Following a High Court ruling in July, UK Internet service provider BT now has just 14 days to carry out a full subscriber access block of Usenet indexing site Newzbin2. While the ruling will be seen as a victory for the major Hollywood studios behind the action, BT will have…
Sweden's Prosecutor General believes that the founders of The Pirate Bay have already had enough opportunities to prove their innocence. The defendants want to take their case all the way to the Supreme Court but the Prosecutor says that there is no reason to prolong proceedings. Site co-founder Peter Sunde…
A few weeks ago TorrentFreak unraveled a tangled web of copyright trolls who had sued hundreds of BitTorrent users under the name MCGIP. The article revealed the tight connections between the various parties involved in the scheme and the mistakes they made. Interestingly enough, soon after these findings were published…
Valve co-founder and managing director Gabe Newell has spoken out once again on the issue of piracy. Newell reiterates what he’s said on previous occasions. DRM doesn’t work and pirates are not per se after free stuff. “One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing…
After anti-piracy investigators somehow managed to obtain a full copy of their site logs several years ago, a married couple behind the now defunct Interfilm BitTorrent tracker have finally been charged for their role in running the site. The Moscow pair face claims they cost movie companies a staggering $1.25…
The French authority responsible for ensuring that data privacy law is applied to the handling of personal data has concluded its investigation into anti-piracy company Trident Media Guard. Earlier this year vulnerabilities caused TMG's site to leak private data linked to the country's Hadopi "3 strikes" operations. But while the…
Technology has come a long way since 1841, but the copyright debate at the time was strikingly similar to what we're witnessing today. 170 years ago a new copyright bill was being discussed in the United Kingdom, one that would extend the rights of book authors to sixty years after…
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, 'The Hangover Part II' tops the chart this week, followed by 'Captain America: The First Avenger'. 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2' completes the top three.