A prominent European anti-piracy group says the time has come to get tough on Internet pirates. The Danish Rights Alliance says that while lawlessness prevails online there needs to be better organized responses from the authorities, such as the ones currently underway in Sweden and London. Meanwhile, Rights Alliance's lawfirm…
ExtraTorrent, one of the most prominent torrent sites on the Internet, has been at the center of several anti-piracy initiatives recently. The site lost its .com domain after an intervention by City of London Police last month but quickly bounced back on a new .cc domain. However, that has now…
A site founded by a former moderator of one of the most popular file-hosting and uploader hangouts has admitted today that his site was a honeypot setup to capture data on pirate activity. WDF, a former senior staff member at popular discussion forum WJunction, says that in the 12 months…
The privacy of Internet users has become an extremely hot topic this year, largely thanks to the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden. This has resulted in many questions from concerned VPN users who want to know more about possible cracked encryption schemes, and how providers respond to gag orders and…
One of the world's largest sites dedicated to converting YouTube videos to downloadable MP3s has lost a court battle with representatives from the music industry. YouTube-MP3, a site that was also threatened by Google in 2012, agreed to cease and desist from its current mode of operation after it was…
One of the oldest tricks in the file-sharing world is to relabel material as something else in order to annoy downloaders. While many tactics have been tried over the years the one just employed by a Norwegian movie director has to go down as the most outrageous yet. Those downloading…
Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm has sent an open letter to the Swedish Government urging it not to extradite him to Denmark next week. The neighboring country plans to put Gottfrid on trial in a hacking case similar to one that concluded in Sweden last month with his partial conviction.…
A VPN provider says that concerns it may be forced to hand over its encryption keys to United States authorities have led it to take the decision to shut down its consumer services. CryptoSeal says that information revealed as part of the Lavabit case has undermined its original understanding of…