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The Pirate Bay Moves Servers to The United States, F*ck Yeah… After its failed experiment in North Korea, The Pirate Bay has set course to the land of the free, the United States of America. The infamous BitTorrent site has renamed itself to The Freedom Bay and is promising to censor all...

HBO: Game of Thrones Piracy is a Compliment, Doesn't Hurt Sales Last month the director of Game of Thrones admitted something that his paymasters had HBO might have avoided. Huge online piracy doesn't hurt the show, he said, and in fact might create benefits by generating cultural buzz. Well...

The Life and Times of a TV Show Piracy Release Group They're some of the most popular torrents around, but how do they get on the Internet and who puts them there? Today TorrentFreak catches up with the founder of a TV show release group responsible for releasing hundreds of TV shows online...

UK Government 'Wastes' £200k on New Anti-Piracy Tech In ever-more futile efforts to 'fix' piracy, lots of methods have been tried, and it's doubtful there are very many left, except the obvious one of giving consumers what they want. Now the UK Intellectual Property Office has given almost...

The Pirate Bay Becomes #1 File-Sharing Site as Cyberlockers Collapse The Pirate Bay is now the most-visited file-sharing site on the Internet, taking over the lead from prominent one-click hosting sites such as 4Shared and Mediafire. After a spectacular rise in the early years of this decade...

BitFetch Debuts BitCoin-Powered Anonymous BitTorrent Downloads A new privacy-conscious file-sharing service is aiming to bring the power of BitCoin and BitTorrent together in one neat package, with some added extras. Offering high-speed remote transfers, BitFetch keeps BitTorrent users...

MPAA: "Red Flags" Make Hotfile Liable for Pirate Users The MPAA and file-hosting service Hotfile are gearing up for their trial in a U.S. court later this year. This week the movie studios told the court that Hotfile does not qualify for safe harbor protection as it knew about the "massive...

KickassTorrents Circumvents Censors With New Ka.tt Domain In a surprise move the popular BitTorrent site KickassTorrents moved to a new domain today. The immediate effect of the switch is that after the ISP blockade last week a lot of of UK users are once again able to access the site. This...

'Pirate' Site Ad Transparency Report Loses Credibility The third edition of the Annenberg Innovation Lab's Ad Transparency Report is now unofficially doing the rounds. Google, Quantcast and Open X are praised for making "strong moves" to block sites that receive a lot of DMCA notices but the...

Hollywood Group Kills Hundreds of "Pirate" TV and Movie Streaming Sites The popular movie and TV streaming script TVstreamScript has shut down "voluntarily" following pressure from movie industry group FACT. The script was used by hundreds of streaming sites, which have all been rendered...

Anti-Piracy Group Shuts Down Pirated Pirate Bay The most recent dispute between The Pirate Bay and a Finnish anti-piracy group appears to be over. CIAPC, known locally as TTVK, lifted the code of The Pirate Bay's home page in order to promote their own anti-piracy message but were called out...

Google Search Data Shows Torrent Site Censorship Reaction Earlier this month the major labels of the UK recording industry succeeded in having three major torrent sites blocked at the ISP level. KickassTorrents, H33T and Fenopy all disappeared from the screens of users not using a VPN or...

"Piracy Is Progress" Billboard on Times Square Divides Artists The band Ghost Beach is running a controversial billboard campaign in New York's Times Square. With slogans such as "Piracy is Progress" and "Piracy is Robbery" they are encouraging other artists to speak their mind about...

ISPs Cannot Be Forced To Store Data on File-Sharers, Court Rules Most Internet service providers log information about their users, such as when they use the service and the IP addresses they were allocated at the time. This information is useful for ISPs' housekeeping but it's also an...

BitTorrent 's Bram Cohen Patents Revolutionary Live Streaming Protocol Hoping to revolutionize live broadcasting on the Internet, Bram Cohen has filed a patent application for the new BitTorrent Live streaming protocol. BitTorrent's inventor has worked on the new technology for several years...

NBC Universal Warns File-Sharers of Criminal Prosecution NBC Universal is one of the copyright holders involved in the "six strikes" copyright alert system but the warnings it sends out to subscribers of non-participating ISPs stand in stark contrast to the educational approach of the...

New Zealand Gave Kim Dotcom Residency, Knowing He Was Wanted By FBI In 2010, New Zealand's Security Intelligence Service were carrying out special checks on Kim Dotcom as part of his application to become an NZ resident. They turned up something unexpected. The FBI were investigating the...

Free Access To Dozens of Anonymous VPNs Via New University Project As citizens around the world endure Internet censorship of all types, a Japanese university has stepped in to level the playing field. Whether you're in Iran or China and blocked from YouTube, Twitter or Facebook, or in the UK...

KickassTorrents Proxies Blossom Following UK Blockades This week several of the largest Internet providers in the UK started to block KickassTorrents, Fenopy and H33T, but this doesn't mean that the sites have become entirely inaccessible. As a direct result of the blockades several proxies...

MPAA: BitTorrent is the Best Way to Pirate Movies and TV-Shows The MPAA, RIAA and the Internet providers participating in the "six strikes" anti-piracy schemehave informed the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committeeabout their plans. The MPAA's Marianne Grant gave a detailed overview...