Piracy Stories for 2012

Judge Grants Defendant's Motion To Explore Alleged Fraud By Prenda Law 81
Pirate Radio Station In Florida Jams Automotive Electronics 315
New Pirate Bay Proxies Spring Up 91
Minecraft Documentary Premiers On Pirate Bay As Well As Xbox Live 75
UK Pirate Party Forced To Give Up Legal Fight 245
Zoe Lofgren Wants To Slow Down Domain Seizures By ICE & DOJ 46
Australian ISP iiNet Walks Out of Piracy Warning System Talks 120
Music Industry Suits Could Bankrupt Pirate Party Members 215
Jammie Thomas Takes Constitutional Argument To SCOTUS 146
Hurt Locker Studio Begins Requesting Canadian ISP's Subscriber Info 172
BPI Threatens To Sue the UK Pirate Party Over Proxy 60
Pirate Bay Founder Released From Solitary Confinement 150
Dotcom Drags NZ Spook Agency Into Court 165
MPAA: the Impact of Megaupload's Shutdown Was 'Massive' 308
NZ Pirate Party Takes Issue With Pro-Trans-Pacific Partnership Website 31
Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Links To Legal Copies of Their Own Films 196
4 Microsoft Engineers Predicted DRM Would Fail 10 Years Ago 142
British Pirate Party Asked To Pull Pirate Bay Proxy 80
Newzbin2 Closes For Good 204
TVShack Founder Signs Deal Avoiding Extradition 147
Canada Prepares For Crackdown On BitTorrent Movie Pirates 292
GOG: How an Indie Game Store Took On the Pirates and Won 397
Researchers Find Megaupload Shutdown Hurt Box Office Revenues 203
FBI Asked Megaupload To Preserve Pirated Files, Then Used Them Against Dotcom 241
Police Raid Home of 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay User, Seize "Winnie the Pooh" Laptop 376
Media Center Key Accidentally Gives Pirates Free Windows 8 Pro License 255
How RapidShare Plans To Avoid MegaUpload's Fate 97
Verizon To Throttle Pirates' Bandwidth 224
A Free Internet, If You Can Keep It 102
Parents Not Liable For Their Son's Illegal Music Sharing, Says German Court 207
App Auto-Tweets False Piracy Accusations 231
In Mississippi: 15-Year Jail Sentence For Selling Pirated Movies and Music 339
Mega Finds New Home, Dotcom Says 115
Gabon Suspends Me.ga Domain, Dotcom Says "We Have Alternative Domain" 212
Twitter Starts Withholding Rather Than Deleting Copyright-Infringing Tweets 39
$1,500,000 Fine For Sharing 10 Movies On BitTorrent 339
NewsCorp/NDS Sets Up Operation To Expose Canadian Pirates; What Could Go Wrong? 95
RIAA Failed To Disclose Expert's Lobbying History To "Six-Strikes" Partners 90
UK ISPs Asked To Block More File-sharing Websites 89
Pirate Bay Co-Founder In Solitary Confinement 259
NetFlix Caught Stealing DivX Subtitles From Finnish Pirates 284
First Three-Strikes Copyright Court Case In NZ Falls Over 80
"New Statesman" Pirates Its Own Magazine 117
The Pirate Bay Starts Using Virtualized Servers 186
Dotcom's New Site "Megabox" Almost Ready 101
Prince of Sealand Dies At 91 218
Judge Orders Piracy Trial To Test IP Address Evidence 321
Sweden Returns Passport To Pirate Bay Co-Founder 74
Philippines' Cybercrime Law Makes SOPA Look Reasonable 103
MPAA Boss Admits SOPA and PIPA Are Dead, Not Coming Back 186
Colocation Provider PRQ Raided; Wikileaks and Many Torrent Sites Offline 138
Illegal Downloading Now a Crime In Japan With Increased Penalties 286
New Content-Delivery Tech Should Be Presumed Illegal, Says Former Copyright Boss 379
File-Sharing For Personal Use Declared Legal In Portugal 179
