Firefox Pirates Take Over Amazon
Post from: TorrentFreak “ Firefox Pirates Take Over Amazon: “ Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, is under attack by online pirates. An add-on for the Firefox browser called ‘Pirates of the Amazon’ makes it…
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Will Justin.tv Destroy Sports TV Rights Deals?
Interesting article from TechDirt about Justin.TV and the live pirate transmission of English Premier League games. (Via Techdirt.) Will Justin.tv Destroy Sports TV Rights Deals?: “Last month, Mike wrote about how the English Premier League…
Orange: Our Customers Can Now Access The Pirate Bay
Post from: TorrentFreak “ Orange: Our Customers Can Now Access The Pirate Bay: “ A week ago today, customers of the ISP Orange across the UK and France found that they could no longer access…
Atari Cancels Anti-Piracy Witch-Hunt
Post from: TorrentFreak “ Atari Cancels Anti-Piracy Witch-Hunt: “ After Atari received some bad press recently for mistakenly accusing an elderly couple of pirating one of its games, the company has now stopped the anti-piracy…
Anti-Piracy Lobby Defeats European Democracy
Post from: TorrentFreak “ Anti-Piracy Lobby Defeats European Democracy: “ An amendment designed to protect Internet users from the anti-piracy lobby has been rejected by President Sarkozy of the European Council. The rejection goes against…
Reports: Orange Customers Blocked From The Pirate Bay
Post from: TorrentFreak “ Reports: Orange Customers Blocked From The Pirate Bay: “ The Pirate Bay isn’t new to the experience of being blocked by European ISPs. Now, according to many customers of the ISP…
The Pirate Bay Celebrates 5th Anniversary
Post from: TorrentFreak “ The Pirate Bay Celebrates 5th Anniversary: “ In the fall of 2003, a group of friends from Sweden decided to launch a BitTorrent tracker named ‘The Pirate Bay’. Today, roughly 5…
Danish ISP Must Continue to Block The Pirate Bay
Post from: TorrentFreak “ ISP Must Continue to Block The Pirate Bay: “ In February 2008, a Danish court ordered the ISP Tele2 to block its customers from accessing The Pirate Bay. The controversial ruling…
Movie Studios Sue ISP Over BitTorrent Piracy
Post from: TorrentFreak “ Movie Studios Sue ISP Over BitTorrent Piracy: “ Seven Hollywood studios including Paramount, Sony, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Warner Bros and Disney have teamed up to sue iiNet, Australia’s third largest…
Academics warn of EU ‘three strikes’ back door plan
Academics warn of EU ‘three strikes’ back door plan: “ Disconnection looms European law is introducing a ‘three strikes and you’re out’ law for ISPs to disconnect illegal file sharers ‘under cover of stealth’, according…