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Copyright Troll Caught Seeding Own Torrents
An interesting and quite entertaining Torrent Freak report has revealed that a copyright troll has been actively seeding its own illegally downloadable content on the Pirate Bay. Comcast confirmed that Pirate Bay user Sharkmp4 is directly linked to the infamous patent troll Prenda Law. The Pirate Bay helped Comcast expose…
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The Pirate Bay Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary
The Pirate Bay is the most iconic symbol of online piracy in the world. The notorious pirate site yesterday celebrated its 10 year anniversary at Wikparken, Upplands Väsby in Sweden at 3pm. The event attracted thousands of visitors in Stockholm. The Pirate Bay emerged from humble beginnings of a basic laptop…
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Pirate Party Report Swedish IT Minister For Copyright Infringements
While politicians and MPs are quick to bash consumers and websites for issues over copyright infringements it seems the Pirate Party are serving up Swedish MPs a dose of their own medicine. The Swedish Pirate Party has reported the Swedish IT minister to the police for a violation of copyright…
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Nintendo File Lawsuit Against HackYourConsole.Com, Accused Of Selling Illegal Software
HackYourConsole.com is quite a popular website on the console scene. Apparently popular enough to attract the attention of Nintendo who have now filed a lawsuit against HackYourConsole.com according to Softpedia. In the lawsuit Nintendo accused HackYourConsole.com of “blatantly promoting and selling” unauthorised games for Nintendo DS systems and Wii consoles. The…
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Microsoft Sends Google DMCA Takedown Notice For Its Own Web Links
Google is bombared with Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) take down notices everyday, but it isn’t everyday that Microsoft submits one trying to get its own web links de-listed from Google’s search engine. According to TorrentFreak Microsoft did exactly that. The reason for such an “epic fail” is that Microsoft…
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Russia’s SOPA-Equivalent Could Shut Down Wikipedia
We already brought you news of Russia’s SOPA-like legislation which is still on track to pass and come into effect by August. Now a new report by TorrentFreak suggests that the Russian SOPA could see sites like Wikipedia, Google and Yandex shut down. According to Wikimedia Russia executive director, “Stanislav…
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BitTorrent Says It is Fed Up Of Association With Piracy
BitTorrent is getting a bit cheesed off with constantly being associated with piracy. It has stated that the recent game of thrones piracy record is not a BitTorrent piracy record and has nothing to do with BitTorrent because it happens outside the BitTorrent ecosystem. BitTorrent does not host the infringing content,…
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Russia Could Pass SOPA-Like Legislation By August
Taiwan were the most recent country to reject SOPA-like legislation and you would of thought governments over the world would have learnt from the public outcry against various attempts to censor the internet. Well apparently not as Russia are pushing ahead with their SOPA-like legislation and it could be implemented…
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Kim Dotcom Says Megaupload Host “LeaseWeb” Wiped All Data Without Permission
According to Kim Dotcom on Twitter his former host for Megaupload, LeaseWeb, erased all the Megaupload servers and all the data without contacting him, requesting permission or even a warning. Kim Dotcom wrote that: “While EFF is fighting for the rights of Megaupload users in U.S. court, Leaseweb has taken…
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Taiwan’s SOPA-like Copyright Bill Shot Down In Flames
According to a report by TechDirt there has been public outcry in Taiwan over the government’s proposed copyright bill. Apparently during May the Taiwanese government created and submitted a SOPA-like (Stop Online Piracy Act) bill to combat copyright violations. The legislation was apparently draw up by the Taiwan Intellectual Property…
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Kim Dotcom Does Interview With Australian News Station
Megaupload Limited was a fairly large website, which provided a single service, cloud storage. Kim Dotcom founded the website in 2005, active for almost seven years before the United States FBI seized the website. But not only that, they froze all his assets, confiscating computers and equipment. It has been…
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The Pirate Bay Will Be Blocked In Ireland Based On High Court Order
If you’ve crossed the border from Northern Ireland to Ireland in the past you would of found that Ireland’s ISPs didn’t block the Pirate Bay like Northern Ireland’s ISPs did . However, that is all about to change as the Irish High Court has today ruled that the Pirate Bay…
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Game Of Thrones Season Finale Sets Piracy Record
The season finale of Game of Thrones managed to drum up a new “piracy record” with more than 170,000 people sharing the episode simultaneously. In one day more than 1 million people downloaded a copy of the show’s final episode. Yet despite all this piracy HBO wants to keep the…
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American Entertainment Industry Wants To Be Allowed To Send Malware To Pirates
As online piracy continues to be a rising problem for the America entertainment industry it is now looking to take even more drastic measures to counter it. According to a proposal put forward by the American entertainment industry they would pre-install this controlled “malware” onto your PC when you “look”…
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French Anti-Piracy “Hadopi” Law Being Axed
According to France’s Minister of Culture and Communication the anti-piracy “Hadopi” law only has one more month to live. Aurélie Filippetti has stated that the Hollande administration will axe the Hadopi law in favour of no immediate replacement. In France the debate over the Hadopi law has been particularly strong and…
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