The ‘dangers’ of P2P software came into the light again this week after a junior staff member leaked a confidential House ethics committee report through a filesharing application, exposing investigations into more than 30 lawmakers.
In an attempt to thwart piracy, last week Sony’s CEO announced there would be a simultaneous worldwide release of Michael Jackson’s ‘This Is It’. He said it would take around a day to be pirated and he was absolutely right.
After hundreds of people disagreed with her stance and she was herself outed as a serial copyright infringer, Lily Allen took down her blog and abandoned the piracy debate. Now some guy is trying to start it back up again. Badly.
Warez-scene group ViRiLiTY, responsible for an estimated 8,000 commercial software releases and keygens, has announced its self-imposed retirement.
The Pirate Bay is up for sale again after the deal with the Swedish gaming company GGF busted. There’s no official new buyer yet, but rumors suggest that Apple might be interested in acquiring the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker.
Earlier this month a court acquitted the creator of the Winny file-sharing software, overturning an earlier decision. Prosecutors will now take the case to the Supreme Court
Elements of the new election manifesto of Sweden’s Left Party bare a striking resemblance to those of the Pirate Party, but meet with approval from Rick Falkvinge.
Celebrate the launch of Windows 7 by hosting a torrenting party, but make sure you get permission before holding it in someone else’s kitchen – or things could get violent…
This Hour has 22 Minutes is a Canadian show that takes a satirical look at the weeks news stories. In their October 20th episode, it shows how the anti-piracy claims made now, mirror the claims made in the past over previous technologies, and how those claims didn’t come true.
For more than a week already the Pirate Bay has been experiencing downtime due to technical issues. The question on everybody’s mind seems to be, when will things go back to normal?
Ever since Lily Allen threw her 2 cents into the file-sharing debate, the press has been asking other female singers what they think of Lily’s views. Shakira is proving the most attractive to pirates so far.
In a move so typical of elements of the music industry, the upcoming live concert from U2 will be on YouTube but artificially restricted. No access is available from Sweden, the home of Pirate Bay.
Germany’s new Government coalition has spoken out against legislation that will allow alleged pirated to be disconnected from the Internet. The two parties, CDU and FDP, agree that such a law is not going to solve the piracy ‘problem’.
Hundreds and thousands of BitTorrent users have taken measures to hide their identity when they are downloading. But, can they really be sure that your VPN or anonymizing software is hiding their IP-address? Now they can.
What promises to be a superb documentary on musical sampling, copyright law and their effects on creativity will see its official launch in January 2010. No harm in taking an early preview though.
New statistics reported by PinchMedia reveal that a massive 60% of all iPhone apps have been pirated. According to the company the real piracy rate might even be higher since some apps disable PinchMedia’s tracking.
Despite tough talking by government and legislators, not to mention action against Pirate Bay, fewer Swedes than ever before believe that downloading copyrighted material is theft.
One of the most anticipated games of the year and hopefully one of the best racing games of all time has been leaked. The US NTSC version of the Xbox 360 exclusive of Forza Motorsport 3 is now available from various torrent sites.
Torrent sites don’t run on fresh air, they all need some type of funding. Many accept user donations to pay the bills and that’s fair enough. But an admin of one particular site doesn’t know where to draw the line.
A court has acquitted the creator of the Winny file-sharing program, overturning an earlier decision which held him responsible for copyright infringements carried out by others.
In an attempt to prevent its users from bypassing the download delay, filehoster Mediafire has sent a takedown request to Mozilla for the SkipScreen addon that does just this.
Despite many months of setbacks, the CEO of Global Gaming Factory has been adament – the purchase of The Pirate Bay will go ahead. An announcement from the company today indicates this is extremely unlikely.
The brand new PSP Go handheld console has been hacked. Going by previous attacks against Sony’s machine, fully fledged homebrew and then pirate game playability will likely follow in the weeks and months to come.
Starting a petition can be an effective way for UK citizens to encourage the Government to take action. Most recently an online petition resulted in a public apology to codebreaker Alan Turing for his horrendous treatment for being gay.
Accessing the Internet via mobile devices is an increasingly popular activity but the high consumption of bandwidth is causing problems for operators.
