Google Asked to Remove 1,500 “Pirate Links” Per Minute Google is facing a never-ending flood of takedown requests from copyright holders, breaking record after record. The company currently processes a record breaking 1,500 links… November 22, 2015, 21:18 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Perfect 10 Owes Giganews $5.6m But Won’t Pay Up Adult publisher and copyright troll Perfect 10 bit off more than it could chew when it took on Usenet provider Giganews. After mounting an aggressive… November 22, 2015, 12:20 by Andy Maxwell
Sci-Hub, BookFi and LibGen Resurface After Being Shut Down A few days ago several large online repositories of free books and academic articles were pulled offline. Sci-Hub, BookFi and LibGen had their domain names… November 21, 2015, 23:03 by Ernesto Van der Sar
TorrentFreak Presents: Steal This Show For more than a decade TorrentFreak has covered the latest copyright and file-sharing news in written text. Today we're trying something new with the first… November 21, 2015, 21:57 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Google Counsel Sees Problems With ‘Take Down, Stay Down’ When content is taken down in response to a DMCA notice, should service providers be required to stop the same content from reappearing? Major copyright… November 21, 2015, 12:22 by Andy Maxwell
Movie Studios Shut Down New Popcorn Time Alternative, But Not For Long The popularity of Popcorn Time has triggered the release of several streaming websites that mimic the features of the popular application in a web browser.… November 20, 2015, 23:23 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Technology YouTube Pays Users’ Legal Bills to Defend Fair Use Google has strengthened its stance towards wrongful DMCA notices that serve to intimidate YouTube users. Drawing a symbolic line in the sand, Google says it… November 20, 2015, 15:06 by Andy Maxwell
Australian ISP Rejects ‘Pirate Site’ Blocking Attempt A small Australian Internet provider is refusing to block a website that allegedly infringes on the copyrights of a local construction company. Lawyers demanded a… November 20, 2015, 11:01 by Ernesto Van der Sar