British comedian Russell Brand likes to be in controversy and his latest move is definitely one of those that will not only anger his promoters, but will result into great PR for…
Tag: Piracy
Court orders search engines to de-list, ISPs to block DPstream, Fifostream and Allostreaming
In what could be dubbed as the king of all DMCA takedown requests, Paris High Court has ordered Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to de-list all infringing URLs belonging to three video portals…
Brits hunting for Project Free TV alternatives after ISP blockade
Multiple sites including Project Free TV, PrimeWire and Yify torrents were blocked in the UK by all major ISPs on November 22 after a court order. Users flocked to Reddit and social networking…
Russian court orders The Pirate Bay founder to take down Rutor.org, Kinozal.tv
A Russian court has joined the ‘punish Gottfrid Svartholm’ bandwagon and has held Gottfrid Svartholm responsible for copyright infringements that take place though Rutor.org and Kinozal.tv. Svartholm is listed as the registrant…
Project Free TV, YIFY, PrimeWire blocked in the UK
Movie industry in the UK is having a ball as far as blocking of sites allegedly involved in piracy is concerned as courts have asked UK ISPs to enforce a blockade on…
RARBG, Torlock, LimeTorrents still unblocked in the UK, but for how long?
BPI and MPA, in cooperation with law enforcement agencies, are having a field day in the UK on one hand gaining ISP level blockades of domains allegedly involved in piracy and copyright…
UK court orders ISPs to block SolarMovie, TubePlus
UK high court has ordered all six major ISPs in the country to impose a blockade on two streaming portals SolarMovie and TubePlus on copyright infringement grounds. SolarMovie and TubePlus are ranked…
Call of Duty: Ghosts for PlayStation 3 leaked
Call of Duty: Ghosts is due for release on November 5 for all platforms including Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U, PS4, Xbox One and PC, but it seems that a pirate version…
IsoHunt.com finds a new home – IsoHunt.to
Just days after Gary Fung settled with MPAA and pulled the plug on IsoHunt.com, an IsoHunt lookalike in the form of IsoHunt.to has already surfaced on the web. Gary Fung pulled the…
BPI wins blockade of 21 pirate sites in the UK
A British High Court judge has ordered a blockade of 21 new pirate sites including BitSnoop, TorrentDownloads, ExtraTorrent and mp3skull effective on all major UK ISPs effective today. The court order is…
British ISPs ordered to block 21 pirate sites including BitSnoop, ExtraTorrent, Torrentz
[Update 30/10/2013 @ 17:45 GMT: IsoHunt.com finds a new home – IsoHunt.to] British High Court has ordered major UK ISPs including BSkyB, BT, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, Telefonica and Virgin to start blocking…
Gary Fung on IsoHunt settlement: “It’s sad to see my baby go”
Update IsoHunt.com shuts early; Gary Fung says “I’ll be backkk” Original Story Gary Fung, founder of IsoHunt.com, and MPAA settled outside of court yesterday sending a shockwave through the torrent world as…
H33t.eu domain unreachable
H33t.eu, one of the alternative domains of the huge torrent site H33t, is not reachable as of now weeks after the main website H33t.com disappeared off the web. One of the biggest…
BitTorrent removed from Google piracy search filter?
Recent spike in search for keywords like ‘BitTorrent’ and ‘uTorrent’ indicate that Google may have removed these two terms from its piracy filter. In a bid to reduce piracy and reduce the…