Garry’s Mod Creator Trolls Pirates With Prank DRM
Garry’s Mod Creator Trolls Pirates With Prank DRM A subset of Garry’s Mod users have been noticing a hugely annoying bug lately. Upon launching the game they get the message that it’s “unable to shade...
View ArticlePrivate BitTorrent Tracker Admin Will Go To Trial
Private BitTorrent Tracker Admin Will Go To Trial In 2007, the admin of a private BitTorrent tracker was arrested after Portuguese law enforcement targeted his site and closed it down. Overturning an...
View ArticleGoogle Censors Alternate Domain of Seized Streaming Site, By Mistake
Google Censors Alternate Domain of Seized Streaming Site, By Mistake Google has removed the homepage of Rojadirecta.es, the alternate domain of the sports streaming site that had its .com domain...
View ArticlePiracy Politics Fuel Internet Censorship
Piracy Politics Fuel Internet Censorship Internet censorship is a hot topic in 2011, but also one that reveals the disturbing double-standards of politicians and governments around the world. This...
View ArticleMediaGet BitTorrent Client Set To Conquer The West
MediaGet BitTorrent Client Set To Conquer The West MediaGet, an all-in-one BitTorrent client developed in Russia, has become increasingly popular recently. Despite being just one year young the...
View ArticleFrostWire ‘Kills’ Gnutella to Go All BitTorrent
FrostWire ‘Kills’ Gnutella to Go All BitTorrent After LimeWire was shut down last year FrostWire took over as the leading file-sharing application on the Gnutella network. But this didn’t last long
View ArticleGoogle’s Anti-Piracy Filter Is Quite Effective
Google’s Anti-Piracy Filter Is Quite Effective January this year Google started censoring various ‘piracy-related’ keywords from two widely-used search services. According to Google, the anti-piracy...
View ArticleDiglo: Social Networking For Avid File-Sharers
Diglo: Social Networking For Avid File-Sharers Have you ever wanted to share terabytes of data in public, or just a few gigabytes with a select group of friends? With Diglo you can, totally free.
View ArticleMP3tunes Wins in Landmark ‘Cloud Piracy’ Case Against EMI
MP3tunes Wins in Landmark ‘Cloud Piracy’ Case Against EMI The music storage locker service MP3tunes has scored a big win in its lengthy battle against EMI.
View ArticleRIAA Wants To Shutter Torrent Sites, And More
RIAA Wants To Shutter Torrent Sites, And More The RIAA has informed the U.S. government about the piracy-promoting websites it would like to be dealt with in the near future
View ArticleGoogle Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More
Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More Google has expanded its search blacklist to include many of the top file-sharing sites on the Internet, including The Pirate Bay. The...
View ArticleGoogle, Microsoft, Yahoo, ISPs, All Served With Streaming Site Blocking Demand
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, ISPs, All Served With Streaming Site Blocking Demand enigmax December 1, 2011 Print A trio of organizations representing the movie, cinema and TV industries have gone to...
View ArticleBusted: BitTorrent Pirates at Sony, Universal and Fox
Busted: BitTorrent Pirates at Sony, Universal and Fox With increasing lobbying efforts from the entertainment industry against BitTorrent sites and users, we wondered whether these companies hold...
View ArticleIFPI and RIAA Patronize Google With Anti-Piracy “Report Card”
IFPI and RIAA Patronize Google With Anti-Piracy “Report Card” enigmax December 20, 2011 IFPI , RIAA Print The IFPI has told Google it must try harder with its copyright enforcement activities. In its...
View ArticleThe Pirate Bay: PIPA/SOPA Won’t Stop Us!
The Pirate Bay: PIPA/SOPA Won’t Stop Us! Supporters of the pending PIPA/SOPA anti-piracy bills often use The Pirate Bay as a prime example of a website that can be taken out under the new legislation....
View ArticleTribler Makes BitTorrent Impossible to Shut Down
Tribler Makes BitTorrent Impossible to Shut Down | TorrentFreak The place where breaking news , BitTorrent and copyright collide Tribler Makes BitTorrent Impossible to Shut Down Ernesto February 8,...
View ArticleIconic Piracy Suit Against Google Dismissed, Despite $25,000 Bounty
Iconic Piracy Suit Against Google Dismissed, Despite $25,000 Bounty After 8 years the legal battle between Google and adult magazine publisher Perfect 10 has been put to rest. The latter accused the...
View ArticleShould Websites Charge A Fee To Process Copyright Takedowns?
