The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again, 'Oblivion' tops the chart this week, followed by 'Grown Ups.' 'The Colony' completes the top three.
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again, 'Oblivion' tops the chart this week, followed by 'Grown Ups.' 'The Colony' completes the top three.
In an attempt to make pirated content harder to find copyright holders ask Google to remove millions of search results every week. While these automated requests are usually legitimate, mistakes happen more often than one might expect. For example, in an embarrassing act of self-censorship Microsoft recently asked Google to…
In response to many torrent sites being blocked by ISPs in the UK, dozens of proxies sprang up to ensure that users could still enjoy access. However, ISPs responded to rightsholder requests by blocking proxy sites too. Now a new service has appeared that not only unblocks torrent sites, but…
In a brief submitted to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, the tech industry warns that tougher copyright legislation may stifle innovation. The CCIA, which includes Google, Facebook and Microsoft as members, further points out that the devastating piracy numbers reported by the copyright industry…
Billed as the world's smallest desktop computer, CuBox lives up to that billing with a very tiny 50mm all round displacement . We'll take a look at it running the GeeXboX Linux distribution along with XBMC and RUTorrent, which turns this little black box into a nifty torrent client and…
TorrentFreak received a few emails from concerned Pirate Bay users, who haven’t seen any fresh torrents in a day or two. It appears that the category listings on the popular torrent site have stopped updating. The “recent” page on the other hand is still working. We have asked the Pirate…
This week prime minister David Cameron announced further details of his crusade to have adult material censored in the UK. It's a controversial topic for a number of reasons, with even those unconcerned about losing access to porn wondering what will be censored next. Apparently the government have already thought…
UK Internet providers have now started to block access to the popular TV torrent site EZTV. The blockade follows a High Court order obtained by the major movie studios, and also blacks out the RSS service ezRSS. Since the court order hasn't been published it is not known if the…