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Torrent Legend Mininova Will Shut Down For Good
Mininova, once the largest BitTorrent site on the Internet, will soon shut its doors for good. The site's forum will close next week followed by the rest of the site a month later. The Mininova team...
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‘Kodi Box’ Consultation Launched By Intellectual Property Office
Following complaints from rightsholders and broadcasters, the UK's Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is considering how the law can be tightened to tackle the so-called Kodi epidemic. Interested...
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ExtraTorrent’s Main Domain Name Shut Down By Registrar
ExtraTorrent, one of the world's largest torrent indexes, has lost control of its main domain Extratorrent.cc. The domain name has been disconnected by the registrar, which has rendered the site hard...
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Not Warning Kid About Piracy Makes Father Liable, Court Rules
A German court has ruled that a father is liable for an audiobook his 11-year old son downloaded. The man told the kid to only use the computer for school purposes and not to simply download things....
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Which VPN Services Keep You Anonymous in 2017?
VPN services have become an important tool to counter the growing threat of Internet surveillance. Encrypting one's traffic through a VPN connection helps to keep online communications private, but is...
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Google Anti-Piracy Agreement Will Target Domain Hopping, Share Search Data
More details surrounding the voluntary anti-piracy agreement between Google, Bing, and major rightsholders have emerged. In addition to efforts to mitigate pirate sites' efforts to jump domains to...
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Canada Rejects Flawed and One-Sided “Piracy” Claims From US Govt.
As usual, Canada is one of the prospective "watch list" candidates for the US Trade Representative's annual list of countries with 'failing' intellectiual property protections. However, the Canadian...
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NASA Is Letting You Download Its Software For Free
NASA Is Letting You Download Its Software For Free Software plays a huge part in NASA’s mission and research successes. Turns out you don’t need to hack NASA or work for them in order to use their...
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Future Shock: UK Teenager Jailed For 5 Years For Downloading One Movie
Following changes to UK copyright law, an 18-year-old girl has been jailed for five years after downloading a single movie. Copyright holders successfully argued that under the Digital Economy Act,...
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New UK ‘Kodi’ Piracy Blocking Injunction is a Pretty Scary Beast
The new piracy blocking injunction obtained by the UK's Premier League is groundbreaking on several levels, court papers have revealed. Not only did the football outfit work closely with Sky, BT and...
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Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde Doesn’t Plan to Pay Hollywood ‘Back’… Ever
Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde has served his prison sentence, but that doesn't mean that the TPB-case is completely over. With many millions of euros in damages, there is still a massive debt to...
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SXSW 2017 on BitTorrent: 7.86 GB of Free Music
The South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival is one of the largest and most popular in the United States and for the thirteenth year in a row, SXSW is sharing DRM-free tracks of the performing...
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Demonoid Returns After Two Months Downtime
After nearly two months of downtime, the semi-private BitTorrent tracker Demonoid resurfaced online this weekend. The site was pulled offline due to hosting problems and had to endure some internal...
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WordPress Gets 5K Takedown Requests, Google Gets a Lot More for WP Sites
WordPress gets less takedown requests than Google does for its sites WordPress is one of the largest blogging platforms in the world and, in this role, it's not surprising that it receives quite a...
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Australia Shelves Copyright Safe Harbor For Google, Facebook, et al
In a surprise setback for companies such as Google and Facebook that leverage user-generated content, Australia has dropped plans to extend its copyright safe harbor provisions. The move follows...
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Netflix Gets Serious About Its Anti-Piracy Efforts
Since Netflix's priorities are shifting more to the production of original content, piracy is also turning into a more serious problem. The company wasn't very concerned about copyright infringement...
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Lawyers & Academics Warn UK Against Criminalizing File-Sharers
A group of campaigners, copyright scholars and lawyers have sent a letter to the UK Government, urging it to narrow the definition of online criminal copyright infringement in the Digital Economy...
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Rightscorp Boss Signs Deal That Could Be Bad News For Pirates
The new CEO of failing anti-piracy Rightscorp has signed a deal that will see him being paid large sums of money if he can turn the company around. How that will be achieved remains to be seen, but...
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‘Pirate’ Movie Streaming Sites Declared Legal By Italian Court
‘Pirate’ Movie Streaming Sites Declared Legal By Italian Court A Court of Appeal in Rome has overturned a 600,000 euro ruling against four unlicensed sites that offered streaming movies to the...
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BitTorrent Inc. to Refocus on What Made it Rich – uTorrent
BitTorrent Inc. to Refocus on What Made it Rich – uTorrent BitTorrent Inc is best known for its uTorrent client, but in recent years the company has publicly placed almost all of its emphasis on...
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