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Judge Denies $10K Default Judgment Against Alleged Pirate

Adult entertainment company Malibu Media recently requested a default judgment of more than $10,000 against an alleged pirate. While the accused man didn’t put up a defense, a federal court in New Jersey denied the request, noting that an IP-address alone is not sufficient evidence. In recent years, file-sharers around the world have been pressured […]

‘Academic’ Torrent Client Hopes to Shake up the Entertainment Industry

Opinion Researchers at Delft University of Technology have secured another €3.3 million in funding for academic research into the ‘Internet-of-Trust’. The money will in large part be used to continue development on the Tribler BitTorrent client. Professor Johan Pouwelse, who leads the Tribler lab, hopes that the software and underlying technology will shake up the […]

EU Commission Portrays “Article 13” Opponents as a Misled and Misinformed Mob

With the ink barely dry on Wednesday’s agreement for the final draft of Article 13, the EU Commission published an eyebrow-raising piece Thursday. While much of it is implied, the Commission suggests that the millions of people who opposed Article 13 have been misled and are therefore poorly informed. This Wednesday the European Parliament and […]