The massive growth of piracy will not be stopped by government policy. The Internet is ever evolving and piracy sites just keep on moving to other addresses. Any website can just move to another web address and keep on trading as normal. Any website can just have mirrors that go up and are used to … Read more
This is the beginning of the end for the Internet if the Attorney-General George Brandis gets his way. There are a large number of people downloading the latest episodes of Game Of Thrones, but this is a massively popular TV show. The battle at the wall was well worth watching. People want the episodes as … Read more
The recent raid that took down the Wikileaks and Piratebay websites could be a sign of things to come. The SOPA and SIPA bills that Congress tried to pass through as well as the ACTA bill are about stopping the sharing of copyrighted material; but other things such as the demonization of social media in … Read more
The piratebay.se website has been shut down. The servers hosting the Wikileaks and pirate Bay websites are down after a raid on the premises by authorities. This means that those people wanting to download copyrighted material will have to look elsewhere for their movie fix. This could spur further raids on other websites that could … Read more
The website hosting company GoDaddy are publicly supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. This bill would condemn any website that is hosting or linking to copyright infringing material. GODaddy supports the SOPA bill that they say will be protecting the intellectual property of hard-working Americans, U.S. business and the American public from the … Read more
The MPAA have released a lit of websites they say are supporting online piracy, these include the obvious torrent websites, they are also targeting the video streaming websites used to stream copyrighted movies and music. The Rapidshare website has been left out of this list for now, considering the fact that they are wielding more … Read more
Is this the future of the Internet after the Stop Online Piracy Act comes into force? Users having to purchase a set package that includes access to a selection of websites and a 500 Megabyte cap with 2 Gigabytes added with each recharge. That would not last long if you want to stream television shows … Read more
The Internet that we know that has free speech and freedom of expression as its keystone is due to be restricted with free speech under attack under the guise of protecting against piracy and pornography. But they really want to take away our freedom to say what ever we want about the current state of … Read more
The unfortunate movie fans who snagged a copy of the Sylvester Stallone film The Expendables now are facing a lawsuit by the movie studios for copyright infringement. it is bad enough they are downloading a copy of this horrible film. I mean I am downloading a copy myself, but only out of morbid curiosity. I … Read more