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Pirated Screeners of ‘Falling’ and ‘My Salinger Year’ Leak Online Early
Two new pirated movie screeners appeared online this week, way ahead of the usual screener season. Pirate release group EVO published advance copies of 'Falling' and 'My Salinger Year,' two popular...
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Twitch DMCA “Bloodbath” Trades Copyright Strikes For Due Process
A large number of Twitch users have had their videos deleted following a new round of mass DMCA notice processing. Twitch has also imposed an interesting 'deal' on those affected. In exchange for...
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French Three-Strikes Anti-Piracy Law Mostly Benefited American Movies
New research into the effects of the French anti-piracy law Hadopi shows that its introduction failed to significantly increase box-office revenue. It did, however, cause a shift in people's movie...
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Denmark’s Largest Torrent Tracker Shuts Down After Owner’s Reported Arrest
Danishbits, one of the largest private torrent trackers on the Internet and particularly popular in Denmark, has shut down. Several insiders report that the site's owner was arrested recently. Other...
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‘youtube-dl’ downloading software removed from GitHub by RIAA takedown notice
This afternoon, one of the most well-known pieces of software for downloading YouTube videos, youtube-dl, was removed from GitHub following a takedown notice from the Recording Industry Association of...
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Logs Seized From F-Secure’s VPN Must Be Destroyed, Court Rules
In January 2019, Finland's National Bureau of Investigation seized logging data from F-Secure's FREEDOME VPN service to investigate an alleged crime. After a prolonged legal process, the Helsinki...
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Pirate IPTV Reseller Agrees to Pay $30m in Damages and Puts Users At Risk
A former reseller of pirate IPTV service SET TV sued by DISH in a Florida court has reached a rapid albeit expensive settlement with the broadcaster. For each of the 40,000 subscriptions sold to the...
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Deezer Knows People Are Pirating Its Service But Says It Won’t Stop Them
Despite both Spotify and Deezer having a free-tier for listeners on a budget, some users prefer to use unofficial clients that allow them to obtain the premium service for free. Spotify has dealt with...
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ACE Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask Operators of Major Pirate Sites
Global anti-piracy coalition Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment has obtained a DMCA subpoena requiring the Tonic domain registry to hand over all information it holds on a wide range of...
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Government-Backed Anti-Piracy Deal Aims to Disrupt Pirate Site Cash Flow
The Danish Ministry of Culture and Rights Alliance have brokered an anti-piracy agreement with various key players in the online media world. Under the new deal, Denmark’s biggest media outlets,...
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Apple & Google Agree to Cooperate By Removing Pirate Apps From Stores
New amendments to copyright law in Russia require companies including Apple and Google to remove infringing apps from their respective stores or face blocking by local ISPs. With Apple already being...
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Angry YouTube-dl users flood GitHub with new repos after takedown
Users of the extremely popular YouTube-dl YouTube media downloader have flooded GitHub with new repositories containing the tool's source code after GitHub took down the project's repositories on...
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Movie Company Sues Pirates Who Used an Anonymous VPN
The makers of the film 'Angel Has Fallen' have filed a lawsuit against seventeen alleged pirates. According to the complaint, several defendants used the VPN service 'Private Internet Access,' which...
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RIAA’s YouTube-DL Takedown Ticks Off Developers and GitHub’s CEO
An RIAA takedown request, which removed the YouTube-DL repository from GitHub, has ticked off developers and GitHub's CEO. Numerous people responded by copying and republishing the contested code,...
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RIAA Sued By YouTube-Ripping Site Over DMCA Anti-Circumvention Notices
A company operating a YouTube-ripping platform has sued the RIAA for sending "abusive" DMCA anti-circumvention notices to Google. According to the complaint and contrary to the RIAA's claims, the Yout...
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Ololo.to Shuts Down After Being Targeted By ACE Anti-Piracy Coalition
Popular streaming video search engine Ololo.to has thrown in the towel leaving around two million monthly visitors behind. Earlier this month, Ololo was targeted in a DMCA subpoena obtained by the...
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‘Deciphering’ YouTube’s Rolling Cypher in Your Browser is a Piece of Cake
The RIAA and other music groups recently accused youtube-dl and related stream-ripping tools of circumventing YouTube's 'rolling cipher' protection. While that may sound complex, anyone can download...
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Tech Giants Want EU ‘Safeguard’ to Proactively Remove Pirated Content
Several of the world's leading Internet companies, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok, are calling for a new safeguard under EU law, so they can take proactive measures against piracy and...
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Movie Company Demands $10K From BitTorrent Pirate, Court Awards $750
Not mounting a defense in a BitTorrent piracy lawsuit can be a recipe for disaster, with large damages handed down in a default judgment. However, a judge in the United States has treated one such...
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Sender of False DMCA Takedown Notices Ordered to Pay £370K in Damages
An individual who filed false copyright complaints with platforms including Facebook, Amazon, and Instagram in order to damage a rival's business has been heavily punished by a court. In a default...
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