One of the largest companies nowadays who contribute to the lawless download processes Universal Music decided to dump the initiative that demanded ISPs to unveil their users IPs years ago. However, another Europe-based company IFPI (The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) hasn’t taken into consideration the American giant’s poor experience and some time ago they initiated a court process [...]

This European American action thriller film is directed by James McTeigue who was an assistant director in The Matrix trilogy and made his bombastic debut in 2006 with V for Vendetta. At first the producers of the film thought Jeremy Renner should perform the role of Edgar Allan Po however he was replaced by John Cusack since the former preferred [...]

In an effort to combat online piracy, entertainment industry groups all over the world are pushing censorship of The Pirate Bay website. In the Netherlands such a Pirate Bay block went into effect earlier this year, but without the desired effect. Researchers from the University of Amsterdam have now revealed that the court-ordered Pirate Bay block has had no impact [...]

Last week it was revealed that Megaupload had retained the services of Andrew Schapiro, the lawyer who led YouTube to a summary judgment in its copyright trial against Viacom. But now the US government has filed papers objecting to Schapiro’s law firm working on Megaupload’s defense, citing conflicts of interest involving Google, YouTube, Disney, Fox and other movie, TV show [...]

In their ongoing efforts to make The Pirate Bay inaccessible, the Hollywood-backed anti-piracy outfit BREIN is now going after the Dutch Pirate Party. BREIN is demanding that the political party ceases operating a proxy site, and is threatening to sue. The Pirate Party is not impressed by the demands and has sent BREIN their response as a torrent, fittingly hosted [...]

In a few months millions of BitTorrent users in the United States will be actively monitored as part of an agreement between the MPAA, RIAA and all the major ISPs. Those caught sharing copyright works will receive several warning messages and will be punished if they continue to infringe. Today the center responsible for administering the scheme announced its Executive [...]