BitTorrent

Illegal game downloads fell in 2011 compared to 2010 according to data taken from file-sharing site BitTorrent.

The makers of the Oscar-winning movie The Hurt Locker have filed a lawsuit targeting at least 24,583 people alleged to have downloaded the film illegally using BitTorrent.

Torrentfreak has published the top 100 search words and phrases in the BitTorrent Zeitgeist 2010 chart, offering an interesting sideways insight into the year coming to an end.

3D is useless in the movie industry's ongoing fight with online film pirates sharing content on peer-to-peer networks, according to the boss of Paramount Pictures.

BT has called for a temporary hold of legal cases in which lawyers request user details from ISPs in order to chase those responsible for copyright infringement.

The Swedish-based Pirate Bay could soon be hosted in the Swedish parliament, with the country's Pirate Party offering to use a Swedish law which would give the site immunity from prosecution.

Nicolas Chartier, the producer of Hurt Locker, has sparked a war of words with a cinemagoer, after his decision to sue BitTorrent users who downloaded the Oscar-winning film was criticised.

Gary Marshall Something funny's happening in Sweden. After seven years of declining music sales, people are paying for tunes again