As bandwidth gets more plentiful, the thirst for better quality video increases alongside. By now most people are aware that screen resolutions are important in terms of image definition, but there are important issues surrounding how that pixel density is presented as a moving image. Frame rates help to make…
The Pirate Party in Iceland seem to have booked a major victory in Iceland's parliamentary election today, scoring 5.1% of the total vote. It's a truly remarkable achievement for a party that's only a few months old, and also the first time that a Pirate party anywhere in the world…
After banning several of the largest file-hosting sites and Usenet providers, PayPal is now taking aim at a VPN/proxy service. The payment processor has just cut off the BitTorrent proxy provider GT Guard and frozen the company's funds. In an email PayPal's Brand Risk Management department explains that GT Guard's…
Earlier this month Finland’s largest ever Internet piracy case ended with four men being found guilty of copyright infringement and two being exonerated. The case involved a so-called 'topsite' called Angel Falls and had an interesting twist. During the trial it was revealed that evidence gathered by a local anti-piracy…
Today is World Intellectual Property Day, the day when we celebrate all the good that copyright has brought our society. In several countries World Intellectual Property Day is used by pro-copyright groups to educate the public that strong copyright protections are needed. China took it one step further and the…
Several countries including the US and France have implemented so-called "strikes" systems to warn and punish P2P file-sharers. The goal of these programs is to reduce piracy, but do they have any effect on people's download habits? Music group IFPI believes so, and has some numbers to back up its…
Yesterday The Pirate Bay moved to a new domain, Thepiratebay.is. A few hours after the switch TPB’s SSL certificate was revoked, showing an ominous red warning screen to those who browse the site over https. “Secure Connection Failed. An error occurred during a connection to thepiratebay.is. Peer’s Certificate has been…
Just when the Game of Thrones file-sharing controversy had begun settling into the background, the most senior figure yet has weighed in on the debate. Marking UN World Book and Copyright Day and citing TorrentFreak stats to on how many times the show has been downloaded, the U.S. Ambassador to…