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SOPA Ghosts Hinder U.S. Pirate Site Blocking Efforts
Quote US music and movie industry companies helped to get pirate sites blocked in many countries but on their home turf, legal action is surprisingly absent. For years we have wondered why local ISPs...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 10/09/17
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘War for the Planet of the Apes'. 'Baby Driver' completes the top three....
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Roku Shows FBI Warning to Pirate Channel Users
Quote The popular media player Roku is flashing an FBI anti-piracy warning to users of "pirate" channels, including XTV. After been shown the FBI's well known anti-piracy seal, users are informed that...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 10/16/17
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'War for the Planet of the Apes' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘The Dark Tower'. 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' completes the top three....
View ArticleThief Stole Call of Duty WWII DVDs From Sony and Sold on Ebay
This didn't make national news but was talked about here in Chicago at CyberSecurity. TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - A man faces a felony charge for selling video games stolen from Sony DADC. Terre...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 10/23/17
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'War for the Planet of the Apes' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Annabelle Creation'. 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' completes the top...
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Ares Kodi Project Calls it Quits After Hollywood Cease & Desist
Quote The Ares Project, the group behind the hugely popular Ares Wizard and Kodi repository, has thrown in the towel. Like several other projects this week, Ares was threatened by the MPA-led...
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Pirate Site Owner Found Guilty, But He Can Keep The Profits
Quote The 47-year-old operator of Filmfix, a site that offered paid access to torrent links, has been found guilty of facilitating copyright infringement by a District Court in Lund, Sweden. The man...
View ArticleCracking Group 3DM Loses Piracy Case Against Game Maker
The infamous Chinese cracking group 3DM has lost its legal battle with Koei Tecmo. A Chinese court sided with the game maker, awarding the company the equivalent of $245,000 in piracy damages and...
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Coalition Against Piracy Launches Landmark Case Against ‘Pirate’ Android Box...
Quote The recently-formed Coalition Against Piracy, which counts Disney, Fox, Sony, HBO, NBCUniversal, BBC Worldwide and StarHub among its members, will tread new ground today when it attempts a...
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Torrent Links Return to Torrentz2 After Mystery Disappearance
Quote The popular torrent meta-search engine Torrentz2 left its millions of users confused late last year when all links to torrents suddenly disappeared. Was this the end of the site? It appears not,...
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Epic Games Sues Cheater Over ‘Stealing’ Fortnite V-Bucks
Quote Game developer and publisher Epic has filed another copyright infringement lawsuit. This time it's against a person who 'stole' from the company by generating free V-Bucks. In a complaint filed...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 01/15/18
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'The Shape of Water' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle'. 'Blade Runner 2049' completes the top three....
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US Govt Brands Torrent, Streaming & Cyberlocker Sites As Notorious Markets
Keeping its annual tradition, the office of the United States Trade Representative has targeted some of the world's most famous 'pirate' sites in its latest report on copyright infringing venues. In...
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Tickbox Clearly Promotes and Facilitates Piracy, Hollywood Tells Court
The owner of TickBox TV, a Kodi-powered streaming device, is being sued for copyright infringement by a group of major Hollywood studios plus Amazon and Netflix. The box seller previously argued that...
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Hollywood Wins ISP Blockade Against Popular Pirate Sites in Ireland
The Motion Picture Association has scored a victory in Ireland where several Internet providers have been ordered to block access to eight popular pirate sites. The websites, including 1337x.io,...
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The Man from Earth Sequel ‘Pirated’ on The Pirate Bay – By Its Creators
With the file-sharing wars in full swing, 2007 saw the movie The Man From Earth being pirated all over the Internet, but its creators didn't fight the movement. Instead, they embraced pirates and...
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Kim Dotcom Loses Megaupload Domain Names, Gets “Destroyed” Gaming Chair Back
The U.S. Government has won another civil forfeiture case against Megaupload and Kim Dotcom. As a result, the U.S. now owns several online bank accounts, cars, servers, as well as Megaupload's domain...
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Pirate IPTV Mastermind Owns Raided Bulgarian ISP, Sources Say
Last week police forces across Europe raided and shut down one of the largest 'pirate' IPTV operations in the world. With information continuing to drip out, the true scale is now becoming clear. In...
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Police Shut Down Pirate Streaming TV Provider, Three Men Arrested
Police have raided a pirate streaming TV service in Poland and arrested three men aged 30, 42 and 57. Authorities say that the provider initially offered accounts for free, then shifted customers onto...
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