Swiss Govt: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal
Swiss Govt: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal One in three people in Switzerland download unauthorized music, movies and games from the Internet and since last year the government has been...
View ArticleRIAA: Piracy is “Under Control” But Wait – “Rampant Theft” Continues
RIAA: Piracy is “Under Control” But Wait – “Rampant Theft” Continues enigmax December 2, 2011 RIAA Print Make no mistake, anti-piracy organizations have a thin line to tread.
View ArticleDutch ISPs Ordered To Block The Pirate Bay
Dutch ISPs Ordered To Block The Pirate Bay Despite claims that freedom of expression is at stake, today a pair of ISPs have been ordered to block The Pirate Bay. Following a demand from Dutch...
View ArticleACS:Law Anti-Piracy Lawyer Suspended For 2 Years
ACS:Law Anti-Piracy Lawyer Suspended For 2 Years Today, lawyer Andrew Crossley from the now defunct ACS:Law faced the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal over his disastrous foray into ‘speculative...
View ArticleAustralia: US Copyright Colony or Just a Good Friend?
Australia: US Copyright Colony or Just a Good Friend? | TorrentFreak The place where breaking news , BitTorrent and copyright collide Australia: US Copyright Colony or Just a Good Friend
View ArticleJustice Department Backs RIAA Against Pirating Student
Justice Department Backs RIAA Against Pirating Student | TorrentFreak The place where breaking news , BitTorrent and copyright collide Justice Department Backs RIAA Against Pirating Student The...
View ArticlePirate Bay Founders’ Prison Sentences Final, Supreme Court Appeal Rejected
Pirate Bay Founders’ Prison Sentences Final, Supreme Court Appeal Rejected | TorrentFreak The place where breaking news , BitTorrent and copyright collide Pirate Bay Founders’ Prison Sentences Final,...
View ArticleBitTorrent Giant BTjunkie Shuts Down For Good
BitTorrent Giant BTjunkie Shuts Down For Good | TorrentFreak The place where breaking news , BitTorrent and copyright collide BitTorrent Giant BTjunkie Shuts Down For Good BTjunkie, one of the largest...
View ArticlePirate Bay ISP Block Challenged For Censoring Lawful Content
Pirate Bay ISP Block Challenged For Censoring Lawful Content The censorship of The Pirate Bay, which is slowly spreading to ISPs all around Europe, is designed to reduce the availability of...
View ArticleThoughts on IP Reforms and Best Practices for Creators
Thoughts on IP Reforms and Best Practices for Creators Filmmaker Kirby Ferguson recently finished Everything is a Remix, a four-part video series illustrating the interconnectedness of our creations...
View ArticleHistory Shows That Copyright Monopolies Prevent Creativity And Innovation
History Shows That Copyright Monopolies Prevent Creativity And Innovation We all too frequently hear that the copyright monopoly is supposed to encourage creativity and that the patent monopoly is...
View ArticleIconic Piracy Suit Against Google Dismissed, Despite $25,000 Bounty
Iconic Piracy Suit Against Google Dismissed, Despite $25,000 Bounty After 8 years the legal battle between Google and adult magazine publisher Perfect 10 has been put to rest. The latter accused the...
View ArticleFive More Dutch ISPs Given 10 Days To Censor The Pirate Bay
Five More Dutch ISPs Given 10 Days To Censor The Pirate Bay Following an earlier court ruling that ordered two of the largest ISPs in the Netherlands to block subscriber access to The Pirate Bay,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Funded Startup Aims to Kill BitTorrent Traffic
Microsoft Funded Startup Aims to Kill BitTorrent Traffic The Russian based “Pirate Pay” startup is promising the entertainment industry a pirate-free future. With help from Microsoft, the developers...
View ArticleMegaupload Demands Return of Millions of Dollars From U.S. Govt.
Megaupload Demands Return of Millions of Dollars From U.S. Govt
View ArticleRIAA Demands Unlimited DMCA Power From Google
RIAA Demands Unlimited DMCA Power From Google When it comes to entitlement, few private companies can match the RIAA. The latest source of their whines is Google.
View ArticleWorld’s Oldest BitTorrent Site Shuts Down
World’s Oldest BitTorrent Site Shuts Down After a few turbulent years Filesoup – the oldest surviving BitTorrent site – has announced that it will close its doors for good. The UK-based site gained...
