BRITISH COURT BLOCKS PUBLIC ACCESS TO PIRATE SITE

Britain’s High Court has ordered Internet service providers in the U.K. to block all access to the BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay (TPB). The court sided with a group of music labels, including EMI, Polydor, Sony, Virgin, and Warner Music, which claimed that TPB infringes their copyrights. One of the ISPs, Virgin Media — a […]

THE PIRATE BAY SAILS AGAIN

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 […]