Anti-Piracy Group Will Sue Pay Processors If They Don’t Name Site Admins

Hollywood-funded anti-piracy group BREIN says it will pursue a similar strategy to its counterparts in the United States and UK by pressuring payment processors like…

RapidShare Lobbies Lawmakers Against PROTECT IP Act

Earlier this year U.S. lawmakers proposed a draconian anti-piracy legislation known as the PROTECT IP Act. When the proposal becomes law, U.S. authorities and copyright…

Happy Birthday Pirate Bay, You’ve Just Turned 8 Years Old Today

It's one of the longest existences in the entire file-sharing space and bar none it has been the most eventful. We're talking about the life…

Canadian Police Issue File-Sharing Scam Letters Fraud Warning

Canadian authorities are warning Internet users to be vigilant following the emergence of a file-sharing settlement scam operation. West Vancouver police, who have now issued…

MovieX BitTorrent Tracker Founders Escape Jail Time

Two men from Australia who operated the popular private BitTorrent tracker MovieX have barely escaped a jail sentence. The two were arrested late 2008 for…

Newzbin2 Release Encrypted Client To Defeat Website Blocking

The operators of Usenet indexing site Newzbin2 have introduced measures to circumvent court-ordered web-blocking measures designed to render the site inoperable in the UK. Site…

How The FBI Caught an Actor Uploading Movie Screeners To Pirate Bay

In April 2011, the FBI raided the apartment of a Screen Actor’s Guild member suspected of uploading several pre-release screeners of Hollywood blockbusters to The…

Hackers Target uTorrent and Bittorrent Websites