piracy

Ebook Piracy Sites to Be Blocked by UK ISPs

Yesterday, the UK’s High Court ordered that websites carrying pirated ebooks should be blocked by the country’s internet service providers.…

9 years ago

Whistleblower Reveals Hollywood is Exploiting Video on Demand Services

Advocates of video piracy have long justified its existence though studios failing to make their content conveniently (legally) available. Over…

10 years ago

Pirated Windows 10 to be Watermarked

Though Microsoft has decided to make the much-publicised move to upgrade even non-genuine versions of Windows to Windows 10 when…

10 years ago

Music Streaming Site Grooveshark Closes

Popular music streaming platform Grooveshark closed last night (30th April) after eight years. In a statement on its website, Grooveshark…

10 years ago

Hollywood Wants Exception to Net Neutrality Rules to Fight Pirates

Hollywood thinks it’s special, and can play by its own rulebook in its fight against online piracy, so the latest…

10 years ago

Microsoft May Have Stopped ‘Halo Online’, but Modders Won’t

Microsoft announced the free-to-play closed-beta Halo Online title last week, having it be restricted to players in Russia. The modding…

10 years ago

The Pirate Bay Applies for .PIRATE Domain Name Registry

As a response to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) applying…

10 years ago

Free Game Bio Inc. Has Been Pirated 2 Million Times

Mobile game Bio Inc., inspired by the popular Pandemic/Plague Inc., has been pirated by over 2 million people – over 25% of its…

10 years ago

Free Windows 10 Upgrade Applies to Some Pirates, Too

It’s been much publicised that Windows 7 and 8 users will be eligible for a free upgrade to Windows 10,…

10 years ago

Paradox Plans to Tackle Cities: Skylines Piracy by Making the Game Even Better

Forget draconian DRM or annoying online registrations, Paradox thinks that it can prevent piracy of its new game, the SimCity-inspired…

10 years ago

The Pirate Bay Returns

Breaking just now, we understand that popular torrent site, The Pirate Bay, is finally back online following that raid on…

10 years ago

The Wolf of Wall Street Was the Most Pirated Movie of 2014

'The Wolf of Wall Street'. Yes, the Leonardo DiCaprio biopic was the most illegally downloaded movie with 30.035 million downloads. Still, the…

10 years ago

Google Speaks Out Over Secret Attacks by Hollywood

The recent Sony Pictures hack revealed that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) had organised a secret campaign against…

10 years ago

Leaked Email Indicates Google, Sony Invited to Anti-Piracy Meeting With US Homeland Security

It would seem Google and movie studios are trying to strengthen a relatively fragile relationship that continues to evolve. A…

10 years ago

The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Doesn’t Care if the Site Stays Down Forever

The Pirate Bay, the most infamous torrent indexer on the internet, had its servers in Sweden raided by police on…

10 years ago