Last week, Usenet indexer Newzbin2 delivered on their promise of delivering a mechanism to circumvent the court-ordered blocking measures set to hit their site in the weeks to come. After releasing a second version of their encryption software in just three days and an OSX version in under a week,…
As reported a month ago, a proposal condemning the Digital Economy Act (DEA) was indeed brought before the Liberal Democrats’ Autumn Conference this week. The Liberal Democrats – the junior coalition member of the UK Government – were opposed to the legislation from the start and were the only major…
The anti-piracy lobby group AFACT just championed a study which claims that nearly all of the popular files on BitTorrent point to infringing material. Although the study in question is probably not far off, the press-release of the anti-piracy group has been met with more doubt than ever before. Slowly…
The first episode of the upcoming eighth season of House appeared online today. The official premiere is scheduled for October 3, but according to reports from downloaders the leaked Screener is the real deal. It’s unknown what the source of the leak is, but the 353.24 MB file is tagged…
A teenager who appears to have taken his protest against an anti-piracy law a little too far will find himself in court tomorrow. The 18-year-old allegedly posted a video on YouTube protesting the legislation just passed by New Zealand. In it he claimed that websites would be hacked and that…
The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm deepened today. After failing to turn up for 2010's hearing to appeal his 2009 conviction for criminal copyright infringement, the court decided he would be dealt with at a later date. Today, however, Svartholm failed to appear at the…
Yesterday the German Pirate Party scored a historic election win. With 8.9 percent of the total vote the Pirates gained 15 seats in the Berlin state parliament. The news soon started to make headlines all over the world, and it didn’t get unnoticed to the Taiwanese either. The animation below…
The Cybernorms research group at Sweden’s Lund University partnered with The Pirate Bay earlier this year to carry out the largest survey among file-sharers in history. 75,000 people from all over the world participated in the study, and today the researchers revealed some of the initial results. Girls don't fancy…