Starting today subscribers of the second largest ISP in the Netherlands will be able to freely access The Pirate Bay once again. According to UPC, anti-piracy group BREIN agreed to a lifting of the ban pending the outcome of a possible appeal in a case against two other Dutch Internet…
The New Zealand Court of Appeal has this morning ruled that the search warrants used by police during the raid on Kim Dotcom's mansion contained errors, but were valid. The decision, which found that a "reasonable" person would understand what the warrants related to, overturns an earlier ruling that found…
Rightscorp, a prominent piracy monitoring firm that works with Warner Bros. and other copyright holders, claims to send lists of repeat infringers to various Internet providers on a weekly basis. The company asks the providers to terminate the associated accounts and claims that some ISPs gladly comply. But is that…
New leaked documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that the NSA authorized the monitoring of torrent sites including "malicious foreign actor" The Pirate Bay. The internal discussions further indicate that tracking people through multiple proxies is possible and suggest that once a release is made on Pirate Bay it's possible…
Legendary hip-hop group De La Soul celebrated the 25th anniversary of their landmark album 3 Feet High and Rising by giving most of their music away for free this past weekend. Since you can't legally obtain most of the act's music online it was a great gesture, made especially intriguing…
Megaupload's former hosting provider LeaseWeb has been sued for copyright infringement at a federal court in California. A complaint filed by adult magazine publisher Perfect 10 accuses the hosting provider of servicing several "pirate" websites. The publisher also holds LeaseWeb liable for the infringements of Megaupload, demanding up to $188…
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. ‘Thor: The Dark World’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Gravity.’ 'Homefront' completes the top three.
You're probably thinking, I don't watch the Ultimate Fighting Championship, why should I care about what they have to say? Well, when a world leader in PPV can obtain a website's member list and set about threatening to sue each and every one of them for simply viewing an unauthorized…