ISP’s “Three Strikes” Scheme is Weird and Broken Eircom was one of the first ISPs in Europe to implement a voluntary "three strikes" anti-piracy program but strangely it's now hiding the prospect of… February 14, 2015, 14:12 by Andy Maxwell
Megaupload Programmer Sentenced to a Year in Prison Andrus Nomm, one of the Megaupload employees indicted by the United States, has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to a year in prison. Nomm signed… February 14, 2015, 00:11 by Ernesto Van der Sar
EURid Suspends TorrentShack Domain Name After Complaint The popular private BitTorrent tracker TorrentShack has lost its .eu domain. The EURid registry suspended the domain following a complaint from a third-party over invalid… February 13, 2015, 17:59 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Torrent Sites Shut Down After Swedish Police Arrest Five Following news last week that streaming portal DreamFilm had been shut down, Swedish police have confirmed several file-sharing related arrests. Noting that there had been… February 13, 2015, 11:47 by Andy Maxwell
“Canada Is Still A Safe Haven For Online Piracy” The MPAA, RIAA and other entertainment industry groups keep hammering on Canada for its lacking anti-piracy enforcement. The groups label Canada a "safe haven" for… February 12, 2015, 19:48 by Ernesto Van der Sar
BTDigg and BIllionUploads Disappear Without Trace (Updated) Two popular sites in the file-sharing space have disappeared without warning. BTDigg, a specialist service indexing BitTorrent's Distributed Hash Table, has entirely vanished with no… February 12, 2015, 16:46 by Andy Maxwell
VPN and TOR Ban Looming on the Horizon for Russia Russia blocks websites on a very large-scale but citizens often circumvent those blocks using VPNs, TOR and other anonymizing tools. The country is now looking… February 12, 2015, 12:04 by Andy Maxwell
Anti-Piracy YouTube Flags Cat Purring as Copyright Infringing Music YouTube's automated takedown tool is known for its flaws, but this week it crossed a line by attacking a purring cat. According to YouTube's Content-ID… February 11, 2015, 19:24 by Ernesto Van der Sar