The Pirate Bay Sued for Pirated Michael Jackson Songs
	The Pirate Bay is no longer a stranger to the court because it’s probably one of the websites which recorded the largest number of lawsuits, most of them filed for piracy. Well, add one more complaint to the list because Websheriff, a copyright organization, prepares to sue the BitTorrent website for publishing content belonging to several artists, including here Prince, Bob Marley and Michael Jackson. Moreover, according to a bl ... [read more >>]
	19 May 2008, 07:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Pirate Bay Joins Google and Yahoo in the Most Popular Websites Ranking
	The Pirate Bay is surely one of the most popular BitTorrent services on the web and this not necessarily to the quality of the services it provides but also thanks to the way it got promoted on the Internet. In the latest few months, The Pirate Bay was brought in the spotlights every once in a while as several copyright holders and anti-piracy organizations accused the BitTorrent service of piracy and filed lawsuits against it. H ... [read more >>]
	19 May 2008, 03:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Pirate Bay Asked to Pay $15M for Pirated Movies
	The battle between The Pirate Bay and MPAA continues with a new dispute: this time, the Motion Pictures Association of America demands damages of no less than $15.4 million due to the fact that the BitTorrent website published pirated copies of several of its movies and allowed Internet users to download them. According to ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 02:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Swedish Man Found Guilty for File-Sharing
	Although file-sharing is not necessarily an illegal activity as long as you share your own files and don't infringe the copyright laws, some people get fined and are sent to prison for file-sharing. Such a case occurred some time ago when a 31-year-old Swedish file-sharer, Andreas Karlsson, was sent to court, being accused of sharing copyrighted content over the web. A few days ago, the judge found Andreas Karlsson guilty an ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 10:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

And Yes, Piracy Does Make You Famous! Pirate Bay Strikes 12 Million Users Milestone!
	The Pirate Bay is one of the most popular names on the web nowadays even if it comes from that side of the market which is often accused of piracy and copyright infringement. In fact, The Pirate Bay is one of the most attacked services as several copyright holders and anti-piracy groups have sued the BitTorrent tracker and made pressure to shut down its servers. The Pirate Bay even started its own lawsuit against anti-piracy orga ... [read more >>]
	25 April 2008, 04:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pirate Bay Policeman “Not Hired During the Investigation”
	The short story so far: Warner Bros. and The Pirate Bay are the plaintiff and the defendant of a copyright lawsuit in which the BitTorrent website is accused of providing access to pirated material. Nothing new until now because we've seen lots of similar cases when BitTorrent websites were sued for infringing copyright. The only difference is that one of the investigators who were responsible for the case gave another turn ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2008, 02:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Key Witness Hired by Pirate Bay's Lawsuit Rival
	The Pirate Bay is again brought in the spotlights, but this time to what seems to be one of the most important glitches of the lawsuit versus the copyright holders: Jim Keyzer, the chief police investigator who was responsible for the investigation of the case, was recently hired by Warner Bros, one of the companies involved in the lawsuit. Obviously, this raises concerns over the fairness of the trial. According to a statemen ... [read more >>]
	18 April 2008, 08:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Rapper Stands Back In The Pirate Bay vs. IFPI Lawsuit
	The dispute between The Pirate Bay and IFPI, an organization that fights for the copyright of several artists, tends to reach the first page of every newspaper around the world as every new day comes with hot and extremely important information. Following TPB's announcement that the website will demand compensation from the copyright organization, Max Peezay, a Swedish artist who was involved in the legal dispute started by ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2008, 05:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Antigua Welcomes IP Piracy
	A rather strange decision of the World Trade Commission was awarded last December to Antigua, should its negotiations with the United States fail. The problem in question is that of the US rules, more or less blocking foreign gambling sites. Even Europe is going at the regulations, as many sites based there (bwin among others) have encountered the same ban and are threatening to ask for a WTC ruling of their own. Antigua, bas ... [read more >>]
	20 March 2008, 14:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nine Inch Nails Take The Pirate Bay’s Side
	After splitting with its record label, legendary band Nine Inch Nails (NIN) has opted to upload itself the first part of the four-volume work ‘Ghosts’ to the BitTorrent network. It might sound like something the band might do out of revenge, but the members strongly endorse file sharing. "We encourage you to share the music of Ghosts I with your friends, post it on your website, play it on your podcast, use it for video proj ... [read more >>]
	04 March 2008, 08:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Pirate Bay Attacked by The Cowboy, The Policeman, Van Morrison and so on
	The Pirate Bay had it good before the IFPI decided to stick its nose in the Peer-to-Peer file sharing tracker’s business. When the piracy assist lawsuit was slugged in the Swedish site’s face, it joined a vast slew of other similar legal actions being already aimed at the world’s biggest BitTorrent tracker. Who can forget the king of all midgets, dwarf among dwarves that went on a suing spree last autumn and did not forgive ev ... [read more >>]
	21 February 2008, 07:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Pirate Bay Banned from Yahoo!
	In what is probably going to be one of the biggest faux pas in the history of search engines everywhere, should it be demonstrated that it was not forced upon it, Yahoo! has decided to ban, or, in milder words, filter the site out of its search results. Querying for the popular BitTorrent tracking site will no longer return any links to it, despite the obvious search for its name (on the left, image 1). There’s been some stron ... [read more >>]
	19 February 2008, 14:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Twist of Plot: ISP Not Agreeing to Ban The Pirate Bay Anymore
	The already certain-looking decision of Denmark Internet Service ProviderTele2 to comply with banning Peer To Peer file sharing tracker The Pirate Bay has been revoked. Flying its colors high and boasting with the way others understand to respect and protect copyrights, the IFPI must have felt like a piano fell over their head when they first heard about it. After meeting with the representatives of most of the ISPs nationwide ... [read more >>]
	14 February 2008, 11:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Child Abuse Images Less Important than Copyrights!
	The action the world renowned peer-to-peer torrent tracker The Pirate Bay is trying to undertake is distracting the Police’s attention from the matter at hand, namely it being charged for assisting copyright infringement, and brought to attention on the blog it has been keeping that it tried to cooperate with the Force on several occasions, but was ignored. They claim to have announced the Police of some images being uploaded ... [read more >>]
	07 February 2008, 07:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Danish ISP Ordered to Cease and Desist Access to The Pirate Bay
	The anti-piracy movement from the authorities is strong, but unfortunately not very successful. The torrent tracking site has a very large fanbase and about 2.5 million subscribers ready to give hell to everybody moving against their ‘coup de foudre’. The only way a Danish court thought it could prevent them from accessing the site is to constrain an Internet Service Provider (ISP in short) to block it altogether. The ruling and its enf ... [read more >>]
	05 February 2008, 03:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Prosecutor Looking to Convict The Pirate Bay Owners
	There’s no case against the owners, everybody supporting the Peer-To-Peer site claims. The Pirate Bay is not hosting anything, it is merely a search engine for BitTorrent files, they say.+ However, one prosecutor said that a case for "assisting copyright infringement" of 4 software applications, 9 films and 22 music tracks. I find it difficult to believe that in the 4000 and something pages available from the site, they ... [read more >>]
	01 February 2008, 21:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yet Another BitTorrent Website Shut Down
	The war against the BitTorrent websites continues with Fred Goldman, the father of Ronald Goldman, as the main character. Fred Goldman, the copyright holder for O.J. Simpson's book "If I Did It" sued The Pirate Bay, for publishing the book on the Internet. This move caused a loss of about $150,000, the complaint reads according to AP. The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, claiming that the Swe ... [read more >>]
	03 December 2007, 10:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia