Kim DotCom has again reached out to his Twitter followers, copyright holders and lobbyists alike with his own take on what will stop piracy. Five simple steps, that address the vast majority of the reasons people say they pirate content. 1: Create great stuff.

Doesn’t specify why, but promises it will “get the ship sailing again” sometime “tomorrow.” Every time Swedish BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay goes down it seems the entire BitTorrent world holds its collective breath.

App now allows users to record and send messages to family and friends; phone calls currently limited to Canadian users with remaining markets being available “over the next few weeks.” Facebook Inc.

Desktop Facebook app allows users to share unlimited-sized files directly with with friends and family. Despite increasing amounts of photos, videos, music, and documents one wants to share with family and friends there still has yet to be a convenient method for doing so. Enter BeamItOver.

A new report by USC’s Annenberg Innovation (AI) that attempts to link advertising networks like Google and Yahoo to piracy, has continued the trend of pushing an outdated and misleading agenda on the public, by suggesting that the entertainment industry is on the brink of extinction thanks to

Yahoo shuts down web portal in South Korea, marking the first Asian market that Yahoo is leaving. Back in October, Yahoo has stated that they would close down the South Korean web portal.

Director says waiting for “cool film festival to pick us up”; The Pirate Bay: Away From Keyboard (TPB: AFK) is more than 4 years in  the making. After more than four long years, production of The Pirate Bay: Away From Keyboard (TPB: AFK) has finally finished.

Cydia Tweak for jailbroken iPhones allows users to add a Topography layer in Google Maps. It’s been just a little over two weeks now since Google launched the much-anticipated Google Maps app, and already we have one of our first Cydia tweaks for jailbroken iPhones (easy-to-follow guide here).

Torrent downloaders are often called “pirates,” regardless of what they use the peer to peer technology for. While of course there is a lot of copyright “protected” content on torrent search sites, there’s also a lot of legitimate files too.

Send text, photos, and videos to Facebook friends and set to delete itself after 1, 3, 5 or 10 seconds; if the recipient takes a screenshot a flash icon will appear.

If you’re a UK reader and you happen to have any children, you could soon be forced to utilise pornography filters in order to “protect” them. This is according the current Prime Minister, David Cameron, and British tabloid rag, the Daily Mail.

Rolls out tablet-friendly versions of its popular online music streaming service. Rhapsody, long one of the more popular music streaming services around, has just launched a tablet friendly app for iPads and iPad minis that will make it even easier to enjoy music on the go.

BitTorrent Inc, the parent company of popular torrent client UTorrent, has launched a new initiative in an effort to reform the way the public views BitTorrent. Part of this involves the launch of a new website, doesbittorrentequalpiracy.com.

New Chrome extension allows users to save images, documents, audio, video, and more directly from the web to their Google Drive account. Cloud storage is becoming an increasingly important part of our everyday lives as we need  a place to save and access content on-the-go.

Microsoft has taken part in a conference in the Middle East, in an effort to raise awareness of software piracy and help vendors and consumers alike, avoid it.

Harness the music discovery power of Hype Machine, the site that monitors a multitude of music blogs to, and enjoy an “easy, simple and beautiful” music listening experience right on your desktop.

Yahoo! Mail has changed their layout to have less distractions, be more intuitive for the user and be faster to navigate. While Google might have one of the most popular email services, Yahoo! has improved their email for greater customer satisfaction.

Voltage Pictures is a well known name in the anti-piracy world, since it’s the company behind the Hurt Locker movie and its subsequent sweeping legal action which saw thousands of those that downloaded the movie fleeced for cash.

New VyprVPN Mobile Apps for Android and iOS devices allows users to protect Internet traffic on mobile phones and tablets.

British ISPs have been given the go ahead to lift the block of TPB linked promotional website, The Promo Bay, after public outcry and attention brought about pressure on copyright lobby group the British Phonograph Industry (BPI).