One of the most popular streaming video indexes in the world – Project Free TV – has closed down its operations without any prior warning with the website now displaying a simple…
Tag: Copyright
KickassTorrents forced to switch to kat.cr post kickasstorrents.im seizure
KickassTorrents has been on the radar of many government agencies and copyright holders owing to the huge amount of internet traffic it gets from people searching for free downloads of movies, games,…
UK ISPs at war with online piracy; block Pirate Bay proxies
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the UK have started blocking some of the biggest file sharing sites said to carry copyright infringing material including the Pirate Bay as per the orders of…
Google lands 345 million takedown requests in 2014
Copyright and piracy issues have become more of headline grabbers in last couple of years for the fact that copyright holders have been increasingly pushing out takedown requests to Google and other…
The Pirate Bay clones: potentially malware laden, scam sites
The Pirate Bay has been down for a few days now and within that timeframe multiple clones of the torrent site have cropped up – some malware laden, while some asking for…
The Pirate Bay finds new abode just hours after police raid
The Pirate Bay is seemingly back online just hours after Swedish Police raided a data centre and seized computers, servers and other equipment resulting into thepiratebay.se going down. Currently accessible through thepiratebay.cr,…
The Pirate Bay goes down as Swedish police seize servers, computers, and other equipment
The primary domain of The Pirate Bay – thepiratebay.se – along with quite a few other known domains has been knocked offline after Swedish Police raided a data centre in Nacka and…
Google removes several The Pirate Bay related apps from Play Store
Google has taken Google Play Store developers and users by surprise by culling several The Pirate Bay linked third party apps without any warning. The apps have been removed on grounds of…
Personal data won’t be commercialised, Facebook assures
Facebook With changes to privacy policy, has created a stir in the online world with photographers being one community that is voicing its concerns strongly. Amateur and professional are fearing that their…
Activision: We will not tolerate videos of possible ways to cheat in CoD Advanced Warfare
Activision is reportedly blocking all of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare videos that showcase glitches, bugs, and exploit in the game. Video network Machinima is warning other YouTube video makers that Activision…
OK Go accuses Apple of plagiarism over launch video ‘Perspective’
Crying foul, OK Go is claiming that the concept of the audio-visual has been borrowed from the band’s music video of ‘The Writing’s on the Wall’.
PIPCU arrests Immunicity owner; releases him on bail
Andy Fyfe, detective chief inspector and head of PIPCU, “We will come down hard on people believed to be committing or deliberately facilitating such offences”.
Black Macaque selfie ignites Wikimedia copyright row
Wikimedia and a photographer David Slater are at the opposite end of a tug-of-war because of a selfie taken by a black macaque on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi three years back….
Torrentz.eu domain name suspended
PIPCU scores yet another major victory.
UK Government to legalize DVD and CD ripping for personal use
The UK Government has published a guide about an upcoming copyright law revision that will allow consumers to legally rip CD and DVD for personal use. The upcoming amendments will also broaden…