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Cameron’s lock up pirate’s law is risky
David Cameron’s plan to lock up pirates for 10 years to keep Big Content happy has been slammed by those who know a little about how the law works. Cameron wants to increase the maximum jail term for...
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Pirate sites ban Windows 10
Pirate sites are so worried about their users visiting their sites with Windows 10 that they are starting to ban them. According to TorrentFreak the bans are because of a belief that Microsoft would...
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French government wants to surrender to Big Content
The French Government, which is desperate to surrender to Big Content, is trying to enable the credit card companies to stop payments to businesses the movie and music business do not like. Fleur...
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Police play up the antics of the Karaoke gang
The City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) hit the headlines claiming to have dismantled an evil gang “suspected of uploading and distributing tens of thousands of karaoke...
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Warner Bros names itself as a pirate
Dumb-arse legal enforcers working for Warner Bros ordered a takedown of studio’s own site on Google claiming it was a pirate site. Vobile, a company that files hundreds of thousands of takedown...
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Pirates do well in Iceland
Iceland’s Pirate Party has won ten seats in the nation’s 63-seat parliament which means that it is close to forming a rag-tag government with others holding similar views. Píratar, to use the party’s...
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Aussies giving up piracy for legal streaming
Aussie content pirates are giving up their torrenting now that big content has made legal streaming more available. A report commissioned by the Australian government has found a drop in piracy rates...
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Sky asks people nicely to stop piracy
In a very British approach to online-piracy, the ISP Sky has asked its customers nicely to stop pirating content. In an entry on its dedicated FAQs page, Sky has started sending out notices to those...
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Streaming content is not piracy
Derbyshire Trading Standards has said that if users only stream and don’t download, they’re likely to be exempt from copyright law and can’t be considered pirates. So far no one has been prosecuted for...
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Romans declare piracy sites legal
After years of backing the sinking of pirate content websites, the Roman Court of Appeal has overturned a 600,000 euro ruling against four unlicensed sites that offered streaming movies to the public....
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