KickassTorrents Blocking Case Suspended By Music Industry In order to save time and costs, a case aimed at blocking access to KickassTorrents in Australia has been suspended by the music industry. Record… May 19, 2016, 09:03 by Andy Maxwell
Filmmakers Ask “Pirate” to Take Polygraph, Backtrack When He Agrees The makers of the Oscar-winning movie Dallas Buyers Club are displaying some dubious tactics in their ongoing crackdown on BitTorrent pirates. In California, the filmmakers… May 18, 2016, 22:27 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Copyright Holders Dominate Closed-Door DMCA Hearings As discussions over DMCA reform continue, a number of closed-door hearings have taken place in San Francisco. Representatives from Fight for the Future and YouTube's… May 18, 2016, 16:48 by Andy Maxwell
Megaupload Hard Drives Are Unreadable, Hosting Company Warns Megaupload's former hosting company Cogent has warned that several drives, which are preserved as evidence for civil and criminal lawsuits, have become unreadable. While the… May 18, 2016, 10:48 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Rightscorp Revenues Collapse, Pirates Too Hard to Track Anti-piracy outfit Rightscorp has just turned in another set of dismal results. During the past three months revenues plummeted 78% versus the same period last… May 17, 2016, 17:17 by Andy Maxwell
Universal Music Appeals VKontakte Piracy Lawsuit After a defeat earlier this year, Universal Music has now announced that it will take its lawsuit against Russian social networking site VKontakte to appeal.… May 17, 2016, 10:10 by Ernesto Van der Sar
YouTube Are Criminal Piracy Racketeers, Grammy Winner Says YouTube is guilty of criminal racketeering. That's the headline-grabbing claim of Grammy award winning musician Maria Schneider, who claims that the Google-owned site is abusing… May 16, 2016, 17:26 by Andy Maxwell
UK Govt Targets Google and Facebook in Piracy Crackdown The UK Intellectual Property Office is investigating how search engines and social media networks can step up their game to deter piracy. The Government is… May 16, 2016, 11:05 by Ernesto Van der Sar