Hollywood Fails to Add Torrent Sites to Child Abuse Filter It's been revealed that major Hollywood movie studios including Disney, Paramount, Fox, Sony and Universal attempted to have torrent sites added to New Zealand's already… July 4, 2014, 10:41 by Andy Maxwell
Universal Music Can Delete Any SoundCloud Track Without Oversight In a bid to tackle alleged infringement, popular music sharing platform SoundCloud is offering unlimited removal powers to certain copyright holders. Responding to a complaint… July 3, 2014, 19:38 by Ernesto Van der Sar
UK PM’s IP Advisor Won’t Stand For Re-Election The UK Prime Minister's Intellectual Property Advisor is to step down at the next general election. Mike Weatherley has been front and center in promoting… July 3, 2014, 17:37 by Andy Maxwell
Losing Weight, Pirate Bay Founder Requests Security Downgrade After being arrested just over a month ago, Peter Sunde has sent a plea to the authorities over his detention. The Pirate Bay co-founder says… July 3, 2014, 11:46 by Andy Maxwell
UK “Porn Filter” Triggers Widespread Internet Censorship A new tool released by the Open Rights Group today reveals that 20% of the 100,000 most-visited websites on the Internet are blocked by the… July 2, 2014, 18:11 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Dotcom Encryption Keys Can’t Be Given to FBI, Court Rules In 2012, New Zealand police seized computer drives belonging to Kim Dotcom, copies of which were unlawfully given to the FBI. Dotcom wants access to… July 2, 2014, 11:08 by Andy Maxwell
Millions Watch World Cup Through Pirated Live Streams Millions of people have tuned in to pirated World Cup streams thus far, with some games getting nearly half a million unauthorized viewers. TorrentFreak spoke… July 1, 2014, 22:04 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Hackers Turn Music Industry Site into The Pirate Bay During the past 24 hours a brand new Pirate Bay blockade was put in place in Argentina following a complaint from the IFPI-affiliated music industry… July 1, 2014, 15:51 by Andy Maxwell