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DDoS Attacks Take Down What.cd & Major Private BitTorrent Trackers Major private BitTorrent trackers including What.cd and IPTorrents have been taken offline by Denial of Service attacks. The disruptions are being coordinated by an individual who had a fight last year with What.cd after the...

Anti-Piracy Group Rips Off Pirate Bay Website, Faces Lawsuit A Finnish anti-piracy group has copied the design of The Pirate Bay website for their latest anti-piracy campaign. The Pirate Bay is outraged by this move and says it will sue the group for breaking their site policy, which clearly...

U.S. Govt: Harsh Punishments Needed to Deter File-Sharers The Unites States Government has submitted a brief to the Supreme Court asking it to uphold the $220,000 verdict in the RIAA vs. Thomas file-sharing case. According to the Obama administration damages of $9,250 per song is not an...

Demonoid 'Operator' Released From Jail, Case Stalled The demise of Demonoid has been cited as one of the main victories against online piracy in 2012, but the case against those responsible for the site is reportedly stagnating. According to new information an alleged operator of Demonoid has...

Pirate Bay Blockades Upheld By Finnish Court of Appeal Following in the steps of other courts around Europe, Finland's Court of Appeal has now confirmed that two ISPs previously ordered to block The Pirate Bay must continue doing so. With another ISP's appeal to the Supreme Court just...

Open Source Giant VLC Mulls BitTorrent Streaming Support With more than a billion downloads since its first release, VLC is one of the most popular media players around.It's free, open source, and can play virtually every video file available. In the near future it could also become the first...

Indie Game Devs Delight Pirate Bay and Reddit With Disappearing Torrent Over the weekend a torrent of a new game was uploaded to The Pirate Bay and to the delight of observers was greeted with a positive attitude from its creators. One of the guys behind 2D game Anodyne cheerfully posted free...

Music Pirates are Cheapskates, Some of Them New data on actual music spending in the UK shows that on average music pirates spend less than regular buyers of digital music. The figures are being touted by the UK music industry to show that file-sharers are cheapskates, but those who take a...

Is 'Pirate DRM' Really the Best Response to Bulk DMCA Takedowns? Over the past few months there has been greater and greater pressure applied to Usenet-related sites and services, with some being forcibly shut down and others closing out of fear. Some have closed their doors to new members...

FBI Employees Download Pirated Movies and TV-Shows BitTorrent is used by millions of people every day, even in places where you wouldn't really expect. New data reveals thatemployees at the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division are sharing movies and TV-shows with the rest of...

Pro File-Sharing Professors 'Hunted Down' by the Copyright Lobby When professor of multimedia Roger Wallis took the stand during The Pirate Bay trial in 2009, he had to endure several personal attacks. Movie and music industry lawyers did their best to discredit Wallis' reputation and...

TBP AFK: Watch and Download The Pirate Bay Documentary NOW TPB-AFK, the documentary about The Pirate Bay and its founders, is finally out. The film has been in the making for four years and follows the lives of the three Pirate Bay founders during their trials in Sweden. TPB-AFK is the first...

Hollywood Asks Kiwi Prime Minister for Better "3 Strikes" Anti-Piracy Deal A briefing has revealed that Hollywood summoned New Zealand Prime Minister John Key to meetings in the United States to discuss his country's "3 strikes" anti-piracy law. The system is currently operational but after...

Iceland's 'MPAA' Quits Facebook After 4 Days of Fail The Icelandic Film and Movie organization SMAIS is known for its tough anti-piracy stance. In an attempt to engage a debate and address a recent report which accused SMAIS of not paying for software themselves, the group joined Facebook...

Warner Bros. Targets Kim Dotcom's Mega With Bogus DMCA Requests In a bogus DMCA request Warner Bros. has asked Google to remove several links to Kim Dotcom's cloud hosting service Mega. Not only did the movie studio send in the wrong URLs, they also failed to note that Mega download links...

Annoy Apple With a Torrent Client For Your Jailbroken iPhone or iPad Earlier this week the Evad3rs dev team pleased the Apple world by releasing their most complex jailbreak yet. Their amazing and super-simple tool allows anyone to run unsigned code on their iOS6 firmware in a matter of...

Iceland's MPAA Quits Facebook After 4 Days of Fail The Icelandic Film and Movie organization SMAIS is known for its tough anti-piracy stance. In an attempt to engage a debate and address a recent report which accused SMAIS of not paying for software themselves, the group joined Facebook...

Pirate Bay Founder Helped Wikileaks On Several Fronts The upcoming Pirate Bay documentary TPB AFK will highlight some under-reported details about the connection between the BitTorrent site and Wikileaks. Among other things, Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm was credited for his...

Japanese GovernmentPlants Anti-Piracy Warnings Inside Fake Downloads Last year saw a major upgrade in Japan's anti-piracy legislation in an attempt to shift Internet users away from file-sharing sites and networks and towards the country's legitimate outlets. But while the change in the law...

RIAA Set For Historic 10,000,000th Google URL Takedown From humble beginnings in 2011, last year the RIAA amped up its efforts to have allegedly infringing URLs removed from Google's public indexes. Fast forward to today and the RIAA is about to hit a historic milestone. During the next few...