After being arrested this past weekend in Cambodia, The Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg will be deported by Cambodian officials.
Linking to pirated video content has gotten SurfTheChannel founder Anton Vickerman four years in prison.
Legally troubled Megaupload creator Kim Dotcom will launch his new music-focused venture Megabox this year. Dotcom claims it will "allow artists to sell their creations direct to consumers and allowing artists to keep 90% of earnings."
With a tweak to its search algorithm, Google's waters are about to become a bit more unfriendly to pirates.
Kim Dotcom, whose file-hosting service Megaupload was shut down by the New Zealand and U.S. governments for copyright infringement at the beginning of the year, has had plenty to say about the case until now. But as he awaits news …
Blocking torrent sharing website The Pirate Bay at the ISP-level isn’t having a negative effect on piracy of digital media, according to a new report by the BBC.
In April, the U.K.’s high court ordered all Internet service providers within …
A New Zealand judge has pushed back the extradition of Megaupload kingpin Kim Dotcom to March 2013, a move that will give him more time to prepare for an eventual trial in the U.S.
Dotcom’s contentious extradition hearing was scheduled …
U.S. authorities want to give alleged Megaupload kingpin Kim Dotcom access to just a single 40-page document out of 22 million e-mails before his extradition hearing, according to Stuff.co.nz.
Dotcom has become a bit of an Internet folk hero as …
Say what you will about ridiculous Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, but the way authorities went about prosecuting him was sloppy and (in part) illegal. Dotcom is understandably angry, and now he has someone to direct all that anger towards: Vice …
Just days after its beta launch, torrent-to-Dropbox startup Boxopus has been banned from Dropbox‘s API over concerns that it would encourage copyright abuse, TorrentFreak reports.
Boxopus’ purpose was to use Dropbox’s API to anonymously add torrent downloads to a Dropbox …
The days of being able to rip an MP3 file from the audio of a YouTube video are numbered as far as Google is concerned.
The search giant apparently sent a letter to one of the biggest offenders, YouTube-MP3-.org, to …
If someone were to layout all the important organizations, factions, companies, and components of the war on online piracy into a comprehensive battle map, it would look like the infographic below.
The “map” is basically visualized as a region of …
Eager content-deprived pirates were flummoxed on Wednesday by the news that The Pirate Bay had been taken offline by a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
While suspicions were almost immediately leveled at the hacktivist group Anonymous, The Pirate …
The Pirate Bay is currently experiencing a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which has caused the site to remain inaccessible for the last 24 hours, reports TorrentFreak.
Members of The Pirate Bay confirmed the news with an update on their …
If you can’t beat ‘em block ‘em.
That’s seems to be the mantra behind anti-piracy outfit Pirate Pay, which aims to tackle Bittorrent piracy by confusing clients and preventing users from connecting to each other.
Created in 2009 by a …
If you’re in the UK, you won’t be able follow the link at the end of this paragraph. In what can be viewed as an unofficial challenge to the hacker community, U.K. courts today ordered all internet service providers within …
Apparently Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is under the impression that when companies go public, it means they are a legitimate business (see Enron, Groupon, etc). Pirate news site TorrentFreak reports that before it was shut down by U.S. authorities, Megaupload …
The European air is rife with the stench of death, which means two things: first, that the highly controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is unlikely to gain approval from the 27 members of the European Parliament. And second, the members …
Another cog has fallen into place for the music and movie industries’ plan to transform major internet service providers into a copyright violation task force.
Today ISPs and media companies announced new plans for the Center for Copyright Information (CCI), …
Recently defunct file-hosting service Megaupload has decided not to pursue further legal action against Universal Music Group.
UMG first accused the company’s “Mega Video” music video of copyright infringement back in January, sent out Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown …
