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The Swedish Appeal Court has ruled in the appeal filed by the Pirate Bay defendants accusing judge Tomas Norström of bias in the Pirate Bay case, which he presided. The defendants asked the court for a retrial on account of bias based on the fact that the judge was part of several pro-copyright groups, which was... |
26 June 2009
02:52 GMT |
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BREIN, an organization created by the movie, music and gaming industries, located in the Netherlands, recently went after Mininova, the largest torrent indexer in the world, and took the site to court for copyright infringement. Part of its claim was that Mininova blocked bittorrent trackers known to have illegal con... |
25 June 2009
06:00 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay, the infamous torrents search site, has announced the launch of a new service, called Ipredator, aimed at making file sharing, and Internet use in general, anonymous. The VPN service was made public in March 2009 and now it has become available to 3000 users who signed up for it in April. The announc... |
16 June 2009
06:37 GMT |
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Swedish courts have rejected the demand made by lawyers representing the entertainment business that The Pirate Bay be fined for every day the site stays up. The lawyers also called for a gag order, preventing The Pirate Bay's founders to speak publicly until the matter was settled in court but this too was reje... |
26 May 2009
05:53 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay trial isn't called the “spectrial” for nothing. Following latest developments, the judge assigned to review if his fellow public official in the first trial was biased was removed – and this is the best part – also for bias. The first judge, Tomas Norström, came under ... |
22 May 2009
05:32 GMT |
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Rights holders still aren't happy with the outcome of The Pirate Bay trial and have appealed the verdict asking for bigger fines and the charge for “infringing copyright” restored after being dropped in the early part of the first trial, which ended with Pirate Bay founders Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svar... |
22 May 2009
02:31 GMT |
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A white-hat hacker going by the nickname of Vektor has located several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the website of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). In order to prove the existence of the flaws in a humorous manner, he decided to inject a "Thank you" page with a rogue IFrame, which loads th... |
4 May 2009
04:35 GMT |
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Piracy is one of the biggest problems that has been plaguing both the gaming and software industry for quite some time. As such, a lot of organizations like the Entertainment Software Association have been created in order to militate against pirates and show people just what toll downloading a pirated copy of a vide... |
21 April 2009
03:03 GMT |
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Jail sentences and a $3.6 million fine came with the guilty verdicts in the Pirate Bay case. The four defendants, namely Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Carl Lundstrom, were convicted to 1 year in jail and a financial penalty of $3.6 million. The four were found guilty of facilitating access to... |
17 April 2009
09:59 GMT |
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The lawsuit initiated against four individuals, all connected to the Pirate Bay, the Sweden-based biggest Bittorrent tracker, was delayed until the end of the year. Although the Stockholm District Court previously announced that the litigation would begin by the end of the summer, it seems that now it needs more time... |
29 August 2008
05:06 GMT |
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A couple of weeks ago, we reported that the Pirate Bay, the infamous torrent tracker, had been banned in Italy. The first reaction on part of one of the Pirate Bay's founders was a virulent post on the official blog of the tracker, where Italy was described as having a "really bad background, as one of the IFPIs... |
22 August 2008
11:17 GMT |
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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 ... |
19 May 2008
07:21 GMT |
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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 copyri... |
19 May 2008
03:52 GMT |
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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. Accord... |
9 May 2008
02:55 GMT |
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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, be... |
7 May 2008
10:47 GMT |
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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 track... |
25 April 2008
04:02 GMT |
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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 c... |
24 April 2008
02:30 GMT |
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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 ... |
18 April 2008
08:41 GMT |
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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 compensat... |
17 April 2008
05:09 GMT |
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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 amo... |
20 March 2008
14:26 GMT |
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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 t... |
4 March 2008
08:48 GMT |
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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 tra... |
21 February 2008
07:06 GMT |
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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... |
19 February 2008
14:16 GMT |
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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 ... |
14 February 2008
11:46 GMT |
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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 th... |
7 February 2008
07:36 GMT |
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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 the... |
5 February 2008
03:37 GMT |
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Theres 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 ... |
1 February 2008
21:56 GMT |
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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... |
3 December 2007
10:15 GMT |
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