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Google sued again over ‘Innocence of Muslims’ video

Posted on 27 March 2014

Google has been dragged to court again over ‘Innocence of Muslims’ video and this time by none other than the actress in the video, Cindy Lee Garcia. The ‘Innocence of Muslims’ video…

Google and Viacom settle YouTube copyright infringement lawsuit

Posted on 19 March 2014

Google and Viacom announced a settlement in a massive YouTube copyright infringement lawsuit, wherein the latter had sought more than $1 billion in damages. The companies have kept the terms of the…

YTS, formerly YIFY-Torrents, takes over Popcorn Time with immediate effect

Posted on 15 March 2014

Popcorn Time has had a rather roller-coaster week considering how the app received positive reviews and great fan following within days of being in the mainstream media and how it was pulled…

UK ISPs ordered to block Megashare, Viooz, Watch32 and Zmovie

Posted on 11 March 2014

UK High Court has ordered all major ISPs in the UK to block access to Megashare, Viooz, Watch32 and Zmovie on copyright infringement grounds. ISPs including Sky, Virgin Media, O2, EE, BT…

Popcorn Time allows users to stream movies like Netflix, but pirated ones

Posted on 9 March 2014

Popcorn Time is a cross-platform tool that started off as an experiment to easily allow users to stream movies over BitTorrent rather than downloading them has developed into something massive and could…

35 million photos on Getty Images now free to use

Posted on 7 March 2014

Getty Images has just made 35 million of its photographs free to use, in an effort to combat piracy. The company is opening its library to online publishers through the new embed…

USTR: The Pirate Bay, Extratorrent, others involved in piracy and counterfeiting

Posted on 13 February 2014

US Government on Wednesday released the annual list of “Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets” – online and physical marketplaces that “reportedly engage in and facilitate substantial piracy and counterfeiting.” The list, based…

The Pirate Bay to be unblocked in the Netherlands

Posted on 28 January 2014

The Court of The Hague, Netherlands, ruled today that the two local internet providers in the country are not required to block access to The Pirate Bay as the blockade is a…

Legit RapidGator URLs delisted by Google over false DMCA notices

Posted on 24 December 2013

Google has reportedly removed multiple legit RapidGator URLs from its search results because of false DMCA notices. RapidGator is one of the top filesharing sites, which is used by hundreds of thousands…

The Pirate Bay domain hopping continues as site switches back to thepiratebay.se

Posted on 19 December 2013

The Pirate Bay has switched once again and this time has landed right back into Swedish waters with thepiratebay.se domain as its .GY domain was blocked within hours of going online. This…

The Pirate Bay moves to thepiratebay.gy after Peru suspends thepiratebay.pe

Posted on 18 December 2013

The Pirate Bay has rented a new home, thepiratebay.gy, for the fourth time in a week after Peru decided to suspend thepiratebay.pe. The Pirate Bay has moved on to Guyana-based .GY ccTLD…

YIFY-Torrrents unblocked in the UK; thanks to CloudFlare, GeoDNS

Posted on 14 December 2013

YIFY-Torrents has been reportedly unblocked in the UK for users of at least two ISPs thanks to the brilliant work by the networking experts over at YIFY. As of this writing YIFY-Torrents…

The Pirate Bay moves to new .AC domain after thepiratebay.sx seizure

Posted on 10 December 2013

The Pirate Bay has moved to a new .ac domain after domain name registry of Sint Maarten seized thepiratebay.sx domain name. The Pirate Bay was rendered inaccessible apparently because of an overnight…

UK ISPs block Solarmovie three weeks after court order

Posted on 5 December 2013

Solarmovie has been blocked by at least two ISPs in the UK after a court ordered its blockade three weeks back following a copyright lawsuit from Motion Picture Association (MPA) and its…

Hotfile shuts down for good

Posted on 4 December 2013

Hotfile has permanently shut down for good without any prior warning just hours after $80 million settlement with the MPAA. The decision is rather drastic considering that the digital locker isn’t providing…

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