The Pirate Bay effect causes piracy related sites to surge
Thetech Herald
"The attempted shut down of The Pirate Bay led to an explosion of similar sites, many of which are malicious," said Dave Marcus, director of security research and communications for McAfee Labs. "The sharing of illegal content online has no...
Pirate Bay duo face $140K in fines
p2pnet.net
The Stockholm district courtsays it’ll fine Gottfried Svartholm Warg (right) and Fredrik Neij (left) about $US 70,000 each —- —- unless they stop running the site. According to the court, “Gottfried Svartholm Warg and Fredrik Neij are still...
FCC Fines Bay Area Musicians, Artists $10,000 for "Pirate Cat Radio"
East Bay Express
Thousands of Bay Area pirate radio fans are learning this week that the region's biggest illicit station, Pirate Cat Radio, has been fined $10,000 by the FCC and has taken down its 1,200-watt, San Francisco-based transmitter. According to t...
The Pirate Bay shutdown sends file swappers to malware sites
MX Logic
Microsoft on Monday issued a security bulletin that updates a previous patch for Internet Explorer to resolve two issues. The IE bug only affects users who already applied the earlier patch. Mozilla upgrades web browser security in Firefox ...
Day 13: Pirate Bay demo choked by Federal Court filter
ITnews
Exemption to be created. Website blocking software installed within Sydney's Federal Court brought proceedings in a landmark case between Hollywood film studios and ISP iiNet to a halt today. A barrister for the film industry was attempting...
Swedish Court Orders ISP to Block the Pirate Bay
Zeropaid
Stockholm District Court threatened to fine Black Internet, its largest bandwidth provider, 500,000 kronor ($70,630 USD) if it refused. The move caused the Pirate Bay to experience a mere 3hrs of partial downtime, a trivial result that even...
Judge: Norwegian ISP Does Not Have to Block The Pirate Bay
OS News
Every now and then you come across these news items that make just too much sense to be true. Earlier this year, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry threatened Norway's largest ISP, Telenor: block access to The Pirate ...
File-sharers are big spenders too
BBC Technology
People who download music illegally also spend an average of £77 a year buying it legitimately, a survey has found. Those who claimed not to use peer-to-peer filesharing sites such as The Pirate Bay spent a yearly average of just £44.
AFACT v iiNet: It’s Impossible to Block The Pirate Bay
TorrentFreak
Day twelve of the trial between anti-piracy group AFACT and Aussie ISP iiNet. iiNet CEO Michael Malone was questioned by AFACT barrister Tony Bannon for the fourth consecutive day, this time about the world’s largest tracker, The Pirate Bay...
Court rejects request to block access to Pirate Bay website
Monsters and Critics
Oslo - Norwegian telecommunications group Telenor Friday welcomed a Norwegian court ruling that the firm was not obliged to block its customers from accessing the controversial Pirate Bay file- sharing website. The International Federation ...