The popular video streaming site "Fast Pass TV" shut down earlier this week following the arrest of one of the site's alleged operators. The site itself didn't host any copyrighted content but indexed videos hosted on third-party sites. The operator has been released on bail pending inquiries.
I sometimes hear people claim that laws exist to be followed. These people are the most dangerous people who exist in a society. Tyranny is never upheld through law; it is upheld through thousands of bureaucrats that follow the letter of the law just because they believe in rules and…
Waleed Gadelkareem, the owner of Torrent-Finder who had its domain name seized by the US Government last year was interviewed by NBC News. “The USA government is trying to shut it down,” Gadelkareem said, “for the sake of a group of rich businessmen. That’s what I think. That’s (what) everybody…
Approximately 24 hours ago the popular TV-torrent site EZTV went down. The downtime is caused by routing issues TorrentFreak was told by the EZTV team, and they’re currently working on a fix. Sister site ezRSS is not affected by the downtime and new releases are still being posted. On Twitter…
In the dying days of November 2009, a shockwave rippled through the private BitTorrent tracker community. One of the scene's most successful sites, SceneTorrents, was shutting down for good, with the site's operators citing "legal issues". Now, 18 months later, here is the full story of raids and arrests, followed…
There’s been a lot of talk about the PROTECT IP Act and domain seizures this week. Lawmakers and the entertainment industries praise the anti-piracy initiatives, but not everyone is convinced. A group of DNS experts has now joined the opposition with a new whitepaper. In it, they discuss how DNS…
Yesterday the controversial PROTECT IP Act unanimously passed the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill now moves forward to the Senate, but getting a vote on it will not be easy. Just a few hours after it was passed by the committee Senator Wyden already put it on hold. According to…
Following reports that security features were damaging the playing experience of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, today CD Projekt will release an update to remove all DRM from the game. But while the company informs TorrentFreak it was pleased to avoid a pre-release on this major title, as promised…