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Kim Dotcom Beating Kim Jong Un, Takes 3rd in Current Time 100 Voting Somewhat predictably this year's Time 100 list features the usual political and technological giants such as Barack Obama and Google co-founder Sergey Brin. However, in a possible first, two giants with a shared name are...

Richard O'Dwyer to Return With New Movie/TV Streaming Portal After months of uncertainty, last December former TVShack owner Richard O'Dwyer averted his looming extradition from the UK on criminal copyright infringement charges by cutting a deal with the U.S. Government which allowed him to...

Four Alleged Movie Pirates Set to Cover Entire Horror Movie Budget No one really knows how much money they generate but it's generally acknowledged that file-sharing settlements can be a lucrative business. However, while it has to be acknowledged that movie makers have costs to cover...

The Pirate Bay Moves to .GL Domain in Anticipation of Domain Seizure The Pirate Bay has received indications that the Swedish authorities might soon attempt to seize the site's .se domain. In anticipation of this move, today the world's largest file-sharing site switched to Greenland's .gl...

Cox Targets Pirates With "10+ Strikes" Program Preferring to handle file-sharing in its own way, Cox was one of the few large ISPs that refused to take part in the United States' "six-strikes" scheme. Cox operates its own 10+ strikes program featuring warnings andtemporary Internet...

File-Sharers Will Not Be Held Liable For Piracy, Russia Says As Russia tries to find a balanced solution to the thorny issue of Internet piracy, the head of a government department responsible for communications and information technology says that attacking Internet users is not the...

Priests Watch DVD Screeners While Pirates Download Filth in the Vatican While Thou Shalt Not Steal is one of the best known ten commandments, there is no directive ordering Thou Shalt Not Copy. This glaring loophole in God's law, which runs contrary to established entertainment industry...

Joe Biden Pushed For "Six Strikes" Anti-Piracy Plan, IFPI Says IFPI wants governments worldwide to facilitate plans to tackle online piracy, whether voluntary or not. The music group's CEO Frances Moore mentions the U.S. six-strikes program as a prime example. On paper the agreement between...

"I'm Back, Bitches": Busted NinjaVideo Founder Freed From Prison After being sent to prison early 2012 for running NinjaVideo, the first site to fall victim to the U.S. Government's 'Operation in Our Sites', founder Hana 'Phara' Beshara is now back in society. Fresh from peeling potatoes for...

IsoHunt Wants Jury to Rule on Free Speech Issues in MPAA Case Last month BitTorrent site isoHunt lost its appeal against the MPAA, meaning that the site has to continue filtering movie and TV related terms from its search engine. However, isoHunt founder Gary Fung is not giving up just yet...

YouTube's Deal With Universal Blocks DMCA Counter Notices When content is removed from the Internet following a DMCA complaint filed by a rightsholder the user who uploaded the content gets a chance to file a counter-claim. If successful this should reinstate the content but on YouTube things...

"Why I Pulled Out of The Pirate Bay Trial," An Artist's Perspective When the lawsuit against the Pirate Bay began, hip-hop artist Max Peezay found out that his album was being used by the IFPI as evidence to claim damages from the founders. Peezay, however, wanted nothing to do with the case...

Movie Studios Want Google to Take Down Their Own Takedown Request In a comical display of meta-censorship several copyright holders including 20th Century Fox and NBC Universal have sent Google takedown requests asking the search engine to take down links to takedown request they themselves...

Pirate Bay Proxy Owner's Bank Account Seized by Anti-Piracy Group Following a request from Hollywood-backed anti-piracy group BREIN, a Dutch bailiff has seized the bank account of a Pirate Bay proxy operator. The owner of the popular proxy site Kuiken.co has been involved in a legal battle...

Swedish Police Promise More Resources to Catch File-Sharers A report from Sweden's National Police Board proposes changes to the country's handling of copyright infringement and file-sharing offenses. The proposals have developed from meetings with entertainment company rightsholders and...

I'll Download Game of Thrones from The Pirate Bay, Iron Sky Director Tells HBO As Game of Thrones smashes download records this week, an extra act of sharing will soon come from a most unusual source. Sick and tired of the poor quality offered by HBO's official streaming service, the director...

Pirate Bay Proxy Owner's Bank Account Seized by Hollywood Group Following a request from Hollywood-backed anti-piracy group BREIN, a Dutch bailiff has seized the bank account of a Pirate Bay proxy operator. The owner of the popular proxy site Kuiken.co has been involved in a legal battle with...

Verizon Asked to Share "Six Strikes" Alerts for BitTorrent Lawsuit It's just a few weeks since the six-strikes copyright alert system was activated in the U.S. and already it's being utilized in a civil action against an alleged BitTorrent pirate. To prepare for a trial against a Verizon...

FACT Turn Up at Torrent Site Owner's House Demanding Domain Names A UK-based anti-piracy group is continuing to crack down on any sites considered to be engaging in copyright infringement. Last week representatives of The Federation Against Copyright Theft personally turned up at the home of...

Game of Thrones Pirates Break BitTorrent Swarm Record With a million downloads on BitTorrent in less than a day, the season premiere of Game of Thrones is breaking records on multiple fronts. Never before has there been a torrent with so many people sharing a file at the same time, more than...