Fraud and Embezzlement Drives Anti-Piracy Group into Bankruptcy SMAIS, the Icelandic branch of the Motion Picture Association, has filed for bankruptcy. The board of the notorious anti-piracy group says that it suffered from… August 21, 2014, 18:10 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Dotcom’s Millions Will Remain Frozen, Court Decides Kim Dotcom's battle to regain control over millions in seized assets has received another setback. Today the Court of Appeal overturned a ruling by the… August 21, 2014, 10:05 by Andy Maxwell
Google Asked to Remove 1 Million Pirate Links Per Day For the first time ever Google is now processing an average of one million removal requests per day. The new record follows an upward trend… August 20, 2014, 18:02 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Movie Boss Avoids Copyright Q&A to Avoid Piracy “Crazies” A public discussion forum centered on new copyright proposals will go ahead without Australia's main Hollywood-affiliated studio. In an email just made public, Village Roadshow… August 20, 2014, 12:08 by Andy Maxwell
Attackers Can ‘Steal’ Bandwidth From BitTorrent Seeders, Research Finds New research reveals that BitTorrent swarms can be slowed down significantly by malicious peers. Depending on the number of seeders and the clients they use,… August 19, 2014, 23:33 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Court: Usenet Provider Doesn’t Have to Filter Pirated Content The defunct News-Service.com, once one of the leading Usenet providers with many prominent resellers, has scored a court victory against Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN. The… August 19, 2014, 16:55 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Major Torrent Sites and Google Purge The Expendables 3 Several major torrent indexes have taken the unprecedented step of nuking all links to The Expendables 3, with sites including KickassTorrents now returning nil results… August 19, 2014, 13:34 by Andy Maxwell
U.S. Court Grants Order to Wipe Pirate Sites from the Internet A U.S. federal court in Oregon has granted a broad injunction against several streaming sites that offer pirated content. Among other things, the copyright holder… August 18, 2014, 21:44 by Ernesto Van der Sar