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FBI Makes Arrest In X-Men: Wolverine Piracy Case | Suspect Faces Jail Time & Huge Fine

Hollywood is running scared of Web piracy, and is fighting tooth and nail to prevent its big releases being shared over...
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

The Hollywood Myth On Movie Piracy As Summer 2009 Sets New U.S. Box Office Record

Hollywood has just enjoyed a record breaking Summer at the U.S. box office. This despite the studios and filmmakers constantly warning...
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

Epix – A Hulu For Movies | Online HD Movie Streaming Free For Cable Subscribers

The music industry took far too long to adjust to the new realities which the Web brought, and look at the...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

The Pirate Bay Found Guilty & Sentenced to 1 Year in Prison for Assisting Copyright Infringement

The verdict on the The Pirate Bay court case has been announced by the Swedish court. All four defendants, Peter Sunde,...
Chris Tew
3 min read

The Pirate Bay Goes To Court | What Are The Consequences If The BitTorrent Tracker Loses?

On February 16, 2009, a three-years in the making trial against The Pirate Bay will begin in Sweden. What, if any,...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Copyrighted Filesharing Will Never Die | It May Be Illegal But People Don’t Think It’s Wrong

While Hollywood and the MPAA nibble away at the perpetrators of illegal file-sharing, they should realize they are going to lose...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Web TV Wire 2008 Review | A Year In Online Video

2008 has now seamlessly morphed into 2009 and we’re all a year older, and maybe even a year wiser. But what...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

The Dark Knight Most Pirated Movie Of 2008 & Still A Box Office Smash | Hollywood Blinks

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 12 months, you’ll know that The Dark Knight has been absolutely...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Kangaroo Is Dead – BBC iPlayer For All On Way | BBC, ITV, Channel 4 Launch Project Canvas

Kangaroo may be all but dead, but the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 aren’t giving up on their joint plans to...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

ThePirateCity.org Video Streaming Site? | Irony: The Pirate Bay Gets Pirated

Anyone who regularly downloads over peer to peer networks or torrent sites will have heard of The Pirate Bay. But have...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

‘The Dark Knight’ Pirate Movie Update | Batman’s 38 Piracy Free Hours Deemed Success

The new Batman movie, The Dark Knight, has been the biggest film release of the year so far by a mile....
Dave Parrack
1 min read

P2P File Sharing Software Users to be Banned in Europe | France Calling For Law Change

Last November saw the French government, lead by President Nicolas Sarkozy, impose a law which meant that anyone suspected of using...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Movie Industry Rallies Against Net Neutrality | Surely Hulu Proves They Are Wrong

The Internet hasn’t been good for the movie or music industry, at least in terms of providing a new way for...
Art Brodsky
6 min read

Peer To Peer CAN Be Used For Piracy, So Ban It Outright | Or, Simply Lose Your Identity

When it comes to the subject of peer to peer and file sharing over the Internet, there seems to be a...
Sherwin Siy
3 min read

The War Against Illegal File Sharers | Higher Education Bill With File Sharing Warning

The fight against file sharers, and so called music and movie pirates continues, even though the organisations fighting it must know...
Art Brodsky
2 min read

Zml.com | Cheap DRM Free Movie Downloads – Get iPod Ready, PDA, DivX & Hi Res Formats

In a move sure to upset the MPAA, and anti-piracy organisations everywhere, the people behind AllOfMp3 have now created a similar...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Internet Video Copyright Laws Recap

In light of the recent TVLinks shut-down in the UK, I thought we should take a look at the many other...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Apple iTunes Movie Rentals & Cheaper TV Shows Coming Soon?

There seems to be quite a bit brewing over at Apple in the TV stakes just now. First of all we...
Fraser MacInnes
43 sec read

Free Online Stock Video Footage | 9 Of The Best Public Domain Video Resources

Photo credit: Pedro Nogueira Until now, producing good quality opening titles, station breaks and incidental footage for your online video channel...
Michael Pick
3 min read

AdBrite InVideo | Helping Video Pirates Like AllSP Make Money

We all know that there are plenty of pirate TV episodes being posted on websites like YouTube, and we all know...
Chris Tew
1 min read

DRM & Copyright Destroying Internet Television?

Almost everyday I read another article about DRM and over aggressive copyright laws hindering people from watching online videos the way...
Chris Tew
1 min read

PeekVid Movies & TV Shows Sued! No Alternative for Illegal Television Episodes Site

Peekvid got shut down. Was the MPAA involved…? Click here to Search for TV Shows & Movies Online Peekvid is a...
Chris Tew
4 min read

Google Re-trial Coming For Linking Liability

If you’ve been reading Web TV Wire for a while you may remember when QuickSilverScreen (QSS), a website that links to...
Chris Tew
2 min read

Linking to infringing content is probably illegal in the US

Summary: There have been 3 court cases in the US where sites were forced to take down links leading to infringing...
Chris Tew
12 min read