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Sweden Considers Six Years in Jail For Online Pirates
Sweden Considers Six Years in Jail For Online Pirates Sweden's Minister for Justice has received recommendations as to how the country should punish online pirates. Heléne Fritzon received a proposal...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 02/12/18
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Coco' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Thor Ragnarok'. 'Daddy's Home 2' completes the top three. This week we have three...
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Google on Collision Course With Movie Biz Over Piracy & Safe Harbor
Google on Collision Course With Movie Biz Over Piracy & Safe Harbor Google and one of Australia's leading movie companies are on a collision course over piracy. Village Roadshow's outspoken...
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Canadian Pirate Site Blocks Could Spread to VPNs, Professor Warns
Canadian Pirate Site Blocks Could Spread to VPNs, Professor Warns A group of prominent Canadian ISPs and movie industry companies are determined to bring pirate site blocking efforts to North America....
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Copyright Trolls Target Up to 22,000 Norwegians for Movie Piracy
Copyright Trolls Target Up to 22,000 Norwegians for Movie Piracy The Oslo District Court has effectively given a Danish law firm the go-ahead to target up to 21,804 potential pirates with cash...
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Pirate Site Admin Sentenced to Two Years Prison & €83.6 Million Damages
Pirate Site Admin Sentenced to Two Years Prison & €83.6 Million Damages A man said to be the brains behind one of France's most popular streaming sites has been sentenced in his absence by a court...
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SkyTorrents Dumps Massive Torrent Database and Shuts Down
The ad-free and privacy-focused torrent site "SkyTorrents" has become a victim of its own success. With millions of pageviews per day, the site was too expensive to manage, leaving the operator no...
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Bell, Rogers, Videotron granted appeal against Kodi add-ons distributor
A Federal Court of Appeals (FCA) judge has allowed an appeal by Bell, Rogers, Videotron and TVA Group, in a copyright court case regarding Kodi media player add-ons. In a decision delivered on...
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TVAddons Suffers Big Setback as Court Completely Overturns Earlier Ruling
TVAddons Suffers Big Setback as Court Completely Overturns Earlier Ruling In 2017, Kodi add-on site TVAddons was taken offline following a copyright complaint from Canada's largest telecoms companies....
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Australian Pirate Site Blocks Actually Block Pirate Sites
New research, promoted by copyright holders, concludes that Australia's pirate site-blocking efforts are paying off. The court-ordered blockades have effectively limited the number of direct visits to...
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Australian Pirate Site Blocks Actually Block Pirate Sites
New research, promoted by copyright holders, concludes that Australia's pirate site-blocking efforts are paying off. The court-ordered blockades have effectively limited the number of direct visits to...
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Dutch Continue to Curb Illegal Downloading But What About Streaming?
After previously being legal for personal use, in 2014 the Netherlands banned downloading of copyrighted content. In 2013, 41% of people engaged in the practice but according to a new study, just 24%...
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Chrome and Firefox Block Torrentz2 Over “Harmful Programs”
Chrome and Firefox are blocking direct access to the popular torrent meta-search engine Torrentz2.eu. According to Google's safe browsing program, some pages on Torrentz2 contain harmful programs. The...
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Bell Asks Employees to Back Pirate Site Blocking Plan
Bell, Canada's largest telecommunications company, is asking its employees to support the company's calls to have pirate sites blocked. Through an internal message, employees are encouraged to share...
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Russia VPN Blocking Law Failing? No Provider Told To Block Any Site
In 2017, Russia introduced tough new legislation that compels VPN providers to restrict access to sites blocked by regular ISPs or get blocked themselves. Now, several months on, not a single VPN...
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New uTorrent Web Streams and Downloads Torrents in Your Browser
BitTorrent Inc. has quietly rolled out its brand new "uTorrent Web." The software allows users to download and stream torrents directly in their default web browser. In the long run, the web version...
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Copyright Holders Call Out Costa Rica Over ThePirateBay.cr
The MPAA, RIAA and other entertainment industry groups want Costa Rica to step up its efforts to combat copyright infringement. They inform the US Government that the Central American country is...
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Most Users of Exclusive Torrent Site Also Pay For Services Like Netflix or Prime
A survey carried out on HDBits, one of the world's most exclusive private torrent sites, has revealed that even the most hardcore of pirates are happy to pay for content. The poll, carried out among...
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OfflineBay ‘Saves The Day’ When Pirate Bay Goes Down
The Pirate Bay regularly suffers downtime, which can lead to a lot of frustration among users. Software developer TechTac hopes to bring an end to this with the release of OfflineBay, a searchable...
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Spotify Emails Warning to ‘Pirates’ Using Hacked Apps
People who access Spotify using hacked apps that remove some of the restrictions placed on free accounts are receiving warning emails from the company. Noting that "abnormal activity" has been...
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