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: Piracy
ISPs in UK ordered to block access to AvaxHome, Bookfi, other eBook piracy sites
The UK High Court has ordered leading internet service providers (ISPs) including BT, Virgin Media, Sky, EE, and TalkTalk to block access to websites offering pirated eBooks for download. The Publishers Association…
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 Facebook Page vanishes
Just days after The Pirate Bay was shuttered following a data centre raid by Swedish authorities, the torrent site’s official Facebook Page has vanished. There has been no official word from the…
Kickass Torrents gets new kickass.la domain; says it is having issues with Somalian host
Kickass Torrents has activated its new kickass.la domain even while the previous domain kickass.so continues to work as normal. The reason behind this transition according to kickass team is that they are…
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…
Denuvo DRM cracked by Chinese hackers
A Chinese hacker group has claimed that they have managed to crack Denuvo DRM – the latest anti-piracy measure to protect PC games from piracy. Introduced for the first time in FIFA…
UK High Court orders ISPs to block 53 more websites
The UK High Court has asked ISPs to block a batch of 53 websites accused of providing access to copyright-infringing and pirated content thereby taking the total number of blocked websites in…
Google ramps up anti-piracy efforts; updates algorithm to keep pirate sites at bay
Google’s anti-piracy efforts will see major tweaks made to its search engine this week to ensure ‘notorious’ piracy sites are out of the search results when people search for music, films and…
BBC advises Australia to turn strict against online pirates
BBC: ISPs should warn any alleged copyright infringers through a graduated notification system that what they are doing is illegal and, at the same time, educate them about the law.
Full copy of Doctor Who season 8 episode 2 ‘Into the Dalek’ workprint leaked online
BBC has failed miserably in containing the series of leaks that has plagued Doctor Who.