French Magazine Fined €10,000 For Encouraging Piracy The music industry has won a landmark ruling in France where a local magazine was fined €10,000 for showing readers how and where pirated films… June 30, 2015, 12:13 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Court Orders Namecheap to Identify Pirate Site Operator Domain name registrar Namecheap has been ordered to hand over the personal and financial details of one of its customers who's suspected of operating the… June 29, 2015, 22:14 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Cloudflare Reveals Pirate Site Locations in an Instant In recent times its become common for 'pirate' sites to use U.S.-based Cloudflare as a 'shield' from the outside world and copyright holders in particular.… June 29, 2015, 16:13 by Andy Maxwell
Malwarebytes Offers Pirates Free “Amnesty” Keys The widely used anti-malware application Malwarebytes is offering pirates a free 12 month upgrade under the newly launched "amnesty" program. The goal of the free… June 29, 2015, 10:32 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Stats Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 06/29/15 The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Jurassic World.' 'Cinderella'… June 29, 2015, 08:56 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Outfits Boost Numbers With Bogus Takedown Notices Every day Google processes more than a million takedown requests, sent in by dozens of specialized anti-piracy outfits. While most of these companies play by… June 28, 2015, 20:13 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Pirate Bay Founder Still Wants to Clear His Name Last week Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm lost his appeal against his hacking conviction in Denmark. With an August release potentially on the horizon but… June 28, 2015, 12:54 by Andy Maxwell
Sci-Hub Tears Down Academia’s “Illegal” Copyright Paywalls In a lawsuit filed by Elsevier, one of the largest academic publishers, Sci-Hub.org is facing millions of dollars in damages. However, the site has no… June 27, 2015, 20:37 by Ernesto Van der Sar