Since the recent court-ordered blocking of The Pirate Bay raised a bit of controversy and caused a whirlwind increase of traffic and awareness about piracy, as a direct result of this, the website for the UK Pirate Party has gained a lot more hits over the course of the past three weeks making it one of the top 1,500 websites in the country. Read More >

Yes, yes, you read that headline right: according to a brand-spanking new study from North Carolina State University, BitTorrent downloads actually boost music album sales. Concluding that there really isn't a whole lot of evidence that downloads negatively hurt sales, the research finds that more piracy equals more sales. Read More >

Promising a future that only Hollywood executives can only dream of, Russian based start-up Pirate Pay is helping to curb stomp piracy with a tag-team helping-hand from Microsoft. The developers have created a system that tracks down copyrighted material, invades a BitTorrent swarm and stops transfers like a boss. Read More >

After being found guilty of copyright infringement and denied the chance to stand before Sweden’s Supreme Court, one of the founders of the Pirate Bay, Fredrik Neij, is taking his case to the European court with the belief that the Pirate Bay is protected by the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights. Read More >

The Pirate Bay is complaining about piracy, of, err, itself. It seems the pirates don't like getting a taste of their own medicine, and aren't too chuffed with all The Pirate Bay copycats that have been popping up because of all that blockade action we've been seeing in the UK of late. Read More >

Has common sense finally prevailed thanks to political unrest against the horrendously overreaching anti-piracy acts we've been faced with of late? It seems so, as ACTA is essentially dead in the water according to the European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, and it seems the world's copyright industries might have to change to suit people rather than us bend to their will, as SOPA's essentially dead in the US too. Read More >

Blimey, that was quick. Just three days after the court order was laid down against ISPs to block The Pirate Bay, Virgin's already cut the cord and put its users in a Pirate Bay black hole. Read More >

The long-running saga of the war on file-sharing site The Pirate Bay has taken a sad new legal turn, with the UK's High Court ruling, as previously expected, that our ISPs are now obliged to restrict access to the huge torrent specialist. Read More >

Strictly speaking, bootlegging movies isn't right. Hyman Strachman knows this, and he does it anyway. According to the New York Times profile of the notorious pirate, he's shipped 300,000 ripped-off movies overseas to the troops—for free. Read More >

Anonymous has been acting up recently. Apparently bored with simple hacking it’s been branching out with its own dubious OS and now a music service? Anontune aims to pull in every streaming song from around the web, letting you create and share playlists, all while dodging the inevitable lawsuits from the music industry. Read More >

Following Sweden and Germany’s lead, we have our own branch of the Pirate Party attempting to swashbuckle its way into power here in the UK; now it’s drawing a broadside on May’s local elections in both Scotland and Manchester. The Pirate Party UK aims to fight anti-piracy laws (and ACTA); reduce copyright to just 10 years, and allow non-commercial file sharing -- hollywood, the BPI and their lawyers are really going love them. Read More >

Looks like those pirating porn on O2 are about to get a little more exposure than they bargained for. The broadband arm of the mobile network has been ordered by the High Court to give up the personal details of over 9,000 customers to smut baron Ben Dover, over accusations of porn piracy. Read More >

MSN's widely used Messenger software has started filtering links to the Pirate Bay, taking security matters into its own hands and setting a rather worrying censorship precedent in the process. Read More >

At least two scams targeting users of file-sharing services have emerged over the last few days. So far the reports all come from overseas, but if it's happening in Germany then similar scams in the UK are very likely. Watch out. Read More >

Now here’s a very clever use of the Raspberry Pi – The Pirate Bay wants to run its servers from the skies using the mini-marvel because it’s simply fed up of the law messing with its ground-based operations. No one will be able to screw with it unless they get in a plane to physically switch it off in orbit, "a real act of war". No, it’s not April 1st. Read More >