The Pirate Bay has teamed up with the Cybernorms research group at Sweden’s Lund University to carry out the latest round of the largest file-sharing survey in history. Through the survey the researchers examine the norms of file-sharers, and how they respond to increased censorship, online monitoring and tougher laws.
Google is downranking The Pirate Bay's website in its search results for a wide variety of queries, some of which are not linked to copyright-infringing content. Interestingly, the change mostly seems to affect TPB results via the Google.com domain, not other variants such as Google.ca and Google.co.uk.
With reported backing from an infamous anti-piracy group, the datacenter of one of Sweden's largest torrent sites was raided last week. The operators of Tankafetast were well prepared and the site was quickly back online delivering movies and TV shows from an international location. The episode is likely to be…
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. ‘12 Years A Slave’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Thor: The Dark World.’ 'Frozen' completes the top three.
The copyright industry is amazing at pretending the copyright monopoly has always been there in its current form. But international copyright monopolies didn't exist in practice across the Western world before 1989.
YIFY-Torrents, or YTS as it's now formally known, is one of the world's most popular torrent sites. But how does it handle so many visitors without collapsing and how is all that arranged behind the scenes? TorrentFreak caught up with a YIFY developer to find out what makes the machine…
For some, getting a copyright claim on their YouTube video might be an inconvenience. For others, it’s a massive headache that ignores copyright law… in the name of enforcing copyright law.
With Radiohead's Thom Yorke as frontman, numerous artists have complained about Spotify, saying it doesn't earn them enough money. Fellow artist The Flashbulb, aka Benn Jordan, disagrees, as Spotify is one of his main and growing sources of income. Spotify is a piracy killer, according to Jordan, and artists who…