Lawyers from the Paramount movie studio have taken exception to Twitter user @555uhz tweeting the Top Gun movie frame by frame, and had his account suspended.
The director of Sports Interactive, the creators of Football Manager, has revealed the extent of piracy facing PC video game publishers.
The newly founded Intellectual Property Crime Unit of the City of London Police has scored its first victories. Several domain names of major torrent sites have been suspended by their registrars following an urgent request from the unit. SumoTorrent and MisterTorrent lost control over their domains and ExtraTorrent had its .com domain suspended. Not all registrars are caving in that easily though, as easyDNS is refusing to comply and sees the requests as abuse of power.
Court-ordered but rightsholder-controlled ISP blockades have reportedly led to a second case of wrongful website blocking in a matter of days.
Citing an Interpol investigation underway with the cooperation of Mastercard and Visa, Czech-based payment processor iKoruna discontinued service to file-hosting sites this week. The target of the investigation was not announced but transaction information was handed over to Interpol and all remaining funds have been frozen. The news comes soon after an Italian prosecutor announced a major crackdown on file-hosting sites, including some iKoruna clients.