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BPI filing more than 1m link takedowns a week with Google
The row over whether Google should be doing more to demote piracy sites in its search results continues, including no let up in the amount of takedown requests being filed by the BPI.
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Pirate Bay sets sail for Greenland
Pre-emptively trying to avoid Swedish authorities seizing its .se domain, The Pirate Bay is on the move to Greenland, hoping its .gl domain name will put it out of legal reach.
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Pirate Bay’s move to Greenland hits the rocks
In trying to stay one step ahead of the authorities, this week The Pirate Bay moved its .se domain in Sweden to a .gl one in Greenland.
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Spanish government promises tougher anti-piracy laws
Spain has long been seen as a problematic market by music rightsholders due to high levels of piracy, and in the past, a perceived laissez-fair attitude by the Spanish government.
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BitTorrent jabs back after Netflix’s piracy claims
BitTorrent isn't too impressed with Netflix, after the streaming TV/films service used falling BitTorrent traffic as evidence that it cannibalises piracy.
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Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde standing for European Parliament
Well, this could be… interesting. Former Pirate Bay spokesperson Peter Sunde has announced plans to stand in next year's European Parliament elections, running under the flag of the Finnish Pirate Party.
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The BPI may be about to get Grooveshark blocked by UK ISPs
Having succeeded in a series of High Court actions to get specific piracy sites blocked by UK ISPs, the BPI is seemingly preparing to ramp up its campaign.
View ArticleRapidShare lays off three quarters of its staff
How much of online file-storage service RapidShare's business was fuelled by piracy? Well, since implementing tough restrictions on its users' uploads and downloads, the company has been struggling.
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IP infringement report pitches malware as possible piracy solution
Our bank-holiday facepalm moment this weekend was provided by a report from the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property, outlining its latest proposals for battling online piracy....
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Live: Google, David Lowery and the BPI talk ad-funded piracy
The topic of ad-funded piracy has been increasingly prominent in recent months, with musician David Lowery, Beggars Group founder Martin Mills, music industry body the BPI and the University of...
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Flipkart blames piracy and payment issues for closure of Flyte
India-focused streaming music services like Dhingana, Saavn and Gaana may be growing rapidly, but DRM-free downloads store Flyte is shutting down.
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Irish music industry seeks new court order to block The Pirate Bay
Court-mandated ISP blocks of piracy sites is now well established in the UK, after a series of High Court rulings.
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City of London Police begins new crackdown on torrent sites
A number of torrent sites have been blocked by ISPs in the UK following High Court orders in the last year, but now a new front is opening up in the anti-piracy wars.
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Australian study claims piracy increases with income
Some new research in Australia examines different data about people who download music and other media illegally: their income and education.
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Russian social network vKontakte removing copyrighted music tracks
Big things are afoot in Russia, where social network vKontakte appears to have started deleting a range of copyrighted tracks uploaded by its users, in response to requests by rightsholders. Several...
View ArticleShould the music industry be more worried about Offliberty?
Offliberty.com it's a site that "lets you access any online content without a permanent Internet connection"
View ArticleUK’s first DEA warning letters won’t be sent out until late 2015
There's been another delay in the estimated launch date of the British government's anti-piracy notifications campaign.
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BitTorrent: ‘We don’t host infringing content. We don’t point to it…’
BitTorrent is a word permanently associated with piracy in the minds of many musicians and rightsholders, despite the best efforts of BitTorrent (the company) to remind them that BitTorrent (the...
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Bye bye Hadopi, but punishment fines remain for French filesharers
Tech blogs celebrating the death of French anti-piracy scheme Hadopi are a little premature: while Hadopi itself is toast and filesharers no longer face the threat of having their internet connections...
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AT&T wins patent for real-time piracy detection on its network
Nobody wants to be the bad guy in consumers' eyes when it comes to piracy: rightsholders (mostly) don't want to take pirates to court individually, while ISPs have long tried to avoid kicking...
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