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Top 10 Most Torrented Movies of The Week – 05/18/20
Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Justice League Dark: Apokolips War' tops the chart again this week, followed by...
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Ubisoft Sues Google & Apple For Copyright Infringement Over Rainbow Six:...
Ubisoft has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the makers of Area F2, a mobile game that's allegedly a blatant clone of the company's Rainbow Six: Seige. As distributors of the title,...
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Nintendo Sues Stores Selling New ‘Team-Xecuter’ Switch Piracy Hack
Nintendo has filed two lawsuits in US courts targeting several online stores selling Switch hacks and mods linked to Team-Xecuter. According to the gaming company, the stores help people create...
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The Music Mission Campaign Aims to Shut Down 200 Music Piracy Sites
A brand new initiative launched by anti-piracy company AudioLock, music distributor Label Worx, and supported by hundreds of labels and distribution platforms is aiming to shut down around 200...
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Take That’s Gary Barlow: Use a VPN to Bypass YouTube Geoblock of Lockdown...
This Friday night at 8:00pm, Take That and Robbie Williams will perform a special concert from their own homes to raise money for charities during the lockdown. The one-off performance will be...
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GitHub Reinstates Popcorn Time Code Despite MPA ‘Threat
Earlier this month, an MPA takedown notice pulled Popcorn Time's GitHub repository offline. The Hollywood group, which also represents Netflix, argued that the code facilitates mass copyright...
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The Simpsons Writer Promotes Disney+ Premiere With Pirate Movie Screenshot
Next week the Oscar-nominated The Simpsons short The Longest Daycare will premiere on Disney+, a fact announced on Twitter today by Al Jean, who has been writing for the show for more than 30...
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Pirate IPTV Reseller Boom Media Ordered to Pay $3.3m in Damages
A court in New York has ordered Boom Media, a prominent reseller of 'pirate' IPTV subscriptions, to pay $3.3m in damages to TV broadcaster DISH Network. The judgment states that Boom's former...
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Anti-Piracy Lawyer Sues Torrent Sites for ‘YTS’ Trademark Infringement
Pirate sites regularly get into trouble for breaching copyright law. However, a new case filed in Hawaii is of an entirely different order. A well-known anti-piracy lawyer has filed a lawsuit...
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YouTube Faces Permanent ISP Blocking in Repeat Copyright Infringer Lawsuit
A company that develops personnel assessment tests for companies to vet prospective employees has filed a lawsuit against YouTube demanding that the platform is permanently blocked by ISPs in the...
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US Copyright Office’s Proposed DMCA Fine-Tuning Could Be Bad News for Pirates
The US Copyright Office has published its long-awaited review of the DMCA's safe harbor provisions. The report proposes several tweaks to the law, including one that could make it much easier to go...
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Hacker Mods Old Calculator to Access the Internet, CASIO Files DMCA Complaint
A hobbyist electronics hacker who took a cheap standard calculator and modified it to access the Internet has been hit with a DMCA copyright complaint. According to CASIO, the project uses its...
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‘App Watch’ Allows Operators to Monitor and Ban Piracy Apps on Android...
Irdeto is mostly known for its 'Denuvo' anti-piracy tool, which protects many high profile games. However, the digital security company operates a broad suite of anti-piracy tools. This includes...
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Spotify Launches Crackdown on Tools Offering Premium Service For Free
Spotify has filed a wave of DMCA takedown notices with Google in an effort to remove links to software claiming to offer a premium experience without paying. In many of its complaints Spotify warns...
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Pirate ‘Treasures’ Continue to Show Up on Google Maps
Spammers continue to abuse Google Maps to promote scammy pirate links. These 'treasures' show up through the maps feature from where they are picked up by search engines. This can be pretty...
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Which VPN Providers Really Take Anonymity Seriously in 2020?
Picking the best VPN can be a tricky endeavor. There are hundreds of VPN services out there, all promising to keep you private. Some are more anonymous than others, however. To help you pick the...
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Torrent client Transmission 3.00 is out
Torrent client Transmission 3.00 is out Developers of the open source cross-platform BitTorrent client Transmission have released Transmission 3.00 this week. The new major version of the program...
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Top 10 Most Torrented Movies of The Week – 05/25/20
Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Scoob!' tops the chart again this week, followed by ‘The Lovebirds'. 'Inheritance'...
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DISH Sues Canada-Based Pirate IPTV Provider ‘Voodoo IPTV’
TV broadcaster DISH Network has filed a lawsuit in a Texas court targeting the operators of Canada-based 'pirate' IPTV supplier Voodoo IPTV. The lawsuit names four Ontario residents as defendants...
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Chrome and Firefox Block Torrent Site YTS over “Phishing”
Chrome and Firefox are blocking direct access to the movie download pages of popular torrent site YTS. According to Google's safe browsing report, YTS.mx is a "deceptive site" that may trick...
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