To reduce online piracy, Google has implemented several changes to its search engine in recent years. Among other things, Google has blacklisted dozens of piracy related terms from appearing in its autocomplete and instant services. Megaupload is one of these search terms, and nine months after the last infringement took…
Today it’s been three months since Demonoid was driven offline by a massive DDoS attack at the end of July. In the days after the raid things went from bad to worse and the site’s Ukrainian hosting provider eventually pulled the plug. This action followed a request from Interpol, who…
The main way for people to begin downloading content from BitTorrent is to visit one of the Internet's many hundreds of torrent sites. There they can download either .torrent files or, in the case of The Pirate Bay, magnet links. This week it became possible to go on a YouTube-like…
A month before the controversial "six strikes" anti-piracy plan goes live in the U.S., the responsible Center of Copyright Information (CCI) is dealing with a small crisis. As it turns out the RIAA failed to mention to its partners that the "impartial and independent" technology expert they retained previously lobbied…
January this year the U.S. Government destroyed Megaupload, but founder Kim Dotcom is a not done with the file-hosting business yet and is preparing a comeback with something bigger and better. Over the past months a group of coders have been working hard on the new "Mega" venture and Dotcom…
It's not uncommon for content producers to go crazy when they discover their work is being made available via The Pirate Bay. But while the big movie and music studios think the answer is to legislate and then sue everyone into submission, there is another way. Games developer Jonatan Söderström…
The U.S. Government has just submitted its objections to Megaupload's motion to temporarily dismiss the criminal indictment against the company. Megaupload's lawyers had argued that a dismissal would allow the cyberlocker to rehabilitate itself, but the U.S. believes this can't happen as Dotcom has sworn that the old Megaupload won't…
As in many other countries around the world, downloading music and movies is hugely popular in the Netherlands. A massive 30% of the population is said to do so. Presently, the Dutch see downloading and copying movies and music for personal use as “fair use” and not punishable by law.…