During the past few weeks an estimated 30,000 Internet users received threatening letters from a lawfirm claiming that they needed to pay hard cash in compensation after 'illegally' watching adult movies on the hugely popular streaming site RedTube. But in a turnaround described as "spectacular" by a lawfirm involved in…
A fan-created ASCII version of the 1999 sci-fi classic The Matrix is currently the oldest torrent alive. Created exactly 10 years ago the file in question has achieved iconic status, piquing the interest of dozens of downloaders week after week. Warner Bros, is not known to go after this type…
A complaint sent to a major webhost by the Federation Against Copyright Theft has threatened to take the issue of ISP liability to a whole new level. LeaseWeb, a company with around 50,000 servers, was warned that if it did not take down a streaming video site it could be…
A brand new entrant to the torrent site market is set to take the Internet by storm. A P2P veteran, fresh from defeating the major recording labels in a 13 million euro lawsuit, has obtained 1.6 million euros from the Spanish Government to power his new dream - a 30…
The Pirate Bay's domain troubles seem to be never ending. Just a day after the troubled torrent site found a new home in Guyana, the site's new .GY domain has already been suspended. The local domain registry informs TorrentFreak that all domains that violate its policies will be suspended immediately.…
Two men who operated a torrent site that was shut down five years ago have been handed two year suspended jail sentences. The father and son-in-law team were the people behind AradiTracker, a well known private BitTorrent tracker raided in 2008 following an investigation by the Federation Against Copyright Theft.…
The Pirate Bay has set sail to a new domain for the third time in a week. After just a few days Peru decided to suspend the site's .PE domain forcing the torrent site to move to the Guyana-based .GY ccTLD. The Pirate Bay team is not too worried about…
The Motion Picture Association's "Piracy it's a crime" video is without doubt the most iconic anti-piracy PSA ever made. The video includes the classic line "you wouldn't download a car," but within a decade Porsche is proving the movie industry wrong. The exclusive car manufacturer is offering freely downloadable blueprints…