Antigua Government is planning to open up a music, movie, and software download portal that will offer pirated material to mark its protest against US violation of WTO order.

The Hackulous team has announced that it is shutting down due to an inactive community and stagnant forums.

Kim Dotcom has revealed that he is working on Mega, which will be a cyber-locker like Megaupload, but will work around the legal pitfalls that burnt the latter.

Madfinger has rolled out a new update for Dead Trigger for iOS that brings new weapons, environments, and other gameplay improvements. Most importantly, the company has made the game available as a free download for iOS users as well with this update.

It is not worth clamping down on the internet in order to stop piracy. SOPA, CISPA, and PIPA are a few reasons why I feel this way.

Reliance Telecom has blocked the Pirate Bay, Vimeo and Pastebin. Why did Reliance do something so odd? Find out why Reliance blocked these three sites and what to do if you use Reliance Telecom’s Internet.

Another blow came to the piracy movement with a UK court ruling that all ISPs in the country must ban thepiratebay.org. Fortunately one can still access The Pirate Bay using VPNs and proxies. Find out why the Pirate Bay was blocked after the break.

Swedish Police have acquired warrants to secretly raid noted torrent sharing platform The Pirate Bay. However, The Pirate Bay came to know of this information and leaked it to the public. Moreover, The Pirate Bay operates several public servers so effectively shutting down the site is next to impossible.

The MPAA has released a press release detailing how they believe that the Internet-wide protest against the SOPA and PIPA bills are corporate gimmicks to coerce the Government to drop the bills. This terrible and pathetically sad statement comes straight from the Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America. Read on to find out more.

The scourges that are the United States’ two gagging Acts – the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) – are experiencing grave turmoil as large sections of the widely used Internet are blacking out for one day in protest against their draconian nature. The ongoing protest against the Bills intensified as Wikipedia, a veritable behemoth on the Internet, joined in the protest as we mentioned earlier. Following close on its heels is the giant community link aggregation website Reddit as well as the website of indie game maker Mojang, the creators of Minecraft. Many other gaming company heads joined together to stand against the draconian law’s enactment.

Remember that time when CD Projekt RED started becoming like That Company Whose Name Starts With U And Which Shall Not Be Named Here? Well their fans told them that they were starting to become like said company as well as trying to ape the music industry and called them out on it. Now the company has retracted its complaints and notices against these probable pirates after angry fans told them that it was an affront to the faith they placed them in.

CD Projekt RED has been on the surface a pretty good company that is seen as the beacon of light when it comes to anti-DRM stands. However it seems that their lawyers do not think that is all that should be done where piracy is concerned.

Clearly, the Swiss government will not tolerate any piracy claims from the Entertainment Industry, and the Entertainment Industry has to evolve to turn the tables on piracy in Switzerland.

A very clever and devious Garry’s Mod “bug” introduced by Garry Newman himself has caught many pirates unawares.

A very noted German PS3 hacker known as graf_chokolo had his house raided by German Police. Sony had apparently complained about this hacker and his work on the PlayStation 3 home console. In retaliation, graf_chokolo released the reverse engineering tools for the PS3′s virtualization software.