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U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, "˜By Mistake’ - 17 février 2011
The US Government has yet again shuttered several domain names this week. The Department of Justice and Homeland Security’s ICE office proudly announced that they had seized domains related to counterfeit goods and child pornography. What they failed to mention, however, is that one of the targeted domains belongs (...)
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Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More - 27 janvier 2011
It’s taken a while, but Google has finally caved in to pressure from the entertainment industries including the MPAA and RIAA. The search engine now actively censors terms including BitTorrent, torrent, utorrent, RapidShare and Megaupload from its instant and autocomplete services. The reactions from affected (...)
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Mulve "“ The Nightmare-Scenario Music Downloading Tool - 29 septembre 2010
As pressure on file-sharing continues to mount, many people are searching for "˜safer’ methods to acquire music. Today we bring news of an application that seems to be almost too good to be true. With a huge database of songs, Mulve delivers music to users’ desktops at amazing speeds at the touch of a button with (...)
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Leaked Emails Reveal Profits of Anti-Piracy Cash Scheme - 27 septembre 2010
Friday night the anti-piracy law firm ACS:Law accidentally published its entire email archive online, effectively revealing how the company managed to extract over a million dollars (£636,758.22) from alleged file-sharers since its operation started. On average, 30% of the victims who were targeted paid up, and (...)
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ACS:Law Anti-Piracy Law Firm Torn Apart By Leaked Emails - 27 septembre 2010
Earlier this week, anti-piracy lawyers ACS:Law had their website taken down by a 4chan DDoS attack. Adding insult to injury, owner Andrew Crossley was harassed at home in the middle of the night by prank phone calls. Now, through a fault with his website, hundreds of megabytes of private emails have been exposed (...)
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World’s First Pirate ISP Launches In Sweden - 21 juillet 2010
The Swedish Pirate Party, who are at the forefront of anti-copyright lobbying in Sweden, are planning to shake up the country’s ISP market. After taking over the supply of bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, Piratpartiet will now partner in the launch of Pirate ISP, a new broadband service that will offer anonymity to (...)
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Rights Holders Get 30% from Mass BitTorrent Litigation - 1er juin 2010
The plague of mass litigation "pay up or else" letters has now hit the shores of the United States. 20,000 BitTorrent users are to be targeted soon, with 30,000 in the months to follow. According to new information, 300 movies are set for enforcement action, with their rightsholders receiving just 30% of the (...)
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Chinese Authorities Shut Down BitTorrent Sites - 7 décembre 2009
During the last two years the Chinese government has taken an aggressive stance against video sites they claim damage children’s health or undermine national security. In the last month they have taken further action, this time taking down several BitTorrent sites for operating without an appropriate government (...)
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Torrent Sites End Up on Aussie Blacklist - 19 mars 2009
There are claims today that the Australian government’s top-secret blacklist of banned websites has been leaked onto the Internet. There are a number of strange entries on the list that leaked to Wikileaks, including a couple of torrent sites. However, Australian Minister Stephen Conroy claims the list is not the (...)
