When Demonoid’s tracker came back online last month many people hoped the site would follow soon. However, after a few weeks of service the tracker seems to have died already. The inferno.demonoid.me trackers are no longer responding and demonoid.me DNS records are missing some crucial entries. The last update we…
Music industry group the BPI has threatened legal action against six members of the UK Pirate Party, after the party refused to take its Pirate Bay proxy offline. BPI seems to want to hold the individual members of the party responsible for copyright infringements that may occurs via the proxy,…
The MPAA is still not happy with Google's efforts to reduce online piracy and says that the search giant continues to facilitate a "staggering amount of copyright infringement." For their part Google is warning policymakers of the damaging effects the recent surge of DMCA takedown requests is having on the…
A report released by the United States Trade Representative has listed the world's largest BitTorrent indexers, cyberlockers and linking sites as some of the most problematic copyright infringers in the world. In addition to the usual suspects of The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, KickassTorrents and Torrentz, file-hosting service RapidGator and WarezBB…
Google has quietly rolled out a new feature to its copyright transparency report, allowing the public to see when DMCA takedown notices sent by copyright holders are false. The search giant is currently processing more than a dozen million "infringing" links per month, but points out that not all requests…
It's not unusual for some to conclude that the Pirate Party and The Pirate Bay are one and the same thing. But while ideals may be shared, with the former often jumping to the defense of the latter, there is no direct connection. However, the Swedish Pirate Party is The…
Early next year the controversial “six-strikes” anti-piracy system will kick off in the U.S. While the initiative itself has a focus on educating instead of punishing BitTorrent pirates, ISPs are obliged to hand over IP-addresses of repeat infringers to the MPAA and RIAA. Commenting on this largely overlooked aspect, CCI…
Update January 6, 2013: Yet more downtime. The Pirate Bay is down at the moment, which causes concern to many BitTorrent users. Those who wonder whether their ISP has started to block access to the site can be assured though. The site appears to be down globally. Still, every time…