Police Seize Two Perfect Privacy VPN Servers
VPN provider Perfect Privacy has had two of its servers seized by Dutch police, as part of an active investigation. Police bypassed the VPN service and went directly to the company's hosting provider,...
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Attention Swedish Pirate Bay Users, Copyright Trolls Have Arrived
After years of being left alone by entertainment industry companies, regular file-sharers in Sweden are now in the cross-hairs of copyright trolls. Using data gathered by anti-piracy outfit Excipio,...
View ArticlePublishers Fail to Block Russia’s Top Search Engine Over Pirate Links
After Russia's leading search engine Yandex failed to remove links to pirate books from its search results, publisher Eksmo filed a complaint with the Moscow Court. Technically, Yandex could've found...
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Top Torrent Sites See Traffic Surge After ‘Shutdowns’
The past month has been a turbulent one for the torrent community. With the closure of KickassTorrents and Torrentz.eu, two of the largest players were gone without prior notice. Today we take a look...
View ArticleDo Pirates Care if Torrent Sites Turn a Profit?
For many years and for millions of people, file-sharing was seen as just that. Need a file? Take one. Have one I don't? Share one back. However, with the mainstream commercialization of the pirate...
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Scary Torrent Site Blocking Message Has to Change, Judge Rules
Scary Torrent Site Blocking Message Has to Change, Judge Rules The High Court of Bombay has clarified that simply viewing a pirated file won't land people in jail. This question was raised after a...
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EU Court: Not-For-Profit Hyperlinking Usually Not Copyright Infringement
EU Court: Not-For-Profit Hyperlinking Usually Not Copyright Infringement A ruling from the European Court of Justice has clarified when the posting of hyperlinks to infringing works is to be...
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ISP Deletes IP-address Logs to Fend Off Piracy “Extortion Letters”
ISP Deletes IP-address Logs to Fend Off Piracy “Extortion Letters” Swedish Internet service provider Bahnhof continues to fight against copyright holders that target alleged file-sharers. The...
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‘Will Trump Shut Down The Pirate Bay?’
Apparently, there's a rumor circulating that The Pirate Bay might shut down soon. Various news sites have been speculating about the demise of the popular torrent site and what may happen next......
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Videomega Uploaders Outraged as Popular File-Hosting Site Disappears
Videomega is a huge file-hosting service and one of the world's largest sites, period. However, during the past few days, the site disappeared and its alleged operator dropped off the radar. This has...
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TorrentHound Shuts Down, Another Big Torrent Site Bites The Dust
TorrentHound has decided to shut down its popular torrent site, voluntarily. "Finito," the site's founder informed us in a brief message. Following the demise of KickassTorrents and Torrentz, the...
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Torrent Site Founder, Moderator and Users Receive Prison Sentences
The 28-year-old former operator of a French-based torrent site has been ordered to serve a year in jail and pay a five million euro fine. A moderator received a four-month suspended sentence. Somewhat...
View ArticleHas the EU Just Outlawed ‘Fully-Loaded’ Kodi Boxes?
Android devices with modified Kodi software installed continue to prove popular among the pirating masses. However, a ruling from the EU Court this week will make life more difficult for suppliers....
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Anti-Piracy Outfits Caught Fabricating Takedown Notices
Not all anti-piracy vendors play fair when it comes to removing copyright-infringing content from the Internet. In fact, there is clear and convincing evidence that several companies 'make up' links...
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Despite Adobe Efforts, Photoshop Still Most Popular Software on Pirate Bay
Adobe has just reported a record quarter, spearheaded by a 41% jump in overall subscription revenues. At $803 million, Creative Cloud revenues were up 39% year-on-year, a boost the company is putting...
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Stop Piracy? Legal Alternatives Beat Legal Threats, Research Shows
Threatening file-sharers with high fines or even prison sentences is not the best way to stop piracy. New research published by UK researchers shows that perceived risk has no effect on people's...
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Movie pirate? Don’t trust Plex Cloud
Plex is a pirate’s best friend. It’s by far the best way to get movies downloaded illegally from the computer to TV. Sure, Plex has a handful of useful, legal features, but let’s be honest, its big...
View ArticleCloudflare: We Can’t Shut Down Pirate Sites
Cloudflare has asked a California federal court to dismiss a broad copyright complaint lodged against the service by adult entertainment publisher ALS Scan. The CDN provider says that it can't shut...
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UK IP Crime Report 2016 Reveals IPTV/Kodi Piracy as Growing Threat
The UK's IP Crime Report 2015/16 has just been published, revealing infringement trends gathered from both governmental and private anti-piracy groups. This year in the online piracy sector IPTV/Kodi,...
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Research: Movie Piracy Hurts Sales, But Not Always
New research published by economists from the European Commission shows that online movie piracy significantly hurts sales. However, the effects differ greatly between countries. And in some cases...
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