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  • By Lucian Parfeni
  • February 16th, 2013
The Pirate Bay May Actually Sue Anti-Piracy Group that "Stole" Its Website

The Pirate Bay May Actually Sue Anti-Piracy Group that "Stole" Its Website

The irony is thick on this one, on both sides of the argument

FBI Employees Caught Downloading “The Good Wife” via BitTorrent

FBI Employees Caught Downloading “The Good Wife” via BitTorrent

Other movies and TV shows have also been downloaded from IPs associated with the agency

Mega May Be Pirate-Free, but Only Because It Takes Down Any Suspicious File, Legal or Not

Mega May Be Pirate-Free, but Only Because It Takes Down Any Suspicious File, Legal or Not

Mega's aggressive takedown compliance may lead to unhappy users

Mega Has 50 Million Files Only 0.001% Infringing, Dotcom Claims

Mega Has 50 Million Files Only 0.001% Infringing, Dotcom Claims

It turns out that Mega is not a piracy haven after all, at least not yet

Google Got 21,000 User Data Requests from Governments in the Second Half of 2012 Alone

Google Got 21,000 User Data Requests from Governments in the Second Half of 2012 Alone

Governments are very interested in what you've been up to online

US Lashes Back Against MegaUpload's Claims of Planting Evidence

US Lashes Back Against MegaUpload's Claims of Planting Evidence

By hanging onto a very flimsy technicality which shouldn't fool any judge

Google Funds Pirate Sites, Concludes Unbiased Movie Industry-Led "Report"

Google Funds Pirate Sites, Concludes Unbiased Movie Industry-Led "Report"

The report links Google, Yahoo and other ad networks to "pirate" sites

  • Web Blog
  • By Lucian Parfeni
  • December 29th, 2012
Google Had to Remove 51 Million Pirate Links This Year

Google Had to Remove 51 Million Pirate Links This Year

Google got 3.5 million requests just last week and the number keeps growing

Police Confiscate 9-Year-Old Girl's Laptop in Anti-Piracy Raid

Police Confiscate 9-Year-Old Girl's Laptop in Anti-Piracy Raid

The girl was guilty of downloading a few songs from The Pirate Bay

PayPal Continues Crusade Against Piracy, Bans Usenet Providers

PayPal Continues Crusade Against Piracy, Bans Usenet Providers

The accounts of the banned companies have been frozen for 180 days

RIAA Gives US Government New List of “Notorious” File Sharing Sites

RIAA Gives US Government New List of “Notorious” File Sharing Sites

RapidShare, The Pirate Bay and various other websites are targeted

RIAA Welcomes Court’s Decision to Sentence Pirate to 15 Years in Prison

RIAA Welcomes Court’s Decision to Sentence Pirate to 15 Years in Prison

Over 10,000 disks containing movies and music have been found by investigators

Twitter Doesn't Delete Infringing Tweets Anymore, It Just "Withholds" Them

Twitter Doesn't Delete Infringing Tweets Anymore, It Just "Withholds" Them

This is more transparent than simply removing them, though the content is still gone

Copying DVDs and Modding Game Consoles Still Illegal, Copyright Regulators Say

Copying DVDs and Modding Game Consoles Still Illegal, Copyright Regulators Say

Jailbreaking smartphones is legal, but the exemption doesn't apply to tablets

YouTube Changes Its Appeals Process for Video Takedowns

YouTube Changes Its Appeals Process for Video Takedowns

Bogus takedowns have been affecting YouTube even more than usual recently

PRQ Raid Targeted Swedish BitTorrent Site and a Dead Pirate Android App Site

PRQ Raid Targeted Swedish BitTorrent Site and a Dead Pirate Android App Site

Pirate app sites have become a target in recent months

“Innocence of Muslims” Actress Sues YouTube for Infringement of Copyright

“Innocence of Muslims” Actress Sues YouTube for Infringement of Copyright

Cindy Lee Garcia claims she has applied to register copyright

 
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