In his first major interview since his arrest, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom defends the now shut down file sharing web site, saying, "I'm no copyright infringer".
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After spending a month in jail, Kim Dotcom, the founder of the now shut down file sharing web site Megaupload, was surprisingly granted bail today in a New Zealand courtroom.
Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, claims that the entertainment industry is subverting governments and legal systems to protect a business model that's no longer relevant.
How much space does the most resilient BitTorrent indexing site in the world take? Just a handful of Megabytes, and you can backup the site too.
Contrary to the claims of the movie industry, researchers from the University of Minnesota and Wellesley College concluded there is no evidence that BitTorrent piracy hurts U.S. box office returns.
The New England Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady admitted this week he viewed the 2011 Super Bowl via a web site that illegally streamed video from the NFL's championship game.
The US government shut down 307 web sites this week in a new operation that targeted sites that sold pirated NFL merchandise along with sites that illegally streamed pro football telecasts.
According to recently released statistics, a single studio, Magnolia Pictures, accounts for a whole one third of all DMCA takedown requests on Twitter, more than Universal Music and Sony combined.
Sweden's Supreme Court has ruled today that the three Pirate Bay team members that were given prison sentences and fines won't be given an appeal, making their sentences permanent.
In the massive indictment against the Megaupload file sharing web site, the FBI claimed that the site's team members wanted to copy the contents of YouTube back in 2006.
Data from the servers that hosted the Megaupload file sharing service could be deleted starting as early as Thursday, according to a letter from federal officials to those server hosting companies.
Striking government websites once again, Anonymous is taking credit for bringing down several Irish government websites, in protest of copyright reform laws that are being called the 'Irish SOPA.'
The hacker group Anonymous has claimed that the recently announced Anonymous file sharing web site is not officially backed by the group, but the site's organizers insist it is not a fake or scam.
Despite worldwide music revenues growing faster last year than in 2010, a new industry report indicates that music piracy is increasing too - 1 in 4 global web users acquired music illegally in 2011.
Two more executives of the now shut down file sharing web site Megaupload have been arrested and charged with online piracy but one more team member is still at large.
Kim Dotcom, the controversial founder of the file sharing web site Megaupload, said via his attorney he is innocent of the online piracy charges in a bair hearing today in New Zealand.
Even more details about Thursday's raid of Megaupload's founder Kim Dotcom's home in New Zealand have been revealed by law enforcement officials as Dotcom himsef waits in jail for a hearing on Monday.
One of Megaupload's server providers, Cogent Communications, saw its stock go down over 18 percent in trading today after Megaupload was shut down by the US government on Thursday.
In event that rattled the cage of any website owner that shares content, Megaupload.com owner, Kim Schmitz, has appeared in court in NZ after police raided his home yesterday.
The popular file sharing website -- Megaupload -- has been shut down by the US government as a result of being charged with piracy, and effective immediately has disappeared.
The head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has issued a statement slamming the upcoming "blackout" protests of the Stop Online Piracy Act that are scheduled for Wednesday.
Digital activists are cheering after the author of SOPA has decided to drop DNS blocking provisions from the law, a controversial bill in the US Congress that is encountering staunch opposition.
The Pirate Bay has announced that soon it will stop offering torrent links on its web site. Instead the site will offer its visitors magnet links and has already made the change for its default links.
Microsoft has filed legal papers against UK retailer Comet for the pirating and reselling of Windows XP and Vista recovery media across its chain of stores in the UK.
Some of the proponents behind the Stop Online Piracy Act aren't practicing what they're preaching, as IP ranges coming from the US House of Representatives were traced to illegal downloads.
BitTorrent is a protocol used by millions of people to download ("torrent") files over a peer-to-peer network, some which are legit and many that are not. Here are some random facts about torrenting
The film industry is breeding pirates. By sticking to their ways, they're turning consumers into pirates, and they blame everyone but themselves. It's time for them to join us in the modern world.
All of the lawsuits filed by Voltage Pictures against those that allegedly pirated the movie The Hurt Locker have now been dismissed due to the judge in the case not granting an extension to the case.
After RIAA was caught downloading copyrighted material from their own IP block, they've come up with an explanation that seems to mirror what defendants they sue commonly use. It wasn't really them.
2011 is almost over, and it's time for us to look back at what we spent the year doing. Here's a list of the most illegally downloaded shows of 2011. Here's a shocker: the numbers are lower than 2010
Yes, the RIAA does it, too. Hundreds of IPs originating from the RIAA and Department of Homeland Security have been caught illegally downloading music and TV shows from BitTorrent.
CD Projekt, the Polish developers of the critically acclaimed PC RPG The Witcher 2, has confirmed that it is taking legal action and asking compensation from users who allegedly pirated their game.
Despite figures suggesting that The Witcher 2 has been pirated upwards of 4.5 million times the game's developers have stated they will not be adding DRM.
According to the Swiss government, piracy might not be making as big a dent in content owners' pockets as they would have us believe. In fact, piracy hasn't changed their bottom line much at all.
A musician in the Netherlands has attacked anti-piracy group BREIN for distributing his work without permission on millions of DVDs. The piece was originally written for a local film festival.
A new report claims that the US government has taken over 130 or more web domains that have been labeled as offering pirated software or counterfeited items in an new crackdown operation.
According to the European Court of Justice, ISPs can't be forced to institute wide filtering polices to try and curb piracy, since such a policy would be a violation of users' 'fundamental rights.'
An app that let's users illegally download MP3s has been climbing the charts on the Android Market, and Google's not doing anything about it. Why is Google ignoring the RIAA's pleas to take it down?
Part of the final PC version of the upcoming first person shooter Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 is reportedly already showing up on web sites dedicated to distrubuting pirated content.
The MPAA won a court case forcing BT to block access to Newzbin. The company now has 14 days to comply and must ensure access is blocked, even if Newzbin changes addresses.