Pirate Party Calls Protest As Movie Sharer Jailed For 30 Days
Pirate Party Calls Protest As Movie Sharer Jailed For 30 Days Following an investigation into the online sharing of a new movie, Serbia’s High-Tech crime unit has swooped on an apartment in the...
View ArticlePirated Copy of ‘The Hurt Locker’ Airs on National TV
Pirated Copy of ‘The Hurt Locker’ Airs on National TV In anticipation of the Academy Awards ceremony last week, Belarusian TV viewers were treated to some previous Oscar-awarded movies.
View ArticleLimeWire Settles With Record Labels, Still Faces $1 Billion Claim
LimeWire Settles With Record Labels, Still Faces $1 Billion Claim After LimeWire was ordered to cease its operations, the legal troubles continued for the file-sharing company. Dozens of record labels...
View Article5 Reasons Why the US Domain Seizures Are Unconstitutional
5 Reasons Why the US Domain Seizures Are Unconstitutional Last week, Bryan McCarthy, the 32-year-old operator of ChannelSurfing.net, was arrested on charges of criminal copyright infringement. This...
View ArticleNewzbin2 Uses TOR To Kill Domain Blocking Before It Even Happens
Newzbin2 Uses TOR To Kill Domain Blocking Before It Even Happens Last year the MPAA took legal action against UK ISP BT in an attempt to force it to block the domain of Usenet indexing site Newzbin2....
View ArticleHotfile Files To Dismiss In Pivotal MPAA vs Cyberlocker Lawsuit
Hotfile Files To Dismiss In Pivotal MPAA vs Cyberlocker Lawsuit As the entertainment industries eye the apparent emerging threat of so-called cyberlocker online storage sites, it was inevitable that...
View ArticlePublishers Force Domain Seizure of Public Domain Music Resource
Publishers Force Domain Seizure of Public Domain Music Resource IMSLP, the largest public domain music library on the Internet, has just suffered a damaging attack on the site’s infrastructure. In a...
View ArticlePolice Raid Russia’s Largest Porn BitTorrent Site
Police Raid Russia’s Largest Porn BitTorrent Site In 2010, Russian authorities seized the domain of the country’s biggest BitTorrent tracker, Torrents.ru, in copyright related action. Now, just over a...
View ArticleCNET’s Download.com Sued over LimeWire Downloads
CNET’s Download.com Sued over LimeWire Downloads CNET’s Download.com and parent company CBS are being sued for several copyright infringement related offenses for their role in distributing LimeWire...
View ArticleScottish File-Sharing Conviction Dismays OiNK and FileSoup Lawyer
Scottish File-Sharing Conviction Dismays OiNK and FileSoup Lawyer This week it was widely reported that a 58-year-old grandmother from Scotland had become the first person in the country to be...
View ArticleU.S. Bill To Criminalize Illicit Movie / Music Streaming
U.S. Bill To Criminalize Illicit Movie / Music Streaming Three U.S. Senators have introduced a bill that would make streaming unauthorized music, movies and TV-shows a felony.
View ArticleMajor Vulnerability Found in Leaked Anti-Piracy Software
Major Vulnerability Found in Leaked Anti-Piracy Software Trident Media Guard, the company entrusted by the French government to monitor file-sharing networks for copyright infringement, recently had...
View ArticleMusic Industry Sues ISP to Censor The Pirate Bay
Music Industry Sues ISP to Censor The Pirate Bay The Pirate Bay is at the center of a new lawsuit filed at the District Court in Helsinki, Finland. Music industry representatives have filed suit...
View ArticleRecording Industry Steps Back From Piracy Disconnections
Recording Industry Steps Back From Piracy Disconnections In the wake of the UN report which described disconnecting citizens from the Internet as a breach of human rights, an anti-piracy group has...
View ArticleGoogle Expands Piracy-Related Keyword Filter
Google Expands Piracy-Related Keyword Filter Earlier this year Google started censoring various ‘piracy-related’ keywords from its Instant and Autocomplete services, and this list of forbidden words...
View ArticleFeds Seize New Domain, Add To “Batshit” Conspiracy Theories
Feds Seize New Domain, Add To “Batshit” Conspiracy Theories During the last 24 hours Homeland Security seized another domain and put up the copyright infringement notice but now a quite unusual...
View ArticleGoogle Censorship Initiative Thwarted by ‘Gee! No Evil!’ Add-On
Google Censorship Initiative Thwarted by ‘Gee! No Evil!’ Add-On Earlier this year Google launched a piracy blacklist and began filtering keywords from its Instant and Autocomplete services. A...
View ArticleGoogle Boots Transdroid Torrent Manager From Android Market
Google Boots Transdroid Torrent Manager From Android Market Google has pulled one of the most popular torrent download managers from the Android Market because of policy violations.
View ArticleHollywood Force ISP To Use Child Abuse Filter Against File-Sharing Site
Hollywood Force ISP To Use Child Abuse Filter Against File-Sharing Site Last year Hollywood’s Motion Picture Association (MPA) went to court seeking an injunction against UK ISP BT in order to force...
View ArticleISPs, Academics and Citizens Oppose EU Anti-Piracy Legislation
ISPs, Academics and Citizens Oppose EU Anti-Piracy Legislation Today the European Commission published the responses to a public consultation on Europe’s anti-piracy directive IPRED. As expected,...
View Article
