Piracy Stories for 2014

Sony Hack Reveals MPAA's Big '$80 Million' Settlement With Hotfile Was a Lie 117
Sony Accused of Pirating Music In "The Interview" 180
The Open Bay Helps Launch 372 'Copies' of the Pirate Bay In a Week 63
Crowds (and Pirates) Flock To 'The Interview' 148
Pirate Bay Domain Back Online 41
Anyone Can Now Launch Their Own Version of the Pirate Bay 81
Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS 388
The Pirate Bay Responds To Raid 302
Sony Pictures Leak Reveals Quashed Plan To Upload Phony Torrents 130
Hollywood's Secret War With Google 176
IsoHunt Unofficially Resurrects the Pirate Bay 116
Sony Reportedly Is Using Cyber-Attacks To Keep Leaked Files From Spreading 190
Australia Pushes Ahead With Website Blocking In Piracy Fight 100
Peter Sunde: the Pirate Bay Should Stay Down 251
Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay Again 184
Microsoft Files a Copyright Infringement Lawsuit For Activating Pirated Software 268
UK MP Says ISPs Must Take Responsibility For Movie Leaks, Sony Eyes North Korea 216
Kim Dotcom Faces Jail At Bail Hearing 166
Music Publishers Sue Cox Communications Over Piracy 187
Kim Dotcom Says Legal Fight Has Left Him Broke 117
BT Blocking Private Torrent Sites? 80
Kim Dotcom Regrets Not Taking Copyright Law and MPAA "More Seriously" 151
Class-Action Suit Claims Copyright Enforcement Company Made Harassing Robo-calls 67
UNSW Has Collected an Estimated $100,000 In Piracy Fines Since 2008 98
US Gov't Seeks To Keep Megaupload Assets Because Kim Dotcom Is a Fugitive 173
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Is a Free Man Again 356
Pirate Bay Co-founder Arrested In Northeastern Thailand 189
Disney Patents a Piracy Free Search Engine 164
MPAA Bans Google Glass In Theaters 357
Pirate Bay Founder Gottfrid Warg Faces Danish Jail Time 89
Google Changes 'To Fight Piracy' By Highlighting Legal Sites 160
FBI Says It Will Hire No One Who Lies About Illegal Downloading 580
How Hackers Accidentally Sold a Pre-Release XBox One To the FBI 67
Piracy Police Chief Calls For State Interference To Stop Internet "Anarchy" 302
The Raid-Proof Hosting Technology Behind 'The Pirate Bay' 144
U2 and Apple Collaborate On 'Non-Piratable, Interactive Format For Music' 358
BBC: ISPs Should Assume VPN Users Are Pirates 363
Deadmau5 Accuses Disney of Pirating His Music 137
33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater 465
Rightscorp's New Plan: Hijack Browsers Until Infingers Pay Up 376
City of London Police Take Down Proxy Service Over Piracy Concerns 133
Lionsgate Sues Limetorrents, Played.to, and Others Over Expendables 3 Leak 207
London Police Placing Anti-Piracy Warning Ads On Illegal Sites 160
Australian Government Moving Forward With Anti-Piracy Mandate For ISPs 128
For Now, UK Online Pirates Will Get 4 Warnings -- And That's It 143
Economist: File Sharing's Impact On Movies Is Modest At Most 214
Rightscorp Pushing ISPs To Disconnect Repeat Infringers 92
Encryption Keys For Kim Dotcom's Data Can't Be Given To FBI, Court Rules 149
MP Says 'Failed' Piracy Warnings Should Escalate To Fines & Jail 135
Theater Chain Bans Google Glass 376
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Arrested In Sweden 221
Popular Shuttered Torrent Site Demonoid Returns 80
Torrentz.eu Domain Name Suspended 226
Ohio Prison Shows Pirated Movies To Inmates 186
UK ISPs To Send Non-Threatening Letters To Pirates 93
RightsCorp To Bring Its Controversial Copyright Protection Tactics To Europe 196
Pirate Bay Sports-Content Uploader Faces $32m Lawsuit 149
Hulu Blocks VPN Users 259
The Witcher 3 and Projekt Red's DRM-Free Stand 115
5-Year Suspended Sentence For S. Africa's First Online Pirate 45
Florida Judge Rules IP Address Can't Identify a BitTorrent Pirate 158
Kickstarted Veronica Mars Promised Digital Download; Pirate Bay Delivers 243
Controversial Torrent Streaming App 'Popcorn Time' Shuts Down, Then Gets Reborn 199
Why Copyright Trolling In Canada Doesn't Pay 98
Canadian Court Tries to Dampen Copyright Trolls In P2P Lawsuits 60
BREIN Gives Up on Dutch Pirate Bay Blockade 47
German Domain Registrar Liable For Copyright Infringement 164
Now Published: Study Showing Pirate Bay Blockade Has No Effect 127
Judge Rules BitTorrent Cases Must Be Tried Separately 60
Pirate Bay Block Lifted In the Netherlands 118
Cameron's IP Advisor: Throw Persistent Copyright Infringers In Jail 263
Demonoid BitTorrent Tracker Apparently Back Online 134