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… Both cases are being handled by US Attorney Neil MacBride, who was also on the NinjaVideo case. Considering MacBride’s past work as Vice President of Anti-Piracy for the lobby group BSA, …
… users last week. DNSCrypt, previously only available for Mac OSX and Linux, is a technology that encrypts all DNS traffic between an …
The Pirate Bay is not happy with the “anonymous” groups who decided to DDoS Virgin Media for complying with a court order. Last week Virgin was the fist ISP to block The Pirate Bay. According to The Pirate Bay these DDoS attempts go against a free In …
… extradited for alleged offences committed on US soil. It smacks of double standards, and strengthens the case for extradition …
When the Portuguese arm of IFPI first decided to bring file-sharing prosecutions to the country, their aims would have been simple – to scare Internet users away from file-sharing networks and into the shops. It didn’t work out that way. Since 2006, the …
… by MPAA boss Chris Dodd earlier this week at the CinemaCon meeting in Las Vegas. Dodd told the audience that copyright protection …
… the Attorney General is not required to evaluate the legitimacy of the US order. A significant portion of the new funds will be used to …
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Left Quote“The Pirate Bay has been one of the most important movements in Sweden for freedom of speech, working against corruption and censorship.
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