Ukraine Officials Shut Down File Sharing Website Over Copyright Violations

Ukrainian authorities on Wednesday shut down popular file sharing website Ex.ua over copyright violations. The move comes just two weeks after US authorities put an end to the world's most popular file sharing service Megaupload.com. Speaking about the ... continue

Electronic Frontier Foundation Vows To Save Megaupload User Data

The Electronic Frontier Foundation wants to save non-pirated user data from file sharing service Megaupload, allowing users to access their legitimate data before the company's two U.S. based hosting services delete those files forever. The EFF is currently ... continue

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

With the Feds taking down Megaupload here’s some other file-sharing sites that could be next

The ripples following the takedown of Megaupload by the US government is still rippling through the tech industry with many wondering who could possibly be next. Considering the fact that the US government feels that it doesn't have ... continue

Sweden’s New Recognized Religion Is ‘File Sharing’

  While the practice of file sharing may not be condoned by the Sweden government they have allowed a group of more than 3,000 file-sharer to start a religion based around the practice. In a humor turn of events ... continue

Oh those wacky Canadians and their wanting to legalize file-sharing

In a move sure to drive more than a few music business mogul running and screaming it seems that the Songwriters Association of Canada (SAC) has come out and said that they think that legalizing file-sharing might ... 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

Original Pirate Bay Founders Disband

The original founding members of the popular file-sharing site Pirate Bay are no longer working together according to a report published by the BBC. Originally known as Piratbyran, which translates in English to "piracy bureau", the site was ... continue

Sharing on Facebook is a good thing unless it’s using Limewire

With a market share of around 35% Limewire is one of the best known filesharing applications and this was something they were hoping would become a success application on Facebook. The only problem is ... continue

Virgin’s solution to piracy not sitting well with all record companies

Well color me surprised but not all of the record companies are happy with UK ISP Virgin Media’s planned subscription service for downloading music. The UK company believes that consumers want to be ... continue

Britain to turn 7 million people into bona fide criminals

After a weekend get together with David Geffen, a billionaire producer, and members of the Rothschild banking dynasty at their family holiday villa on the Greek island of Corfu, Lord Mandelson the British business ... continue

P2P filesharing seen as “fair use”

There are a lot of different arguments used by people brought to court by the RIAA and other entertainment trade groups in order to come out victorious. In the majority of cases they lose ... continue

Drop.io ups the game with Conference.io

Most people will know of Drop.io as being a drop dead simple file-sharing services out there. Well today they pushed out a new addition to their service called Conference.io and just so I don’t mess ... continue

Government to Monitor UK Internet Use

Downloading a copyrighted file in the UK could now get you a direct warning from the government. A new plan, just announced today, has the nation's six biggest ISPs working hand-in-hand with regulating group Ofcom. ... continue