The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, 'Conan the Barbarian' tops the chart this week, followed by 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes'. 'Cowboys and Aliens' completes the top three.
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, 'Conan the Barbarian' tops the chart this week, followed by 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes'. 'Cowboys and Aliens' completes the top three.
For those who spend long hours on the Internet it’s easy to fall into the trap of believing that’s where all the important things happen, that ‘AFK’ or ‘real-life’ is just a distraction. But real-life events earlier this year involving the administrator of private BitTorrent tracker Scene-Inspired (S.I) certainly puts…
In a few weeks Amelia Andersdotter will be the second Pirate Party member to take a seat at the European Parliament in Brussels. The 24-year-old Swede was voted in more than two years ago, but due to bureaucratic quibbles her official appointment was delayed. TorrentFreak catches up with the soon-to-be…
In a quite astonishing lawsuit, Universal Music could be demanding hundreds of millions in damages from Grooveshark's music streaming service. Claims in the lawsuit lay waste to Grooveshark's insistence that they enjoy 'safe harbor' under the DMCA, stating categorically that bosses and other workers at the company, from the CEO…
UK users of the popular Fileserve file-hosting service are currently unable to download any files as the site is being blocked by the Internet Watch Foundation. Since early this week the blacklist, which aims to disable access to sexual child abuse content, has been preventing users from accessing their personal…
Last week we reported that the Italian cybercrime police shut down several file-sharing websites. The sites, which were connected by ownership, offered links to torrents and files hosted on cyberlockers. However, the actions were not without collateral damage. According to reports from the Italian media two perfectly legal sites were…
A long-running dispute over whether an ISP can be forced to hand over the details of one of its customers to an anti-piracy group is now with the EU after courts in Sweden couldn't decide. Now the EU's Advocate General has delivered his assessment which is being described as "a…
This week an operation led by a powerful anti-piracy group closed down a 6-year-old BitTorrent tracker. The site had already been targeted following the verdict in the original Pirate Bay trial, but had quickly announced their intentions to go 100% legal. This week, however, people said to be behind the…