Kim Dotcom Dismissed As Fraudster By Twitter and Facebook The U.S. Government has accused Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom of conspiracy to defraud , and now two tech giants appear to be having trouble trusting Dotcom as well. Despite faxing over official government-issued ID, he still can’t get Twitter to believe he’s the real deal. Furthermore, [...]

Ubisoft DRM Lets In Remote Attackers, Google Engineer Reports Hacker Tavis Ormandy has discovered a serious vulnerability in a well-known PC game DRM system. The Google engineer said that after buying a game from Ubisoft he became aware that its “Uplay” browser plug-in might prove problematic. In the early hours of this morning Ormandy confirmed [...]

Leaked: IFPI Tutorial On How To Stop Pre-Release Music Leaks Following the inadvertent leak of several IFPI and RIAA reports this week and our subsequent articles, today we wind up with perhaps the most ironic of the series. It covers a presentation by the IFPI’s head of anti-piracy operations to industry insiders on how to [...]

Music Labels Won’t Share Pirate Bay Loot With Artists Earlier this year the sentences against the Pirate Bay defendants were made final. Aside from prison sentences, they will have to pay damages to the entertainment industries, including €550,000 to several major music labels. The court awarded the damages to compensate artists and rightsholders for their [...]

Leaked RIAA Report: SOPA/PIPA “Ineffective Tool” Against Music Piracy Contrary to the endless lobbying and subsequent defending of the now-dead SOPA and PIPA frameworks, a leaked report shows that earlier this year the RIAA’s Deputy General Counsel admitted that the legislation was “not likely to have been effective tool” for dealing with music piracy. All [...]

Swizz Beatz on Megaupload: I Was Giving Artists 90% Of The Shit Grammy award-winning artist Swizz Beatz has publicly defended his role with Megaupload. The U.S. authorities hinted recently they might involve Beatz more in the case, but the rapper/producer seems unfazed. “I’m a fan of music, i’m a fan of people who work hard [...]

Leaked Report Reveals Music Industry’s Global Anti-Piracy Strategy A confidential internal report of the music industry outfit IFPI has been inadvertently made available online by the group itself. Penned by their Head of Internet Anti-piracy Operations, the report details the global strategy for the major recording labels of IFPI. Issues covered include everything from torrent [...]

Alleged UK File-Sharers Better Armed and Ready To Fight Ben Dover After initially attempting to target around 9,000 individuals, Golden Eye International acting on behalf of pornographic film producer Ben Dover are about to start dumping cash demands on the doorsteps of 2,845 alleged file-sharers in the UK. TorrentFreak has obtained a copy of the [...]

Hulu is a great entertainment resource which provides an outstanding range of contents, such as TV shows, movies, clips, trailers, behind-the-scenes footage and a lot of other different media. But Hulu does have one major drawback. It’s only available as long as you live in the United States and on its overseas territories. BUT! Why [...]

In the today’s world, social sites have become the very popular among people of all ages. It’s common for individuals to spend a lot of time on these social sites like facebook and twitter. Because of this fact, many academic institutions and businesses have resorted to blocking these social sites so as to help prevent [...]