A trader from Middlesbrough, UK, could become the first person to be prosecuted for selling Android TV boxes preloaded with Kodi software. 54-year-old Brian Thompson is being ...
September 27, 2016 at 10:03 pm by Ashley AllenA bill with the unanimous support of MPs, which could see online pirates be sentenced to up to ten years in prison, is one step closer to becoming law. The Digital Economy ...
September 16, 2016 at 12:30 am by Ashley Allen
We all know that Warner Bros. has a very strict policy regarding online piracy, and we also know that the company has been asking Google to remove links to pirated content for ...
September 5, 2016 at 1:22 pm by Cernescu Andrei
KickassTorrents, the world’s most used torrent site, has been seized by the US government, and its owner, Artem Vaulin, has been arrested in Poland, awaiting extradition. ...
July 22, 2016 at 6:57 pm by Ashley Allen
KickassTorrents, the world’s most popular torrent site, has been seized by the US Government and the site’s owner has been arrested. The website and its domains were ...
July 22, 2016 at 8:37 am by Ashley Allen
When it comes to fighting game piracy, most developers take a hard line by introducing more and more restrictive DRM with some even requiring a consistent internet connection ...
July 20, 2016 at 10:05 am by Alexander Neil
NBC Universal has filed a patent for a new technology designed to track and collect data on online pirates. The tech uses a high-volume file sharing swarms detection system to ...
July 11, 2016 at 5:40 pm by Ashley Allen
The UK Government has unveiled its new Digital Economy Bill [PDF] in Parliament which features a revision to current laws regarding online copyright infringement. Under the ...
July 9, 2016 at 6:40 pm by Ashley Allen
Security researchers have found an exploit in the DRM system of Google’s Chrome browser that makes it easy for pirates to rip encrypted videos straight from the web. David ...
June 26, 2016 at 11:40 pm by Ashley Allen
ThePirateBay is unquestionably the most famous torrent site ever devised and become a target of various organisations aiming to protect intellectual property such as the RIAA ...
May 25, 2016 at 4:20 pm by John Williamson
Movie studio Voltage, the makers of the Oscar-winning Dallas Buyers Club – starring Matthew McConaughey as an AIDS sufferer who illegally sells medication to those similarly ...
May 19, 2016 at 8:20 pm by Ashley Allen
HBO isn’t best pleased that its stellar hit Game of Thrones is the most downloaded show ever, and has sent out thousands of copyright infringement warnings to anyone deemed ...
May 8, 2016 at 7:40 pm by Ashley AllenToward the end of last year, famed torrent uploader YIFY, and its home website YTS, was closed following a settlement between its owner and the MPAA. Now, its founder – ...
April 25, 2016 at 8:20 pm by Ashley Allen
When people talk about “pirates” and “hacking” together, it usually refers to those who release versions of software with the digital rights management ...
March 4, 2016 at 10:00 am by Alexander Neil
Ad blocking plugins have become a topic which polarized opinions and causes some friction between content creators and their readership. Websites like eTeknix rely on ...
March 2, 2016 at 7:11 pm by John Williamson
