McAfee has patented technology to detect and block pirated content within a web browser, impeding access to sites that infringe copyrights and redirecting users to approved content sources instead. More...
A study commissioned by Microsoft has revealed that one third of all software is counterfeit, while the costs of dealing with counterfeit software and malware will reach $114 billion this year More...
The Pirate Bay has found the most unlikely new home imaginable for their activities: North Korea. At the invitation of Kim Jong Un the website has moved operations trying to find a safer place. More...
A new survey claims that the majority of the US want search engine such as Google and Bing to block access to links that offer pirated content such as music or movies. More...
Happy weekend everyone, and with some Windows 8 pricing promotions ending very soon we'd like to know if you're actually running a legitimate copy of Windows or not, considering it was so cheap to buy More...
We list our top five most read stories of 2012, which include a personal story on how piracy affected a Neowin writer, a blow up over a Samsung ad using an actor from an Apple ad and more. More...
Project X has stormed to the top of this year's list of most pirated films with an estimated 8.7 million downloads, beating box office favorites The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises More...
A new report claims that Game of Thrones has become the most pirated TV show of 2012, based on downloads from public BitTorrent file trackers and other sources. More...
Microsoft announced today 16 resellers of Windows PCs in China offered pirated versions of Microsoft's OS to customers and could file a lawsuit against them if private discussions are unsuccessful. More...
One of the most popular Usenet indexing services on the internet, NZBMatrix, has voluntarily shut down over troubles with constantly complying with DMCA takedown notices thanks to rampant piracy. More...
As anti-piracy measures are becoming more and more extreme, I say it's time to take a step back and have a serious discussion on the subject, considering both the good and bad aspects. More...
The UK Pirate Party has denied the record industry's demand to shut down its Pirate Bay proxy. This proxy remains one of the few ways by which some UK residents can access the file sharing site. More...
Pirates beware! The ‘Six Strikes' program, where US ISPs and entertainment industries will work together to curb your wicked ways, is getting a new start date of “the early part of 2013.” More...
An application has been created that bypasses the protection of the Windows Store, allowing anyone to turn a trial Store application into the full version with very little effort. More...
A new research digs deep into the box office revenues highlighting some interesting finds: blockbuster films improved their performance, while smaller products were hurt. More...
Kim Dotcom's extradition to the United States hearing could be pushed all the way back to July 2013, with the family's case reaching box-office proportions in terms of plot twists and turns. More...
Through the use of an illegitimate KMS activation and a free Windows Media Center upgrade, it's apparently possible to turn your pirated copy of Windows into a fully activated "legitimate" copy More...
Kim DotCom's new on-line service will have a New Zealand-based domain, the entrepreneur confirms. And it will work with the due respect of the local laws. More...
A federal court in Illinois has ordered a man to pay $1.5m in damages - the largest award of its kind - after evidence proved that he had illegally shared ten adult movies via BitTorrent. More...
A copy of Microsoft Game Studios' upcoming game Halo 4 has leaked to the internet in its entirety, along with images showing retail discs in the hands of people earlier than the November 6 launch More...
Japan's government has agreed to new legislation against criminals caught downloading illegally, bringing in a maximum fine of two million yen or a potential two year stay in a prison cell. More...
Kim Dotcom, the now-famous internet media mogul, has revealed further details on Megabox. Anyone interested will be disappointed to discover the supposedly revolutionary service is "coming soon". More...
Megaupload is coming back, and sooner than you think. Founder Kim Dotcom says that the new, decentralized and 'unstoppable' service is 90% coded, and servers are already being deployed. More...
The Motion Picture Association of America has deemed file-sharing hub Hotfile the "most blatant inducer of copyright infringement" during legal proceedings, beating even Megaupload and torrent sites. More...
Researchers have found that monitoring companies, including copyright-enforcement authorities, monitor popular BitTorrents closely, and most users have their IP address logged within three hours. More...
Filesonic, previously one of the major file-sharing websites on the internet, has been gone for the past few days with no explanation, and the main domain having suddenly changed hands. More...
Kim Dotcom is to receive up to $6,000,000 from the New Zealand government to aid his legal battle for the future. This money will be secured from $10,000,000 in bonds that were frozen back in April. More...
Google's Takedown requests have increased by over 1,000% compared to last year. The search giant now handles more than a million takedown requests weekly, from various groups and reporters. More...
A Swedish production company that won (among the others) the anti-piracy case against The Pirate Bay wants to declare one of the Bay founders “bankrupt”. They have nothing to take, the young man said More...
Possible further delays are likely as the New Zealand court has ruled that the FBI must present their evidence of piracy to them before the extradition hearing takes place in March next year. More...
With the closure of Demonoid, there had been hopes that the site would return. These hopes seem to have been dashed by the discovery that you could buy the rights to the infamous domains. More...
The Internet Archive just got into the torrent seeding business - they're now offering almost a petabyte of their collection on BitTorrent, including everything from concerts to books. More...
Irwin Tieng, a prominent Filipino politician, has put forth the possibility of a bill echoing SOPA, which was rejected earlier this year after major internet protesting. More...
The IFPI won a judgement of €550,000 against the owners of Pirate Bay, but have stated that they will not give this money to the artists and will instead help fund their anti-piracy programs. More...
A recently leaked RIAA presentation says that legislation like SOPA and PIPA wouldn't have done much to combat piracy, even if they had passed, while blaming Google for the backlash against them. More...
After one Android developer decided to take their app free to play because of piracy, an iOS developer is blaming it on the 'corrosive mentality' of open platforms like Android. More...
The developers of the Android version of the zombie first person shooter Dead Trigger have made the game free due to what it claims is a high piracy rate on Android, even with its low 99 cent price. More...
The content industry says that the new law has been effective in fighting piracy in the country - for a month, at least. Now they want to cut the cost for sending infringement letters out. More...
Google is unknowingly helping amassing a huge amount of links to illegal content available on the web, and the culprit is that same industry that would like to eradicate piracy from the Internet. More...
Judge David Harvey, one of the judges presiding over the MegaUpload online piracy case, has quit after remarks suggesting he felt the US was the "enemy" were made public. More...
After The Pirate Bay was blocked in an attempt to curb illegal downloading, it has been found that the exercise was ineffective. Even information shared by ISPs seem to correspond with this. More...
That totally inaffective and annoying little logo you see at the start of movies is about to become a lot more common: the FBI is about to let anyone use its anti-piracy seal for anyone to use. More...
After fighting against SOPA earlier this year, the Internet rejoiced at its ability to come together against controversial bills. Now it's coming back again, ready for another round. More...
The extradition hearing for MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom has been pushed back from August to March 2013 in a decision earlier today by a New Zealand judge. More...
Peter Sunde, one of the founders of The Pirate Bay, has written an official plea for pardon to the Swedish government, three years after he was sentenced to a year in prison for piracy related crimes. More...
Opera's Turbo feature allows the browser to be used to bypass restrictions and bans online, thereby allowing certain groups to access sites which were previously thought to have been blocked. More...
Information from the trial of Anton Vickerman, the owner of SurftheChannel, suggests that the MPAA's methods were totally corrupted, forcing the jury to believe his guilt from the onset. More...
Under a draft code published today by UK communications regulator Ofcom, ISPs could be eligible to send warning letters to copyright infringers by 2014. This gives ISPs rights to monitor user activity. More...
A huge sting operation organized by the FBI has led to the arrest today of 37 people all over the world, having been lured to a website set up by the FBI so they can trade stolen credit card numbers. More...
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom recently got a very special visitor at his New Zealand home: everyone's favorite hacker, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. They even took an Instagram snapshot. More...