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FrostWire Team Calls it Quits After Google Deletes Android App
After more than 14 years developing file-sharing applications, the FrostWire team has dramatically quit following what appears to be an invalid DMCA takedown notice. The notice targeted FrostWire’s...
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BitTorrent and Tron Hope Other Clients Will Embrace ‘Paid’ Seeding
BitTorrent and Tron hope to successfully integrate blockchain technology with the popular file-sharing protocol. The idea of adding rewards and 'payments' to BitTorrent is controversial, but the team...
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Putin Told That 6,000 Pirate Sites Have Been Blocked in Three Years
The head of Russian telecoms watchdog Roscomnadzor met with President Vladimir Putin this week to discuss the country's anti-piracy measures. Declaring Russia as no longer a safe haven for pirates,...
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World’s Oldest Torrent Still Alive After 15 Years
The world's oldest active torrent file turned fifteen-years-old this week, a remarkable achievement. TorrentFreak catches up with the creator of "The Fanimatrix" torrent file, who saw BitTorrent as...
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Anti-Piracy Group Wipes ‘Torrent9’ From Google With ‘Dubious’ Requests
A 'carpet-bomb' of DMCA takedown requests has all but wiped Torrent9 from Google's search results. French anti-piracy outfit SACEM targeted hundreds of thousands of URLs in a few days. An effective...
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Grindr Will Now Have to Sue Fuckr to Keep Controversial Tool Down
The company behind dating app Grindr recently filed a DMCA notice to have the allegedly-infringing Fuckr desktop application taken down from Github. With Grindr playing Whac-a-Mole with more than 90...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 10/01/18
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'The First Purge' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story'. 'Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation' completes the...
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Fine For Sky ‘Piracy’ Not Enough? FACT Renders Landlady Unemployed
Copyright infringement and similar offenses are punishable under law and those who commit the crime should be prepared to do the time, as the saying goes. But when is enough, enough? A case featuring...
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‘NAFTA’ Replacement Extends Canada’s Copyright Term to Life +70 years
After months of negotiations, Canada, the United States and Mexico have agreed on the final text of a new trade deal. The new agreement is set to replace NAFTA and comes with various copyright-related...
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Court Shoots Down Record Label's Attempt To Expand The Definition Of...
from the that's-not-how-it-works dept While there has been plenty of attention paid to the BMG v. Cox case, in which Cox was found not to be protected by the DMCA's safe harbors in dealing with...
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Kim Dotcom Loses Privacy Battle Following High Court Appeal
In March, Kim Dotcom was awarded damages after his requests for the government to hand over information held on him were denied. That ruling was immediately appealed by the Crown. The New Zealand High...
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File-sharing Site Openload Generates More Traffic Than Hulu or HBO Go
Netflix is the number one bandwidth 'hog' on the Internet, with video streaming sites dominating Internet traffic in general, Sandvine's new Global Internet Phenomena report reveals. Perhaps...
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Telecoms Regulator Denies Canadian Pirate Site Blocking Application
The CRTC has denied FairPlay Canada's application for a broad pirate site blocking scheme. Following a heated public debate, the telecoms regulator ruled that it lacks jurisdiction under the...
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Netflix is winning in the battle for online streaming supremacy
In context: As cord cutting becomes the norm, more and more companies are trying to provide streaming content. Unfortunately this is creating a situation where the consumer is becoming burdened...
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ESA Reports Pirate Bay, ROM Sites and Cheaters to the US Govt
The Entertainment Software Association, which counts Activision, EA, Nintendo, and Ubisoft among its members, has filed a response to the United States Trade Representative's call for comment on...
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MPAA Reports ‘Notorious’ Pirate Sites to The US Government
The MPAA has submitted a new list of “notorious markets” to the US Government. The list features a wide variety of 'pirate' sites including The Pirate Bay, Openload and the Russian social network...
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BitTorrent usage is climbing and streaming services' original content is to...
The big picture: Streaming services are an excellent alternative to piracy but exclusivity of original content is leading to fragmentation and that’s driving some viewers right back to file...
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‘Bulletproof’ Hosting is An Emerging Piracy Threat, RIAA Warns
The RIAA has noticed that pirate sites are increasingly turning to "bulletproof" hosting providers, which makes them harder to shut down. The music group lists Ecatel, Quasi Networks, and FlokiNET as...
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ACS and Elsevier Sue ResearchGate For Copyright Infringement
Academic publishers American Chemical Society and Elsevier have sued scientist and researcher networking site ResearchGate. The publishers claim that research papers uploaded to the platform infringe...
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‘Blocking Pirate Sites is Not Enough, Russia Should Shut Them Down’
Russia has implemented a wide variety of anti-piracy measures in recent years. Thousands of copyright infringing sites have been blocked and even 'unauthorized' VPNs and proxies are outlawed. However,...
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