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The Pirate Bay Uses Downtime to ‘Rewrite Some Code’
The Pirate Bay's regular domain has been unreachable for more than two weeks. Initially, it was unclear what had caused the trouble, but TorrentFreak is informed that it is being caused by a...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 03/23/20
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Star Wars: Episode IX' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘The Invisible Man'. '1917' completes the top three. This week we have...
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YouTube Cartoon Featuring Creepy Bugs Bunny Copyright Claimed By Warner Bros.
A dark parody cartoon depicting a washed-out Bugs Bunny as a sex offender has been hit with a DMCA complaint by Warner Bros. MeatCanyon, a channel with more than 66 million views, has responded with...
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Nintendo Shuts Down Kickstarter Campaign For Violating Animal Crossing...
A law firm acting for Nintendo of America has shut down a successful Kickstarter campaign for alleged breaches of copyright. According to the gaming giant, the fundraiser used characters and images...
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‘Copyright Troll Identified the Wrong Facebook Account in Piracy Case’
Strike 3 Holdings is continuing its quest against alleged BitTorrent pirates in U.S. courts. To show that a defendant is indeed the person who downloaded their films, the company recently started...
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Supreme Court rules states are immune from copyright law
Supreme Court rules states are immune from copyright law North Carolina can't be sued for pirating photos of a famous pirate ship. Enlarge / A model of the pirate ship Queen Anne's Revenge in the...
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AMD Uses DMCA to Mitigate Massive GPU Source Code Leak (Updated)
AMD has filed at least two DMCA notices against Github repos that carried "stolen" source code relating to AMD's Navi and Arden GPUs, the latter being the processor for the upcoming Xbox Series X....
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( Opinion ) The Pirate Bay’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 16 Years Old Today
While the majority of The Pirate Bay users download recent content, there are quite a few older torrents that continue to survive. Today, the oldest of all - an episode from the Swedish comedy...
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Anti-Piracy Chief: Pirated Content is Now Harder to Find in Search Engines
An anti-piracy memorandum aimed at removing allegedly-infringing content from search engines is beginning to have an effect in Russia. That's according to the chief of the Internet Video...
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‘Hellboy’ Must Explain Calculation For the $270,000 Piracy Damages Claim
The makers of the movie 'Hellboy' recently asked for $270,000 in piracy damages against the operator of the now-defunct torrent site MKVCage. While the accused man didn't put up a defense, U.S....
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Bad Boys For Life Leads Wave of Early Movie Releases Flooding Pirate Sites
As cinemas around the globe continue their shutdowns in response to the coronavirus pandemic, a number of movies are now enjoying early digital releases. Of course, many of these are also hitting...
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Anti-Piracy Campaign Against YouTube-Rippers Has Very Little Effect
In recent months the RIAA has tried its best to remove YouTube-rippers from Google's search results. While the search engine has deleted thousands of URLs, these actions have very little effect. The...
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YouTube Refuses to Process DMCA Counternotice for ‘Creepy Bugs’ Cartoon
An artist who uploaded a parody cartoon to YouTube and received a strike against his channel following a Warner Bros. complaint has been denied the opportunity to fight his corner. MeatCanyon...
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YesPornPlease Restricts Access as PayPal & Cloudflare Are Asked to Unmask...
Following a massive lawsuit filed by adult entertainment giant MG Premium, video site YesPornPlease temporarily shut itself down. It is now operating behind what appears to be geo-based blocking...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 03/30/20
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Bloodshot' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Birds of Prey'. 'Onward' completes the top three. This week we have six newcomers in...
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Copyright Holders Continue to Report Fewer Piracy Links to Google Search
Over the past year, copyright holders have asked Google to remove a little over 500 million URLs from its search engine. This is a 50% decrease compared to a few years ago when the company processed...
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Anime Fans Find ‘Pirate’ Subtitles in Netflix Streams of City Hunter
Netflix subscribers in France shared a wry smile over the weekend when a screenshot from the anime movie City Hunter was shared on Twitter. The screenshot revealed that the subtitles hadn't been...
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Affordable Legal Options Are the Best Anti-Piracy Tool, US Senators Are Told
As a former Member of the European Parliament for the Pirate Party, Julia Reda has a wealth of experience with copyright legislation. This is recognized by the U.S. Senate, which invited Reda to...
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Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library is “Vile” Says Copyright Alliance
Last week the Internet Archive responded to the coronavirus outbreak by offering a new service to "displaced learners". Combining scanned books from three libraries, the Archive offered unlimited...
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RIAA Denies ‘False Takedown’ Allegations, Asks Court to Dismiss Case
The RIAA denies that it willingly sent false takedown notices to the mixtape service Spinrilla. In a new filing at a federal court in Atlanta, the music group refutes claims that it abused the DMCA...
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