Busted: Microsoft Harbors BitTorrent Pirates

In recent weeks the anti-piracy antics of Microsoft have made the news on a few occasions. From censoring The Pirate Bay to funding BitTorrent poisoning…

I Was a Member of Centropy, The World’s Leading Movie Piracy Group

During the first half of the last decade, people downloading movies from the Internet would very often be looking for the same things as they…

Illegal File-Sharing Chips Away At North Korean Propaganda

In the high-stakes debate over control of the Internet, it is common to hear how the free flow of information is crucial to development of…

0 French Films Were Pirated Between May and December 2011

Megaupload User Asks Court To Order Return Of His Data

Months after the Megaupload raids and arrests, the fate of the data stored on the site's 1,103 seized servers is still unclear. Many Megaupload users…

Look! We got a Medal for Defending the Internet

Copyright Holders Punish Themselves With Crazy DMCA Takedowns

Yesterday Google kindly published a database of takedown requests sent to the search giant on copyright grounds. The DMCA notices are supposed to help protect…

Filecrop Bans Porn “Out of Respect for Women”