Video Games Industry To Join Three-Strikes Anti-Piracy Scheme

While "three strikes" or graduated response-style schemes continue to spread, it is the mainstream music and movie industries that are the main beneficiaries of any…

Pirate Bay Censored in Ireland After Mysterious Court Order (Updated)

Starting today, The Pirate Bay is no longer accessible for customers of the Irish Internet provider UPC. Subscribers who try to access the BitTorrent site…

U.S. Court Asked to Release Megaupload Search Warrants

By seizing the servers of Megaupload, the U.S. Government also confiscated the personal belongings of many innocent users of the file-hosting service. One entrepreneur has…

BPI Asks UK ISPs To Block More Major Torrent Sites

Following its successful application to have The Pirate Bay blocked by several leading ISPs in the UK, the recording industry is back again with new…

Raided PRQ Torrent Site is Back and Hiring Cinemas To Celebrate

On the first day of October, police in Sweden raided so-called "bulletproof hoster" PRQ. The action took dozens of file-sharing sites offline, but it was…

Six-Strikes “Independent Expert” Is RIAA’s Former Lobbying Firm

Next month the file-sharing habits of millions of BitTorrent users in the United States will be monitored as part of an agreement between the MPAA,…

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent

The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, 'The Amazing Spider-Man' tops the chart this week, followed by 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'. 'The Campaign' completes…

First Pirate Party Senator Elected in the Czech Republic