Every year, tens of thousands of people are scammed into paying for free file-sharing software. Over the years this has evolved into a multi-million dollar business damaging legitimate American companies such as BitTorrent, FrostWire and Vuze. So why is ICE not seizing the domain names of these known scammers? Or…
The Pirate Bay is not only the most visited BitTorrent site on the Internet, but arguably the most censored too. Many ISPs have been ordered to block their customers' access to the website, and recently Microsoft joined in on the action by stopping people sharing its location with others. Microsoft's…
We are probably supposed to ignore this one, but here we go. Valcom, a ‘media’ company with stock trading at $0.04 has filed a lawsuit against Megaupload. “ValCom owns more than 6,000 audio and video titles and has discovered that a significant number of the Company’s copyrights were illegally distributed…
In a few months, millions of alleged BitTorrent pirates in the US will risk being punished by their Internet providers. While the plan was announced a year ago, protests against it have only started to heat up this week. In just a few days more than 90,000 people have signed…
Google recently filed an amicus brief in which it suggested that the movie companies of the MPAA were misleading the court in their case against file-hosting service Hotfile. In response the MPAA objected to Google's intervention with claims that the search giant is only interested in influencing the law in…
Carpathia Hosting, the company where MegaUpload leased some of its servers, says that is may have to delete all Megaupload data in the near future. “Despite our best efforts, the parties have been unable to work out a voluntary solution that meets the concerns of all the various parties who…
As part of their never-ending quest to reduce copyright infringement major entertainment companies have been engaged in talks with ISPs and representatives from the Australian government. Worryingly, these meetings have been held in secret and all attempts to obtain information are being stonewalled. But now an ISP has revealed that…
Hollywood-backed anti-piracy outfit BREIN is trying to stop the massive influx of Pirate Bay proxy sites that circumvent a court-ordered blockade in the Netherlands. The group obtained an injunction against one proxy and has threatened many others with legal action. While BREIN's efforts appear to have had some effect, the…