Voltage Pictures, the creators of the Oscar winning film The Hurt Locker, really has it in for BitTorrent users who downloaded their movie. In an ongoing lawsuit, Voltage Pictures is going after 24,583 people who it hopes to acquire cash settlements from. In order to track down the individuals, the lawyers for Voltage Pictures are requesting internet service providers to hand over the personal details of the IP addresses associated with each defendant.

Earlier we reported on how a security researcher had figured out how to grab the data from over 100 million Facebook profiles that their clueless users had left completely public. He then uploaded all that data to BitTorrent. Well the story gets even more interesting (or seedy, depending on how you feel about it). It more »

Russian BitTorrent tracker, Interfilm.ru, is being handed down a copyright infringement charge of $1.253 billion. The tracker, which is run by couple Ivan and Irina Podorozhnikovymi, was raided by the Russian Federation Ministry of Internal Affairs Investigation Committee (maybe we’ll call them the RFMIAIC for short) on May 26th 2009. The investigation committee claimed that more »

The creators of Hurt Locker have teamed up with the U.S. Copyright Group’s money making scheme entitled ‘pay up or else’ to reclaim losses due to piracy. 5,000 BitTorrent users have officially been reported to court for their illegal downloads with an option to pay substantially lower charges out of court. A formal complaint was more »

The company that intends to buy the controversial site Pirate Bay has found itself in some serious trouble. The Swedish stock market, known as AktieTorget, has kicked them off the exchange, claiming they misled investors. Sweden’s Economic Crime Bureau has launched an investigation into possible insider trading after noticing a dramatic increase in trading of more »

Last month, when The Pirate Bay announced its sale to Global Gaming Factory X (GGF), there was much cause for concern. The firm promised to legalize and monetize the site in a way that wasn’t all that clear to anyone. The thought scared many people into thinking they may have to pay for content on more »

The Swedish courts handed down a landmark decision by finding the four founders of the wildly popular torrent site Pirate Bay guilty of hosting copyrighted material on their website. Along with being sentenced to one year in prison each, the company will have to pay an estimated $3.5 million to several defendants in the case, more »

Fon, the European company that specializes in sharing Internet connections between its users is set to release its new router soon. The Fonera 2 will still have the same basic functions of the Fonera 1 that makes it a Fon router. The routers create two networks, one private and one public. The idea being that more »

Back in March of 2008, we reported that Myka created a BitTorrent box that was capable of directly receiving your Torrent downloads and replaying them on a TV. It’s a competitor to Apple TV, and people who torrent a lot would definitely like the Myka box. When the product was announced back in March, it was set to start shipping in the summer, but nearly half a year later, it looks like that time has come.

Gigaom is reporting that the new 250GB cap Comcast announced recently may not be set in stone. In a chat with the site, Comcast spokeperson Charlie Douglas said the cap, which is roughly 100 times more than the average Comcast customer uses in a month, will likely rise as average consumption rises.