The trouble continues for torrent site H33t, as its new .eu domain has disappeared from the Internet a few hours ago Earlier this month H33t.com’s nameservers had been wiped from the domain records its domain registrar Key-Systems. The same now appears to be happening to the new .eu domain, as…
Did you hear the one about the file-sharing site that was dragged to court by the MPA and bankrupted, only to be reincarnated one month later by self-proclaimed hackers? Well, the MPA now says they were both run by a lawyer who was disbarred after it was discovered he was…
A few hours after TorrentFreak uncovered yet another embarrassing list of DMCA takedown requests sent on behalf of Microsoft, the company has decided to cut its partnership with the anti-piracy company responsible. The software giant was forced to apologize for inaccurate notices once too often and has just informed the…
It’s no secret that copyright holders are trying to take down as much pirated content from Google as they can. This sometimes leads to unavoidable mistakes, but the track record Microsoft is building leans toward sheer incompetence. Last week the software giant's anti-piracy partner asked Google to remove a link…
After grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory this week, New Zealand's America's Cup team had little to celebrate. Only adding to the negativity is the lack of a decision by the Kiwi government on whether to finance another cup campaign. However, with a stock exchange listing just around the…
A coalition of copyright trade groups in Portugal will go to court with a demand that Internet providers should block The Pirate Bay and several other sites deemed to facilitate copyright infringement. The groups state that blockades have already been proven successful in other countries, such as the UK and…
A British House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee report has today "condemned" Google's failure to adequately respond to the issue of online piracy and its refusal to block "infringing" websites on the grounds they might also carry legal material. Citing the recent successful prosecution of a streaming site…
In Germany several major Hollywood studios are cashing in on BitTorrent pirates, charging hundreds of euros for illegally downloaded movies and TV-shows. While the studios have the right to protect their work, the efforts are double-barreled as they regularly hit the most engaged fans who have few options to watch…