First they threatened, then they leaked. Dubbed, boastfully, by the perpetrators as “the greatest leak of cyber space era,” hackers reportedly compromised 1.5TB of data ...
August 4, 2017 at 2:55 pm by Ashley Allen
A decade ago, Spotify was hailed by many as the key mechanism for converting music pirates into legitimate customers. The music streaming service – formed in Stockholm ...
May 9, 2017 at 8:03 pm by Ashley Allen
Bitsnoop has been around for almost a decade, but no more. Late in the day on the 31st of March, the site was changed to a goodbye message and a redirect. The site was founded ...
April 3, 2017 at 12:01 pm by Bohs Hansen
A US lawyer, indicted on charges of entrapping torrenters by producing and uploading pornographic films then threatening tracked downloaders with copyright lawsuits, has ...
March 10, 2017 at 12:00 am by Ashley Allen
In another futile attempt to curb piracy, search engines are set to ban links to torrent sites in their search results, allegedly starting June 2017. Working with the UK ...
February 16, 2017 at 6:02 pm by Anthony CartwrightArtem Vaulin, the suspected owner of torrent site KickassTorrents, was arrested in Poland last year for alleged copyright infringement in the US. Vaulin’s legal team is ...
January 31, 2017 at 4:00 am by Ashley Allen
In an effort to crackdown on online piracy, internet service providers (ISPs) are to start sending letters to users suspected of illegally downloading copyrighted materials ...
January 10, 2017 at 7:00 pm by Ashley Allen
At the height of its popularity, torrent site KickAssTorrents (KAT) was downed back in July this year after its owner was arrested by US law enforcement. While a number of ...
December 17, 2016 at 2:00 am by Ashley Allen
The Grand Tour is settings plenty of records, and not all of them as desirable as far as their production team is concerned, but a record is a record. The Grand Tour has now ...
December 12, 2016 at 11:35 am by Peter Donnell
People love torrents. Be it to download a piece of software they own legitimately or to get a copy of Game of Thrones just hours after it airs on TV. KickassTorrents was a ...
August 11, 2016 at 11:33 pm by Gareth Andrews
Torrentz.eu, the world’s largest torrent meta-search engine, has suddenly closed down. The site was founded in 2003, and offered links to torrents indexed on sites such as ...
August 6, 2016 at 12:00 pm by Ashley Allen
When you download some popular software, you often end up using a mirror to gain access to all of your favourite bits of software. A popular place to upload and share your ...
August 3, 2016 at 7:32 pm by Gareth AndrewsKickassTorrents, 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
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
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
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