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Reflections on Iceland's Election of Pirate MPs They say that politics takes time. Yet, history doesn't show any political movement spreading and succeeding as fast as the Pirate Party movement. Will it maintain its accelerated speed, or slow down to follow the tracks of history? This...

Pirates Debut Super-Smooth Video Torrents As bandwidth gets more plentiful, the thirst for better quality video increases alongside. By now most people are aware that screen resolutions are important in terms of image definition, but there are important issues surrounding how that pixel...

Pirate Party Enters Iceland's National Parliament After Historic Election Win The Pirate Party in Iceland seem to have booked a major victory in Iceland's parliamentary election today, scoring 5.1% of the total vote. A truly remarkable achievement for a party that's only a few months old, and...

PayPal Bans BitTorrent VPN / Proxy Service After banning several of the largest file-hosting sites and Usenet providers, PayPal is now taking aim at a VPN/proxy service. The payment processor has just cut off the BitTorrent proxy provider GT Guard and frozen the company's funds. In an email...

MPAA Executive Tampered With IFPI Evidence in Internet Piracy Case Earlier this month Finland's largest ever Internet piracy case ended with four men being found guilty of copyright infringement and two being exonerated. The case involved a so-called 'topsite' called Angel Falls and had an...

Do "Strikes" Programs Help to Reduce Piracy? Several countries including the US and France have implemented so-called "strikes" systems to warn and punish P2P file-sharers. The goal of these programs is to reduce piracy, but do they have any effect on people's download habits? Music group...

US Ambassador Pleads:Stop Pirating Game of Thrones, It's Stealing Just when the Game of Thrones file-sharing controversy had begun settling into the background, the most senior figure yet has weighed in on the debate. Marking UN World Book and Copyright Day and citing TorrentFreak stats to on...

Anonymous Hollywood Exec Ignites BitTorrent Inc Piracy Controversy Describing entirely legitimate, tax-paying technology pioneers as "the devil" is not something you hear happening every day, especially at the highest levels of business. However, that's how a Hollywood studio exec has labeled...

Pirate Bay Finds Safe Haven in Iceland, Switches to .IS Domain After The Pirate Bay's new Greenland-based domains were suspended earlier this month, the world's largest file-sharing site has found a safe haven in Iceland. From now on TPB can be reached via ThePirateBay.is without the imminent...

Police Flex Muscles Again, Arrest Admin of Sweden's #2 BitTorrent Site After being targeted by a police raid on a web host previously owned by Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm, Sweden's #2 torrent site took just three weeks to come back online. Taunting the authorities with their...

McAfee Patents Technology to Detect and Block Pirated Content Security software company McAfee has patented a new technology that aims to prevent the public from accessing pirated movies and music online. The system, which expands the SiteAdvisor tool, can detect and block pirated material...

BitTorrent's Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public BitTorrent Inc. has opened up its Sync app to the public today. The new application is free of charge and allows people to securely sync folders to multiple devices using the BitTorrent protocol.Complete control over the storage location of...

Prolific BitTorrent Uploader Faces Jail Time in Sweden The former moderator of a now-defunct torrent site has just earned the dubious honor of becoming the most prolific BitTorrent uploader ever to be charged by authorities. The man, who was arrested in 2011, is said to have uploaded around...

The Pirate Bay Now Accepts Bitcoin Donations The Pirate Bay has begun accepting contributions from the public, allowing users to donate exclusively via the P2P crypto-currency Bitcoin. One of the advantages for the operators of the infamous BitTorrent site is that Bitcoin funds can't easily...

CISPA Anyone? Exposing Pirates at The U.S. Government Last week the privacy invasive CISPA bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives, taking it one step closer to becoming law. The proposed bill allows warrant-less spying by Internet companies on behalf of Government agencies. Turning the...