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The Pirate Bay Banned In UK | High Court Rules ISPs Must Block Infamous Filesharing Website

The Pirate Bay has effectively been banned in the UK after the High Court issued a court order demanding ISPs block...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Piracy Does Not Harm Hollywood Box Office Receipts, But Delayed International Releases Do

Hollywood will, and has been for many years now, tell us all that piracy is the big, bad wolf that is...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

NinjaVideo Co-Founder Hana Amal Beshara Imprisoned In Copyright Infringement Case

If you download movies from the Internet then there’s a small chance you’ll get caught. If you run a site offering...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Hurt Locker BitTorrent Lawsuit Dies, Someone Allegedly Forgets To Tell The Lawyers

The Hurt Locker BitTorrent lawsuit is dead, or at least it should be. Unfortunately someone forgot to tell the lawyers. or...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Top 10 Most-Pirated Movies Of 2011 Revealed As U.S. Box Office Numbers Disappoint

2011 has been a poor year at the box office, with audience numbers and revenue down to their lowest levels since...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Gilberto Sanchez Imprisoned For Piracy | Man Who Pirated ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ Jailed

If you’re the source for a pirated movie which then spreads across the Internet like wildfire you could face time in...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Google Censors Search Results Against Torrent Sites – The Pirate Bay, isoHunt Amongst Victims

In many ways Google owns the Web. The majority of people use its search engine to find what they’re looking for,...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

MPA Wins Legal Blockade Of Newzbin2 As Hollywood Once Again Wastes Time and Money

The MPA, Hollywood, and the entertainment industry as a whole have scored a victory of sorts over illegal file-sharing in the...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Top 10 Most Pirated Movies On BitTorrent Suggest Hollywood and MPAA Sorely Mistaken

Movie piracy is all bad, right? No good can come from it, right? If a movie makes it onto BitTorrent (as...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

MPAA Infographic Twists Piracy Figures, Badly

Hollywood is struggling to transition from the past to the present, to a time when the Internet was but a sci-fi...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Kino.to Shut Down In Massive European Police Raid | Anonymous Retaliates Against GVU

Kino.to is the latest website to be taken offline for linking to copyrighted material. This despite previous cases suggesting linking rather...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Voltage Pictures Threatening To Sue 25,000 BitTorrent Users Over ‘The Hurt Locker’ Piracy

Despite winning an Oscar for its incredible portrayal of working under pressure in the Iraq war zone, The Hurt Locker wasn’t...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

BitTorrent-Exclusive Sci-Fi Drama Series ‘Pioneer One’ Is One True Pioneer For TV

A new political sci-fi drama titled Pioneer One is living up to its name by pioneering a new way of being...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Lost Final Episodes Break BitTorrent Download Record | Piracy Is Clearly Still Alive And Well

Several file-sharing sites have been forced offline or forced to seriously limit their offerings in recent months thanks to the efforts...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Pirate Bay Shuts Torrent Tracker Forever | Decentralized DHT System Evolves Instead

If an entity is being threatened with extinction it has two options: evolve, or die. The Pirate Bay has chosen the...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

KickAssTorrents.com P2P Portal | New Torrent Search Engine Directory Flourishes

KickAssTorrents.com is a new player in the torrent search space creating an easy and currently ad-free way to search for music,...
Chris Tew
2 min read

VODO Filmmakers Use BitTorrent To Distribute Movies For Free | Torrents Used Correctly

Torrent sites continue to be blamed for the many ills of society. But wait, is it not just a case of...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

MPAA War On Piracy Becomes ‘Content Protection’ | No Attempt At Improving Legal Alternatives

What do you do if your current policy is failing to pay dividends? Change your strategy and try something new or...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Pirate Bay News Round-Up | Sale In Doubt, TPB Torrent Live, Alternative BitTorrent Sites

The Pirate Bay was one of the biggest and most notorious torrent sites around. Loved by users, hated by content owners....
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Free TV Streaming Inspired by Spotify & Last.fm | Personal Radio Killing Illegal Music Downloads

There is evidence to suggest that the wave of new music streaming services are directly influencing the number of illegal music...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

The Pirate Bay Sells Out For $7.7 Million | Future Of The The Site Mired In Confusion

The Pirate Bay has sold out, to a Swedish company no one has ever heard of. The acquisition has been confirmed...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

How Much Piracy Is Too Much? | Spanish Legal System Condones File-Sharing Free-For-All

Piracy, in all its many forms, is illegal the world over. However, Internet piracy is a law unto itself, with different...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Making Money From Torrents | Vuze Offers HD Porn For A Fee But Pirated Porn Still King

Porn is popular and profitable, especially on the Internet where the thirst for it is insatiable and where every need is...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Pirate Bay Heading For A Retrial?

We knew it wouldn’t stick, and even if it had, what difference would it really make? As expected, the Pirate Bay...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Why The Pirate Bay Court Case Verdict Is Meaningless – File-sharing Will Soon Evolve

The news that The Pirate Bay lost its much-publicized court case produced many differing points of view as to the effect...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Pirate Bay Trial Verdict – Guilty | Piracy Will Never Die But Linking Deemed Illegal

The verdict on The Pirate Bay Spectrial has been announced, with the four defendants found guilty. But despite this obvious setback,...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

IPREDator Grabs 100,000 Users In First Week As Facebook Blocks The Pirate Bay Torrent Links

With a verdict expected in the “spectrial” of The Pirate Bay next week, the site isn’t exactly keeping a low profile....
Dave Parrack
2 min read

IPRED Law Immediately Affects Swedish Internet Traffic | ISPs As Online Police Force

The new Swedish anti-piracy law based on the European IPRED directive has cut Internet traffic overnight. Which copyright-holders will see as...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Leaks On The Internet | MPAA and FBI Are Investigating

X-Men Origins: Wolverine has leaked on the Internet a month before it is officially released. Clearly a serious breach of the...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

The Pirate Bay Becomes Anonymous – For A Price | IPREDator Launches To Protect Pirates

The law is slowly but surely evolving to try and prevent piracy from taking place, and when it does, to prosecute...
Dave Parrack
1 min read