Major Pirate Site Operators’ Sentences Increased on Appeal
Two men behind defunct pirate streaming site Swefilmer have had their sentences increased by the Court of Appeal in Sweden. The main operator was originally sentenced to three years in prison but is...
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ISP Books Partial Victory Against RIAA in Piracy Lawsuit
The piracy liability case between the RIAA and Internet provider Grande Communications continues, but only based on the contributory infringement claim. Texas District Court Judge Lee Yeakel fully...
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Spooky Torrent Warns EZTV Users About “Huge Security Risk”
EZTV, one of the prime destinations for TV-minded torrent users, is distributing a rather disturbing video on its site. By plastering a list of dozens of IP-addresses in the latest episode of Lucifer,...
View ArticleMPAA Quietly Shut Down Its ‘Legal’ Movie Search Engine
A few years ago the MPAA launched its movie search engine WhereToWatch, offering viewers a database of legal alternatives to piracy. While the site worked as advertised, the movie industry group...
View ArticleReddit Copyright Complaints Jump 138% But Almost Half Get Rejected
As part of its now annual Transparency Report, Reddit has revealed that copyright complaints sent to the platform under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act jumped 138% in 2017. While the leap is...
View ArticlePirate Site-Blocking? Music Biz Wants App Blocking Too
With thousands of websites blocked all around the world on copyright grounds, pirates are continuing to innovate. The rise of apps designed to provide free content represents a fairly recent...
View ArticleHow Pirates Use New Technologies for Old Sharing Habits
From the moment the first people came online, the Internet has been used to share information. Over the years this evolved from simple text-based commands, to point-and-click uploads of hours of...
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Married Torrent Tracker Couple Settle With BREIN
Acting on behalf of various copyright holders, anti-piracy group BREIN has shut down the private torrent tracker Snuffelland. The group tracked down the site's operators, a middle-aged married couple...
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Cloudflare Kicks Out Torrent Site For Abuse Reporting Interference
Cloudflare has terminated its services to the anime torrent site NYAA.si. According to Cloudflare, the pirate site tried to interfere with and thwart the operation of the company's abuse reporting...
View ArticleRussia Blacklists 250 Pirate Sites For Displaying Gambling Ads
Russia has found a creative way of taking down pirates by using old legislation. Online gambling is forbidden in the country so sites carrying such advertising are breaking the law. Around 250 pirate...
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Steam Censors MEGA.nz Links in Chats and Forum Posts
Steam is actively preventing users from sharing links to the cloud-hosting service MEGA. The URLs are automatically stripped from forum posts and even private chats are censored. According to Valve,...
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How Many Piracy Warnings Would Get You to Stop?
Sending out warnings is supposed to reduce the numbers of people using BitTorrent to obtain movies, TV shows and music without paying. It's far from clear how much difference they make but receiving...
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The Pirate Bay Suffers Extended Downtime, Tor Domain Is Up
The Pirate Bay has been hard to reach for more than a day, causing concern among some BitTorrent users. The outage is likely caused by technical issues, so the site is expected to resurface soon....
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Netflix, Amazon and Hollywood Sue “SET TV” Over IPTV Piracy
Several major Hollywood studios, Amazon, and Netflix have filed a lawsuit against Set Broadcast, LLC, which sells the popular IPTV service SET TV. The companies accuse the service and its operators of...
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Court Denies TVAddons’ Request to Dismiss U.S. Piracy Lawsuit
The people behind TVAddons and the ZemTV Kodi addon have failed to have their case dismissed. The defendants asked the Texas court to drop the case because they are foreign nationals with no...
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Japan ISP Says it Will Voluntarily Block Pirate Sites as Major Portal Disappears
A major ISP in Japan says it will begin blocking pirate sites voluntarily. There is no legal basis for site-blocking and the country's constitution forbids censorship. However, NTT says that it has...
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MPAA Chief Says Fighting Piracy Remains “Top Priority”
With a record international box office of over $40 billion behind him, MPAA chief Charles Rivkin has told movie exhibitors at CinemaCon that keeping a lid on unauthorized sites is one of his group's...
View ArticleVK: A ‘Notorious Pirate Site’ Praised by The Music Industry
Earlier this year, the US Government included Russian social networking giant vKontakte in its list of notorious pirate sites. Branded as a 'hub' for infringing activity, the site was mentioned...
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Top 10 MostTop 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 04/23/18 of...
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Pacific Rim: Uprising' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘12 Strong'. 'Den of Thieves' completes the top three. This week we have...
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Aussie Federal Court Orders ISPs to Block Pirate IPTV Service
Village Roadshow and several major Hollywood studios have won a blocking injunction against a pirate IPTV service. HD Subs Plus delivers around 600 live premium channels plus hundreds of movies on...
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