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Scammers Extort BitTorrent Users Posing as Law Enforcement A mysterious company using the name "Internet Copyright Law Enforcement Agency" is sending letters to home addresses of alleged BitTorrent users, asking them to pay a settlement fee of hundreds of dollars or face jail time. The outfit...

Pirate Party Will Fight Anti-Piracy Group, Inside or Outside Court This week the Swedish Pirate Party came under attack from a movie and music industry-backed anti-piracy group. Rights Alliance informed the party that if they continue to work with The Pirate Bay, legal action will follow...

Google Fails to Punish "Pirate" Sites in Search Results, RIAA Says Following mounting pressure from international rightsholders, last year Google finally caved in and said it would start making 'pirate' sites more difficult for its users to find. But, according to the RIAA, this was a false...

Pirate Bay Bandwidth Supplier Disconnected, But The Ship Sails On This week the Swedish Pirate Party and one of its bandwidth suppliers were told that they must stop servicing The Pirate Bay or face legal action. It now appears similar threats were extended to Portlane, another Internet...

CNET Doesn't Have to Ban BitTorrent Clients, Court Rules CBS and CNET do not have to stop distributing BitTorrent clients and other file-sharing software. A California court has denied the request for a preliminary injunction from a group of artists, who accused the companies of facilitating...

Google Refuses to Index Huge Streaming Movie Portal Homepage One of the Internet's largest indexes for streaming movie and TV show content is locked in a dispute over the removal of the site's homepage from Google's search engine results. Movie2K, the 240th most-popular site in the world...

Download a Fresh Copy of The Pirate Bay, With Permission There are no signs that The Pirate Bay will disappear anytime soon, but pirate preppers anticipating such a doomsday scenario can now download an updated and improved copy of the world's most resilient BitTorrent site. A backup of all...

Pirate Party Threatened With Lawsuit for Hosting The Pirate Bay For several years the Swedish Pirate Party has provided hosting services to The Pirate Bay. One of the main reasons for the BitTorrent site to team up with the political party was because it wouldn'teasily cave in to pressure...

Anti-Piracy Groups Want Google to Lift DMCA Takedown Cap Google is being criticized by copyright holders for the limits it puts on the number of "pirate" links that can be removed per day. The Hollywood -funded anti-piracy organization BREIN wants to increase the daily DMCA cap from 10,000 to...

Former File-Sharing Site Admin Fined 6.4 Million Euros The former administrator of one of Italy's largest file-sharing sites has been handed a record-breaking fine. The individual, known online as Tex Willer, managed the large ItalianShare forum which together with sister sites allegedly...

The Pirate Bay Reports Anti-Piracy Outfit to the Police The Pirate Bay has asked theEconomic Crime unit of the Finnish police to investigate the alleged criminal actions of anti-piracy group CIAPC. Last week the group copied The Pirate Bay's design, violating the site's usage policy. In their...

Hyperlinking Is Not Copyright Infringement, Scholars Say A panel ofprominent scholars and academics have added their voices to an important case that was referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union. The paper published by the European Copyright Society aims to answer the question...

Motivating Yourself Every Day To Fight The Copyright Monopoly When working for reform or abolition of the copyright or patent monopolies, things can sometimes feel a bit uphill, even though the eventual abolition of these protectionist monopolies seems inevitable. To get energy for activism...

Pirate Bay Proxy Crowdfunds Legal Fight Against Hollywood Group Hollywood's war against The Pirate Bay website continues in Europe with yet another legal battle. Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN is taking the operator of the popular proxy site Kuiken.co to court, demanding the shutdown of the...

Pirates and Wikileaks Share Battlefield In Aussie Election Wikileaks loves to share secret documents and pirates are all for sharing culture, but can these movements share voters in the upcoming Australian elections to ensure at least one of them gets elected? In September, debutante...

Anti-Piracy Group to The Pirate Bay: We Want You To Sue Us! In an act of either genius or madness an anti-piracy outfit turned the tables on The Pirate Bay this week by pirating parts of their website in order to show that piracy should be avoided. TPB responded by threatening to sue. But...

BitTorrent Starts Cyberlocker / BitTorrent Hybrid, Without Limits BitTorrent Inc., the company behind the popular file-sharing clients uTorrent and BitTorrent, launched a new file-sharing service today. Branded SoShare, the new platform is a hybrid between BitTorrent and cloud based storage...

Megaupload "Planted Evidence" Claim is an Unfounded Conspiracy Theory, U.S. Says The Department of Justice has responded to Megaupload's claims that they "planted" evidence and tried to mislead the court. According to United States Attorney Neil MacBride these allegations are "sensationalist...

Pirated Indie Game Devs Get Full Pirate Bay Support To Crack Steam Following the unofficial upload of their game to The Pirate Bay last weekend, a pair of indie game devs took a decision to go with the flow and turn the situation to their advantage. Courting BitTorrent users and posters to...

CBS and CNET Liable For ALL BitTorrent Piracy, Artists Tell Court In their ongoing legal battle against CBS and CNET, a coalition of artists has reiterated their request for a distribution ban on file-sharing software. The artists, joined by billionaire and FilmOn founder Alki David, accuse...