Google Keeps Rejecting Hollywood’s Broad Takedown Requests It's no secret that Google and Hollywood have different views on the responsibilities of search engines. This is resulting in an interesting standoff where Google… March 7, 2015, 21:11 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Is 10 Years in Jail the Answer to Online Pirates? Physical counterfeiters can receive up to 10 years in jail under UK copyright law but should online pirates receive the same maximum punishment? A new… March 7, 2015, 13:33 by Andy Maxwell
uTorrent Quietly Installs Cryptocurrency Miner, Users Complain Many users of the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent are complaining about it silently installing a cryptocurrency miner with a recent update. The Epic Scale tool,… March 6, 2015, 16:45 by Ernesto Van der Sar
U.S. Government Lists Top Torrent Sites as Piracy Havens A new report published by the United States Trade Representative has listed the world's largest BitTorrent sites and cyberlockers as some of the most problematic… March 6, 2015, 12:05 by Andy Maxwell
WordPress Wins $25,000 From DMCA Takedown Abuser WordPress has scored an important victory in court against a man who abused the DMCA to censor an article of a critical journalist. The court… March 5, 2015, 20:40 by Ernesto Van der Sar
World’s Most Beautiful Pirate Movie Site Killed in Infancy A site to rival the beauty of any pirate movie service on the planet has been shutdown almost before anyone had even heard of it.… March 5, 2015, 14:01 by Andy Maxwell
.SO Registry Bans More “KickassTorrents” Domains The registry behind the Somalian .SO TLD has banned more "Kickass" related domain names, citing illegal activities. The actions target Kickas.so, Kickasstorrents.so, Kickassmovie.so and several… March 4, 2015, 19:48 by Ernesto Van der Sar
EZTV Suffers Extended Downtime (Updated) Due to technical problems the popular TV-torrent site EZTV has been unreachable for the greater part of the day. While there's currently no ETA for… March 4, 2015, 13:38 by Ernesto Van der Sar