A secret treaty might bind the world's countries to act as copyright cops, but no one other than a few lawyers for big corporations is allowed to read the draft.

The Pirate Bay has announced that it has shut down its tracker technology for good and replaced it with a new form of peer-to-peer network..

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has defended the US$1.92m fine levied against a US woman who illegally downloaded 24 songs..

iiNet have been ordered to give up IP records of twenty file downloaders in the controversial court challenge between the Australian ISP and copyright group AFACT.

Controversial organisation launches video streaming service to rival YouTube.

Global Gaming Factory (GGF) is to propose to shareholders a new operating model for The Pirate Bay, whereby the entertainment industry would be reimbursed for downloads..

A US court has ruled in favour of Apple at the close of a long-running legal battle with Mac clone maker Psystar..

A Spanish judge has ruled that downloading copyright files online is legal, as long as it's not for profit, a ruling that would make Spain one of the most lenient in the world

About 100 people signing up every hour to support the pro-file sharing agenda of the Pirate Party.

The Pirate Bay co-founder has stepped down as spokesman, and the founder of Filesoup has been arrested.

A Boston jury has ordered Joel Tenenbaum to pay a total of US$675,000 for willfully infringing 30 songs by downloading and distributing them over the KaZaA peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing network.

After Global Gaming Factory announced its intention to buy The Pirate Bay, the world plus dog was wondering what the file sharer would become.

Infamous BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay has been bought by Swedish software firm Global Gaming Factory X.

The original founders of Skype have filed a lawsuit against the VoIP giant and its owner eBay, claiming copyright infringement.

Set n' forget recordings are what make PVRs so great, but uTorrent lets file-sharers download each week just as easily.

Are Australian ISPs about to become copyright police? Also: speculation build about id's Doom 4, and rumours about a new Sony DSLR camera

Google has finally found a way to monetise YouTube: by granting fair use of copyrighted materials to home videos, artists such as Chris Brown are celebrating their music bouncing up the charts, with wedding bells chiming in the asile.

The Pirate Bay have come out in support of Iran by temporarily renaming themselves 'The Persian Bay' with a forum for uncensored speech. Similarly, Google and Facebook are to launch Persian translations of their respective sites

The French legislature has passed into law a revised version of the controversial so-called Hadopi 'three strikes' law targeting illegal online peer-to-peer file swappers

Warning messages about piracy could soon start appearing in peer-to-peer (P2P) applications if the US government agrees to new legislation..