The organization responsible for Sweden's top-level domain is facing court action after refusing to disable or seize two domains operated by The Pirate Bay. The Internet Infrastructure Foundation, the body that administers the .SE TLD and engages in proje

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Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and his alleged co-conspirators have been thrown a lifeline in their ongoing extradition battle in New Zealand. Previously it was decided that Dotcom could not examine the mountains of evidence being withheld by U.S. authori

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In March, the Ninth Circuit declared that Canada-based BitTorrent search engine isoHunt is not entitled to protection under the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA due to its conduct many years ago. IsoHunt filed a petition for a rehearing before a jury, b

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Last year an Internet user known as El Nomeo leaked version 3.70 of Sony’s Playstation3 SDK online. Yesterday the man appeared in a UK court and pleaded guilty to charges of copyright infringement. He’ll be sentenced next month. “I’ve always wanted to giv

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Carrier-Grade Network Address Translation is a network mechanism through which many Internet subscribers can share the same IP address. This has lead some to presume that as a result the online tracking of file-sharers might become more difficult for righ

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After months of waiting, the Ipredator anonymity service from the founders of The Pirate Bay has finally opened its doors to the public. For 5 euros a month users can now hide all their Internet traffic, including torrent downloads, from third party outfi

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The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again, 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters' tops the chart this week, followed by 'Iron Man 3'. 'Parker' completes the top three.

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Robbie Williams blatantly advertised Kim Dotcom's Megaupload in the video to a new track last Friday. In the Dizzee Rascal song 'Goin Crazy', Robbie walks around in a jacket with Megaupload splashed across the back but then, just 72 hours later, another m

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The Center for Copyright Information, a partnership between the RIAA, MPAA and several major Internet providers, has had its company status revoked. The CCI, who are leading the "six strikes" anti-piracy scheme in the US, has violated state law

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Private torrent sites have a much lower profile than say, The Pirate Bay, but there are hundreds, possibly thousands, of them online, going about their business behind closed, invite-only walls. However, when it comes to providing access to content, priva

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In their ongoing battle against websites said to infringe music copyrights, record labels have initiated a fresh wave of actions aimed at forcing UK ISPs to carry out domain blocking. This third wave is set to be the biggest so far, affecting as many as 2

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The U.S. Government has taken a significant action against the web’s top Bitcoin exchange by seizing funds from its mobile payment services account as part of a criminal investigation. As Bitcoin develops into a currency to be reckoned with, increasing nu

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Canadian anti-piracy company Canipre has been teaming up with film studios to hunt down and sue alleged BitTorrent pirates. They want to change people's attitudes toward piracy and make a few bucks in the process. However, it appears that the attitude cha

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Mired in controversy since its inception but held up as an example by entertainment companies looking to spread the model worldwide, France's Hadopi anti-piracy law now looks set to be scrapped. A just-published government-commissioned report recommends t

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While Europe and the United States have been targets for copyright trolls for the last few years, Canada has largely escaped attention. But with the activity now beginning to spread and a test-case of sorts underway, an anti-piracy company warns it has a

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The discussion around people's banished right to unlock their own cellphones has been framed as an unexpected and unanticipated effect of the copyright monopoly. To the contrary, it shows the heart of the monopoly's philosophy: killing ownership as a conc

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Verizon, AT&T, Time Warner and Cox are appealing a district court decision ordering them to reveal the identities of 1,058 subscribers accused of pirating movies on BitTorrent. The ISPs point out that their subscribers may not be the individuals who d

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