Why Activism Is Necessary, But Isn’t Enough To Save Net Liberty

When the first Pirate Party was founded, it was with the realization that activism alone had come to the end of the road. Everybody was…

The Pirate Bay is Down, Locally

Too Legit To Quit: 124.2m Legal BitTorrent Music Downloads in 2012

Earlier this week, file-sharing related news was dominated by a set of stats compiled by Musicmetric. The company said that in the first six months…

uTorrent Increases Privacy and Counters Mass-Monitoring of Downloads

Downloading files via BitTorrent is about as public as file-sharing gets, and it's safe to say that most popular BitTorrent swarms are being monitored one…

New Anti-Piracy Watchlist Zooms In On File-Sharing Tolerant Countries

The Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus has just released its 2012 International Piracy Watch List. In addition to countries such as China, Russia and Ukraine, this…

Warner Bros, Hotfile and EFF Fight Over Bogus Automated Takedown Requests

The dispute between file-hosting service Hotfile and Warner Bros, where the latter is accused of taking down content they don’t hold the copyrights to, is…

Pirate Bay Financier Files For Bankruptcy, Focus Shifts To Peter Sunde

It is looking increasingly unlikely that the world's largest entertainment companies will be able to recover any significant amount of money from the individuals convicted…

BitTorrent Users DDoS Websites Without Knowing

Millions of BitTorrent users are unknowingly DDoSing websites because 'publishers' of popular torrents mistakenly add website URLs as trackers. The DDoSes drag websites down and…