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Convicted Copyright Troll Lawyer Sues US Attorney General Over His Right to...
Paul Hansmeier, one of the lead attorneys behind the controversial Prenda Law firm, has sued US Attorney General William Barr. The former attorney, who's sitting out a 14-year prison sentence,...
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Looks Like Sky Was Funding CrimeStoppers’“Report a Pirate” Campaign
Late 2017, UK charity Crimestoppers launched a campaign to discourage the use of pirate set-top boxes and encourage people to report pirates to the police. While the financial backers of the...
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Anime Publisher Asks Google to Wipe Dictionary Page
Japanese manga publisher Shogakukan has asked Google to remove a Dictionary.com page for the word 'magi' from its search engine. While Magi is the name of a popular manga comic, it also refers to...
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Top 10 Most Torrented Movies of The Week – 08/10/20
Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'The Tax Collector' tops the chart, followed by ‘The Secret Garden'. 'Greyhound'...
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GitHub Reinstates ‘Chimera13’ iOS Jailbreak After DMCA Counter Notice
Early last month, GitHub was asked to pull the Chimera13 iOS jailbreak code offline. The request didn't come from Apple, as some would think, but from the team behind another jailbreak tool. The...
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Sky Targets ‘Evil King Media’ IPTV App, Developer Says “No More Updates”
Android app Evil King Media (EKM), which provided free access to 'pirate' IPTV streams, VOD content and music has been targeted by Sky. Following the forced removal of the software from Github after...
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Pornhub Sister Company Wants to Expose Video Hosting Site ‘Pirates’
MG Premium has requested three new DMCA subpoenas targeting the operators and uploaders of video hosting sites Tapecontent.net, Netu.tv and Gounlimited.to. Pornhub's sister company requests...
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Interest in Kodi Declines After a Turmultuous Few Years of Piracy Headlines
After many years of being mentioned in the same breath as movie and TV show piracy, interest in the Kodi media player appears to have peaked and is now on the decline. That's according to Google...
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BREIN Planning to Tighten The Noose on Pirates & Intermediaries
Dutch anti-piracy group says it has remained busy during the COVID-19 lockdown period. In a report detailing its activities of the past six months, the group says that in addition to 250 enforcement...
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High-Quality Piracy Boosts Box Office Revenues in Opening Week, Research Finds
A new academic study shows that downloading movies from The Pirate Bay can positively affect box office revenue. The research finds that high-quality piracy during the opening week leads to an...
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Hollywood, Netflix & Amazon Sue IPTV Provider Crystal Clear Media
Several major Hollywood studios plus Amazon and Netflix have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against 'pirate' IPTV provider Crystal Clear Media (CCM). The lawsuit claims that, in addition to...
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Anti-Piracy Lawyer Seeks $250,000 From ‘YTS’ Site and App Operators in...
The owners of several apps and sites that use the popular pirate brand YTS risk substantial damages being awarded against them. Hawaiian anti-piracy lawyer Kerry Culpepper is requesting $250,000...
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Yandex Search Engine Faces $40m Copyright Lawsuit For Indexing Videos
Leading Russian search engine Yandex is being sued in a Moscow court for copyright infringement. Filed by rightsholder TeleSport, the complaint alleges that Yandex's video service displayed video...
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LimeWire Developer Creates MuWire, an Anonymous File-Sharing Application
LimeWire once was the most used file-sharing application worldwide. This era came to an abrupt end when it was shut down ten years ago. The original Limewire.com domain still exists, however, and...
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Adobe Sued For Sending ‘Bogus’ DMCA Notices to Take Down Genuine Software
Adobe is being sued in a California court for allegedly filing bogus DMCA notices with eBay in order to prevent a company from reselling its software. When the company responded by filing...
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Piracy Giants KissAnime and KissManga Shut Down
KissAnime.ru and KissManga.com, two of the largest pirate streaming sites, have gone offline. The operators report that all files were taken down by copyright owners and the sites don't intend to...
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OMI IN A HELLCAT: FBI Collecting Terabytes of Piracy Evidence From Foreign...
YouTube star and founder of 'pirate' IPTV service Gears Reloaded 'OMI IN A HELLCAT' had millions in cash and property seized by the FBI last year. The investigation is ongoing, with authorities...
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Texas Man Faces $2.1 Million Damages Claim for Selling Pirate Boxes on Facebook
Media giant ABS-CBN is requesting a default judgment against a Texas man who allegedly sold pirate streaming boxes through Facebook. The defendant, who's identified as Anthony Brown, was caught...
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Kim Dotcom Predicts NZ Supreme Court Will Rule in Favor of Extradition
Kim Dotcom is predicting that the New Zealand Supreme Court will decide in favor of extraditing him to the United States. The Megaupload founder says that he has faith in at least one judge on the...
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YTS Operator Helped Movie Companies Catch a Pirating User
A group of movie companies is demanding nearly $100,000 in statutory piracy damages from US army veteran Mical Mesot. While the evidence is often flimsy in piracy cases, the rightsholders managed to...
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