Kim Dotcom and his legal team have published an email revealing that they asked LeaseWeb to preserve the data stored on 630 servers that were recently wiped. The email contradicts an earlier statement from the hosting company which claimed that for a year nobody showed interest in the servers. Adding…

BitTorrent Inc is once again distancing itself from everything piracy related. The San Francisco company is lashing out against media reports which claim that Game of Thrones is the "King of BitTorrent." The question, however, is whether this aggressive stance is helping them out or if we're seeing the Streisand…

After a tortuous route through the U.S. legal system, a court has decided that a punishment first handed down to a file-sharer in 2009 should stand. The First Circuit Court of Appeals said it had not hesitated in its decision to uphold the $675,000 damages award against a Boston student…

Rather than punishing them with enforcement actions, software company Adobe says it now prefers to deal with pirates by converting them into paying customers. "Everyone is tired of the entire concept and term 'Anti-Piracy', even the term 'Content Protection' too," Adobe's Anti-Piracy chief Richard Atkinson says. Adobe believes that the…

Canadian anti-piracy group Canipre is currently working on behalf of Voltage Pictures to obtain the identities of individuals said to have pirated the company's movies. As the process moves through the legal system the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) just had the opportunity to cross-examine Canipre owner…

Major content companies are beginning to acknowledge that "pirates" aren't necessarily all evil, but actually lead the way to future business models. Movie studio Warner Bros. is among those who are starting to interpret piracy as a market signal. "We view piracy as a proxy of consumer demand," Warner Bros.…

Robbie Williams got conversations going last month after wearing a “Megaupload” coat in his latest video. He did it again on live TV this weekend. But what does it mean? Williams’ manager speaks out. UK rapper Dizzee Rascal and superstar Robbie Williams have teamed up for a single from Dizzee’s…

Anti-piracy PSAs are designed to instill a certain amount of fear into pirates so they see the error of their ways and start spending money. From the thoroughly frightening guys at FAST, this is the scariest one – EVER. Thanks to their “grass hotline” which is used by people trying…