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We've pointed out before that the short-term troubles of some legacy media players appears to have more to do with their own mistakes, rather than piracy.

But they just keep on lobbying for more laws (none of which have actually worked). We've also pointed out that while defeating SOPA/PIPA was a good thing, the supporters of the bill, undoubtedly, were already hard at work trying to get similar efforts through elsewhere -- however possible.

Besides circumventing censorship, one of VPN services' main functions is safeguarding users' privacy. To find out how far these services go to protect their customers' privacy, Torrentfreak conducted a 2-question survey among VPN providers, with mixed results.

On June 11th 2011, Europe witnessed one of the largest piracy-related busts in history.

The popular movie streaming portal Kino.to was shut down and a dozen people connected to the site were arrested.

As collateral damage, several file-hosting services connected to Kino.to also went down.

This week there are three newcomers in our chart.

The Hangover Part II is the most downloaded movie of the week.

The data for our weekly download chart is collected by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only.

All the movies in the list are BD/DVDrips unless stated otherwise.

RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart.

This week there are two newcomers in our chart.

Transformers 3 is the most downloaded movie for the second week in a row.

The data for our weekly download chart is collected by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only.

All the movies in the list are BD/DVDrips unless stated otherwise.

RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart.

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has been quite vocal lately about the fact that copyright is broken, and that the way to deal with it is not to get more draconian, but to open things up with more open licensing.

However, it appears that not everyone in his administration feels the same way.

With the entertainment industry and ISPs agreeing to a "voluntary" six strikes plan, which treats users as guilty until proven innocent and takes away completely valid defenses (f

The rap formation Pretty Boy Gangsters are almost completely unknown to the public today, but their cassette release of the album “Rollin Like a Star” is a classic in certain circles.

In the early 90s and beyond the track “K The Buster” appeared on several compilation albums next to titles from NWA, 2 Live Crew and Eazy E.

While many courts had pretty clearly rejected attempts by various mass lawsuit filing "anti-piracy" law firms to sue a ton of people in a single lawsuit, we were surprised and dismayed back in May to see one judge allow subpoenas to go out on all 23,322 IP addresses sued by US Copyright Group over file sharing on the movie The Expendables.

Earlier this year five major Hollywood movie studios sued file-hosting service Hotfile for several copyright-related offenses.

While Hotfile has settled cases with copyright holders in the past, they are determined to fight this pivotal lawsuit to the end.