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 you���ve ever used LimeWire or a BitTorrent site then you���ve engaged in file-sharing, and according to some you���re 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 Gees��� 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 >