The entertainment industry’s ongoing battle with digital pirates (also known as average Americans) will enter a new chapter this fall as music and movie companies take a more sweeping–but less litigious–approach to dealing with widespread copyright infringement.
via Center for Copyright Information Presents Softer Approach to …
Season two of Game of Thrones was thrilling. You had a deadly smoke assassin, Tyrion Lannister trying to hold King’s Landing together under the inept rule of King Joffrey and Jon Snow flirting with the red-headed Wildling from …
If you’re trying to search the web for pirated copies of Xbox games, Microsoft’s Bing is apparently the way to go.
This week, Google updated its transparency reports to show which copyright owners most frequently ask Google to …
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear the case of Joel Tenenbaum, who illegally downloaded music during college and now faces a $675,000 fine.
Tenenbaum’s been battling the music industry since 2007, over charges that …
An IP address is not a Social Security number or a fingerprint. It, in the words of Judge Gary Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, “provides only the location at which one of any number of …
Britain’s High Court — not the highest, but well up the ladder — has officially ordered Internet service providers to block Sweden-based file-sharing site The Pirate Bay. That means top British ISPs must shut off access to the …
Pirates are funny when they’re portrayed by a rum-soaked Johnny Depp. In real life, however, they pose a serious problem, with around 160 ships and 4,000 sailors affected by pirates in the last decade. Last year, three American …
BTjunkie.org, a popular site that indexed BitTorrent files for all kinds of legal and illegal content, is waving a white flag.
“This is the end of the line my friends,” the site now reads. “The decision does not come easy, but …
Canadian folk-rocker Neil Young is making waves this week after telling reporters at a conference that piracy is “the new radio.”
“It doesn’t affect me because I look at the Internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as …
Former users of Megaupload have at least two more weeks to worry about what will happen to their data.
Despite the government’s indications that the Megaupload user data could be deleted by Thursday, Megaupload’s data hosting …
With the phenomenal success of Angry Birds, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Rovio would be anxiously protecting its core product from every instance of piracy imaginable. As the company’s CEO explains, however, the opposite …
Exciting times, friends. While we’ve been cleaning up the proverbial ticker tape left behind by jubilant celebration over the recently-stalled antipiracy bills, the Pirate Bay – arguably the premier resource for pirating …
