Ernesto Van der Sar

Microsoft’s Bing Removed 125 Million ‘Pirate’ URLs Last Year

Bing has a relatively small market share but that doesn't mean that copyright holders ignore it. In response to DMCA…

1 week ago

How Hollywood Keeps Breeding New Pirates

The major Hollywood studios have put a lot of effort into making their content available online. There's an abundance of…

1 week ago

Reckless DMCA Takedown Purges Legitimate Websites from Google Search

The homepages of several legitimate organizations, including Live Nation Asia and Living Map, have been removed from Google search results.…

2 weeks ago

UK Pirates Remain Driven by Convenience, Availability and Cost

A report published by the UK Intellectual Property Office shows that a quarter of all online entertainment consumers downloaded or…

2 weeks ago

Canada Proposes New Regime to Block and Deindex Pirate Sites

The Canadian Government is exploring different options to tackle online piracy through new legislation. One of the proposals is to…

2 weeks ago

Hackers Use Software Cracks and BitTorrent Client to Steal Cryptocurrency

Researchers from cybersecurity company Bitdefender are warning that hackers are using malicious software cracks to steal valuable data including cryptocurrency…

2 weeks ago

MSCHF’s ‘Exclusive’ Pirate Bay and Megaupload Email Addresses Sold Out Quickly

Brooklyn-based art collective MSCHF 'dropped' a set of exclusive email addresses, featuring The Pirate Bay and Megaupload domains. While these…

2 weeks ago

Court Orders Paypal to Freeze VPN Company’s Funds While Popcorn Time Disappears

A federal court in Virginia has signed a temporary restraining order that requires PayPal to freeze the assets of VPN…

2 weeks ago