Category: Intellectual Property
Game of Thrones torrents most popular with 2012's pirates
Newly collated figures show that Game of Thrones is the most illegally downloaded show of 2012 so far. The swords-and-sorcery epic, based on the novels of George R.R. Martin has been already been downloaded over 25 million times, despite the…
O2 forced to give 9,000 porn pirates' details to smut baron
Over 9,000 O2 broadband customers caught illegally downloading pornography will have their personal details handed over to a major porn baron pressing for a settlement payout, it has been revealed today. Ben Dover, the pseudonym for British porn actor,…
Pirate Bay taking to the skies to avoid authorities
The Pirate Bay are considering moving their servers into the sky aboard low-orbit, unmanned drones in an attempt to thwart the ground-based authorities looking to close the file sharing site down. Looking to harness the power of super-small PCs like…
The Pirate Bay stops hosting torrents, but may prove even stronger as a result
The Pirate Bay have announced that they will no longer be hosting torrent files, and will instead now focus on providing file-sharers with magnet links. Though one would assume torrent files are the bread-and-butter of the service, this new…
SOPA and PIPA: What the bills mean for the Internet, pirates, Hollywood and YOU
Tried to get onto Wikipedia today? If you're from an English-speaking nation, then you were probably presented with the image above, and not the free source of community-built knowledge that the web encyclopedia is known for. And it's going to…
Wikipedia announce 24 hour blackout to protest SOPA/PIPA piracy bills
Wikipedia have announced that they are to "blackout" their immensely popular web encyclopedia on January 18th in protest against proposed anti-piracy acts in the US. After 72 hours of discussions between 1800 Wikipedia members, the decision to fight against the…
Music industry's BPI pushing BT to block The Pirate Bay
Internet service providers and UK telecoms giant BT are being put under pressure by the BPI (a coalition of music industry officials, publishers and Hollywood studios) to pull access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay. The request comes following a…
The Who's Pete Townshend labels Apple a "digital vampire"
The Who's windmilling guitarist Pete Townshend has marked Apple as a "digital vampire" during his talk at the first annual John Peel lecture in Salford last night (October 31st). Stating that the internet is "destroying copyright as we know it"…
Nintendo's Zelda lands on iPhone App Store. Er…wait a minute…
Nintendo's Zelda franchise hits the iPhone! Well, sort of. "Ultimate iZelda Climb", developed by Audio Attack is the app in question. Rather than being a swashbuckling adventure full of magic, dungeons and fair maidens however, Ultimate iZelda Climb is…
Pirate Party in Berlin election support surge
The Pirate Party, an independent political group who claim to represent digital rights and civil liberties for file sharers, have gained a landmark 8.9% of votes in the preliminary results of the Berlin local elections. Boasting 12,000 members since forming…
