According to early reports, police have seized £83,000 and computer equipment following a raid in Londonderry, Ireland. A 26-year old man was arrested Wednesday following an investigation into Internet piracy by the Hollywood-funded Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT). The man has been released on bail pending enquiries. No other information…
The Pirate Bay is at the center of a new lawsuit filed at the District Court in Helsinki, Finland. Music industry representatives have filed suit against one of the major Internet Service Providers in the country, demanding that it blocks subscriber access to the BitTorrent site. The Pirate Bay is…
According to Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, the company’s revenue in China this year will be just 5% of what it achieves from the United States, despite computer sales in both countries being comparable. In the US 71 million PC units are sold annually, versus 75 million in China. Despite…
The controversial PROTECT IP Act unanimously passed the Senate Judiciary Committee today. When the PROTECT IP Act becomes law U.S. authorities and copyright holders will have the power to seize domains, block websites and censor search engines to prevent copyright infringements. Introduced just two weeks ago, the bill now heads…
Police in two countries have coordinated to close down a 30,000 torrent private BitTorrent tracker. The operation, which spanned Sweden and Germany, closed down XNT.nu, a site which had risen through the ashes of other sites shut down by authorities in 2009. Police have arrested two suspected administrators and seized…
Several major entertainment industry companies including Columbia Pictures and Universal Music have updated the injunction against the founders of The Pirate Bay. The initial order prevented the founders from operating the BitTorrent site on pain of a 500,000 Swedish kronor fine, but it became unenforceable after The Pirate Bay removed…
The popular music streaming application Spotify will soon be integrated with Facebook. With Ludvig Strigeus, the creator of uTorrent, as one of the main engineers from the start Spotify has established itself as a major player in the music industry. Needless to say, a deal with Facebook can only boost…
Trident Media Guard, the company entrusted by the French government to monitor file-sharing networks for copyright infringement, recently had some of their tools leaked onto the Internet following a security breach. Now researchers have published an analysis, with claims that an auto-update feature makes TMG's servers vulnerable to remote code…