Following threats of legal action in its traditional home of Sweden, a few hours ago The Pirate Bay set sail for pastures new. Sweden's Pirate Party had been providing bandwidth to the site for the last three years but came under intense pressure last week when a local anti-piracy group…
After a long wait, the controversial “six-strikes” anti-piracy system kicks off in the United States. Soon the first BitTorrent users will receive so-called copyright alerts from their Internet provider and after multiple warnings subscribers will be punished. But, what these punishments entail remains a bit of a mystery. None of…
In a letter to the U.S. Trade Representative Nintendo urges the Government to pressure other countries to implement tough anti-piracy measures. Among other things, Nintendo calls for blocking of file-sharing websites and criminal prosecution against those who pirate games or facilitate copyright infringement.
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again, 'Red Dawn' tops the chart this week, followed by 'Rise Of The Guardians'. 'The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 2' completes the top three.
Within days the UK music industry will head back to the High Court with demands that the country's leading Internet service providers should begin blocking three of the world's largest torrent sites. Today, the owner of one of them describes the action as an attack on file-sharers and questions whether…
More than a year after Megaupload was shutdown by the feds the site still has millions of visitors every month. Even without content the defunct file-hosting site is among the top 2,500 most-visited websites on the Internet, and only sightly behind Kim Dotcom's new Mega. The baffling statistics show once…
The much-discussed U.S. six strikes anti-piracy scheme is expected to go live on Monday. The start date hasn't been announced officially by the CCI but a source close to the scheme confirmed the plans. During the coming months millions of BitTorrent users will be actively monitored by copyright holders. After…
A mysterious company using the name "Internet Copyright Law Enforcement Agency" is sending letters to home addresses of alleged BitTorrent users, asking them to pay a settlement fee of hundreds of dollars or face jail time. The outfit claims to work with law enforcement and says it protects the rights…