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Arrr: Top Tips to Spot The Differences Between Pirate and Legal Sites
As part of the national anti-fraud awareness campaign Take Five, this week the Federation Against Copyright Theft asked consumers to consider whether the site or service they're using is pirate or...
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Piracy Can Help Music Sales of Many Artists, Research Shows
A new academic paper published in the Information Economics and Policy journal shows that piracy can help many artists to sell more music. Results from the peer-reviewed paper are consistent for both...
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Udemy Targets ‘Pirate’ Site Giving Away its Paid Courses For Free
Online learning platform Udemy is taking on FreeTutorials.us, a site making available a wide range of paid courses and tutorials for free. A California court has ordered Cloudflare to hand over all...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 01/29/18
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Thor Ragnarok' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘The Shape of Water'. 'Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle' completes the top three....
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Researchers Use a Blockchain to Boost Anonymous Torrent Sharing
Researchers at Delft University of Technology have released a major update to their decentralized and pseudo-anonymous BitTorrent client. The new Tribler has its very own blockchain that tracks how...
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T-Mobile Blocks Pirate Sites Then Reports Itself For Possible Net Neutrality...
After blocking several Pirate Bay clone sites following requests from rightsholders, T-Mobile in Austria has reported itself over a potential net neutrality breach. EU law says that pirate sites can...
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New Anti-Piracy Coalition Calls For Canadian Website Blocking
A new coalition of Canadian companies is calling on the local telecom regulator CRTC to establish a local piracy site blocking program. The plan is the first of its kind in North America, aimed at...
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Cloudflare is Liable For Pirate Sites & Has No Safe Harbor, Publisher Says
As one of the leading CDN and DDoS protection services, Cloudflare is used by millions of websites across the globe. This includes thousands of “pirate” sites, including the likes of The Pirate Bay,...
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Despite Protests, ISP Ordered To Hand Over Pirates’ Details to Police
A Swedish ISP has lost its battle to keep the personal identities of some users a secret. Bahnhof, which doesn't consider piracy a serious offense, previously refused to hand over the details of...
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Set-top box piracy crackdown: Show me the evidence, (Australian) judge tells...
Village Roadshow and TVB are seeking to block illicit streaming of their content using Android set-top boxes A Federal Court (Australia) judge has warned copyright holders that they shouldn’t assume...
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Appeals Court Throws Out $25 Million Piracy Verdict Against Cox, Doesn’t...
The Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has thrown out the $25 million piracy liability verdict against Internet provider Cox because of an erroneous jury instruction. This means that there will...
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Playboy’s Copyright Lawsuit Threatens Online Expression, Boing Boing Argues
After being branded a clickbait site by Playboy, popular blog Boing Boing has stressed the importance of hyperlinks to a Federal Court in California. Links are a crucial part of the Internet and an...
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MEGA introduces "Achievements"...No more 50 GB of storage for New Users
Good evening, everyone! I couldn't find a post regarding this topic...so I guess it's up to me. As you all know, MEGA.nz is one of the TOP sites for Cloud Storage on the Web. It has a VERY fast speed...
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China to Start Blocking Unauthorized VPN Providers This April
In a move designed to protect the effectiveness of its 'Great Firewall', China has warned it will begin blocking unauthorized VPN services starting April 1, 2018. Despite the strong move, China is...
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Blizzard Targets Fan-Created ‘World of Warcraft’ Legacy Server
Blizzard Entertainment is taking a stand against a popular World of Warcraft legacy server. The fan-operated project allows gamers to experience how the game was played over a decade ago and to revive...
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EU Anti-Piracy Agreement Has Little Effect on Advertising, Research Finds
One of the best ways to beat piracy, according to many copyright industry groups, is to "follow the money." This is the reason why advertising agencies are encouraged to cut their deals with pirate...
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Russia Blocks 500 ‘Pirate’ Sites in Four Months, Without a Single Court Order
Last October, Russia passed legislation which allowed rightsholders to have 'pirate' clone and mirror sites blocked by ISPs without the need for court intervention. According to Russia's Deputy...
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Virgin Media Store Caught Running Movie & TV Show Piracy Software (Updated)
Virgin Media Store Caught Running Movie & TV Show Piracy Software (Updated) Virgin Media is one of the largest premium telecoms suppliers in the UK and Ireland but the way one of its stores has...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 02/05/18
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 02/05/18 The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Thor Ragnarok' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Jumanji: Welcome to...
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Man Handed Conditional Prison Sentence for Spreading Popcorn Time Information
Man handed conditional prison sentence for spreading Pop Corn Time information. A man from Denmark has been handed a six-month conditional prison sentence for spreading information about Popcorn Time....
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