Should Websites Charge A Fee To Process Copyright Takedowns?
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Our competitors at the Recording Industry Assholes of America is trying to make sure that the search engines that compete with us have to stop linking back to us . This is really great news! Right now...
View ArticleMegaupload Search Warrants Ruled Illegal by High Court
Megaupload Search Warrants Ruled Illegal by High Court The search warrants used by police to raid the New Zealand home of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom have been ruled illegal.
View ArticleGoogle Starts Punishing “Pirate” Sites In Search Results
Google Starts Punishing “Pirate” Sites In Search Results Ernesto August 10, 2012 google Print Google announced today that it will lower the search engine rankings of websites that receive a high...
View Article“Pirate Patch” Unblocks The Pirate Bay In a Blink
“Pirate Patch” Unblocks The Pirate Bay In a Blink Due to court imposed blockades millions of Pirate Bay users rely on proxy websites to access their favorite BitTorrent site. Approximately 5% of all...
View ArticleAnti-Piracy Outfits Think Megaupload, Demonoid & BTjunkie Are Still Alive
Anti-Piracy Outfits Think Megaupload, Demonoid & BTjunkie Are Still Alive enigmax September 7, 2012 DMCA Print Almost nine months on from the raids that took down Megaupload and bizarrely some of...
View ArticleUse DHT For a YouTube-like BitTorrent Content Discovery Journey
Use DHT For a YouTube-like BitTorrent Content Discovery Journey enigmax October 27, 2012 dht , vuze Print The main way for people to begin downloading content from BitTorrent is to visit one of the...
View ArticleMegaupload Search Warrant Requests Ignored Massive Non-Infringing Use
Megaupload Search Warrant Requests Ignored Massive Non-Infringing Use As a direct result of the Megaupload raid many legitimate users of the site lost access to their personal files. To find out why...
View ArticleMegaupload Assisted FBI vs NinjaVideo, But Evidence Then Used Against Them
Megaupload Assisted FBI vs NinjaVideo, But Evidence Then Used Against Them In 2010, individuals from the now-defunct NinjaVideo site stored copyright-infringing videos on the servers of Megaupload....
View ArticleKim Dotcom Gets Green Light to Sue New Zealand Spies
Kim Dotcom Gets Green Light to Sue New Zealand Spies A ruling by a High Court judge today means that New Zealand’s spy agency will have to reveal details of their secret surveillance of Kim Dotcom....
View ArticleBitTorrent Zeitgeist: What People Searched for in 2012
BitTorrent Zeitgeist: What People Searched for in 2012 Ernesto December 29, 2012 2012 Print Each and every day hundreds of millions of people scour their favorite BitTorrent search engines for content...
View ArticleRIAA Set For Historic 10,000,000th Google URL Takedown
RIAA Set For Historic 10,000,000th Google URL Takedown From humble beginnings in 2011, last year the RIAA amped up its efforts to have allegedly infringing URLs removed from Google’s public indexes....
View ArticleRLSlog Pulls Movies & TV Shows, Lets Google Find Them Instead
RLSlog Pulls Movies & TV Shows, Lets Google Find Them Instead Following threats from the same lawfirm that effectively shut down NZBMatrix, one of the Internet’s most famous ‘release blogs’ has...
View ArticleMegaupload “Planted Evidence” Claim is an Unfounded Conspiracy Theory, U.S. Says
Megaupload “Planted Evidence” Claim is an Unfounded Conspiracy Theory, U.S. Says The Department of Justice has responded to Megaupload’s claims that they “planted” evidence and tried to mislead the...
View ArticleGoogle Refuses to Index Huge Streaming Movie Portal Homepage
Google Refuses to Index Huge Streaming Movie Portal Homepage One of the Internet’s largest indexes for streaming movie and TV show content is locked in a dispute over the removal of the site’s homepage...
View ArticleFox Targets Pirate Bay Proxies With Bogus DMCA Requests
Fox Targets Pirate Bay Proxies With Bogus DMCA Requests Hollywood movie studio Fox has asked Google to remove dozens of allegedly infringing links to Pirate Bay proxy sites but forgot to check whether...
View ArticleParamount Censors Torrentz’s Torrentless Homepage from Google
Paramount Censors Torrentz’s Torrentless Homepage from Google The homepage of the popular torrent search engine Torrentz disappeared from Google this week after Hollywood studio Paramount sent a...
