Google is sending customers of its fibre service that are suspected of illegally downloading copyrighted materials automated fines. Google Fiber users have received fines, ...
May 21, 2015 at 11:33 pm by Ashley Allen
Popular music streaming platform Grooveshark closed last night (30th April) after eight years. In a statement on its website, Grooveshark admits that it failed to acquire the ...
May 2, 2015 at 1:58 am by Ashley Allen
In a move that will shock no one, Nintendo has issued a copyright infringement notice against the remake of Super Mario 64 built by a fan using the Unity game engine. The ...
April 1, 2015 at 12:55 am by Ashley Allen
Popular torrent site KickassTorrents (KAT) has had its Somalian kickass.so domain seized and the site is currently down. KickassTorrents had over one million unique visitors a ...
February 9, 2015 at 6:58 pm by Ashley Allen
Gary Fung, the original founder of torrent tracking site IsoHunt – long since closed, then resurrected by others – believes that Bitcoin microtransactions could eventually ...
January 3, 2015 at 12:30 am by Ashley Allen
Popular sports streaming site Wiziwig has been forced to close as of 31st December. The site’s owners attribute the move to new laws introduced in Spain – where the ...
January 2, 2015 at 10:24 am by Ashley Allen
In an ironic reversal, a musician whose music was used in controversial comedy movie The Interview is threatening to sue Sony. Yoon Mi-rae, a US-born hip-hip artist, was in ...
December 29, 2014 at 4:28 am by Ashley Allen
The recent Sony Pictures hack revealed that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) had organised a secret campaign against Google, going so far as to pay Attorneys ...
December 19, 2014 at 5:22 am by Ashley Allen
Five days after torrent site The Pirate Bay was taken down by a police raid in Sweden, a member of TPB crew has spoken about the future of the site in an exclusive interview ...
December 16, 2014 at 3:47 am by Ashley Allen
The Pirate Bay, the most infamous torrent indexer on the internet, had its servers in Sweden raided by police on Sunday. The site has been down ever since*. Co-founder Peter ...
December 10, 2014 at 11:49 pm by Ashley Allen
The White House has weighed in on the issue of media copyright infringement online, asserting that illegal downloads should be made a felony offense. Alex Niejelow, Chief of ...
November 25, 2014 at 1:45 am by Ashley Allen
Google has refused requests from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to block the homepages to a number of torrent sites from its online search results. Google ...
November 24, 2014 at 10:30 pm by Ashley Allen
Earlier this month torrent indexing site IsoHunt was forced to shut down after its owned Gary Fung faced a lawsuit from the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) which ...
October 30, 2013 at 10:33 am by Ryan Martin
Torrent Freak reports that the BPI, British Phonographic Industry/British Recorded Music Industry, has failed in a request to Google to get them to delist the Pirate ...
September 10, 2013 at 11:26 am by Ryan Martin
TorrentFreak reports that torrent site H33T has gone offline after encountering legal issues with its domain name registration. The domain name registrar for H33T removed all ...
September 8, 2013 at 11:41 am by Ryan Martin
