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Everyone’s favorite torrent site (if only for the interesting news they provide) looks to be in quite a bit of trouble again.  It just can’t seem to catch a break—it’s as if every organization with a ton of copyrights finds it necessary to sue the site.  Last time it was… Continue Reading »

Soon after the Pirate Bay founders were sentenced to over a year in jail and slapped with hefty fines, accusations began to fly that the judge sitting on the case was biased and the verdict should be overturned.  Now the person appointed to investigate the claims has been found to… Continue Reading »

The Swedish courts handed down a landmark decision by finding the four founders of the wildly popular torrent site Pirate Bay guilty of hosting copyrighted material on their website.  Along with being sentenced to one year in prison each, the company will have to pay an estimated $3.5 million to… Continue Reading »

Apparently it isn’t only pirates that do the attacking.  At least not when it comes to Pirate Bay.  They’ve found themselves under attack quite a bit as of late, and it doesn’t look like that is going to be abating any time soon. Just last week, the trial kicked off… Continue Reading »

Raise your hand if you remember the Spore SecuROM fiasco.  The community backlash, and the resulting huge amount of pirated copies of the game that became available.  You’d think that somebody would try to create a form of copy protection that both copyright holders and consumers can be okay with. … Continue Reading »

You’ve got to feel bad for YouTube.  After becoming the Internet’s darling for such fun gags, it wants to get a day job.  No longer content with just the clearing house for pranks and short clips, it wants to be in the full length movie business as well as the… Continue Reading »

You don’t even have to be illegally sharing your files to have the gaming firms after you apparently.  Just ask Gill and Ken Murdoch.  They’re senior citizens who don’t even play computer games and had never even heard the term “peer-to-peer” until they got a letter in the mail telling… Continue Reading »

“The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary gain, is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to five years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000.”  So says the warning on all movies released since early… Continue Reading »

Developed by the Canadian company Idee, the TinEye search engine is a fantastic new breakthrough in the realm of search engines that allows users to search for their photographs anywhere on the Internet.  Users are able to actually search for a picture by uploading it, and then having the program… Continue Reading »

Your right to privacy is no longer as private as you once thought or hoped. By court order, Google is being forced to hand over all the records of every video watched by YouTube users. This information will include users’ names as well as IP addresses, and the request has… Continue Reading »