PORTUGUESE DVD RENTERS WANT PIRATE PENALTIES REDUCED
December 23, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
An association of Portuguese video rental stores, claiming that prosecutors are reluctant to file charges against persons who download movies illegally because the penalties are too severe, says it plans to begin reporting thousands of file-sharers to authorities beginning Jan. 5. According to the website TorrentFreak, which tracks BitTorrent activity, the Portuguese group ACAPOR (Associação [...]
SWEDEN’S PIRATE PARTY OFFERS ASYLUM TO WIKILEAKS
July 28, 2010 by admin · 6 Comments
Sweden’s Pirate Party, which currently hosts the Pirate Bay, the BitTorrent site that has repeatedly clashed with the movie and record industries and government authorities over alleged copyright infringement, has offered to give the controversial WikiLeaks.com a safe harbor. The offer came after WikiLeaks released more than 90,000 secret U.S. government documents about the war [...]
NEW STUDY ON INTERNET PIRACY BRANDED “BOGUS”
July 26, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
A new study by the Internet Commerce Security Laboratory claiming that virtually all (99.7 percent) files available via BitTorrent websites are pirated has been vigorously disputed by TorrentFreak.com, which tracks online usage of peer-to-peer technology and reports on developments in the BitTorrent world. Calling the conclusions of the study “bogus,” TorrentFreak claimed on Saturday that [...]
MORE ATTORNEYS JOIN IN FIGHT AGAINST PIRATES
July 19, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
The U.S. Copyright Group, the group of Washington D.C.-based attorneys suing thousands of BitTorrent users for allegedly illegally downloading movies, including the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker, has mobilized 15 additional law firms to help in cases in which the file-sharers refuse to pay the $1,500 settlement demand, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The website TorrentFreak.com [...]
MOVIE PIRATES EVADE U.S. AUTHORITIES
July 6, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Two of the nine file-sharing websites that were raided and shut down by federal authorities ast week are already back in business, according to TorrentFreak.com. TVShack.net and Movies-Links.tv had begun operating “immediately” after the crackdown, the website, which tracks the activities of BitTorrent sites, said on Monday. It reported that similar sites have developed emergency [...]
DESPITE LAWSUITS, DOWNLOADS OF “HURT LOCKER” PERSIST
July 6, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Action by a group of attorneys operating as the U.S. Copyright Group to sue 5,000 people who allegedly downloaded the Oscar-winning film The Hurt Locker have not deterred thousands of others from illegally downloading the movie, the website TorrentFreak reported on Monday. The website, which publishes a monthly list of the films most frequently downloaded [...]
SWEDISH FILMMAKER CAPTURES PIRATE
A Swedish filmmaker who found his documentary about moose hunting being pirated on The Pirate Bay and other BitTorrent sites has taken matters into his own hands and has tracked down the alleged infringer and is suing him for $15,000, TorrentFreak.com reported Monday. The filmmaker, Tor Lundberg, reportedly contacted the man, who also is a [...]
THE PIRATE BAY SAILS AGAIN
May 19, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
The latest victory of Hollywood’s studios over The Pirate Bay website has proved to be shortlived. Although they had obtained an injunction against the German host site forcing it to cut service to TPB, the studios saw the BitTorrent tracker quickly return to life, hosted by the Swedish Pirate Party. In a statement provided to [...]
STUDIOS GO AFTER PIRATE BAY HOST
May 13, 2010 by admin · 3 Comments
The German broadband provider that currently hosts the notorious ThePirateBay.com has been hit with a preliminary injunction requested by the major U.S. movie studios. The injunction bars the company, CB3ROB, from connecting ThePirateBay to the Internet. According to the website TorrentFreak, if it does, it could face fines of up to 250,000 euros for each [...]
PHOTOGRAPHER CLAIMS FOX NEWS STOLE HIS VOLCANO PICS
May 4, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
An Icelandic photographer who grabbed some spectacular pictures of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull claims that Fox News pirated them from his Flickr site and put them on the air without his permission. In an interview with the website TorrentFreak, Örvar Atli Thorgeirsson said, “This was a once in a lifetime photo session for me and [...]