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In what appears to be yet another win for the Federation Against Copyright Theft, or FACT, UKNova will now disable their torrent trackers in order to comply with a cease and desist order from the ever vigilant copyright monitors. UKNova had even previously been overwhelmingly selective with what they allowed in an attempt not to infringe. Looks like their strict policies didn't keep them off the radar, unfortunately.

This week in Profoundly Scary News: Anton Vickerman, the man behind TV-streaming link-a-palooza Surf The Channel has been sentenced to four years in jail. That's not the scary part, though. The scary part is that the investigation into Vickerman was shepherded along at every stage not by agents of the British government, but by private contractors in the employ of a film studio trade group, the Federation Against Copyright Theft.