BitTorrent sites are a long-established mechanism for downloading video of all kinds but in recent years streaming of content, YouTube-style, has increased massively in popularity. While plenty of authorized content is available via streaming, so are thousands of mainstream movies. Now the lawyer for Sweden's top anti-piracy company has admitted…
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again, 'The Hangover Part 3' tops the chart this week, followed by 'Fast and Furious 6'. 'Admission' completes the top three.
A little over a month ago the MPAA started submitting DMCA requests to Google on behalf of the major movie studios but unlike most other copyright holders the movie group is not going for automated high-volume notices. Instead the MPAA appears to be hand-picking torrent sites and streaming portals in…
This week news broke that the popular JDownloader download tool had been declared illegal by a German court. The headline was open for debate since the court only took exception to one particular and long-since removed feature which allowed the downloading of encrypted video streams. However, the ruling has concerned…
With more than five million downloads for a single episode, Game of Thrones is by far the most pirated TV-show of the spring season. Thanks to the continued worldwide hype around the show and its high piracy rate, the number of downloads via BitTorrent show a 25 percent increase compared…
UK pop star Robbie Williams is at it again. After showing off his colorful Megaupload jacket in a Dizzee Rascal video last month, he did the same today during his performance on The Voice UK final. The Megaupload plug doesn’t seem like an accident. As we pointed out earlier, Dizzee…
After three and half long years the legal action against the once high-flying SceneTorrents private BitTorrent tracker has finally come to an end. Raids carried out by the Hollywood-backed Federation Against Copyright Theft with the assistance of the police back in 2009 netted two individuals who faced accusations of criminal…
The Premier League has joined the ranks of the music and movie industry, demanding that all major Internet providers in the UK block access to the sports streaming site FirstRow1.eu. The ISPs are not planning to block the site voluntarily, but based on previous cases England's top football league will…