If you own a PC, a new survey says the chances are good that you have obtained some kind of pirated software. The Business Software Alliance reports that in its ninth annual survey of PC users, 57 percent of them admit to have acquired paid software via some kind of pirate source. The BSA claims that in 2011, the total amount of pirated software was worth $63.4 billion, up from $58.8 billion in 2010.

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Can't say we didn't see this one coming: The Pirate Bay is experiencing downtime due to a DDoS attack, according to TorrentFreak. The attack comes just a few days after the site criticized Anonymous attacks on behalf of the site, calling them 'censorship.'

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There’s something so wonderfully silly about the anti-piracy warnings that appear when you start up a DVD or Blu-Ray disc. After you’ve just paid through the nose for a movie or box-set on disc, common sense surely suggests that you’re precisely the wrong person to whom an anti-piracy message needs to be directed; it’s every bit as ridiculous as, for example, a supermarket employing someone to shout at you to not steal food from the store as you’re calmly carrying the groceries that you’ve just purchased to your car.

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A Kopimistic wedding isn't all that different from a regular wedding. It's just that the priest – err, 'Op' is the correct term – happens to be wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, a computer reads the vows, and the groom is clad in pirate garb (no comment on the bride's dress). Alright, so it's nothing like a regular wedding, but whatever does it for you, right? According to US News, just such an event went unpublicized late last month.

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Another judge has ruled that you can't identify pirates based on IP addresses.

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Recently, you may have noticed that sites such as The Pirate Bay and other torrent havens have been coming under more intense media onslaughts than normal. Now, while these sites are well experienced in these attacks, the UK decision to simply block the site entirely on an ISP-wide basis has had its repercussions.

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Earlier this year, there were huge online and real-world protests in the US and abroad against the planned Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). Many people, including tech companies such as Microsoft, said that the two bills in the US Congress were huge online privacy threats, claiming that the wording of the bills would allow the US Government to shut down any website, for little to no reason.

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This is a saga that began almost two years ago. Back in May 2010, we reported that the producers of the 2008 movie The Hurt Locker were planning to target those who had illegally downloaded the film in an effort to recoup millions of dollars in lost revenues.

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This center will be the liaison between ISPs and copyright owners.

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Kim Dotcom, the founder of the now shut down file sharing website MegaUpload, now has the freedom to access the Internet again. Dotcom has been kept from using the Internet ever since he and other team members of MegaUpload have been arrested and charged for online piracy in mid-January.

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