Authorities in the United States are continuing with their effort to seize website domains deemed to be infringing copyright and trademark laws. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations is the driving force behind Operation in Our Sites, an initiative that has seen dozens of domain names seized by…
Swedish authorities have filed a motion at the District Court of Stockholm on behalf of the entertainment industries, demanding the seizure of two Pirate Bay domain names. In addition to the Swedish-based .se domain the motion also includes the new Icelandic .is TLD. In a rapid response, The Pirate Bay…
Described by police as an international criminal gang and by the media as an outfit causing Hollywood and Bollywood “to bleed to the hilt”, two men in their twenties were arrested in India yesterday. Rupesh Jaiswal, 28 and Tinu Sharma, 25, are said to be members of a P2P release…
Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm was visited in prison last week by police questioning him as part of a new criminal investigation into The Pirate Bay. The case is said to involve several publishing houses as well as Swedish anti-piracy group Antipiratbyrån. According to information received by TorrentFreak the authorities…
After being charged with instances of hacking earlier this month, Gottfrid Svartholm will now go on trial in May. The Pirate Bay co-founder denies the charges and says that evidence found on his computer was placed there remotely via the Internet. In the meantime Gottfrid's mother Kristina is questioning why…
The indie game makers of Greenheart Games have just pulled the ultimate prank on game pirates. When they released their Game Dev Tycoon yesterday, they also uploaded a "cracked" copy of the simulator on a well-known BitTorrent site. Soon after thousands of people downloaded the cracked copy, not knowing that…
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again, 'Jack Reacher' tops the chart this week, followed by 'The Last Stand'. 'Iron Man 3' completes the top three.
They say that politics takes time. Yet, history doesn't show any political movement spreading and succeeding as fast as the Pirate Party movement. Will it maintain its accelerated speed, or slow down to follow the tracks of history?