Netflix Joins Effort to Expand Aussie Pirate Site Blocklist Various movie companies are continuing the crusade against pirate sites down under. The companies, which for the first time includes Netflix, submitted a new complaint… June 3, 2019, 11:46 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Veteran Pirate With Millions of Downloads Says “Sharing is Caring” A veteran uploader of cracked software to sites like The Pirate Bay and 1337x says that nine years of uploads have resulted in millions of… June 2, 2019, 22:24 by Andy Maxwell
‘Netflix’ Flags Netflix.com As a Pirate Site, Or Does It? A highly inaccurate takedown notice sent on behalf of Netflix targets several legitimate news site, including Variety and Business Insider. Making matters worse, Netflix and… June 2, 2019, 13:59 by Ernesto Van der Sar
YouTube-Rippers Infringe Copyright on “Industrial Scale” Says Judge Following an application by several music industry labels and groups, a judge in Australia ordered local ISPs to block four hugely popular YouTube-ripping sites. The… June 1, 2019, 21:28 by Andy Maxwell
File-Sharing Legend “Napster” Turns 20 Years Old Today On June 1, 1999, a new application was uploaded to the Internet. Named Napster, it was the first tool that created a file-sharing network of… June 1, 2019, 09:51 by Ernesto Van der Sar
As US Stream-Ripping Increases, Almost Half of Rippers Are Educated & Affluent A new study conducted by music industry research company MusicWatch has revealed an increase in so-called stream-ripping in the United States. Up from 15 million… May 31, 2019, 22:21 by Andy Maxwell
RapidVideo Blocks Pirate Sites Over Copyright Concerns Popular file-hosting site RapidVideo has often been characterized as a piracy haven, something its operator fiercely denies. In line with this stance, the site has… May 31, 2019, 15:59 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Technology BitTorrent to Fork IPFS to Create Decentralized File-Storage System BitTorrent Inc., the owner of the popular uTorrent client, says it will launch a decentralized file-storage system across its network. Based on the open source… May 31, 2019, 09:48 by Andy Maxwell