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…

In recent years, technical anti-piracy enforcement has taken a less aggressive approach to that previously demonstrated by the infamous MediaDefender. But now, according to a company being hired to protect Bollywood blockbusters, if BitTorrent sites don't cooperate by taking down torrents when asked, they will have denial of service attacks…

These last few years P2Pers have got used to TV entertainment 'our way': unfucked, de-loused, delivered efficiently in economical, good-looking codecs. Because we rarely turn it on, it's been easy to forget just how cynical, unsatisfying and downright venal television, as a distribution medium, has become.

A man who added custom subtitles to a pirated copy of the movie ‘Wanted’ and uploaded it to a file-sharing network has been sentenced. Kazushi Hirata, who uploaded the movie in advance of its Japanese theatrical release, received a 2 year suspended jail sentence.