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RapidShare Aims Its Guns At Dropbox With Its New RapidDrive
RapidShare, favourite of file sharers everywhere, has decided it wants to go legal and grab a slice of the tasty Dropbox-style pie. It’s just unveiled its brand new RapidDrive cloud sync and storage...
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Rapidshare Want Third Party Linking Websites Shutdown
Speaking at the Technology Policy Institute forum in Aspen, Rapidshare’s Chief Legal Officer, Daniel Raimer, called for a crackdown on third party websites that facilitate piracy by linking to...
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UKNova Closing Down Its Doors After Threats From FACT
Operating since 2003, UKNova, a torrent indexing site for British TV and Radio has been threatened with legal action from the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and is closing down its doors to...
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Who’s Downloading What Near You?
As part of a report into the UK’s music piracy hotspots, the BBC has cobbled together a searchable database which uses location data to tell you what your neighbours are likely to be downloading right...
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Happy Birthday to The Pirate Bay, Which Turned Nine Against All Odds
The world’s most popular piracy portal reached a new landmark over the weekend, celebrating nine years of existence in the face of blocks, censorship, court cases and just your general kind of...
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File-Sharers Buy 30 Percent More Music Than Non-Sharers
A massive public policy study has revealed that on average file-sharers buy 30 per cent more music than their non-sharing counterparts. That suggests that the record labels’ self-declared enemies are...
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The New Megaupload Has a Super Clever Way to Avoid Getting Raided Again
From the ashes of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom is launching a new file-sharing service: Mega. Mega is like Megaupload but will be safe from raids and government interference because it has “ironclad safe...
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MegaUpload Slated To Rise From the Ashes on the Anniversary of Its Death
MegaUpload has been down for almost a year now, but mastermind Kim Dotcom has had no intentions of letting it stay that way. Previously, he’s teased some details about a relaunch and the servers are...
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Megaupload’s New Website Is Me.ga
Kim Dotcom just announced where Megaupload will be reborn: Me.ga. As in, that’s the new file sharing website that will officially launch on January 20th next year. Go check it out. Right now, it’s only...
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Leeds Bad Boys Given Nine Month Suspended Sentences for Usenet Copyright Crimes
A couple of men from Leeds are the latest victims of the UK’s ongoing crackdown on copyright infringement, with the pair given nine-month sentences for running illegal TV and movie streaming sites....
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Anti-Piracy Boss has Secret Past as Usenet Piracy Kingpin
A chap by the name of Joseph Morganelli runs friendly looking anti-piracy site The Morganelli Group. He also used to run BinNews, a large usenet aggregator that lost a $15m piracy case. He must be a...
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“Freeze! IP Police! Move Your Hand Slowly Away From the Mouse”
The City of London police is setting up a dedicated intellectual property crime unit, which will directly target individual downloaders of copyrighted material. Business secretary Vince Cable announced...
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You’re Not Safe Anymore — Identifying Pirates Just Got a Heck of a Lot Easier
Two long-running piracy cases in Sweden have been resolved in the favour of The Man, with ISPs forced to hand over identifying information that could lead to prosecutions for those currently being made...
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Kim Dotcom’s New File Sharing Service Users Will Have 50GB Free Storage
Kim Dotcom seems firmly determined to give the megafinger to the Feds and continue with his meganew file sharing megaproject after megaupload was megashutteddowned. He claims his new Mega will give...
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Kim Dotcom’s Mega Is Now Open To the Public
Mega, Kim Dotcom’s big, flashy new copyright-dismantling file-sharing/storage site with encryption up the wazoo has finally launched. You can head on over and sign up right now. That is, so long as the...
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Mega Is Going to Handle Password Resets Different Than Everybody Else
Right now, Mega, the zombie file-sharing service currently only useful for people with infinite patience and/or dial up Internet, doesn’t offer any sort of password reset or recovery system. If you...
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BitTorrent’s New Trick: Letting You Send Terabyte-Sized Email Attachments
Not too long ago, BitTorrent launched a little project called Sync, that provides practically unlimited cloud storage. Now the professional sharers are rolling out yet another service called “SoShare”...
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The Pirate Bay Is Now the World’s Number 1 File Sharing Site
While The Pirate Pay is certainly notorious, it’s always oddly lingered in the mid-table when it comes to real-world file sharing. No longer, though: according to fresh analysis by Torrent Freak, the...
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You Can Now Buy Stuff From Right Inside a Torrent
BitTorrent’s always got something cooking, from a streaming video protocol that never overloads, to a neat little private cloud storage system. Now the company’s invented a new kind of torrent that...
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The Great Firewall of Cameron Won’t Just Block Porn
New details have emerged about our dear Prime Minster David Cameron’s plan to force through a UK internet censorship system to protect our children. The supposedly “default on” plan won’t just stop at...
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