NZ Broke the Law Spying On Kim Dotcom, PM Apologizes 235
EU Court Asked To Rule On Private Copying 157
NZ To Investigate Illegally Intercepted Data In Dotcom Case 53
The Swiss Pirate Party Has Its First Mayor 110
Google Stops Offering Free Music Service In China 67
Neil Young Pushes Pono, Says Piracy Is the New Radio 361
A Glimpse At Piracy In the UK and Beyond 132
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Detained In Sweden 95
The Futility of the Ongoing Piracy War 232
French Court Levies First Fine Under 3-Strikes Piracy Law 229
How the Pirate Bay Can Be an Asset To Game Developers 107
Cloud Firm MediaFire Flags Malware Samples For DMCA Violation, Bans Researcher 125
Did Sweden Pay Cambodia For the Pirate Bay Co-founder? 250
Most Torrent Downloaders Are Monitored, Study Finds 309
Cambodia To Extradite Gottfrid Svartholm 126
Gottfrid Svartholm Warg Arrested In Cambodia 138
UKNova TV Torrent Tracker Shut Down After FACT Issues C&D 195
The Pirate Bay Launches Free VPN 359
New Judge Assigned To Tenenbaum Case Upholds $675k Verdict 312
Ubisoft Claims PC Piracy Rate of 93-95% 464
Android Piracy Sites Seized By US Government 184
RapidShare Urges US To Punish Linking Sites and Not File-Sharing Sites 167
Sedo Halts Demonoid Domain Name Sale Citing "Legal Issues" 32
German Court: ISPs Must Hand Over File Sharer Info 136
'Pirate' Website Owner Sentenced To 4 Years In Prison 212
Demonoid Domain Names Up For Grabs 293
Google To Start Punishing Pirate Sites In Search Results 294
ISPs Throttling BitTorrent Traffic, Study Finds 228
Demonoid Shut By Ukrainian Authorities 178
Why Internet Pirates Always Win 360
Embedding of Copyright Infringing Video Not (Necessarily) a Crime 45
Demonoid Down For a Week, Serving Malware Laden Ads 144
IFPI Won't Share Pirate Bay Damages With Musicians 177
John Romero's Doomy View On Android and Ouya 375
US Gov't Says They Can Still Freeze Megaupload Assets If the Case Is Dismissed 530
Leaked IFPI Report Details Anti-Piracy Strategy 88
App Developer: Android Designed For Piracy 596
EU Parliament Debates a DMCA Equivalent 73
Three-Strikes Copyright Law In NZ Halves Infringement 202
Japan: Police Arrest Journalists For Selling DVD-Backup Tools 252
Anti-piracy Group Fined For Using Song Without Permission 220
Why We Should Remain Skeptical of the Ouya Android Console 184
RMS Responds To NPR File-Sharer's Blog 634
ISP 'Six Strikes' Plan Delayed 157
Appeals Court Upholds Sanction Against BitTorrent Download Attorney 90
Kim Dotcom Offers the DoJ a Deal 383
No, You Can't Claim 'Negligence' In a Copyright Case 108
BitTorrent Usage Increases In Europe, Following the Pirate Bay Blockade 272
YouTube-MP3 Ripper Creator Takes On Google 141
Copyrights To Reach Deep Space 247
Google Proposes Fighting Piracy By Blocking Ad Money 202
Home Office To Ignore Wikipedia Founder's Petition Against O'Dwyer Extradition 276
Don't Forget: "Six Strikes" Starts This Weekend 298
UK's 'Three Strikes' Piracy Measures Published 150
Jimmy Wales Calls UK Government To Halt O'Dwyer Extradition 94
RIAA Goes After CNET For Media-Conversion Software 257
Reject ACTA, European Parliament Trade Committee Recommends 24
BT Starts Blocking the Pirate Bay 162
David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy 713
MPAA's Dodd Secretly Lobbied For a Canadian DMCA 79
