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Sceper Set to Return After Attempted Sale “Turned Into a Scam”
Sceper, one of the most popular release blogs of recent times, disappeared without warning earlier this year after "real-life" issues got in the way of delivering pirate media to the masses. Now the...
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U.S. Drops Indictment Against Alleged Operator of Pirate App Store
The US Government has asked a federal court in Georgia to dismiss the indictment against an alleged pirate app store operator. This means that, after more than half a decade, this case will be closed....
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France's Front National (who support the EU's mandatory copyright filters)...
On June 20, an EU committee will vote on mandatory copyright filters -- the idea that everything that gets posted to an EU service should be checked for copyright violations by a machine learning...
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YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More
Several popular YouTube accounts, including those belonging to 'MIT OpenCourseWare' and the 'Blender Foundation,' have had all their videos blocked. People who try to access the videos are informed...
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Foxtel Pirate Site Blocking Application Could Be Granted in Record Time
Foxtel has returned to Federal Court in Sydney with a new application to block 'pirate' sites. The company is targeting several torrent indexes including ETTV and Torrents.me plus streaming sites...
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EU Parliament Committee Adopts Piracy ‘Upload Filter’ Proposal
The EU's plans to modernize copyright law in Europe are moving ahead. The Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliament (JURI) just adopted several proposals, including the controversial "upload filters."...
View ArticleLatticework Launches Personal Hybrid Cloud for Private Data-Sharing
Were you aghast at revelations that third-party organizations were able to capture millions of Facebook profiles from users who were unaware of the company’s privacy policy terms? If so, a Silicon...
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Cloudflare Settles Dangerous Piracy Liability Lawsuit
Cloudflare has settled its piracy liability lawsuit with adult publisher ALS Scan. The case in question was scheduled to go to trial with the CDN provider standing accused of contributory copyright...
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ISP: Piracy “Extortion Letters” Benefit ‘Greedy’ Companies, Not Poor Artists
Swedish Internet service provider Bahnhof is continuing its crusade against copyright holders that target alleged file-sharers. The company has published an article which shows that these copyright...
View ArticleRoku Under Pressure To Solve its Piracy Problem
Faced with a copyright infringement related ban in Mexico, streaming media platform Roku is working hard to win hearts and minds. In May, the company invited a group of Mexican journalists to its...
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Transfer.sh is an instant sharing tool for programmers
File sharing tools are a dime a dozen these days. There’s Dropbox, Google Drive, and iCloud. But what if you want to share something quickly and easily from the command line? That’s why programmer...
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Netflix Seeks to Boost its Global Anti-Piracy Team
Netflix wants to expand its Global Copyright & Content Protection Group. The streaming giant is looking for an individual "who can hit the ground running" into a variety of tasks, from scanning...
View ArticleETTV Launches Official Proxy to Fight ISP Blocking
When several torrent distribution groups started their own home at ETTV.tv, they moved into unchartered territory. In addition to distributing the latest releases, they were facing new problems,...
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Censorship Machines are ‘Destroying The Internet’ As We Speak?
This week the EU's controversial "upload filter" plans moved ahead. Opponents of the plans warn that this could "ban memes" and "destroy the Internet" as we know it. If that rhetoric is true, the...
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‘Live’ TV Piracy Watermarking Defeated by Devices Sold on eBay
Watermarking has long been one of the tools used to track sources of pirated content so with the growth of live content streaming, it's becoming more important than ever. However, while broadcasters...
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The Pirate Bay’s Downtime Troubles Continue
The Pirate Bay has been hard to reach for the past week. No further details have been announced but the Tor version of the site remains operational. However, with many instances of downtime this year...
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IFPI Nuking Twitch Streamers Accounts For Playing Background Music
from the all-perfectly-normal-side-effects-of-the-copyright-regime dept It appears another rightsholder is doing something that's a.) well within its rights and b.) counterproductive. It's also...
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FIFA Fails to Remove Pirate Streaming Sites From Google Search
Google recently received a takedown notice, sent on behalf of FIFA, asking the search engine to remove several allegedly infringing sites. FIFA hoped to limit the availability of pirated World Cup...
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Kim Dotcom Files Complaint With Human Rights Tribunal Over “Lost Data”
Kim Dotcom has revealed that a judgment requiring authorities to hand over information to him hasn't been complied with due to apparent IT system issues. According to the Megaupload founder, data...
View ArticleNYC.com ‘Secretly’ Hosts a Pirate Torrent Site
NYC.com advertises itself as the world's go-to source for everything there is to love about New York City. Since its inception, the site has sold over $100 million in ticket and hotel inventory....
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