RapidShare Fires 75% of its Staff After “Rogue Site” Revamp Bites RapidShare is fighting through a crisis after a massive downturn in business forced it to fire three-quarters of its workforce, an insider has revealed. After being labeled a “rogue site” by the U.S. Government, in 2011 the file-hosting service reportedly burned through half a [...]
Fighting Censorship, Proxies Gear Up to Unblock More Torrent Sites Earlier this week TorrentFreak received information to suggest that the recording industry is planning a fresh trip to the UK High Court to have even more torrent sites blocked at the ISP level. If they’re successful there will only be one torrent site from the [...]
Pirate Bay Domain Registrar Assists Copyright Infringement, Prosecutor Claims The organization responsible for Sweden’s top-level domain is facing court action after refusing to disable or seize two domains operated by The Pirate Bay. The Internet Infrastructure Foundation, the body that administers the .SE TLD and engages in projects to better the Internet, now faces a [...]
Sweden Wants to Jail Pirate Bay User to Strengthen Anti-Piracy Enforcement A Swedish Pirate Bay user who was accidentally caught sharing 57 movies during a friend’s house search will face prison time if the authorities get their way. The man was previously ordered to pay a fine, but the prosecutor has now submitted the case [...]
ISPs Protest Mass BitTorrent Piracy Lawsuits to Protect Innocent Subscribers Verizon, AT&T, Time Warner and Cox are appealing a district court decision ordering them to reveal the identities of 1,058 subscribers accused of pirating movies on BitTorrent. The ISPs point out that their subscribers may not be the individuals who downloaded the copyrighted files in [...]
FileServe Hit With $1,000,000 Movie Piracy Lawsuit File-hosting service FileServe has been sued by the production company behind the independent movie American Cowslip. In a lawsuit filed at a federal court in California the movie producers accuse FileServe of several copyright infringement related charges and are demanding more than a million dollars in damages. Source: [...]
Demonoid Resurrected? An Interview With the Admins of D2.vu Yesterday the torrent world lit up with news that Demonoid had somehow been resurrected under the new domain D2.vu. However, the site was quickly taken offline by its host in the U.S. who claimed that it was serving up malware. With the site now back online [...]
Savvy web surfers have heard of a VPN, or Virtual Private Network before and are aware of the privacy features it offers. Anonymous VPN service offered by TorGuard effectively conceals your online identity and encrypts your entire internet connection so everything you do is completely confidential. With over 100+ VPN servers in over 9 countries [...]
Megaupload Launches Frontal Attack on White House Corruption Megaupload’s legal team are not restricting their fight with the U.S. Government only to the courts. Today they published a detailed white paper accusing the White House of selling out to corporate interests, particularly Hollywood. “The message is clear. The White House is for sale. More and [...]
MPAA Lawyer’s Computer Account Used in Pirate Bay Founder Hacking Case It’s been revealed that one of the computer accounts used regularly by the alleged hackers in the ongoing Gottfrid Svartholm case belonged to Monique Wadsted, a lawyer who represented the entertainment companies in the original Pirate Bay trial. Accounts including Wadsted’s were allegedly manipulated [...]