View Article“New” Demonoid Fools Public with Cheap Copy
“New” Demonoid Fools Public with Cheap Copy More than half a year has passed since Demonoid went offline but many of its former users still haven’t lost faith. They cling on to every string of hope and...
View ArticleisoHunt Loses Appeal Against the MPAA, Keyword Filter Remains
isoHunt Loses Appeal Against the MPAA, Keyword Filter Remains IsoHunt lost its appeal against the MPAA today, with the Ninth Circuit upholding the 2010 ruling that the website does not qualify for safe...
View ArticleKickassTorrents Proxies Blossom Following UK Blockades
KickassTorrents Proxies Blossom Following UK Blockades This week several of the largest Internet providers in the UK started to block KickassTorrents, Fenopy and H33T, but this doesn’t mean that the...
View ArticleGoogle Search Data Shows Torrent Site Censorship Reaction
Google Search Data Shows Torrent Site Censorship Reaction Earlier this month the major labels of the UK recording industry succeeded in having three major torrent sites blocked at the ISP level....
View ArticleMovie Studios Want Google to Take Down Their Own Takedown Request
Movie Studios Want Google to Take Down Their Own Takedown Request In a comical display of meta-censorship several copyright holders including 20th Century Fox and NBC Universal have sent Google...
View ArticleIsoHunt Wants Jury to Rule on Free Speech Issues in MPAA Case
IsoHunt Wants Jury to Rule on Free Speech Issues in MPAA Case Last month BitTorrent site isoHunt lost its appeal against the MPAA, meaning that the site has to continue filtering movie and TV related...
View ArticleObsessed With Google, Copyright Holders Ignore The Actual Pirated Content
Obsessed With Google, Copyright Holders Ignore The Actual Pirated Content When it comes to online piracy, copyright holders have an obsession with Google. Every month the search engine is asked to take...
View ArticleisoHunt Verdict Endangers Innovation, Google Tells Court
isoHunt Verdict Endangers Innovation, Google Tells Court Last month BitTorrent site isoHunt lost its appeal against the MPAA and since then several rightsholders have used this verdict to their...
View ArticleIsoHunt Will Take DMCA Safe Harbor Fight to the Supreme Court
IsoHunt Will Take DMCA Safe Harbor Fight to the Supreme Court In March, the Ninth Circuit declared that Canada-based BitTorrent search engine isoHunt is not entitled to protection under the safe harbor...
View ArticleRIAA: 20 Million Piracy Takedowns Sent to Google, Still No End in Sight
RIAA: 20 Million Piracy Takedowns Sent to Google, Still No End in Sight Andy May 22, 2013 DMCA Print To mark the occasion of 20 million DMCA takedown notices sent to Google by RIAA member companies,...
View ArticlePirate Bay Blessing Propels New BitTorrent Tracker to Great Heights
Pirate Bay Blessing Propels New BitTorrent Tracker to Great Heights In recent weeks a new Demonoid-inspired standalone tracker entered the BitTorrent ecosystem with a bang. Blessed by The Pirate Bay,...
View ArticleHBO Gets Google to Remove H33T Homepage
HBO Gets Google to Remove H33T Homepage The homepage of the popular torrent search engine “H33t” has been removed from Google after cable network HBO sent a DMCA takedown request for the series Band of...
View ArticleMPAA Says Court Action Could Give Google Legal Basis to Delist Sites
MPAA Says Court Action Could Give Google Legal Basis to Delist Sites The UK Minister for Culture plus representatives from the MPAA, BPI, Google and four major ISPs met for a roundtable discussion on...
View ArticleGoogle Opposes Russia’s ‘SOPA’ as Blocking Legislation Passes First Hurdle
Google Opposes Russia’s ‘SOPA’ as Blocking Legislation Passes First Hurdle Tough new anti-piracy legislation that allows for sites to be quickly blocked by ISPs following allegations of copyright...
View ArticleRussia’s ‘SOPA’ Passed By Lawmakers, Site Blocking Begins “In Weeks”
Russia’s ‘SOPA’ Passed By Lawmakers, Site Blocking Begins “In Weeks” Aggressive new anti-piracy legislation that allows for sites to be rapidly blocked by ISPs upon allegations of copyright...
View ArticleMPAA Kicks KickassTorrents Off Google With ‘Precision’ Takedown
MPAA Kicks KickassTorrents Off Google With ‘Precision’ Takedown A little over a month ago the MPAA started submitting DMCA requests to Google on behalf of the major movie studios but unlike most other...
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