A moderator and uploader of one of Sweden's oldest but now defunct private torrent sites has been hit with a huge damages award. For uploading a single pre-release movie the 28-year-old is now required to pay $652,000, the equivalent amount the studio would have charged for a license to distribute…
The ongoing case against Kim Dotcom and Megaupload continues to reveal unusual levels of surveillance. This week an email released after a freedom of information request reveals that a customs official offered "brownie points" for leaking sensitive information about Kim Dotcom to the FBI. The scandal follows on from last…
For an extended period over the weekend the hugely popular Imgur file-hosting site disappeared for millions of UK users. While there was speculation that the site had been added to the Internet Watch Foundation censor list, it soon became clear that the site was only unavailable to users of ISP…
Disney has decided to pull access to several purchased Christmas videos from Amazon during the holiday season, as the movie studio wants its TV-channel to have the content exclusively. Affected customers have seen their videos disappear from their online libraries, showing once again that not everything you buy is actually…
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again, ‘Gravity’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Riddick’. ‘The Family’ completes the top three.
Yet once more, The Pirate Bay has switched domain names, this time to Peru. In its promise to make DNS restrictions obsolete, The Pirate Bay creates a greater promise against all censorship.
Internet provider AT&T has expanded its portfolio of anti-piracy patents with a new technology that can detect file-sharers on its network. Based on a network activity score users are assigned to a so-called "risk class," and as a result alleged pirates may have their access to file-sharing sites blocked. Whether…
Measures proposed by Italy’s independent Electronic Communications Authority to tackle 'pirate' sites and their owners have passed with unanimous approval. The new system, which mandates the speedy removal of copyrighted content by hosts and the blocking of file-sharing sites by ISPs, will come into force on March 31 2014. Uploaders…