piracy

Swiss Draft Law Allows Torrent Downloads But Bans Uploading

A new draft law being submitted for public consultation in Switzerland will allow personal downloading to remain legal but uploading infringing content via BitTorrent will be ...

July 2, 2014 at 10:43 am by

Google Glass Banned in UK Cinemas Due to Piracy Fears

It was just one week ago when Google Glass was opened up to UK residents, and it didn’t take long before there was a bit of fallout regarding the popular wearable. Due to ...

June 30, 2014 at 10:40 pm by

Paid Informants Being Used To Rat Out Software Pirates

In an attempt to cut down on software piracy rates the Business Software Alliance (BSA) have taken a rather innovative move. The BSA represents Adobe, Apple and Microsoft and ...

June 27, 2014 at 11:29 am by

Ubisoft: DRM Can’t Stop Piracy – No S**t Sherlock

It seems that after a long period of “braindeadism” game publishers are finally waking up to the fact that DRM does not stop piracy. DRM is no barrier to piracy, ...

June 24, 2014 at 10:32 am by

Did You Pirate Watch_Dogs? You May Be Mining Bitcoins For Someone!

Piracy isn’t exactly the best way to get what you want, especially since there are often extra risks involved with downloading things illegally. First is the obvious ...

May 24, 2014 at 7:21 pm by

68% of Europeans Stream Films For Free, Legal Choices Expensive And Narrow

A study published by the European Commission investigating the film downloading habits of European citizens has revealed some interesting results. The headline finding is that ...

February 16, 2014 at 1:21 pm by

The British Government Wants To Take Away Your ‘Privileges’ To Access The Internet

A meeting has been held this week at the House of Commons in the UK to debate the Intellectual Property Bill, which ended with a lot of fingers being pointed at Google and its ...

January 24, 2014 at 4:20 pm by

Google Glass Seen As Piracy Gadget Inside Movie Theatres

Google Glass apparently is not seen as a great advancement in technology that should freely roam on everybody’s head by many people. There was a case where a woman has ...

January 21, 2014 at 1:54 pm by

Game of Thrones Held The Title Of The Most Pirated Show In 2013

HBO’s Game of Thrones is a very popular TV series, there is no denying that fact. We often get to hear exactly how popular this series is when it smashes all piracy records. ...

December 29, 2013 at 11:20 pm by

Piracy Helping Iron Maiden’s Popularity In South America

Piracy apparently isn’t such a big deal for the British metal band Iron Maiden. They relied on data-mining company, Musicmetric, to monitor its growth on social media ...

December 26, 2013 at 11:20 pm by

Latest iOS 7 Jailbreak Release To Lack Cydia, Has TaiG Chinese Alternative Instead

Following the release of Evad3rs’ new iOS 7 jailbreak for all iOS 7.x versions including 7.0.4, we now hear that it is not as expected. Meaning, the jailbreak posted on ...

December 23, 2013 at 1:15 am by

US Government Pirates Military Software, Pays $50m Settlement

Looks like the US government has become one of the worst pirates around after using thousands of copies of military software without a licence. The company behind the software ...

November 28, 2013 at 7:05 pm by

Microsoft Cracks Down On Windows 8.1 Piracy – KMS Only Lasts 6 Months

Softpedia reports that Microsoft is cracking down on the way it deals with pirated copies of Windows 8.1. Typically Microsoft had been lenient on the pirate community and ...

November 2, 2013 at 10:17 am by

IsoHunt Brought Back From The Dead, New Spin-Off Created

Earlier this month torrent indexing site IsoHunt was forced to shut down after its owned Gary Fung faced a lawsuit from the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) which ...

October 30, 2013 at 10:33 am by

Deep Silver Have An Easy Way Of Dealing With Piracy, Ignore It!

Deep Silver are doing great, they’ve just had a string of successful titles hit the market and all are still doing relatively well too. We’ve got the Dead Island ...

October 27, 2013 at 8:28 am by

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