Piracy Stories for 2015

Publisher Is Pretty Sure Google Could End Piracy 216
Pirate Bay Cofounder Utterly Bankrupts the Music Industry 261
Kim Dotcom Loses Extradition Case 98
UK Police Busts Karaoke 'Gang' For Sharing Songs You Can't Buy 118
Cox Is Liable For Pirating Subscribers, Ordered To Pay $25 Million 166
Dallas Buyers Club Case Struck Down By Federal Court 33
LionsGate Wants Pirate Sites To Pay For 'Expendables' 3 Leak 91
Torrent Sites Earned $70M After Dropping Malware On Visitors 91
Swedish Court Says ISPs Can't Be Forced To Block Pirate Bay 20
Swedish Court: ISPs Can't Be Forced To Ban the Pirate Bay 55
Czech Judge Cuts Deal With Software Pirate: Get 200K YouTube Views Or Pay Huge Fine 95
Insurer Refuses To Cover Cox In Massive Piracy Lawsuit 101
New Anti-Piracy Law In Australia Already Being Abused 73
ISP To Court: BitTorrent Usage Doesn't Equal Piracy 175
How Scientists Are Circumventing Journal Paywalls 204
All Malibu Media Subpoenas In Eastern District NY Put On Hold 67
British Movie Theater Staff To Wear Night-Vision Goggles To Combat Movie Piracy 279
Sharebeast, the Largest US-based Filesharing Service, Has Its Domain Seized 122
PayPal, Visa, MasterCard Prepare To Block Payments To Pirate Sites In France 82
Four Year Sentence For Running Piracy Streaming Site 235
US Government's Pirate Movie Bootlegger Gets 24 Months Probation 83
More Popcorn Time Users Sued 147
Underground Piracy Sites Want To Block Windows 10 Users 394
Movie Studio Sues Individual Popcorn Time Users For Infringement 144
Two Arrests In Denmark For Spreading Information About Popcorn Time 244
Legal Scholars Warn Against 10 Year Prison For Online Pirates 168
Australian Courts Make Life Hard For Dallas Buyers Club Copyright Owner 25
Anti-Piracy Firm Sends Out Wave of Takedown Notices For Using the Word 'Pixels' 224
BitTorrent To RIAA: You're 'Barking Up the Wrong Tree' 109
Interviews: Kim Dotcom Answers Your Questions 90
Popular Torrent Site Disappears From Google After Penalty 165
UK Government Proposes 10-Year Copyright Infringement Jail Term 274
FBI Helps Shut Down Piracy Sites In Romania 58
Pirate Bay Founders Acquitted In Belgium 28
FBI Wants Pirate Bay Logs For Criminal Investigation Into Copyright Trolls 84
Rumblefish Claims It Owns 'America the Beautiful' By United States Navy Band 97
Malwarebytes Offers Pirates Its Premium Antimalware Product For Free 111
Australia Passes Site-Blocking Legislation 57
Amazon Pulls Kodi Media Player From App Store Over Piracy Claims 122
A Music-Sharing Network For the Unconnected 66
Murder Accusations Hang Over Silk Road Boss Ulbricht's Sentencing 82
High Court Orders UK ISPs To Block EBook Sites 138
Australian ISP Offers Pro-bono Legal Advice To Accused Pirates 66
Canadian Piracy Rates Plummet As Industry Points To New Copyright Notice System 224
Swedish Court Orders Seizure of Pirate Bay Domains 55
Microsoft Confirms It Won't Offer Free Windows 10 Upgrades To Pirates 214
Film Consortium Urges ISPs To Dump Ineffective "Six Strikes" Policy For Pirates 186
How To Set Up a Pirate EBook Store In Google Play Books 90
Grooveshark Resurrected Out of US Jurisdiction 29
Single Verizon IP Address Used For Hundreds of Windows 7 Activations 323
Grooveshark Shuts Down 226
UK High Court Orders Block On Popcorn Time 96
Pirate Bay Blockade Censors CloudFlare Customers 160
Hacked Sony Emails Reveal That Sony Had Pirated Books About Hacking 59
In New Zealand, a Legal Battle Looms Over Streaming TV 106
Nearly Half of Game of Thrones Season 5 Leaks Online 148
Ask Slashdot: How Serious Is Hacking In Mobile Games? 86
Australian ISPs Must Hand Over Pirates' Info 136
UK IP Chief Wants ISPs To Police Piracy Proactively 87
Australian Government Outlines Website-Blocking Scheme 58
Microsoft Says Free Windows 10 Upgrades For Pirates Will Be Unsupported 193
Microsoft Offers Pirates Amnesty and Free Windows 10 Upgrades 322
Australia May Introduce Site Blocking To Prevent Copyright Infringement 85
Knock-Off Apple Watches Hit the Chinese Market Less Than 24 Hours After Launch 156
UK ISPs Quietly Block Sites That List Pirate Bay Proxies 113
UK Gov't Asks: Is 10 Years In Jail the Answer To Online Pirates? 284
Under US Pressure, PayPal Stops Working With Mega 136
Australian ISPs To Introduce '3-Strike' Style Anti-piracy Scheme 78
AT&T Patents System To "Fast-Lane" File-Sharing Traffic 112
Kim Dotcom's Lawyer Plays Down Megaupload Worker's Guilty Plea 102
Trans-Pacific Partnership Enables Harsh Penalties For Filesharing 154
New Encryption Method Fights Reverse Engineering 215
Demonii Tracker Tops 30 Million Connected Peers 36
Music Doesn't Feature In the Pirate Bay's Top 100 Biggest Torrents 196
The Pirate Bay Is Back Online, Properly 181
Canadian Anti-Piracy Firm Caught Infringing Copyright 61
New Canadian Copyright Laws Require ISPs To Retain, Share Illegal Download Info 161