and <a href="/wiki/File_sharing" title="File sharing">file sharing</a>, as well as on <a href="/wiki/Copyright_infringement" title="Copyright infringement">copyright infringement</a> and <a href="/wiki/Digital_rights" title="Digital rights">digital rights</a>. </p><p>The website was started in November 2005 by a <a href="/wiki/Dutch_people" title="Dutch people">Dutchman</a> using the pseudonym "Ernesto van der Sar".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WSJ_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was joined by Andy "Enigmax" Maxwell and Ben Jones in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-WSJ_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Regular contributors include <a href="/wiki/Rickard_Falkvinge" class="mw-redirect" title="Rickard Falkvinge">Rickard Falkvinge</a>, founder of the <a href="/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Sweden)" title="Pirate Party (Sweden)">Pirate Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The online publication eCommerceTimes, in 2009, described "Ernesto" as the pseudonym of Lennart Renkema, owner of TorrentFreak.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> TorrentFreak's text is <a href="/wiki/Free_content" title="Free content">free content</a> under a <a href="/wiki/Creative_Commons" title="Creative Commons">Creative Commons</a> <a href="/wiki/Creative_Commons_license#Non-commercial_licenses" title="Creative Commons license">Attribution-NonCommercial</a> version 3.0 license.<sup id="cite_ref-torrentfreak1_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-torrentfreak1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Their lead researcher and community manager was the <a href="/wiki/Pirate_Party" title="Pirate Party">Pirate Party</a> activist <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Norton_(Pirate_Party)" title="Andrew Norton (Pirate Party)">Andrew Norton</a>, from 2007 until 2022. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Specialist_areas">Specialist areas</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=TorrentFreak&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Specialist areas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to Canadian law scholar <a href="/wiki/Michael_Geist" title="Michael Geist">Michael Geist</a>, TorrentFreak "is widely used as a source of original reporting on digital issues".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Frequent areas of reporting include: </p> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/City_of_London" title="City of London">City of London</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Police_Intellectual_Property_Crime_Unit" title="Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit">Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit</a><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Trade_Representative" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Trade Representative">United States Trade Representative</a> and <a href="/wiki/Notorious_Markets" class="mw-redirect" title="Notorious Markets">Notorious Markets</a> reports<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Anti-piracy <a href="/wiki/Block_(Internet)" title="Block (Internet)">web blocking</a><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torrent_tracker" class="mw-redirect" title="Torrent tracker">Torrent tracker</a> news<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VPN" class="mw-redirect" title="VPN">VPN</a> and <a href="/wiki/Seedbox" title="Seedbox">seedbox</a> reviews<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File_sharing" title="File sharing">File sharing</a> website news</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Copyright" title="Copyright">Copyright</a> law news</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warez_scene" title="Warez scene">Warez scene</a> news</li></ul> <p>As well as other news affecting copyright, privacy, file sharing and adjacent topics.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Editorial_stance">Editorial stance</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=TorrentFreak&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Editorial stance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In a 2021 article, Andy Maxwell outlined TorrentFreak's editorial stance. He wrote: "As a publication entirely dedicated to reporting on copyright, piracy, <a href="/wiki/Torrent_file" title="Torrent file">torrent</a> and streaming sites (plus all things closely related), here at TorrentFreak we aim to tell all 'sides' of the story. We do not shy away from reports that show that <a href="/wiki/Lost_sales" title="Lost sales">piracy hurts sales</a> and we have no problem publishing research projects that show completely the opposite. It's called balanced reporting and it hurts absolutely no one."<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=TorrentFreak&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 17 August 2007, TorrentFreak reported that <a href="/wiki/Comcast" title="Comcast">Comcast</a> had begun <a href="/wiki/Bandwidth_throttling" title="Bandwidth throttling">throttling</a> its upload bandwidth, specifically against BitTorrent users. This made <a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_BitTorrent_terms#Seed" title="Glossary of BitTorrent terms">seeding</a>, which is an essential part of the BitTorrent protocol, effectively impossible.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was later determined that Comcast was using <a href="/wiki/Sandvine" title="Sandvine">Sandvine</a> products, which implement network traffic shaping and policing, and include support for both blocking new and forcefully terminating established network connections. <a href="/wiki/Comcast" title="Comcast">Comcast</a> has denied these claims whenever they have been asked to comment. A guide, for customer service representatives when asked about Comcast's BitTorrent throttling, was leaked to <a href="/wiki/Consumerist" title="Consumerist">The Consumerist</a> on 26 October 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2008 through to March 2011 TorrentFreak ran a short lived video news service titled 'torrentfreak.tv', directed by <a href="/wiki/Andrej_Preston" title="Andrej Preston">Andrej Preston</a>, founder of torrent site <a href="/wiki/Suprnova" class="mw-redirect" title="Suprnova">Suprnova</a> made available for streaming and download on <a href="/wiki/Mininova" title="Mininova">Mininova</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 21 August 2013, Comcast threatened TorrentFreak for writing about publicly available court documents.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The underlying document links a Comcast subscriber with the <a href="/wiki/Prenda_Law" title="Prenda Law">Prenda Law</a> firm.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The court case where the document was filed was a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by AF Holdings for alleged infringement of an adult movie.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August 2013, <a href="/wiki/Sky_Broadband" title="Sky Broadband">Sky Broadband</a> <a href="/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Web blocking in the United Kingdom">blocked</a> the site for UK customers after torrent site <a href="/wiki/EZTV" title="EZTV">EZTV</a> pointed its <a href="/wiki/Domain_Name_System" title="Domain Name System">DNS</a> servers to TorrentFreak's <a href="/wiki/IP_address" title="IP address">IP address</a> and, in July 2014, the site was blocked by the controversial Sky Broadband Shield parental filter system.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span 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