Following the conviction of 18 individuals who engaged in a bloody Stockholm drug war, Sweden's Court of Appeal has ruled that due to a lay judge's membership of a police board that previously discussed the case, he should be considered biased and the case should be sent for re-trial. Former…
The Pirate Bay has made an important change to its infrastructure. The world's most famous BitTorrent site has switched its entire operation to the cloud. From now on The Pirate Bay will serve its users from several cloud hosting providers scattered around the world. The move will cut costs, ensure…
By now it's common knowledge that nearly all content on the Internet can easily be removed or censored by filing a single DMCA notice. For some reason, however, this doesn't seem to apply to most mainstream music stores. When The Flashbulb, aka Benn Jordan, found out that another artist was…
If a copyright holder has a problem with content hosted on a website they are perfectly entitled to issue a copyright takedown request. Publisher Pearson did just that, after a 279-word list from one of its works dating back to 1974 appeared on an education blog. But rather than speak…
One of the most comprehensive studies into media sharing and consumption habits in the United States and Germany reveals that file-sharers buy 30% more music than their non-sharing counterparts. The result confirms that file-sharers are actually the music industry's best customers. In addition, the research reveals that contrary to popular…
While games usually leak online early, in the case of the long-awaited Halo 4 the time between online debut and official launch is pretty large at just about three weeks. Of course, it's inevitable that games will be pirated but what some people should understand is that games companies' are…
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' tops the chart this week, followed by 'Stolen'. 'Safety Not Guaranteed' completes the top three.
While BitTorrent Inc.'s hugely successful uTorrent client grabs most of the headlines, there is another mainstream client that every BitTorrent user should be aware of. Vuze, previously known as Azureus, is a ridiculously powerful torrent client with more features than you ever knew you needed. Today we hand over to…