Tough New Piracy Law Sees No Takers in More Than a Year For years Norway was pressured to do something drastic against pirates and 12 months ago this week the country introduced tough new legislation. But one… July 6, 2014, 11:00 by Andy Maxwell
140 U.S. Internet Providers Disconnect Persistent File-Sharers Rightscorp, a prominent piracy monitoring firm that works with Warner Bros. and other copyright holders, claims that 140 U.S. ISPs are actively disconnecting repeat copyright… July 5, 2014, 22:06 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Cyberlocker Blocked After Police Discover “Criminal Network” A long investigation carried out by Italy's Fiscal police has concluded with a court-ordered web blockage of a popular file-hosting site. The operators of DDLStorage… July 5, 2014, 12:35 by Andy Maxwell
Twitter Removes Users “Pirated” World Cup Avatars Twitter has removed the profile pictures of several of its users after the company received a takedown notice from World Cup organizer FIFA. The football… July 4, 2014, 19:13 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Hollywood Fails to Add Torrent Sites to Child Abuse Filter It's been revealed that major Hollywood movie studios including Disney, Paramount, Fox, Sony and Universal attempted to have torrent sites added to New Zealand's already… July 4, 2014, 10:41 by Andy Maxwell
Universal Music Can Delete Any SoundCloud Track Without Oversight In a bid to tackle alleged infringement, popular music sharing platform SoundCloud is offering unlimited removal powers to certain copyright holders. Responding to a complaint… July 3, 2014, 19:38 by Ernesto Van der Sar
UK PM’s IP Advisor Won’t Stand For Re-Election The UK Prime Minister's Intellectual Property Advisor is to step down at the next general election. Mike Weatherley has been front and center in promoting… July 3, 2014, 17:37 by Andy Maxwell
Losing Weight, Pirate Bay Founder Requests Security Downgrade After being arrested just over a month ago, Peter Sunde has sent a plea to the authorities over his detention. The Pirate Bay co-founder says… July 3, 2014, 11:46 by Andy Maxwell