View ArticleWarez Download Site OneDDL Calls It Quits Citing Legal Concerns
Warez Download Site OneDDL Calls It Quits Citing Legal Concerns Popular direct links download site OneDDL has announced its immediate closure. The site, which has been around for the best part of...
View ArticleACTA Showdown Coming Up – Man Your Barricades
ACTA Showdown Coming Up – Man Your Barricades The ACTA treaty is coming to its showdown two and a half weeks from today. The vote on the floor of the European Parliament is where the treaty lives or...
View ArticlePirate Bay Founder Fined For ‘Continued Involvement’ In The Site
Pirate Bay Founder Fined For ‘Continued Involvement’ In The Site As part of the punitive measures against both The Pirate Bay and its founders, a Swedish court previously banned two of the torrent...
View ArticleCyberlocker Offered To Help Prosecute Users To Settle $34.8m Copyright Suit
Cyberlocker Offered To Help Prosecute Users To Settle $34.8m Copyright Suit A cyberlocker being sued for $34.8 million by an adult studio agreed in principle to a remarkable set of demands to settle a...
View ArticleKim Dotcom Will Go to the US in Exchange for Legal Funds
Kim Dotcom Will Go to the US in Exchange for Legal Funds Just hours after his extradition hearing was delayed until 2013, Kim Dotcom is offering the US Government an unusual deal. Growing tired of the...
View ArticleFileSonic, Oron and Their Users Hit With Piracy Lawsuit
FileSonic, Oron and Their Users Hit With Piracy Lawsuit FileSonic and Oron, two prominent file-hosting services, have been dragged to court by adult entertainment company Flava Works. In a complaint...
View ArticleKim Dotcom Must Be Allowed To See FBI Evidence Against Him, Court Rules
Kim Dotcom Must Be Allowed To See FBI Evidence Against Him, Court Rules The bid to have Kim Dotcom extradited to the United States suffered a significant setback today. US authorities had insisted...
View ArticleDemonoid Domain Sale Banned Over Legal Issues
Demonoid Domain Sale Banned Over Legal Issues After several turbulent weeks with DDoS attacks, the shutdown of its servers and a criminal investigation into the site’s owners, trouble continues for...
View ArticleIllegal Downloading Is Scumbag Theft By Copyright Bandits Says Media Giant CEO
Illegal Downloading Is Scumbag Theft By Copyright Bandits Says Media Giant CEO enigmax August 21, 2012 Print The chief executive of one of Australia’s biggest media companies has come out all guns...
View ArticleDemonoid: Will The Comeback Kid Return?
Demonoid: Will The Comeback Kid Return? Today it’s been one month since Demonoid was driven offline by a massive DDoS attack. In the weeks that followed things went from bad to worse and the site’s...
View ArticleIMAGiNE BitTorrent Piracy Group Members All Plead Guilty
IMAGiNE BitTorrent Piracy Group Members All Plead Guilty Ernesto September 2, 2012 IMAGiNE Print After being tipped off by the MPAA the feds arrested four members of the prominent BitTorrent release...
View ArticleAnti-Piracy Outfits Think Megaupload, Demonoid & BTjunkie Are Still Alive
Anti-Piracy Outfits Think Megaupload, Demonoid & BTjunkie Are Still Alive enigmax September 7, 2012 DMCA Print Almost nine months on from the raids that took down Megaupload and bizarrely some of...
View ArticleSweden Kidnapped My Friend, Pirate Bay Co-Founder Anakata
Sweden Kidnapped My Friend, Pirate Bay Co-Founder Anakata It’s almost two weeks since Gottfrid Svartholm was arrested in Cambodia but despite dozens of news headlines and stories published around the...
View ArticleToo Legit To Quit: 124.2m Legal BitTorrent Music Downloads in 2012
Too Legit To Quit: 124.2m Legal BitTorrent Music Downloads in 2012 Earlier this week, file-sharing related news was dominated by a set of stats compiled by Musicmetric. The company said that in the...
View ArticleJustice Department Educates Foreign Judges on Piracy Issues
Justice Department Educates Foreign Judges on Piracy Issues The U.S. Department of Justice is ramping up its battle against online piracy. Yesterday another $2.4 million was dedicated to the...
View ArticleMegaupload Wants Charges Dropped, Points Out Judge Failure
Megaupload Wants Charges Dropped, Points Out Judge Failure Earlier this week District Court Judge Liam O’Grady denied Megaupload’s request to drop the company from the indictment. The judge, however,...
