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US Court Dismisses ‘Unique’ YTS Trademark Case Against Pirate Sites & Apps
Anti-piracy lawyer Kerry Culpepper has failed to secure $250,000 damages claims against sites and apps that used the YTS trademark he obtained. The court dismissed the case as it lacks sufficient...
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RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms & Pirate Sites
The RIAA is ramping up the pressure on a wide range of platforms allegedly involved in music piracy. Two DMCA subpoenas obtained against Cloudflare and Namecheap require the companies to hand over all...
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Alleged KickassTorrents Operator is Now Officially a Fugitive
All defendants in the criminal case against KickassTorrents are now at large. A few weeks ago the news broke that alleged operator Artem Vaulin had fled Poland. After that happened his U.S. legal team...
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An Extraordinarily Successful Anti-Piracy Campaign…Or Maybe Not
Internet Matters, a not-for-profit organization based in London, has been running a video anti-piracy campaign for just over a week. In common with many of its kind, it focuses on the supposed dangers...
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20 Years Ago, LimeWire Took File-Sharing to A New Level
A few months after the turn of the new millennium, a new piece of software called LimeWire saw the light. At the time, Napster was still the dominant file-sharing tool and the music industry's...
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Top 10 Most Torrented Movies of The Week – 11/02/20
Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm' tops the chart, followed by ‘The Witches'. 'Love and Monsters'...
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US Govt’s Pirate Site List Doesn’t Prove Anything, YouTube Rippers Tell Court
Several major record labels recently cited the USTR's notorious markets list as evidence in their ongoing legal battle with YouTube-rippers FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com. This mention wasn't well-received...
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GitHub threatens to ban users who bypass YouTube-dl takedown
GitHub has issued a warning that accounts could be banned if they continue to upload content that was removed due to DMCA takedown notices. On October 23rd, 2020, GitHub removed the source code...
View ArticleThe source code for Watch Dogs Legion has been leaked, weighs around 560GB
As we’ve already reported, in October 2020, ransomware gang “Egregor” has leaked data that it had obtained from the internal networks of Crytek and Ubisoft. And it appears that the source code for...
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Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited To The United States, Subject to Judicial Review
A few minutes ago a panel of judges at the Supreme Court of New Zealand announced that Kim Dotcom and his former Megaupload colleagues can indeed be extradited to the United States to face copyright...
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Movie Industry: VPNs and Tor Pose a Threat to Legitimate Streaming Platforms
The Motion Picture Association says that circumvention services such as VPNs, DNS masks and Tor networks can pose a direct threat to legitimate streaming services. In comments submitted to the US...
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MPA Lawyers Are Trying to Shut Down Pirate Anime Giant Nyaa.si
TorrentFreak understands that the MPA has delivered cease-and-desist letters to several individuals with alleged connections to massive anime torrent site Nyaa. Claiming that they are members of the...
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RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub
Two weeks ago the RIAA asked GitHub to remove the open-source stream-ripper software youtube-dl. This request wasn't well-received by developers, many of whom retaliated by posting copies of the code....
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Microsoft sues Florida reseller it alleges sold 'black market access devices'...
Microsoft has flung numerous accusations at a reseller based in Florida in the US ranging from copyright infringement to the use of some decidedly iffy licence codes. Miami-based Office Solutions...
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Netflix Targets Critical ‘Cuties’ Tweets With Copyright Takedown Requests
Netflix has sent over a hundred takedown requests this week targeting tweets that are critical of the movie 'Cuties' and/or urged people to cancel their subscriptions. The takedown notices list the...
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Megaupload: Police Prepare to Seize Assets of Co-Founder Mathias Ortmann
After New Zealand's Supreme Court handed down a "mixed bag" decision this week which allows Kim Dotcom more time in the country to fight extradition, former colleague Mathias Ortmann is now under the...
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U.S. and UK Help Brazil to Seize Pirate Site Domains in ‘Operation 401’
Law enforcement in the US and UK have assisted a massive anti-piracy operation in Brazil which has taken hundreds of pirate sites offline. The US Department of Justice confirmed the seizure of three...
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EFF Argues RIAA is 'Abusing DMCA' to Take Down YouTube-DL
RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloading Online Videos "youtube-dl" is a popular free software tool for downloading videos from YouTube and other user-uploaded video platforms....
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Major Torrent Site EZTV Has Domain Suspended By Registry
EZTV, one of the world's most popular torrent sites, appears to have lost control of its main domain after its registry marked it with a serverHold status code. Meanwhile, torrent multi-search and...
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Judge On a Roll as Yet More Absent BitTorrent Pirates Receive Lenient Treatment
Last week we reported how a defendant who failed to defend herself in a BitTorrent piracy lawsuit was treated leniently by the court which rejected claims for substantial damages. There are now signs...
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