Celebrating their fifth year in operation, next-generation peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin marketplace, Paxful, are reflecting on key milestones since inception in 2015. FULL STORY >

The Pirate Bay is sold for about R60 million. FULL STORY >

US jury returned a verdict against Thomas-Rasset yesterday ordering her to pay some $80 000 in damages per track for downloading 24 tracks illegally. FULL STORY >

Opera Software have announced a new service called Opera Unite which allows users to share files, images and music directly with other Opera Unite users. FULL STORY >

If youÔÇÖve ever used LimeWire or a BitTorrent site then youÔÇÖve engaged in file-sharing, and according to some youÔÇÖre liable for prosecution. Moving beyond the legal realm, file-sharing is also an ethical issue. So we put it to you; is P2P file-sharing right or wrong? FULL STORY >

The International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC), headed by Robin Gibb of Bee GeesÔÇÖ fame, is hosting the second World Copyright Summit this week in Washington DC. FULL STORY >

In April The Pirate Bay four was sentenced to a year in prison, and had to cough up $4.5m in damages. Today their political party, the Pirate Party, has a seat in the European Parliament. FULL STORY >