View ArticleU.S. Accuses Megaupload User of Storing Pirated Music
U.S. Accuses Megaupload User of Storing Pirated Music By seizing the servers of Megaupload, the U.S
View ArticleDotcom Announces Brand New “Lobbyist-Proof” Kiwi Domain for Mega
Dotcom Announces Brand New “Lobbyist-Proof” Kiwi Domain for Mega Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has confirmed that the new domain for his fresh Mega project will be New Zealand-based. Next January it...
View ArticleOpen Rights Group Applies To Defend Citizens Against Copyright Trolls
Open Rights Group Applies To Defend Citizens Against Copyright Trolls enigmax November 15, 2012 Print Following the ACS:Law ‘speculative invoicing’ debacle the last thing the UK needs right now is an...
View ArticleMusic Industry Threatens to Sue UK Pirate Party over Pirate Bay Proxy
Music Industry Threatens to Sue UK Pirate Party over Pirate Bay Proxy Music industry group the BPI is sending its lawyers after the UK Pirate Party after they refused to take their Pirate Bay proxy...
View ArticleRLSLOG Threatened By NZBMatrix Shutdown Lawyers, Promises Change
RLSLOG Threatened By NZBMatrix Shutdown Lawyers, Promises Change enigmax December 26, 2012 rlslog Print RLSLOG, one of the Internet’s most prominent file-sharing “release blogs,” has announced a...
View ArticlebitGAMER BitTorrent Tracker Quits the Game, Shuts Down
bitGAMER BitTorrent Tracker Quits the Game, Shuts Down The popular private BitTorrent tracker bitGAMER has shut down its operation. The site’s owners mention that the legal climate has changed over the...
View ArticleMusic Biz Wants To Block Pirate Bay….Plus 260 Additional Sites
Music Biz Wants To Block Pirate Bay….Plus 260 Additional Sites At the end of this month a hearing will take place to help decide the fate of The Pirate Bay in Ireland. The major labels want the site...
View ArticleHadopi Plans Large File-Sharing Warning Increase For 2013
Hadopi Plans Large File-Sharing Warning Increase For 2013 enigmax January 23, 2013 hadopi Print Despite having its funding cut by around 25%, budget predictions suggest that the French Hadopi...
View ArticleMega Resellers Take Down PayPal Payment Option
Mega Resellers Take Down PayPal Payment Option enigmax January 27, 2013 Mega Print After trumpeting the start of a campaign this week to cut off payment processing to Mega, an anti-piracy outfit has...
View ArticleDotcom’s Mega Removes Legal Files Citing Bogus DMCA Requests
Dotcom’s Mega Removes Legal Files Citing Bogus DMCA Requests Ernesto January 31, 2013 Mega Print In recent days thousands of files have been removed from Kim Dotcom’s Mega, some based on bogus (DMCA)...
View ArticleMusic Pirates are Cheapskates, Some of Them
Music Pirates are Cheapskates, Some of Them New data on actual music spending in the UK shows that on average music pirates spend less than regular buyers of digital music. The figures are being touted...
View ArticleAnti-Piracy Group Rips Off Pirate Bay Website, Faces Lawsuit
Anti-Piracy Group Rips Off Pirate Bay Website, Faces Lawsuit A Finnish anti-piracy group has copied the design of The Pirate Bay website for their latest anti-piracy campaign. The Pirate Bay is...
View ArticleNintendo Wants to Hunt Down Game Pirates and Block Websites
Nintendo Wants to Hunt Down Game Pirates and Block Websites In a letter to the U.S. Trade Representative Nintendo urges the Government to put pressure on foreign countries to do a better job at...
View ArticleCopyright Trolls to Judge: Nope! We’re Not Coming to Scary Hearing
Copyright Trolls to Judge: Nope! We’re Not Coming to Scary Hearing The copyright trolls of Prenda Law have kicked back against a judge who ordered them to appear before a Los Angeles court this coming...
View ArticleHappy pirate independence day!
7 years ago, our ISP was raided and the pigs in blue took off with all our servers (and about 100 unrelated servers too). Did we bend over and ask for forgiveness? Hell no, within 3 days we were back....
View ArticleKickassTorrents Regains Control Over KAT.ph, Legal Case Continues
KickassTorrents Regains Control Over KAT.ph, Legal Case Continues The KAT.ph domain name is back in the hands of the KickassTorrents team after a temporary injunction ran its course. Meanwhile, the...
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