Listen to the RIAA's Appeal In Jammie Thomas Case 225
Comcast Refusing To Comply With Piracy Subpoenas 224
US Gov't Wants Megaupload Users To Pay For Their Data 203
Pro-ACTA Site Says 'Get the Facts' 84
Game of Thrones The Most Pirated TV Show of the Season 312
Canadian IP Lobby Calls For ACTA, SOPA & Warrantless Search 129
FBI Used FedEx To Sneak Dotcom's Hard Drives Out of NZ 292
Canada No Pirate Nation: Global Leader In Music Download Sales 179
Stuxnet/Flame/Duqu Uses GPL Code 221
Aussie Government Brings Back Piracy Talks 114
Rights Holders See Little Point Creating Legal Content Sources 417
Hollywood Agent Ari Emanuel Wants a Magic 'Stop Piracy' Button 269
Cost of Pre-Screening All YouTube Content: US$37 Billion 345
Hundreds of IP Addresses Make Pirate Bay a Hard Target 224
Who Sends Google the Most Takedown Notices? Microsoft 148
Kim Dotcom Demands Access To Seized Property To Defend Himself 236
MPAA Agent Poses As Homebuyer To Catch Pirates 289
US ISPs Delay Rollout of "Six Strikes" Copyright Enforcement Framework 216
BSA Claims Half of PC Users Are Pirates 585
Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why? 1004
'First Base' In Greek Courts For ISP-Level Blocking 86
India Lurches Toward Internet Censorship 86
Tenenbaum To SCOTUS: Let's Get This Debate Rolling 114
The Pirate Bay Returns, Anonymous Hater Takes Credit For DDoS 122
Wil Wheaton: BitTorrent Isn't Only For Piracy 354
Finland: Open WiFi Access Point Owner Not Liable For Infringement 156
Microsoft-Funded Startup Aims To Kill BitTorrent Traffic 601
Judge Who Ordered Pirate Bay Censorship Found To Be Corrupt 104
DVDs, Blu-Rays To Show 20-Second Unskippable Govt. Warnings 587
Pirate Bay Criticizes Anonymous' Attack On Virgin 89
The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent a Box Office Record 663
What Various Studies Really Reveal About File-Sharing 285
Pirate Party Gaining Strength In Germany 242
Unblocking The Pirate Bay the Hard Way Is Fun 151
US-Australia Agreements Create Opportunities for Privacy Violation, Extradition 127
Feds Seized Website For a Year Without Piracy Proof 172
NY Judge Rules IP Addresses Insufficient To Identify Pirates 268
British Ban Spikes Pirate Bay Traffic 168
Stop Being Poor: U.S. Piracy Watch List Hits a New Low With 2012 Report 310
UK ISPs Ordered To Block Pirate Bay 188
WW2 Vet Sent 300,000 Pirated DVDs To Troops In Iraq, Afghanistan 650
Australia's Largest Police Force Accused of Widespread Piracy 112
French Elections Could Affect HADOPI, ACTA 153
Australian ISP Wins Case Against Movie Studios 155
Aussie Case Unlikely To Solve Piracy Riddle In Fast Broadband World 219
Dutch Pirate Party Dragging BREIN To Court 123
Pirate Bay Promotion Attracts Over 5000 Artists 124
Dutch Pirateparty Refuses Order To Take Down Proxy 73
Despite Drop In Piracy, French Music Industry Still In Decline 272
Federal Judge Rules P2P Users Aren't In a Conspiracy 66
After Megaupload, MPAA Targets Other File Sharing Services 214
German Court Rules Rapidshare Is Legal, But Must Adjust Content Policies 73
Two Florida Judges Quash Copyright Fishing Lawsuits 17
GAO Sting Finds More Fake Military Parts From China 180
Microsoft Blocking Pirate Bay Links In Messenger 198
German Pirate Party Enters 2nd State Parliament 188
The Numbers Behind the Copyright Math 311
The Pirate Bay Plans Servers In the Sky 329
