Top BitTorrent Trackers Serve 30 Million Peers Across 4.5 Million Torrents

This week BitTorrent celebrated its 12th anniversary which prompted us to take a detailed look at the current state of the world#s most popular file-sharing…

The Easiest Way in the World to Share Files P2P – and How it Works

There are dozens of ways to share files on the Internet but one site has made it so simple that anyone with a Firefox or…

Jay Z’s ‘Exclusive’ Album Release Triggers a Piracy Bonanza

Jay-Z's new album, Magna Carta Holy Grail, has been making headlines all over the world since its exclusive pre-release yesterday, but not for all the…

FACT Threats Turn Usenet Search Engine Into Open Source Hydra Indexer

The Hollywood-backed anti-piracy group FACT visited another file-sharing site operator yesterday but their actions may have inadvertently caused additional problems. The operator of NzbX informs…

RIAA Hits 25 Million Google Takedowns, Web Blocking Making Things Worse

A few moments ago Google processed the RIAA's latest batch of copyright takedowns making the organization the music industry's top sender of DMCA notices. Just…

Irish Supreme Court Okays Three-Strikes Anti-Piracy Scheme

U.S. Government Is to Blame for Megaupload Data Massacre, Court Hears

Megaupload has asked the U.S. District Court to renew negotiations over the preservation of 1,103 servers that remain stored at Carpathia Hosting. If no agreement…

Mastercard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers?

Following the introduction of restrictions against file-sharing services, Mastercard and Visa have reportedly started to take action against VPN providers. This week, Swedish payment provider…