The University of California (UCSF) has launched a new anti-piracy campaign to warn students and staff about the negative effects of online piracy. In what can be characterized as a most absurd and dramatic spin on the topic of copyright infringement, posters across campus claim that illegal downloading is a…

When a torrent site indexes copyrighted material it's to be expected that there will be opposition from those who would like to stop that from happening. Today we take a look what at what one particular site is having to deal with at the moment, including bitter email exchanges with…

The Pirate Bay’s PirateBrowser is expanding its user base rapidly, far beyond the expectations of the site's operators. The Tor-based browser, which allows people to bypass ISP filtering and access blocked websites, has already been downloaded more than 500,000 times since its launch earlier this month. The increase in downloads…

This week journalists faced an attack on their right to report following their publication of an article on piracy. The piece, an interview with the operator of an unauthorized ebook site, angered publishers when the reporters named the site in question. The editors of two publications were subsequently hit with…

Every day millions of people visit The Pirate Bay and many of them use the site to share copyrighted content. But who are these people? Where do they come from, and what motivates them to share unauthorized files? Thanks to the largest file-sharing survey ever we can find out.

FACT, the Federation Against Copyright Theft, has announced a brand new partnership with BT Sport, the broadcasting company hoping to take the UK sports world by storm. In a bid to wrestle viewers away from UK satellite broadcaster Sky, BT announced that it would launch six brand new sport channels…

One of the Internet's most-loved torrent sites for TV show content has decided to call it quits. TheBox.bz, a private site with around 90,000 members, will close its doors on Saturday. The site's operators inform TorrentFreak that they aren't reacting to any particular threat, but with City of London Police…

The MPAA has scored an important victory against the file-hosting service Hotfile. The District Court of Florida entered a summary judgment against Hotfile noting that the cyberlocker failed to control the distribution of pirated movies through its service. The MPAA applauds the verdict and says it shows that Hotfile's business…