Australian Govt Censors Notes From Secret Anti-Piracy Talks 177
Chinese Writers Sue Apple Over IP Violations 143
Kim Dotcom's Assets Seizure Order Ruled "Null and Void" 139
US ISPs Become 'Copyright Cops' July 12th 409
Crying Foul At the BSA's "Nauseating" Anti-Piracy Tactics 235
Campaign Urges People To Send MPAA and RIAA Copied Currency 413
Interview With Suren Ter From 'You Have Downloaded' 366
TVShack Creator's US Extradition Approved 253
Police Planning New Raid On The Pirate Bay 146
Ask Slashdot: Who Has Been Sued By the RIAA? 407
UK Anti-Piracy Law Survives Court Challenge 47
Megaupload Founder Dodges Jail Again; Wife Under Investigation 175
YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music 730
RapidShare Fighting Piracy By Slowing Download Speeds 154
Why Canada Does Not Belong On the US Piracy Watchlist 123
The Pirate Bay On Track To Be Banned In the UK? 309
Library.nu and Ifile.it Shut Down 336
Megaupload Co-Founder Allowed Bail 132
Australian Govt Holding Secretive Anti-Piracy Talks 218
WSJ Says Pro-ACTA Forces Helped Drive Anti-ACTA Reactions 180
File Sharing In the Post MegaUpload Era 334
BTJunkie No More? 328
You Will Never Kill Piracy 516
RIAA Wants To Scrap Anti-Piracy OPEN Act 268
Super Bowl Bust: Feds Grab 307 NFL Websites; $4.8M 198
Slovenian Ambassador Regrets Signing ACTA Agreement 149
Pirate Apple TV Operation Nabbed In Australia 128
Pirate Bay Founders Lose Final Appeal 307
Swedish Supreme Court Refuses Appeal In Pirate Bay Case 175
Angry Birds Boss Credits Piracy For Popularity Boost 321
White House Refuses To Comment On Petition To Investigate Chris Dodd 765
Megaupload Lawyer Says User Data Will Be Held For Two Weeks 94
Tenative Ruling Against Kaleidescape in DVD CCA Case 150
Megaupload User Data Could Be Destroyed Soon 260
The ACTA Fight Returns: What Is At Stake & What You Can Do 82
ACTA Signed By 22 EU Countries 138
Piratbyran Co-Founder Says Stop DDoSing Polish Sites 140
US Embassy Sanctioned Lawsuit Against Aussie ISP iiNet 263
Pirate Party Releases Book of Pirate Politics 158
Pirate Bay To Offer Physical Item Downloads 343
The Behind-the-Scenes Campaign To Bring SOPA To Canada 171
MediaFire CEO: We Don't Depend On Piracy 185
NinjaVideo.net Founder Gets 14 Months 239
Megaupload Drops Lawsuit Against Universal Music 439
Megaupload Shutdown: Should RapidShare and Dropbox Worry? 428
Downloads of DoS Attack Tool LOIC Spike 267
DoD Using Plant DNA To Combat Counterfeit Parts 39
Anonymous Takes Down DOJ, RIAA, MPA and Universal Music 649
Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy 1005
House Kills SOPA 495
The Pirate Bay To Stop Serving Torrent Files 377
White House Responds To SOPA, PIPA, and OPEN 517
US Government Seeks Extradition of UK Student For File-Sharing 409
Music Industry Sues Irish Government For Piracy 341
Reddit Turning SOPA "Blackout" Into a "Learn-In" 241
Dutch Court Forces ISPs To Block the Pirate Bay 304
Tech Industry Reps To Speak Before Congress About SOPA 273
Pirate Party Leader: Copyright Laws Ridiculous 543
Finnish ISP Forced To Block the Pirate Bay 168
SOPA Makes Strange Bedfellows 439
US Threatens Spain For Not Implementing SOPA-Like Law 508
Filesharing Now an Official Religion In Sweden 358
US Survey Shows Piracy Common and Accepted 528
Spanish Website Blocking Law Implemented 65
Crysis 2 Most Pirated Game of 2011 383