In a few days time Global Gaming Factory is supposed to have gathered millions of dollars in funding so they can acquire The Pirate Bay. But according to Wayne Rosso, the former CEO of Grokster who was involved with GGF recently, this is unlikely to happen. Meanwhile, The Pirate Bay…
Today more than ten major movie companies issued a subpoena to the Stockholm District Court demanding it put an end to the activities of The Pirate Bay. The companies, including Disney, Universal, Warner, Columbia, Sony, NBC and Paramount also want the court to force the site's ISP to shut down…
If the major record labels are to believed, they lose millions of dollars due to YouTube pirates. But is this really the case? While anti-piracy outfits try to have all infringing music taken offline or have the audio on pirated YouTube clips disabled, the band Barcelona responded with a video…
The Pirate Bay tracks half the world's torrents and it's getting sold, which might be viewed as a bit of a disaster for the BitTorrent world. But The Pirate Bay isn't really needed anymore, GGF can have it in August as planned and not much will change. All of the…
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, ‘I Love You Man’ tops the chart this week followed by 'The Hangover'. 'Watchmen' completes the top three just like last week.
With anti-piracy outfits warning those who share copyrighted content and ISPs threatening to pull the plug on alleged offenders, many file-sharers have decided to protect themselves by going anonymous. To accommodate this growing demand, ItsHidden is now offering a free VPN targeted at those who want to protect their privacy…
In apparent despair at the levels of music piracy in Nigeria, a collection of music industry groups are hoping to attract the attention of the country's president by taking drastic measures. They hope that broadcasters will soon run a "no music day" and if that wasn't dramatic enough, they are…
It's been less than a month since many feared the BitTorrent world would collapse due to a $7.8m investment in The Pirate Bay. Since then OpenBitTorrent has come along to largely take its place, backed up by PublicBT to spread the load. Now comes Hidden Tracker, a brand new public…