BTjunkie.org, a popular site that indexed BitTorrent files for all kinds of legal and illegal content, is waving a white flag.
With the Super Bowl days away, federal authorities announced a crackdown Thursday on websites that stream unauthorized broadcasts of sports events just hours after New England quarterback Tom Brady told reporters in Indianapolis that he watched last year’s game on an illegal site.
Canadian folk-rocker Neil Young is making waves this week after telling reporters at a conference that piracy is “the new radio,” but is it really that simple?
Despite the government’s indications that the Megaupload user data could be deleted by Thursday, Megaupload’s data hosting services, Carpathia Hosting and Cogent Communications, have agreed to preserve users’ files for a minimum of two weeks, Ira Rothken, Megaupload’s attorney in the United States, told CNet.
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 is actually the case.
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 digital content – has already moved on to the next big thing.
Wednesday’s Wikipedia blackout begins worldwide at midnight Eastern time and will last for 24 hours. Here are three ways to survive the down time.
Online movie piracy dropped in 2011 compared with the previous year, with the most torrented movie of the year—Fast Five, the fifth in the The Fast and The Furious series—only shared nine million times, compared with 2010′s top pirated flick, Avatar, downloaded 16 million times.
Representative Lamar Smith (R-Texas)—who chairs the House Judiciary Committee and is the sponsor of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—in a blog post on TheHill.com titled “Setting the record straight on SOPA“. The bill is headed for markup tomorrow, with Smith explaining that “the changes in the manager’s amendment reflect conversations with representatives from [...]
In short, SOPA, if passed, would allow the U.S. government to blacklist any website found to have infringing material, inhibiting access to those sites using DNS filtering techniques similar to those employed by China and Iran.
Following the creation of an online system allowing users to automate calls to their local representative to protest the PROTECT-IP Act and Stop Online Piracy Act, Tumblr managed to generate 3.6 calls a second yesterday from concerned members of its community.
