Former Megaupload Executives Sentenced to 2.5 Years in Prison
Faced with extradition to the United States to face copyright infringement, racketeering, and money laundering charges, last year Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk made a big decision. In May 2022, the former Megaupload executives revealed that they had signed a deal to avoid extradition and would be charged with crimes in New Zealand instead. One month later, the men pleaded guilty to a raft of crimes, safe in the knowledge that...
Court Confirms Bungie’s $3.6m DMCA Violation Win Against AimJunkies
Two years ago, Bungie filed a complaint at a federal court in Seattle, accusing AimJunkies.com of copyright and trademark infringement, among other things. The same accusations were also made against Phoenix Digital Group, the alleged creators of the ‘Destiny 2’ cheating software. AimJunkies denied the claims and argued that cheating isn’t against the law. In addition, it refuted the copyright infringement allegations; these lacked...
Soap2Day Shuts Down, Millions of Pirate Movie & TV Streamers Homeless
Soap2Day, one of the most popular movie and TV show pirate streaming sites on the Internet, says it has closed down ‘forever’ Official domains including soap2day.to, soap2day.ac, soap2day.sh, soap2day.mx, s2dfree.to, s2dfree.cc, s2dfree.de, s2dfree.is, s2dfree.nl, plus the site’s domain uptime advisory pages at soapgate.org and soapgate.cc, all display the same shutdown message. Hello guys: We have decided to close soap2day forever....
