City of London Police inform TorrentFreak that they have begun targeting sites that provide access to unauthorized content for "criminal gain." The initiative is part of a collaboration with Hollywood studios represented by FACT and the major recording labels of the BPI. In letters being sent out now, police accuse…

BT, Virgin Media, O2 and Be There have started to block access to three of the world's largest BitTorrent sites. The blockades were put in place following a High Court order earlier this year, which ruled that KickassTorrents, H33T and Fenopy were facilitating copyright infringement. With the sites no longer…

In their ongoing efforts against online piracy, the UK music industry wants torrent site owners to guarantee that links to infringing tracks and albums will no longer appear on their websites. The demands require torrent site owners to install and maintain a broad keyword filter or launch a system to…

As the music and movie business continues to streamline and hone their processes on the back of the experiences of past experiences, blocking websites via the High Court is getting close to a formality in the UK and could soon be the same in Ireland. Groundwork done with zero opposition…