On Sunday, seven movie directors and producers spoke as one through an article published on SvD.se. Titled “Do not let the pirates have connectivity.” The article bemoaned the fact that The Pirate Bay continues to operate despite...

After an expensive legal battle a group of music labels achieved their aim of having The Pirate Bay website blocked in the UK. With the official site blocked, millions of users switched over to proxy services, and...

For years entertainment industry groups have been demanding that Google does something about the “pirate sites” showing up in their search results. Google has responded to these concerns by taking a variety of measures aimed at decreasing...

November 2010, the Swedish Court of Appeal found three people behind The Pirate Bay guilty of criminal copyright infringement offenses. Fredrik Neij, one of the original founders of The Pirate Bay, was sentenced to 10 months in...

The Department of Justice announced today that it had seized the domain names of three websites offering pirated Android apps. With help from French and Dutch police, the FBI took over applanet.net, appbucket.net and snappzmarket.com. In their...

After several large ISPs in the UK and the Netherlands were ordered to block The Pirate Bay this year, reverse proxy sites popped up left and right. These sites allow users to access the BitTorrent site through...

Following the criminal convictions of Pirate Bay founders Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij, all but Sunde have kept a relatively low profile. While the site’s former spokesman has been active online promoting his Flattr micropayment...

Last week Google announced that it would lower the search engine rankings of websites that receive a high number of DMCA takedown requests, independent of whether the linked content is lawful or not. The algorithm change is...

The U.S. Government is constantly evaluating and updating its copyright enforcement policies. To this end, Copyright Czar Victoria Espinel recently asked “the public” to come up with recommendations for the future strategy. The call resulted in dozens...

For years entertainment industry groups have lobbied search engines to penalize sites that link to a high number of copyrighted files, and today Google has given in to their demands. The search engine will soon take into...