In their 18-page response filing at the US District Court for Northern Californian earlier this month, not once did Universal Music say why they forced YouTube to remove Megaupload’s Mega Song. Since that's what the dispute between the two companies is all about, that was a pretty strange event. In…
In a sweeping attempt at stopping piracy of their latest movie, a studio has obtained a court order forcing India's ISPs to block some of the world's largest file-sharing sites. A company spokesman gave a SOPA-style reason for their actions, claiming that site blocking is the only way they can…
Each and every day hundreds of millions of people scour their favorite BitTorrent search engines for content to download. But what are all these people looking for? Today we present the BitTorrent Zeitgeist 2011, a list of the 50 most searched for phrases and keywords on one of the most…
In recent weeks we discovered BitTorrent pirates at the RIAA, Sony, Fox, Universal and even law-abiding organizations such as the Department of Homeland Security. By now it should be clear that people are using BitTorrent pretty much everywhere, and not only for lawful downloads. Today we can add the U.S.…
A few days ago thousands of customers turned against domain registrar GoDaddy for their support of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Transfer requests for thousands of domains were started, and even big players such as Wikipedia threatened to move. In a response, GoDaddy was quick to drop their support…
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, 'The Inbetweeners Movie' tops the chart this week, followed by 'The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption'. 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol' completes the top three.
In the debate about the American "Stop Online Piracy Act", some have hailed the decade-old American DMCA as a law that was somehow beneficial for the development of new services on the net. This is not only a complete misconception, but a very dangerous one at that. The DMCA was…
As negativity surrounding online piracy grows to epic proportions in the United States, Sonny John Moore is playing the intelligent game. Moore, better known to his fans as Skrillex, has a total of six 2011 Grammy nominations under his belt but he's still not towing the corporate line on file-sharing.…