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U.K. Proposes to Shut Off Internet for Illegal Downloaders

U.K. newspaper The Guardian reported Tuesday that this British government is considering harsher laws to crack down on illegal filesharers. Penalties reportedly on the table could require ISP's to ban access to certain download sites, slow broadband connections and even cut off internet access to repeat offenders....  read more

The Pirate Bay to Become Legal After $7.7 Million Purchase

The word "pirate" in the 21st-century is no longer default-associated with just the riding-around-on-boats-and-stealing-things variety (although those guys are still undoubtedly around). Au contraire, the most commonly encountered pirate today is the illegal-downloading-addicted sort that frequent the insanely popular bit-torrent website The Pirate Bay. But one lawsuit and one $7.7 million purchase later, illegal pirating on The Bay will truly be a thing of the past....  read more

Pirate Bay Lawyer Files for Retrial, Citing Biased Judge

As previously reported, torrent titan The Pirate Bay has been swept up into a legal drama that's one blood-stained carpet away from being a Law and Order episode. The founders of the file-sharing site were recently sentenced to a year in the pokey and $3.6 million in fines, but now their attorney is filing for a retrial....  read more

Pirate Bay founders jailed, ordered to pay $3.6m in fines

In the ongoing war between illegal downloaders and media-production companies, the latter may have just scored its biggest victory since the folding of the original Napster in July 2001. A judge in Sweden sentenced the founders of The Pirate Bay, a major file-sharing site, to serve a one-year prison sentence and pay $3.6 million to numerous companies, including Sony, Universal, 20th Century Fox, MGM, Warner Brothers and Columbia. ...  read more