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Hellboy’s $270,000 Piracy Damages Calculation Fails to Convince Judge
The makers of the film Hellboy have suffered another setback in court after their second attempt to convince a judge that a $270,000 judgment against torrent site and uploader MKVCage failed. The...
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Cloudflare Ordered to Reveal Operators of Popular Pirate Sites Manga1000.com
Shogakukan, one of Japan's largest manga publishers, has been given permission to obtain the personal details of the operators of one of Japan's most popular pirate manga sites. The DMCA subpoena...
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Stores Selling Switch Piracy Hacks ‘Disappear’ Following Nintendo Lawsuit
Last week Nintendo sued the operators of nine online stores for enabling widespread piracy. The websites in question offered Switch hacks and mods linked to Team-Xecuter, including an upcoming...
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Vapor Store Looks a Lot Like a Popcorn Time For Pirated Steam Games
Popcorn Time made thousands of headlines after being dubbed the 'Netflix for Pirates' and a new piece of software released this week could be making some early steps towards becoming its counterpart...
View ArticleRussia Adopts Law to Block Pirate Apps and if Necessary, App Stores Too
Russia's State Duma has adopted new legislation that will enable copyright holders to take far-reaching action against apps facilitating access to pirated content. If the owners of the apps...
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YTS Bypasses Security Warnings with Simple URL Update
A few days ago, popular torrent site YTS was flagged as a potential phishing site by Chrome and Firefox. Today, these warnings have disappeared but not because the problems were resolved. YTS...
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US Copyright Office’s DMCA Tweaks Trigger ‘Internet Disconnection’ Concerns
Last week the US Copyright Office released its long-awaited review on the DMCA's safe harbor section. While far-reaching proposals such as pirate site blocking and upload filters were not...
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US Court Hands Down Preliminary Injunction Against Pirate IPTV Provider
A Florida district court judge has handed down a highly-restrictive preliminary injunction against a 'pirate' IPTV provider trading under various names including CBC and X-View. The case was...
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Watch Tower DMCA Subpoena Row Settled After Judge Hands Out Vulgarity Warning
A row over whether a judge should allow the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society to obtain the identity of someone who uploaded 'pirated' Jehovah's Witness videos to YouTube is effectively over....
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Netflix Impostor Bombards Google With Fake DMCA Takedown Notices
From just a few thousand flagged URLs per week the number of DMCA takedown notices Netflix sent to Google skyrocketed to over a million recently. The reason for this increase wasn't clear initially...
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ACE/MPA Seize Four More Sites For Facilitating Movie & TV Show Piracy
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment and the Motion Picture Association of America have 'seized' four more domains for being involved in piracy activities. While the domains don't appear to...
View ArticleHow Anonymous Are Cloud Torrenting Services?
Cloud torrenting services are an ideal tool to download content swiftly. They also help to hide your IP-address from the public at large. However, are they really anonymous? We asked the leading...
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Top 10 Most Torrented Movies of The Week – 06/01/20
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 High Note'. 'The Hunt' completes...
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Rights Alliance Reinforces Pirate Site Blocking Agreement With Danish ISPs
Anti-piracy group Rights Alliance has agreed on a new version of its Code of Conduct, where local Internet providers agree to voluntarily block pirate sites. ISPs will take this action if there's a...
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Publishers Sue the Internet Archive Over its Open Library, Declare it a...
Several major publishers have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in a New York court targeting the Internet Archive's Open Library. According to the complaint, the project is a massive and...
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BREIN Shut Down 564 Pirate Sites & Blocked 258 Pirate Bay Proxies in 2019
BREIN has published the results of its 2019 anti-piracy campaign. In addition to shuttering 564 downloading and streaming platforms, the group had The Pirate Bay and 258 of its mirrors and proxies...
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Former Police Officer Handed 12 Month Sentence For Selling Pirate TV Devices
A former police officer, currently serving a six-year sentence for running a cannabis farm, was handed an additional 12 months inside yesterday for running a pirate streaming operation. Daniel...
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Dutch ISPs Must Block The Pirate Bay Despite Fierce Protest, Court Rules
Dutch ISPs Ziggo and XS4ALL must block access to The Pirate Bay, the Amsterdam Court ruled today. The verdict is the latest in a long-running legal battle that started over a decade ago. The...
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Massive Piracy Damages Award Against Cox is Not Excessive, Court Rules
Cox Communications' request to lower the massive piracy liability verdict issued by a Virginia jury has failed. The request for a new trial was denied as well. However, the court does agree that the...
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Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy For Copyright...
Project Gutenberg, the world's oldest digital library, has been blocked by ISPs in Italy under the orders of the Court of Rome. The platform, which focuses on public domain books, appears to have...
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