Vice President Joe Biden introduced the Joint Strategic Plan to combat intellectual property theft today. In his speech Biden declared war on 'pirate' websites, both foreign and domestic, arguing that piracy is theft and a potential threat to national security.
A recent copyright takedown notice from the UK's BPI revealed that the music group has been demanding that Google take down links not just to precise URLs where music is hosted on cyberlockers, but rather more generally referencing the entire site. Now it appears that IFPI, the BPI's big brother,…
A movie director in India is threatening legal action against lawmakers after it was revealed they gathered and watched a pirate copy of his hit movie. The film, titled 'Raajneeti' ('Politics'), was released early this month in theaters but dozens of lawmakers from the Indian Bharatiya Janata Party didn't visit…
A Swedish court is looking into one of the strangest file-sharing cases we've ever heard of. With a Pirate Bay username as the prime evidence, a Swedish man is suspected of distributing a film about moose hunting. The filmmaker, who hunted down the alleged infringer by himself, is demanding $15,000…
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, ‘Green Zone' tops the chart this week followed by 'The A-Team'. 'She's Out of My League' completes the top three.
RapidShare will no longer offer incentives to users who share popular content. After having stopped cash payouts for their rewards program some time ago, RapidShare has now decided to discontinue the entire program. The file-hosting service cites complaints by copyright holders that the rewards were facilitating piracy as the reason…
This week Swedish police arrested three individuals on suspicion of copyright infringements. The trio are suspected of having connections to 'Scene' warez servers known as 'Darkside'. According to anti-piracy group Antipiratbyrån, the servers carried huge amounts of data making the case the biggest so far in Sweden, and possibly in…
Transmission, the most used non-commercial BitTorrent client, has reached a new milestone with the release of version 2.0. The community driven application, installed on millions of computers worldwide, is now faster and smarter than ever before. We get the lowdown from Transmission developer Charles Kerr.