In the high-stakes debate over control of the Internet, it is common to hear how the free flow of information is crucial to development of humanity. For North Korea, a country that has almost zero Internet access and is repressed beyond anything experienced in the West, the free flow of…
It’s no secret that copyright lobbyists do whatever it takes to justify stronger anti-piracy measures, but sometimes they take things too far. Comments made by the Nicolas Seydoux, President of the French film company Gaumont and the local anti-piracy outfit ALPA, are a good example. In a recent article he…
Months after the Megaupload raids and arrests, the fate of the data stored on the site's 1,103 seized servers is still unclear. Many Megaupload users want their accounts returned because they contain irreplaceable information, but they have been waiting in vain. Today the EFF has filed a motion on behalf…
Yeah I have to admit, we are awesome… In fact, TorrentFreak is so great that we now joined the “Order Of Defenders Of The Internet. Why? Because we censored our website during the (SOPA/PIPA)Internet blackout in January, to raise awareness. For the skeptics out there, we have a medal to…
Yesterday Google kindly published a database of takedown requests sent to the search giant on copyright grounds. The DMCA notices are supposed to help protect legitimate sales but entertainment companies sending them are clearly having problems. Witness some of the world's biggest music and movie companies taking down everything from…
The popular cyberlocker search engine Filecrop decided to disable access to all porn on its site. An interesting move, especially when we read the Filecrop’s motivation. We are pleased to announce that we decided to remove pornography from our search. Respect woman. Be happy. Peace! Apparently the cyberlocker thinks porn…
Two weeks ago the Court of The Hague ordered several ISPs to prevent subscribers from accessing The Pirate Bay. The ruling is a win for the local anti-piracy outfit BREIN, but it’s not the end of the legal dispute. Two Dutch Internet providers said today that they will appeal the…
Google has published detailed information on the wide variety of DMCA takedown requests the company receives for its search engine. During the last month alone Google was asked to remove 1,246,713 links across 24,129 domains, including many torrent sites and cyberlockers. Interestingly enough, Google receives the most takedowns for FilesTube,…