Putlocker.is Back In Action By Bypassing The EuroDNS Blockade
Putlocker.is Back In Action By Bypassing The EuroDNS Blockade World’s popular movie streaming website, Putlocker makes a comeback by bypassing EuroDNS blockhole In February we had reported how...
View ArticlePirate Streaming Site 123Movies Rebrands as GoMovies
Pirate Streaming Site 123Movies Rebrands as GoMovies After several days of downtime, pirate movie streaming site 123movies has renamed itself to GoMovies for a fresh start. With the brand change...
View ArticleParents Must Identify Pirate Kids Or Pay Their Fines, Court Rules
If parents are aware that their children have committed copyright infringement they must identify them to the court if required to do so, or pay their fines. That was the ruling of Germany's Federal...
View ArticleTorrent Site Bitsnoop Shuts Down
The torrent community lost another familiar name this week after Bitsnoop decided to shut down. The site's operator has declined to comment on this decision but says that the site's data was handed...
View ArticleKim Dotcom Previews Bitcache, Reveals Built-in Bitcoin Payments
Kim Dotcom Previews Bitcache, Reveals Built-in Bitcoin Payments The launch date may be revealed soon, judging by the development of the service shown in the shared video Quote Kim Dotcom's...
View ArticleAdblock Plus Acquires Pirate Bay Founder’s Micropayment Service Flattr
Adblock Plus Acquires Pirate Bay Founder’s Micropayment Service Flattr The company behind the popular Adblock Plus software has acquired Flattr, the micropayment service co-founded by Pirate Bay's...
View ArticleEFF Criticizes PIPCU’s New Domain Name Policing Effort
The UK's Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit has partnered with the International Anti Counterfeiting Coalition's 'RogueBlock' program to take down websites offering infringing goods and content....
View ArticleKodi Wants to Beat Piracy With Legal Content and DRM
The group behind the popular Kodi software is not happy that their media player is often linked to piracy. Copyright holders would like Kodi to block certain pirate add-ons, but the team doesn't...
View ArticleUploaded .net Terminates Accounts of Persistent Pirates
Popular file-hosting service upload*d.net terminated the accounts of many users this week, citing frequent copyright infringements. The account holders in question, many of which used the site to...
View ArticleCloudflare Doesn’t Want to Become the ‘Piracy Police’
Cloudflare is warning that far-reaching cooperation between copyright holders and Internet services may put innovation in danger. The company doesn't want to become the "piracy police" and is refusing...
View ArticleGame Pirates Celebrate Fall of Denuvo’s Brand New Protection
A new version of the Denuvo anti-piracy technology that was supposed to prevent games being cracked quickly has been defeated in a month. As usual, pirates are celebrating, but this time it's a bit...
View ArticleDiscogs Attacked By Two Kinds of Horrible ‘Pirate’ Spam
Discogs, one of the most useful music database sites online, is under attack from two particularly horrible kinds of spam. On the one hand, hundreds of fake movie, TV show and other links to shady...
View ArticleFBI Uses BitTorrent to Find and Catch Child Porn Offenders
The FBI is using BitTorrent clients, specifically modified for law enforcement purposes, to track down people who share child porn and prosecute them. The software in question is configured to...
View ArticleuTorrent Will Move to The Web Browser
uTorrent Will Move to The Web Browser BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen has unveiled plans to move the popular client uTorrent to the web browser. The next revision of the application will run in...
View ArticleBitTorrent Inventor Sets Eyes on Cryptocurrencies, Wants to Make His Own
Bram Cohen has big plans for cryptocurrencies Bram Cohen, the inventor of BitTorrent, has set his eyes on cryptocurrencies, says he's going to start his own. Over the past few years,...
View ArticleKickassTorrents kicked out again, this time by Australia
Court deems the site's for copyright infringement, orders DNS blocks Australia's Federal Court has come to the conclusion that KickassTorrents' primary purpose is copyright infringement and has...
View ArticleUS Doesn't Like How Other Countries Deal With Piracy, Makes a List
Not all countries deal with online piracy as the US would like them to Canada and Switzerland are among two dozen countries that are on America's "watch list" because they fail to live up to the...
View ArticleNew Torrent Search Engine Abuses Wikipedia to Get Traffic
Getting a torrent site off the ground is no easy feat in the current environment but doing so by misleading the public isn't a great start. A new torrent search site appears to be doing just that, by...
View ArticleOriginal KickassTorrents Domain Goes Up For Sale
Quote It's been almost a year since KickassTorrents was taken down by the U.S. Department of Justice. The criminal investigation resulted in the arrest of the alleged owner and seizure of several...
View ArticleNO, Kodi Users Are Not Risking Ten Years in Prison
Quote UK tabloids including The Mirror, Daily Mail, The Sun and The Express are reporting that people watching Kodi streams risk ten years in jail. Despite that being a false claim spawned from a...
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