BakaBT, a torrent tracker which specializes in serving anime fans, is currently down after suffering a huge DDoS attack.

The uTorrent team has added an idea bank to their website where users can vote for and suggest features that should be implemented in the BitTorrent client.

Following pressure from the US Government, Canada is preparing to ram through a revamped copyright bill that will have disastrous consequences for consumers.

The UK Pirate Party is just over one year old, but already it's participating in the General Election with candidates in nine constituencies.

Commenting on the results of a new survey which found that most people who download movies,

The new release of MechWarrior 4 has crashed the game maker's distribution servers.

Last month we reported on the media announcement by Bulgarian police that they would shut down the country's two largest BitTorrent trackers, Zamunda.net and ArenaBG.

RapidShare is not liable for acts of copyright infringement committed by its users, a German court ruled yesterday.

Last week we reported on a website which claimed to breach BitTorrent users' security by showing what media they were sharing along with their IP addresses.

Fox News, a prominent media outlet owned by copyright evangelist Rupert Murdoch, is blatantly infringing on the rights of an individual photographer.

After more than two months of downtime caused by a webhost screwup and a lack of backups, the BitTorrent site BitSnoop has returned with many added features.

Twitter has suspended the accounts of at least two torrent sites and removed all of their followers.

In recent months there have been several attempts by anti-piracy groups to force file-sharing sites to filter links from their systems.

A recently published paper found that it is relatively easy to expose BitTorrent's biggest content providers.

Following the joint signing of an IFPI / Bulgarian Interior Ministry memorandum declaring a crackdown on piracy,

Last year The Pirate Bay lost its case in The Netherlands with a court ruling that the site must cease its activities in the country.

It is no secret that pro-copyright lobbyists are exploiting child pornography to get file-sharing sites pulled offline. They have done so for years.

Demonoid is without doubt one of the most famous BitTorrent trackers on the Internet.

The Pirate Bay is encouraging its users to oppose the Digital Economy Act that was recently forced through by the UK Government.

Following the announcement that Hans Pandeya is having a second shot at buying The Pirate Bay after last year's failed attempt, it appears he has a rival bid.

With hundreds of thousands of downloads on BitTorrent just four days after its official release, Avatar is on its way to adding another title to its already impressive track record.

A worrying site which claims to allow users to search BitTorrent networks for IP addresses being used to share torrents has appeared in recent days.

Following a ruling by the Stockholm District Court in 2009 which banned two Pirate Bay founders from running the site, Hollywood says it's time for them to pay up.

RLSLOG, one of the worlds most popular release news sites, has been pulled offline by its German hosting company following a takedown request from Universal Music.

RapidShare has been sending out legal threats to link sites and search engines that use its trademark to encourage users to download copyrighted material.

New laws such as the Digital Economy Bill in the UK will need to be enforced, and this will be done through anti-piracy tracking companies.

In an attempt to protect their rights, the leading gadget blog Gizmodo has been sending out takedown notices to bloggers who use their articles in full while running ads.

As the music and movie industries tour the world lobbying for changes in the law in an attempt to slow down online piracy, New Zealand's legislation moves a step closer to becoming law.