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Prenda Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Pirate Bay Honeypot Case
Paul Hansmeier, one of the lead attorneys behind the controversial law firm Prenda, has pleaded guilty to mail, wire fraud, and money laundering. The Pirate Bay provided important evidence in the...
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Labels Have a Right to Be Angry About Piracy But it Probably Won’t Help
After finding out a new album from one of his bands had been uploaded to a private torrent site, this week debut metal label owner Grim Darkthrone took to Twitter to announce he's demanding...
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BitTorrent Inventor Bram Cohen Leaves BitTorrent Behind
BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen is making it clear that he has nothing to do with the TRON cryptocurrency. While the company he founded was recently acquired by TRON founder Justin Sun, Cohen is no...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 08/20/18
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Deadpool 2' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Avengers: Infinity War'. 'Upgrade ' completes the top three. This week we have three...
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Pirate TV Box Seller Sentenced to 16 Months in Jail
A man from the UK has been handed a 16-month custodial sentence for selling set-top boxes pre-configured for piracy. Warren Gleave of Burnley, who pleaded guilty to offenses under the Fraud Act 2006...
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Court Halts ‘GTA V’ Cheat Maker Over Copyright Claim
A New York federal court has issued a preliminary injunction ordering the creator of two popular GTA V cheats to stop creating and distributing the code. Take-Two Interactive, the developers of GTA V,...
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No Ban for ‘Stealing’ and ‘Theft’ Terms During Cox’s Piracy Liability Trial
Music publisher BMG and Internet provider Cox are gearing up for a new trial. Having learned from the first one, Cox has asked the court to preclude BMG from using inflammatory and derogatory...
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RIAA Complaint Shuts Down YouTube-Ripper MP3Fiber
An audio ripping platform that was used by a million users every month has shut down following threats from the RIAA. MP3Fiber allowed users to download MP3 audio from several platforms including...
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Piracy is the Internet’s Canary in the Coal Mine, MPAA Chief Says
MPAA chief Charles Rivkin is sounding the alarm bell. The healthy and vibrant Internet many people want is in serious jeopardy. Whether it's in response to fake news, hate speech, or piracy, Rivkin...
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GOG Launches FCKDRM to Promote DRM-Free Art and Media
GOG, the digital distribution platform for DRM-free video games and video, has launched a new initiative designed to promote content without embedded DRM. While Digital Rights Management is seen by...
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Worldwide Torrents Suffers Extended Downtime
It's not unusual for torrent sites to suffer a few hours of downtime, but if a site is offline for more than two weeks, people start to ask questions. This is what's currently happening with Worldwide...
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After Stopping Pirates, Denuvo Plans to Catch Cheaters Too
Denuvo, the company that's widely known for its anti-piracy solution in games, is expanding its reach. Parent company Irdeto announced today that it will soon launch its own anti-cheat technology, to...
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Nintendo Plugs Leak That Provided Free 3DS Game Downloads
Nintendo has finally taken action to stop users from downloading free 3DS games from its own servers. People have always been able to download games they had previously purchased but due to the 3DS...
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Pirate IPTV Seller on Facebook Ordered to Pay £50,000
People selling pirate streaming boxes and IPTV subscriptions on Facebook have more to worry about than just losing their accounts. Earlier this month, Scotland's Court of Session ordered a Facebook...
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Copyright Trolls Killed Off in Denmark After Supreme Court Hearing Denied
Two ISPs in Denmark have emerged victorious from a battle to keep the personal details of their customers private. Telenor and Telia were previously ordered to hand over information to copyright...
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You Could Be Kicked Offline For Piracy If This Music Industry Lawsuit Succeeds
And the evidence “proving” your guilt could be little more than fluff and nonsense. The entertainment industry is waging a major legal campaign to turn ISPs into copyright cops authorized to kick...
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LoveROMS Owner Hopes to Settle Nintendo’s Copyright Lawsuit
The owner of now-defunct ROM sites LoveROMS.com and LoveRETRO.co is working on a settlement with Nintendo. The gaming giant filed a copyright lawsuit last month accusing the sites of massive copyright...
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Broadcasters Remove Content From Search Engine to Protest Piracy
In a protest against piracy, major broadcasters have pulled their content from the main page of Yandex, Russia's largest search engine. The companies want Yandex to do more to prevent unauthorized...
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TorrentFreak is Blocked as a Pirate Site and Hacking Resource
Court-ordered pirate site blockades are pretty common nowadays. While not everyone sees these as the ideal solution for the problem at hand, they follow the letter of the law. More problematic are the...
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Will Reddit’s /r/Piracy Sub-Reddit Get Shut Down?
During the past few months, several sections of Reddit dedicated to piracy have been closed down. The big question among some users now, it seems, is whether the site's flagship /r/piracy sub-Reddit...
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