• Netflix says piracy-filled Popcorn Time is a serious competitor

    Last year Popcorn Time leveraged the technology behind Torrents and made peer-to-peer streaming mainstream. Users no longer had to hunt down Torrent files on shady, pornography advertisement filled websites, and instead could simply click a single button in order to […]
  • How to hide your online identity with a VPN service

    With the Canadian Copyright Modernization Act’s final portion going into effect on Jan. 1, forcing internet service providers (ISPs) to forward copyright holders violation claims to their customers, many Canadians are seeking ways to hide their identity online. The most common […]
  • Trial of alleged Silk Road creator begins

    The lawyers for 30-year-old Ross Ulbricht (known online as Dread Pirate Roberts), the alleged creator of the Silk Road, a shadowy online community where drugs and other illegal items were exchanged and sold, claim he is nothing more than the “perfect fall guy” for the […]
  • Why illegal downloading just became riskier for Canadians

    Downloading copyrighted content through file sharing services just became little more risky for Canadians. The final part of Canada’s Copyright Modernization Act went into effect on Jan. 1, requiring Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and website hosts to relay notices of copyright […]
  • Tortoise gets an incredibly cute Lego ‘wheelchair’

    A Tiny tortoise named Blade suffers from a big problem – a metabolic bone disease that makes him too weak to hold up the weight of his own shell. His owner, Iris Pleste, realized the 127 g tortoise wasn’t as active […]
  • Swedish police raid The Pirate Bay, website goes down

    Early Tuesday Swedish police raided The Pirate Bay halting the site’s operations and pulling it offline at approximately 2 a.m. PT. In a statement to Torrent blog Torrent Freak, Paul Pinter, the Swedish police’s national coordinator for IP enforcement said, […]