Microsoft And Adobe Take Down File Sharing Service In Ukraine

It seems this is the month of shutting down file sharing sites. Microsoft and Adobe have filed to take down ex.ua, a file sharing service in the Ukraine. The site has been shut down after a six ... continue

Megaupload User Data Gets Saved, At Least For Another 2 Weeks

Megaupload who recently got shut down due to claims of piracy, copyright infringement, and money laundering, had the chance of all its user's data deleted this week. Fortunately, they've received an extension, but not for long. Why the ... continue

Megaupload User Data May Be Deleted This Week

Megaupload, the notorious file hosting service that was abruptly shut down recently due to piracy and claims of money laundering, is taking another hit in the eyes of it's once users. Data could be deleted this week ... continue

Wiz Khalifa Sued for $2.3M Over Hit Single Black and Yellow

Rapper Wiz Khalifa is being sued for $2.3 million over his hit Pittsburgh Steelers anthem "Black And Yellow." Allhiphop.com has uncovered the lawsuit, which claims that Khalifa, his producers and label stole the concept for the hit song, ... continue

[Video] YouTube sends naughty users to “Copyright School”

Well, this is kinda whack. YouTube is now forcing alleged copyright infringers to watch a PSA starring the Happy Tree Friends in which the blue otter pirate is beaten over the head with a gavel several times as ... continue

Swedish judge upholds convictions, raises fines on Pirate Bay founders

Although prison terms for founders of the Pirate Bay were reduced in a recent appeal, a judge upped fines in the case by two million dollars for a total of 46 million kronor- less than the 120 ... continue

Jammie Thomas-Rasset receives third judgment, fined $1.5m

A jury in Minneapolis has decided on a third fine for illegal downloader Jammie Thomas-Rasset- the Minnesota woman was originally fined $1.92 million for downloading 24 songs. The RIAA has offered twice to settle the case, once for ... continue

German court rules RapidShare not liable for users’ actions

Nearly a year ago, a German court slapped filesharing site RapidShare with a $34m fine and ruled that the site must proactively root out pirates and prevent instances of copyright infringement in a suit filed by German ... continue

Inevitable: Hitler ‘Downfall’ meme removed from YouTube, Hitler rants about it

You may know by now that Constantin Films has been finding and deleting the zillions of YouTube parodies of a scene from the film Downfall, where Adolf Hitler rants about iPads or content farms or something in ... continue

Warner Bros. now hiring professional snitches

TorrentFreak has blogged about a vacancy originally posted by Warner Bros. UK, seeking an "anti-piracy intern" on that side of the pond. If you like stealing content but have a secret narc side, you can apply up until ... continue

Fun with copyright laws: YouTube says Viacom uploaded own videos, sued

YouTube Chief Counsel Zahavah Levine posted some interesting things today on YouTube's official blog about Viacom's strange, love-hate relationship with the video streaming giant. I am not a lawyer©, but the allegations made certainly seem like Viacom is ... continue

RIAA offers to settle with Jammie Thomas-Rasset for $25K

Well, that's one way to make fines for file-sharing look even more arbitrary, astronomical and totally imaginary. The RIAA battled single mom Jammie Thomas-Rasset in court over 24 tracks the woman illegally shared over Kazaa. Despite Thomas-Rasset's protests ... continue

RIAA wins $675,000 in Tenenbaum music sharing case

The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has bankrupted PhD student Joel Tenenbaum after a Jury found him guilty of copyright infringement for downloading and sharing 30 songs over the KaZaA peer-to-peer network. The Judge then ordered ... continue

RIAA trial ends in $2m fine

A Minnesota mother of two has been fined $1.92m for "willful copyright infringement" in the illegal sharing of 22 songs. Jammie Thomas-Rasset (pronounced "Jamie"- can they tack on a fine for that?) was found to be responsible for ... continue