$7,000 Damages for Sharing a “For Dummies” Book on BitTorrent A man and woman from New York have been ordered to pay $7,000 in damages for downloading a "For Dummies" eBook using BitTorrent. New York… January 4, 2013, 21:17 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Piracy Identifying Pirates Now Easier Following Swedish Supreme Court Decisions A pair of decisions by the Swedish Supreme Court means that it will now become somewhat easier for rightsholders to identify file-sharers. The cases, which… January 4, 2013, 12:21 by Andy Maxwell
IMAGiNE BitTorrent Group Leader Sentenced To Five Years in Prison The former leader of a now-defunct online movie piracy group has been handed a record-breaking prison sentence in the United States today. Jeramiah Perkins was… January 3, 2013, 23:24 by Andy Maxwell
New Report Accuses Google and Yahoo of Funding ‘Pirate Sites’ A new report has linked two of the world's largest search engines to the funding of piracy-related sites. In the University of Southern California's Advertising… January 3, 2013, 17:57 by Andy Maxwell
Megaupload: U.S. Deliberately Misled the Court with Unlawful Search Warrants In a filing just submitted to court Megaupload is looking to declare the search warrants executed by the U.S. Government unlawful. Kim Dotcom's legal team… January 3, 2013, 12:10 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Pirate “Kopimism” Recognized as an Official Word By Sweden Last year Sweden found itself with a new religion when the Church of Kopimism was officially recognized by authorities there. Now, just a year later,… January 2, 2013, 23:03 by Andy Maxwell
Law and Politics BBC-Backed Pirate Bay Documentary Ready for Premiere TPB-AFK, the upcoming documentary about The Pirate Bay and its founders, is finally ready for a worldwide premiere. The film has been in the making… January 2, 2013, 15:08 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Cord-Cutters Rejoice, XBMC Now Sets Itself Up With a Couple of Clicks XBMC is a free open source media player, but dismissing it as just an app that plays files would be a huge underestimation of its… January 1, 2013, 22:36 by Andy Maxwell