Court Hands Google a Worldwide Site Blocking Injunction In what is being viewed as an over-broad action with serious implications, a Canadian court has ordered Google to completely block a group of websites… June 18, 2014, 12:08 by Andy Maxwell
Torrent Domain Suspensions Damage Credibility, Registry Says When the police coerce registrars to suspend domain names there are a series of damaging knock-on effects, Iceland's top domain registry says. ISNIC says that… June 17, 2014, 22:09 by Andy Maxwell
Flixtor Finds Anti-Piracy Investigator on Its Doorstep, Shuts Down Flixtor, a popular Popcorn Time-inspired movie streaming application, has shut down after an investigator from the MPAA's Motion Picture Association Canada showed up on the… June 17, 2014, 16:24 by Ernesto Van der Sar
“No Piracy” Symbol Added to New Unicode Standard The Unicode Consortium has just delivered its 7.0 update containing more than 250 new emoji characters. In addition to sending recipients what appears to be… June 17, 2014, 15:46 by Andy Maxwell
EZTV Users Help to Fund Horror Movie, and Open Source Another EZTV users may download many TV-shows for free, but they are by no means cheapskates. A team of filmmakers from Laos recently noticed that nearly… June 17, 2014, 11:59 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Game of Thrones Season Finale Sets New Piracy Record The season finale of Game of Thrones has set a brand new piracy record, with a quarter million people sharing a single file at the… June 16, 2014, 22:07 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Tesla Cars, Space Technology, and BitTorrent: Why Monopolies Suck This week's most exciting news in technology was undoubtedly that Tesla Cars declares that all their patent monopolies are free for anyone to use. What… June 16, 2014, 15:58 by Rick Falkvinge
Movie Piracy Combated by Narrowing Theatrical Release Window A key motivation for people to illegally download is the long gap between a movie's theatrical release and its debut through other channels. To tackle… June 16, 2014, 10:32 by Andy Maxwell