Last summer, a U.S. District Court in Minnesota sentenced Paul Hansmeier to 14 years in prison, followed by two years of supervised release. Hansmeier was a...
Just over a year ago, author John Van Stry filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in a Texas court against former Pirate Party Canada leader Travis McCrea,...
Automattic, the company behind the popular blogging platform WordPress.com, receives thousands of takedown requests from copyright holders. For a number of years, the volume of notices...
Legal actions against file-sharers come in all shapes and sizes but perhaps the most common are the mass lawsuits that target alleged BitTorrent users. Hundreds of...
Over the past several weeks, The Pirate Bay has suffered prolonged downtime. For many people, the popular torrent site was completely unreachable through its main ThePirateBay.org...
The Pirate Bay’s original and main domain has been unreachable for more than a month. While the site operates as usual on the Tor network, visitors...
All around the world, content creators, distributors and associated anti-piracy groups are grappling with the thorny issue of piracy-configured set-top boxes. These cheap devices were initially...
Three years ago, a group of RIAA labels sued the Texas ISP Grande Communications. The music companies accused the provider of not doing enough to stop...
While English language ‘pirate’ sites grab most mainstream headlines, anti-piracy groups have international platforms firmly on their radars. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of such sites...
The coronavirus pandemic has drastically changed the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world. In every continent, local governments have imposed restrictive measures,...
