Piracy News

When organizations like the MPAA and the RIAA want to complain about the tech industry not helping with the fight against piracy, inevitably, their focus turns to Google. Bing? N...

Dutch Pirate Party Scoffs At ACTA Rejection

While the Dutch Parliament's rejection of the ACTA treaty may be treated as goo...

Chris Dodd Hints That Piracy Isn’t Theft, Still Wants SOPA

Chris Dodd has all the makings of an effective politician, if, for nothing else, his ability to talk out of both sides of his mouth. Take, for instance, his current stance on both...

VKontakte Loses Appeal Over Allegations Of Copyright Infringement

Are you aware of VKontakte? It's essentially the Facebook of Russia that was founded by Pavel Durov. You may remember Durov as the guy who...

The Pirate Bay Goes Down After DDoS Attack

Now this is odd. The Pirate Bay is a priority target to almost every government and media corporation on the planet, but...

Charles Nesson Says RIAA Creating “Urban Legend” Around Copyright

You may recall the story of Joel Tenenbaum, the young man who chose to fight the RIAA when...

Most Computer Users Are Pirates (of Software, not Booty)

Be honest: how much of that software on your home computer did you really pay for? All of it? Most of it? Maybe just a little? Did you feel the need to hide that disc containing Ad...

Counting Crows Releases Album Sampler On BitTorrent

I don't really listen to a lot of rock music anymore these days. I'm more of an electronic fan, but I do remember Counting Crows from back in the day with that...

Pirate Pay Aims To Kill Sharing Over BitTorrent

You're not misreading that headline, there is a new company called "Pirate Pay." It's not some kind of illegal service that offers to pay people for the amount of content they pira...

The Pirate Bay Takes Its Case To The European Court

We reported back in February that Sweden's Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of The Pirate Bay...

Blu-ray and DVD Will Now Come with Unskippable Piracy Warnings

Blu-Rays and DVD's will now come with a mandatory FBI and Homeland Security warning,...

‘Game of Thrones’ Draws Torrent Piracy

As Forbes' Andy Greenberg is reporting, HB...

New York Judge Slaps Down Piracy Lawsuit

If you believe the rhetoric coming from certain organizations, the illegal downloading of copyrighted material will be the death of the entertainment industry. One MPAA official on...

The Pirate Bay Pulls No Punches Responding To Takedown Requests

If you follow the Internet industry with any regularity, you're already aware of the relationship the entertainment industry shares with The Pirate Bay. That is to say, it's not a...

Alleged Copyright Infringers Could Be Outted By ISPs, EU Court Rules

Earlier this month, a District Court in California ruled against a copyright holder who had wished to obtain the identity of a number of BitTorrent users by subpoenaing the ISP ide...

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