Major Cyberlocker Filesonic Goes Offline After Traffic Plummets A major cyberlocker described by the MPAA / RIAA-affiliated International Intellectual Property Alliance as an “infringing distribution hub” appears to be in serious trouble. Filesonic, previously listed among the top 10 largest file-sharing sites in the world, was badly affected by the Megaupload shutdown and lost huge [...]

U.S. Returns Seized Domains to Streaming Links Site (After 18 Months) The hugely popular sports streaming and download site Rojadirecta has won its battle with the U.S. More than one and a half years after the feds took the domain names of the Spanish company the authorities have now dropped their lawsuit, meaning that the [...]

Kim Dotcom Wins Release of $4.83m, Some Lawyers Set To Get Paid Kim Dotcom has yet another reason to celebrate this morning. The High Court in New Zealand has freed up $4.83 million from a government bond seized from the Internet entrepreneur when he was arrested back in January. The cash will go towards Dotcom’s [...]

New Megaupload Will Be Massive Global Network To Change The World Several weeks ago Kim Dotcom informed the world that Megaupload would be back, bigger and better than ever. Today, in a series of announcements he’s provided more intriguing details about the new service. “We are building a massive global network,” Dotcom revealed, while adding [...]

Leading ‘Ethical’ TV Show BitTorrent Tracker Shut Down By FACT The MPAA-funded anti-piracy group behind the prosecution of UK streaming links site SurfTheChannel has claimed another prominent victim. UKNova, which has been in existence for almost a decade, has a strict ‘ethical’ policy which forbids users from uploading any material which is available to buy, [...]

MPAA Budget Slashed In Half, Are They Dying? Despite the ever increasing threat of online piracy, Hollywood is allocating less money to their flagship anti-piracy outfit. Tax records reveal that in a period of three years the major movie studios cut their payments to the MPAA in half. As a direct result the budget of [...]

BitTorrent Bonanza: Monitoring File-Sharers Forbidden in Norway From today, file-sharers in Norway can download pretty much whatever they like without facing any consequences. Pirates were effectively given the green light after the only law firm in the country permitted to monitor file-sharing networks lost its license and were denied a new one. Source: BitTorrent Bonanza: [...]

Movie Studio Wants to Bankrupt Pirate Bay Founder Movie company Yellow Bird has asked the Stockholm District Court to declare Pirate Bay founder Fredrik Neij bankrupt. Neij, who currently lives in Asia, owes the movie studio nearly $1 million in damages for his role in operating the BitTorrent site. Yellow Bird hopes to recoup some [...]

MPAA [Wrongly] Downplays Hollywood’s Role In Keeping Piracy Alive “Hollywood is keeping piracy alive by failing to make content available legally.” It’s an often heard argument, but one that’s not “borne out by the facts” according to the MPAA. However, the “facts” presented in a rebuttal by the movie industry group are twisted and show [...]

Ubisoft: PC Piracy Levels 95%, and 95% of Free-To-Play Users Do Not Pay The CEO of games giant Ubisoft has revealed an interesting parallel in the company’s business models. Speaking at Gamescom this week, Yves Guillemot said that around 95% of players of the company’s boxed PC games are pirates. Equally, of all players of [...]