As reported this morning, Justice Arnold in London’s High Court has ordered leading UK ISP BT to block subscriber access to Usenet indexing site Newzbin2. Needless to say, the admins at Newzbin2 aren’t particularly impressed out the outcome. Here is their response to the ruling in full – and uncensored.…

Following a hearing in London's High Court, leading UK ISP BT will be forced to block subscriber access to Usenet indexing site Newzbin2. Under the banner of the MPA, the leading Hollywood studios successfully argued that by letting the site continue unabated their interests would be severely damaged. The decision,…

Anti-piracy lawyer John Steele is without doubt one of the most active proponents of the pay-up-or-else settlement scheme in the United States. In less than a year he filed more than 80 mass-lawsuits for his clients, targeting thousands of alleged BitTorrent users. Nevertheless it appears that Steele himself can be…

There is a long running debate over whether private torrent sites are ‘safer’ in respect of being monitored by anti-piracy companies. Very generally, users of public trackers are the “low-hanging fruit”, easy pickings for anti-piracy companies who want to track large numbers of users with the least complication possible. There…

The Pirate Bay has gone AFK. Last time this happened was little over a week ago after a memory upgrade, when the server failed to autostart. When The Pirate Bay suffers a few minutes for downtime, thousands of people start to worry that something awful has happened to their beloved…

Street Show: ‘The Things Between Us’ is an exhibition of new work from 22 different artists distributed solely through a USB Dead Drop installed at 540 W. 21 St. (@ Eyebeam Center for Art + Technology) in New York City. Dead Drops (started by Aram Bartholl) are USB flash drives…

A woman has been left shocked by a settlement letter demanding 6,000 euros after her connection was used for 10 minutes of unauthorized file-sharing. She insists that anti-piracy group TTVK (CIAPC), who are currently trying to get The Pirate Bay blocked in Finland, are refusing to listen to her pleas.

José Plácido Domingo Embil, or simply Plácido Domingo, is an internationally famous opera singer who along with José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti completes The Three Tenors. After thousands of career performances, he has now taken up perhaps his most challenging role yet – that of Chairman at IFPI. “It is…