With the so-called "six strikes" scheme just around the corner in the United States, one could be forgiven for thinking that the major recording labels are satisfied with their anti-piracy progress. But one major management company appears to want to extract just that little bit more from alleged file-sharers. In…
A few days ago Demonoid showed the first signs of life in weeks when the domain's nameservers were updated. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean that the site is preparing to make a comeback. The site's tech admin informs TorrentFreak that the Demonoid crew is "not looking into putting the site back…
Months after the Megaupload raids and arrests the fate of the site's user data is still unclear. The final negotiation round between the involved parties just went bust with Megaupload's defense team holding the US Attorneys Office responsible. "They favor the Hollywood Oligopoly over innocent consumers who lost access to…
It's been a long time coming but today the controversial French 'Hadopi' anti-piracy law has claimed its first scalp. After his account was connected to a series of previous infringements, a 40 year-old man was summoned to court today. Despite a third-party admitting that the music piracy in question was…
Today the Dutch Pirate Party had the chance to become the first democratically chosen Pirate Party in a national parliament. Although the Pirates tripled the number of votes compared to last election, it was not enough. Leading up to today’s elections several polls put the Pirate Party at one seat…
A crucial ruling in one of the ongoing BitTorrent lawsuits in the United States has delivered a clear win for open Wi-Fi operators. Among other things, California Judge Phyllis Hamilton ruled that Internet subscribers are not required to secure their wireless networks to prevent outsiders from pirating movies. In other…
This week millions of Brits sat down to watch the start of a new series of Dragons' Den on the BBC. As usual, a handful of budding entrepreneurs put their businesses before five captains of industry in the hope of securing investment for their company. One such business, SendMyBag, was…
In 2003 three computer addicts came up with the idea of starting a new file-sharing site using the then relatively new BitTorrent protocol. One of the original founders of the site is Gottfrid Svartholm, who was arrested on Cambodia earlier this month for an alleged hack of the Swedish company…