Anti-Piracy MPAA/RIAA Lobbied Extensively In Favor of Domain Seizures The recent action by US authorities against so-called rogue websites comes on the heels of significant lobbying efforts by two well known anti-piracy groups. In… December 19, 2010, 19:26 by Ernesto Van der Sar
uTorrent Browser Toolbar Mystery Causes Confusion uTorrent's parent company BitTorrent Inc. recently signed up with a new toolbar partner. Last week millions of users got the offer to install this new… December 18, 2010, 23:11 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Piracy BitTorrent Domain Exodus Continues As Torrentz Dumps .COM The Internet's second biggest BitTorrent site is dumping its .COM domain. In an apparent response to the US Government’s Department of Homeland Security and Immigration… December 18, 2010, 16:28 by Andy Maxwell
US Government Made Painful Mistakes In Torrent-Finder Seizure Three weeks ago the US Government seized 82 domains as part of Operation in Our Sites 2. The authorities claimed that the actions were targeted… December 17, 2010, 17:05 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Police Raid ‘Devil’ Warez Piracy Topsite Acting on information provided by an anti-piracy group, Swedish police have carried out raids and taken down at least one warez scene topsite. Items seized… December 17, 2010, 11:13 by Andy Maxwell
Piracy Record Labels Blame Google For Piracy, Hint At Censorship The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the UK’s main recording industry trade body, came out with guns blazing against Google today. BPI says that search engines… December 16, 2010, 16:32 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Piracy MPAA Takes Legal Action To Force ISP to Block Newzbin Three months ago, TorrentFreak discovered that the Motion Picture Association were about to make an unprecedented move against file-sharing in the UK. Their targets were… December 16, 2010, 14:11 by Andy Maxwell
Piracy MPAA Shuts Down 29 BitTorrent and NZB Sites The MPAA and their colleagues in The Netherlands appear to have shut down more than two dozen BitTorrent, Usenet and other file-sharing sites today. Accused… December 15, 2010, 19:32 by Andy Maxwell