Will New UK Censorship Impact Torrent Sites?

Last week, UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced a new porn filtering system that will go online sometime during the coming year. However, the blockades, which are intended to deal with porn, may end up developing into a backdoor ban on BitTorrent and other file-sharing related sites.

If You Pirate Movies, Horrible, Terrible Things Will Happen To You

There have been dozens of anti-piracy ads in recent years but most were not only dry but also ineffective. The latest may not achieve any better results, but it is without doubt the most entertaining – and the most gruesome – by far. Explaining it will only ruin the fun,…

Google Removed 50 Million “Pirate” Search Results This Year

Over the past year copyright holders have asked Google to remove 51,395,353 links to infringing webpages, a dramatic surge compared to previous years. The search giant is currently processing half a million “infringing” links per day, and this number is increasing week after week. At the same time, Hollywood and…

Copyright Vultures Circle As Court Green-Lights Anti-Piracy Scheme

Despite intervention by the Open Rights Group, an adult movie company in the UK has been given the green light to hugely expand its anti-piracy operations in the UK. The Court of Appeal told Golden Eye, a company connected with the Ben Dover porn brand, that it can start sending…

Project X Most Pirated Movie of 2012

As 2012 comes to an end we follow up our most pirated TV-shows chart by taking a look at the most pirated movies of the year. Project X comes out on top, and aside from other usual suspects such as box office hits The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers,…

RLSLOG Threatened By NZBMatrix Shutdown Lawyers, Promises Change

RLSLOG, one of the Internet's most prominent file-sharing "release blogs," has announced a significant change in the way it will operate in future. The site, which was recommended by the RIAA for inclusion on the USTR's "notorious markets" list, says it was contacted by the same law firm that took…