Microsoft Ditches Anti-Piracy Partner After Embarrassing DMCA Takedowns

A few hours after TorrentFreak uncovered yet another embarrassing list of DMCA takedown requests sent on behalf of Microsoft, the company has decided to cut…

Microsoft Wants Google to Censor Its Wikipedia Page

It’s no secret that copyright holders are trying to take down as much pirated content from Google as they can. This sometimes leads to unavoidable…

Kim Dotcom Offers to Bankroll Kiwi America’s Cup Team

After grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory this week, New Zealand's America's Cup team had little to celebrate. Only adding to the negativity is…

Portugal Next in Line to Block The Pirate Bay

A coalition of copyright trade groups in Portugal will go to court with a demand that Internet providers should block The Pirate Bay and several…

Google “Condemned” By UK Politicians For Linking to Piracy

A British House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee report has today "condemned" Google's failure to adequately respond to the issue of online piracy…

20th Century Fox Sues ‘Impatient’ Homeland Pirates

In Germany several major Hollywood studios are cashing in on BitTorrent pirates, charging hundreds of euros for illegally downloaded movies and TV-shows. While the studios…

Member States Block Pirate Parties’ WIPO Application

Pirate Bay Founder Hacking Sentence Slashed in Half on Appeal

After being arrested at his home in Cambodia in 2012, earlier this year Gottfrid Svartholm was found guilty of hacking a Swedish IT company and…