Articles tagged "piracy"

"Even though I'm a candidate for the Pirate Party, I'm not actually a member."

An academic study out this month is a good first whack aimed to chip away at the glaring absence of data on illegal file-sharing.

By revolutionizing how we share stuff, BitTorrent also backed itself into a corner that it now seems desperate to escape from—using the same tools that made it what it is.

The file-sharing site is having a hard time.

Now you BitTorrent users will receive six "strikes" before your internet provider can punish you.

But is that really Google's fault?

The 75mb XML version has copies of all the two million titles and magnet links indexed by The Pirate Bay

The Times is dealing with a generation of consumers who grew up with Napster and BitTorrent and every major newspaper was readily available online.

The film is a rallying cry for a freer internet, but it shies away from the obvious question: is piracy more than glorified stealing?

It's all a bit silly, but it could prove serious for torrent sites.

Things aren’t looking awesome for Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm, who’s currently under lock and key in a newly built jail about 15 minutes north of Stockholm.

You're a fool if you think your torrent downloading behavior can't be tracked, but with so many people swapping movies and music through BitTorrent _et al_, it's not likely that little old you, ye of occasional downloads, would be singled out, right…

I've been wanting to watch the OG _Star Wars_ trilogy for about three months now, but I don't have any of the DVDs any more. I don't want to drop "$175 clams":http://www.amazon.com/Trilogy-Empire-Strikes-Widescreen-Edition/dp/B00003CXCT/ref=sr_1_1?ie…

Google joined the anti-piracy battle en force at the end of last week with an update to its search algorithm that seeks out and punishes copyright-infringing websites. Under the new policy, sites will be bumped down the ranks in Google's search resul…

In Hollywood’s unrelenting fight against online piracy, Megaupload creator Kim Dotcom has emerged as an unlikely hero whose story has now become, well, pretty damn Hollywood. Footage of the stunning raid on the piracy kingpin has now been "released b…

The inevitable backlash over the online uprisings that foiled controversial pro-copyright bills SOPA and PIPA earlier this year is slowly rising to a boil. Last week, the content industries managed to strike a "backroom deal":https://www.eff.org/deep…

Despite what the recording industry may say, it doesn't matter how many times you copy a digital file -- nothing about the original is being "stolen" as a result of the duplication. In some ways, it's great that physical media has given way to digita…

The Grammys is one of those events that continues to highlight our astounding ability as a culture to choke down the most insufferable bullshit imaginable. I'm not talking about the music itself (though some would argue that that too is following a "…

Ever since last week's historic "web blackout":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/1/20/when-the-noise-gets-louder-than-the-money-online-and-irl-anti-censorship-protests-are-really-raising-hell rattled the cage in Washington, droves of lawmakers have ei…