Last year Richard O’Dwyer, the 23-year-old UK-based administrator of TVShack – a TV show and movie links site – was arrested by police. Following his detention in the UK’s largest prison, the admin is now at risk of being extradited to the U.S. Many people are outraged by the move…

Mikael Hed, CEO of Angry Birds’ parent company Rovio spoke at the annual Midem music conference in Cannes today. There, he told a crew of music insiders that not all pirates are pigs. “Piracy may not be a bad thing: it can get us more business at the end of…

After an outage of several days, one of the world's largest and longest-standing adult torrent sites has announced that it will completely close down. The demise of Cheggit.net comes almost exactly a year after two huge adult sites, Empornium and PureTNA, disappeared from the Internet.

We’ve pointed it out numerous times in the past. Despite the rampant piracy, Hollywood and other entertainment industries continue to break revenue and sales records year after year. In an excellent report commissioned by the CCIA, Techdirt’s Mike Masnick has has made an excellent overview of how well things go…

MegaUpload has received a letter from the US Attorney informing the company that data uploaded by its users may be destroyed before the end of the week. The looming wipe-out is the result of MegaUpload's lack of funds to pay for the servers. Behind the scenes, MegaUpload is hoping to…

The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' tops the chart this week, followed by 'The Rum Diary'. 'The Descendants' completes the top three.

Two large ISPs in the Netherlands have said they will not be blocking subscriber access to The Pirate Bay, as demanded by the Hollywood supported anti-piracy outfit BREIN. T-Mobile and KPN argue that blocking websites is a threat to the open Internet, and suggest that the entertainment industry focuses on…

In a recent interview, Harvard Professor Yochai Benkler raises some serious concerns surrounding the MegaUpload bust. One question raised by the professor, which may not have been entertained by many prior to the wide public opposition to SOPA, is of whether the lobbyist companies currently reaping the benefits of increasingly…