During the last couple of weeks the closure of Usenet indexing sites Newzbin2 and NZBMatrix caused chaos in the Usenet community. They were the most damaging site shutdowns in more than half a decade. The previous largest...

In what would become a pioneering battle to have a file-sharing site blocked at the ISP level in the UK, last year ISP BT found itself taking on the might of the major Hollywood studios. The Motion...

Every year Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN claims to shut down a few hundred torrent sites, but SumoTorrent has never been among them. Back in 2007 BREIN managed to kick the torrent site out of the Netherlands where...

Over the years the laundry list of punishments and measures against The Pirate Bay and its founders has grown to epic proportions. The founders of the site were hit with jail sentences and huge fines following a...

YouTube is without doubt the biggest free resource of videos and music available online today. It can be enjoyed on the site itself, embedded in any webpage, or accessed via YouTube’s Application Programming Interface. This API, as...

In June 2011, the biggest ever operation aimed at tackling online movie piracy took place in Europe. The target for police in Germany, Spain, France, and the Netherlands was movie-streaming portal Kino.to and its affiliates. More than...

With the rise and rise of cheap hosting with masses of available bandwidth and endless cloud storage, cyberlocker hosting sites have become the weapon of choice for many file-sharers. Of course, in January the cyberlocker market had...

Founded in 2003, UK-based FileSoup was one of the original torrent sites. When the site started there was no Pirate Bay, no Torrentz, and isoHunt wasn’t searching .torrent files yet. FileSoup outlived many of the sites that...

According to the charge sheet from December 2011, the defendant in the case had been responsible from the operations and administration of a BitTorrent site between early 2007 and 2009. The site, the now-defunct private BitTorrent tracker...

From the deaf to those who simply don’t understand the language being used, for millions of people all around the world subtitles are necessary for the enjoyment of movies and TV shows. Online, subtitles come in the...