In a time where torrent sites increasingly draw the short straw in legal cases brought by copyright holders,

As the practice of hunting down alleged file-sharers and then issuing legal threats in order to force money out of them gathers pace,

Every month a few dozen new BitTorrent sites are unleashed on the Internet, but only a few have something new to offer.

While the Spanish Government tries to ram through legislation that will enable the authorities to shut down file-sharing sites more rapidly,

As mass file-sharing litigation lawsuits go inter-continental, not everyone is proud to be associated with this type of work.

The Pirate Party of the UK has released its list of candidates for the forthcoming national elections.

It's been exactly one year since the introduction of the controversial IPRED anti-piracy legislation in Sweden and it has been a great success for everyone involved.

April 1st is traditionally a day for pranks and jokes, but the Russian-led torrent site Vertor has picked this day to inform the RIAA,

Pablo Soto, the 30 year-old brain behind the file-sharing applications Blubster, Piolet and Manolito is being sued by the Spanish RIAA, but that hasn't stopped him from launching another P2P venture.

The plague of mass litigation "pay up or else" letters has now hit the shores of the United States. 20,000 BitTorrent users are to be targeted soon, with 30,000 in the months to follow.

A United States court wants isoHunt to stop inducing copyright infringement via torrents that can be found through the popular BitTorrent search engine.

During October 2007, the popular BitTorrent tracker OiNK was shut down in a joint effort by Dutch and British law enforcement. Three months ago the site's administrator was cleared of all charges.

After losing its High Court case against several Hollywood movie studios yesterday, Usenet indexing site Newzbin has responded angrily.

Newzbin, the Internet's premier Usenet indexer, has lost its High Court case against several Hollywood movie studios.

Warner Bros Entertainment UK is recruiting tech-savvy students to help the company with their anti-piracy efforts.

Veterans of World War II who sang war songs at a free concert last year have now been told that they must pay fees to copyright holders.

In an advisory report two economy professors are urging a government to rethink new anti-piracy legislation currently being drafted.

A court in Spain has ordered that a total of 16 torrent and other file-sharing sites must be blocked and the bank accounts and email addresses of their alleged administrator frozen.

The file-hosting service Rapidshare is seeking major entertainment industry partners for an online store where links to infringing material will redirect to.

Colombo-BT, once the largest torrent site in Italy, was shut down in the summer of 2008.

For many years Rapidshare was considered to be a safe way for people to download copyrighted content without having to face repercussions.