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”.
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Lionsgate sues Limetorrents, Played.to, and four others over Expendables 3 leak
Limetorrents.com, Billionuploads.com, Hulkfile.eu, Played.to, Swankshare.com and Dotsemper.com have been dragged for not cooperating with Lionsgate.
Popcorn Time blessed with Apple TV support, iOS app in tow
The ‘Netflix for pirates’ is evolving a rapid pace and is expected to be around for quite a long time.
London Police begins replacing ad banners on piracy sites with warnings
City of London Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit: Copyright infringing websites are making huge sums of money though advert placement, therefore disrupting advertising on these sites is crucial and this is why it is an integral part of Operation Creative.
Game of Thrones season 4 episode 9 breaks swarming records
This is the third time in just as many months that the latest season of Game of Thrones has managed to break torrent swarming records.
Torrentz.eu domain name suspension revoked; back with a bang
Yet another registrar defies UK PIPCU’s attempt of unlawful blocking.
Torrentz.eu domain name suspended
PIPCU scores yet another major victory.
Game of Thrones season 4 episode 2 breaks previous torrent swarming records
Episode 2 of Game of Thrones season 4 has managed to break previous torrent swarming records with over 193,000 people sharing a single copy of the latest episode yesterday evening, a new…
Demonoid is back
Demonoid BitTorrent tracker is back after over 20 months of hiatus and this time through Demonoid.ph. New user registrations are closed at the moment, but those who had accounts on the old…
YTS, formerly YIFY-Torrents, takes over Popcorn Time with immediate effect
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
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
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
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…
BREIN: We killed 200+ The Pirate Bay proxies, 41 payment processors, 100+ advertisers in 2013
Anti-piracy outfit BREIN has released its latest annual report wherein it has claimed culling of 206 The Pirate Bay proxies, 41 payment processors and over 100 advertisers in 2013. The Hollywood-affiliated anti-piracy…
ExtraTorrent, The Pirate Bay raking in millions annually in ad revenue claims new report
A new report aims to shed light on the annual ad revenues of content theft sites including BitTorrent sites, file linking sites, P2P portals and video streaming sites and concludes that large…