Piracy is a crime, and downloading copyrighted material or using it without the owner’s permission, as I’m pretty sure that the vast majority of you know, is ...
September 11, 2022 at 10:31 am by Mike Sanders
This week, The Pirate Bay very quietly turned 18-years-old, and for many, it still represents an excellent repository to access certain downloads (many of which admittedly, ...
November 29, 2021 at 10:48 am by Mike Sanders
Downloading torrents of copyright-infringing material is illegal, as we all know, and while those involved in large-scale file-sharing operations – like YIFY/YFS – or ...
April 17, 2017 at 6:06 pm by Ashley Allen
In another futile attempt to curb piracy, search engines are set to ban links to torrent sites in their search results, allegedly starting June 2017. Working with the UK ...
February 16, 2017 at 6:02 pm by Anthony Cartwright
Two US lawyers have been indicted for engaging in an elaborate extortion scheme which involved deliberately seeding copyrighted materials they owned to torrent sites so that ...
December 22, 2016 at 6:00 am by Ashley Allen
KickassTorrents, the world’s most used torrent site, has been seized by the US government, and its owner, Artem Vaulin, has been arrested in Poland, awaiting extradition. ...
July 22, 2016 at 6:57 pm by Ashley Allen
The UK Government has unveiled its new Digital Economy Bill [PDF] in Parliament which features a revision to current laws regarding online copyright infringement. Under the ...
July 9, 2016 at 6:40 pm by Ashley Allen
ThePirateBay is unquestionably the most famous torrent site ever devised and become a target of various organisations aiming to protect intellectual property such as the RIAA ...
May 25, 2016 at 4:20 pm by John Williamson
HBO isn’t best pleased that its stellar hit Game of Thrones is the most downloaded show ever, and has sent out thousands of copyright infringement warnings to anyone deemed ...
May 8, 2016 at 7:40 pm by Ashley Allen
Tune murmurer, paladin of egotism, and self-appointed “voice of this generation” Kanye West – recently exposed using The Pirate Bay to search for copyrighted software, ...
March 6, 2016 at 5:39 pm by Ashley Allen
Kanye West recently released his new album, The Life of Pablo, exclusively on the music streaming service Tidal owned by fellow artist Jay-Z. However, amidst numerous ...
February 17, 2016 at 9:32 am by Alexander Neil
Popcorn time has been blocked, banned and taken down over copyright issues a number of times. It seems that the popular movie streaming service just refuses to die. Despite ...
February 7, 2016 at 6:21 pm by Alexander Neil
This time last year, The Pirate Bay was all but dead; the Swedish datacentre that hosted the notorious torrent site had been raided by police in December 2014, leaving it ...
January 1, 2016 at 8:30 pm by Ashley Allen
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA), which has EA, Nintendo, Playstation, and Ubisoft as its members, has reported a number of torrent sites to the US government, ...
October 11, 2015 at 11:59 pm by Ashley Allen
The founder of infamous torrent site The Pirate Bay, Gottfrid Svartholm, has been freed from prison after three years. Svartholm, also known by his nickname Anakata, served ...
September 28, 2015 at 9:00 pm by Ashley Allen
