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Websites Can Legally Pirate Porn Movies, Prosecutors Rule For years Japan's leading producers of pornographic movies have been battling to protect their content overseas. In particular they have focused on Taiwan where websites openly sell their videos and TV channels air their content...

Spain to Crackdown on Pirate Sites and Outlaw File-Sharing After becoming known as somewhat of a haven for both file-sharing sites and their users, Spain is preparing to crack down on breaches of intellectual property rights. In a blueprint published by the government today, sites said to...

eBook Pirates "Hijack" Domain Name of Anti-Piracy Campaign This week at a grand press event the French Publishers Association announced their new anti-piracy portal ProtectionLivres.com. Through the website authors can search for and take down infringing content. An ambitious project, but the...

isoHunt Loses Appeal Against the MPAA, Keyword Filter Remains IsoHunt lost its appeal against the MPAA today, with the Ninth Circuit upholding the 2010 ruling that the website does not qualify for safe harbor under the DMCA.The verdict means that isoHunt will have to keep filtering its search...

Fresh Calls to Congress to Make Movie and Music Streaming a Felony Last time there was an attempt to turn streaming copyrighted content into a felony the effort was crushed when the Internet rose up and defeated SOPA. But this week the thorny issue was again raised before Congress, with a...

UK ISPs Start Blocking KickassTorrents, H33T and Fenopy BT, Virgin Media, O2 and Be There have started to block access to three of the world's largest BitTorrent sites. The blockades were put in place following a High Court order earlier this year, which ruled that KickassTorrents, H33T and...

Google Further Highlights Wrongful DMCA Takedowns As the tsunami of DMCA takedowns sent to Google breaks yet another record, there are signs that the search engine is beginning to make rightsholders who have their requests denied a little more visible. As it reinstates Torrentz's homepage...

New York Public Library Blocks The Pirate Bay (and TorrentFreak) The New York Public Library is a bastion of public information and knowledge. While this may be true "on paper", the library has a surprisingly restrictive Internet filter. The result is that many websites are censored in NYPL's...

"Wee Man" Not Happy With Copyright Troll Lawsuits Jason 'Wee Man' Acuna of Jackass fame is not amused that hundreds of people are sued for allegedly downloaded a movie he starred in. The film, Elf-Man, premiered on DVD late last year and its makers are now trying to boost their revenues...

MPAA: Pirates Can't Hijack Freedom of Expression Last week the European Court of Human Rights rejected an application to hear the cases of Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij, two of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay. The MPAA has now come out to applaud the decision, claiming that they are tired of...

Kim "Billy Big Steps" Dotcom Still Causing Headaches For Spy Agency Yet more embarrassing information on the Kim Dotcom spying fiasco has surfaced in New Zealand. Documents show that in December 2011 when the spying began, police already had information which stated that Dotcom - codenamed...

RapidShare Prepares to Mass Delete Free User Data Over 5GB RapidShare has announced a business model change that is causing panic among its non-premium users. After offering unlimited storage space to customers using its free service, the Swiss-based file-hoster is about to implement tough...

Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Appeal in $222,000 File-Sharing Case For close on six years the dizzying file-sharing case of the RIAA vs Jammie Thomas-Rasset has been winding its way back and forth through the U.S. legal system. The U.S. government itself got involvedlast month, submitting a...

Online Music Piracy Doesn't Hurt Sales, European Commission Finds New research published by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre shows that online piracy doesn't hurt digital music revenues. The researchers examined browsing habits from 16,000 Europeans and found that there's a...

Who Protects Freedom Of Speech When It Isn't Profitable To Do So? Over the past years, we have seen an all-out assault on the messenger immunity, forcing liability onto commercial distribution services for merely carrying a message. The net effect of this is a drastic and catastrophic...

The Pirate Bay's Oldest Torrent is "Revolution OS" After nearly 9 years of seeding The Pirate Bay's oldest working torrent is still very much alive. Interestingly, the torrent is not a Hollywood classic nor is it an evergreen music album. The honor goes to a pirated copy of "Revolution OS", a...

Don't Download That Bro, You're Going to Get Busted! One of the most enduring questions in the history of online file-sharing asks whether something bad will come from downloading and/or sharing a particular product. Will the the recording and movie industries come knocking? Will the police...

"New" Demonoid Fools Public with Cheap Copy More than half a year has passed since Demonoid went offline but many of its former users still haven't lost faith. They cling on to every string of hope and this has led some tobelieve that the site returned as a meta-search engine under the new...

University Students and Staff Sued For Pirating 50 Cent Movie A new copyright infringement case filed this week looks set to cause a fresh round of controversy. Copyright trolls from Switzerland, who say they are part of a non-profit organization, are about to shake down thousands of alleged...

Paramount Censors Torrentz's Torrentless Homepage from Google The homepage of the popular torrent search engine Torrentz disappeared from Google this week after Hollywood studio Paramount sent a peculiar DMCA takedown request. Paramount claims in the notice that the URL links to infringing...