ACTA 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...
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