The founders of Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström, have failed in a new attempt to have their jail sentences for criminal copyright infringement offences overturned. Sweden's Supreme Court will not grant them...

When BT was ordered by a High Court Judge to block pirate website Newzbin 2 back in July we at Pocket-lint questioned whether this meant an end to the free web.

That question will be answered over time, but what is clear is that the judgement...

In a move that could have major implications for the future of the free web, BT has been ordered by a High Court Judge to block pirate website Newzbin 2.

No, not pirate website as in the Jolly Roger and all that jazz, pirate as in illegal content...

This week's podcast has gone all Christmassy, with some massive tips for those who missed out on Waitrose's and Heston's Hidden Orange Christmas Pudding. Plus, how to cook a turkey with the correct gadgets.

Personal privacy is also on the agenda,...

The Pirate Bay co-founders have lost their appeal against a 2009 ruling that they were illegally sharing copyrighted content.

The decision by a Swedish court means that the co-founders now face time behind bars.

Fredrik Neij faces 10...

Hugely popular torrent site, The Pirate Bay, was completely down for a few hours yesterday after police in up to 14 countries raided numerous locations believed to contain its servers. The bulk of the action was undertaken in Sweden, although the UK,...

The Motion Picture Association of America has obtained a preliminary injunction from a German court for CyberBunker, the ISP responsible for hosting Swedish website The Pirate Bay.

According to Torrent Freak the injunction, taken out against...

The chaps at the Pirate Bay have announced that their anonymization VPN service, Ipredator, is now out of beta and available to the public. The service, which allows surfers to completely conceal their tracks, was launched in response to Europe's proposed...

The Pirate Bay has shut down its tracker in an unprecedented move that will see the filesharing network take a more decentralised stance. Despite the tracker closing, the site itself will stay online and active - using both trackerless solutions and...

FlashForward, a television show just launched in the US from the creators of Lost and based on the book by Robert J Sawyer, has proved a surprise hit on filesharing websites.

At the time of writing, Mininova and the Pirate Bay are both displaying...

The Pirate Bay, having seen its connection terminated by a Swedish court yesterday, is already back online and running normally. As previously reported, Stockholm's district court instructed Black Internet to take the site off the web under threat of...

Hope you got all those episodes of Lost downloaded in time - the Pirate Bay has been taken offline by its ISP - Black Internet. The ISP was ordered by a court to take the site down or face a penalty of 500,000 Swedish kronor - about £43,000.

The Pirate Bay is due to be handed over to its new owners in a matter of days, assuming nothing derails the deal before then. In preparation for the move, an anonymous uploader has released a full copy of the site, complete with 873,671 torrents.

The UK's own version of Sweden's Pirate Party has been officially recognised by the British electoral commission as a legitimate political party, according to a blog post from the party's leader, Andrew Robinson.

That means that it can now...

Peter Sunde, Pirate Bay founder and site spokesperson has quit his post in advance of the site's sale to Swedish company "Global Gaming Factory X".

He posted on his personal blog, Copy me happy, "I have decided to not be the spokes person...