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Canada’s Supreme Court Offers Hope to Falsely Accused File-Sharers
In recent years hundreds of thousands of IP-addresses have been implicated in piracy lawsuits. But does that mean that the account holder is always liable? According to a recent comment by Canada's...
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Illegal Anthony Joshua v Alexander Povetkin Boxing Streams Will Be Blocked
Sports promoter Matchroom Sport has obtained a High Court injunction in the UK enabling it to block illegal streams of fights, including the Anthony Joshua versus Alexander Povetkin bout at Wembley...
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‘Dragon Box’ Changes Business Model Following Hollywood Lawsuit
Facing serious legal pressure from Hollywood, the company behind the streaming device 'Dragon Box' is changing its business model. The company will officially introduce a subscription service called...
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Broadcaster Wins Streaming Piracy Blocking Case in Australia
Hong Kong broadcaster Television Broadcasts has won its site-blocking case in Australia. As a result, ISPs including Telstra, Optus, Vocus, and TPG plus their subsidiaries must block access to 25...
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Streaming accounted for 75 percent of the US music industry's revenue in the...
Why it matters: Just as digital downloads did before it, streaming has permanently altered the trajectory of the music industry in just a few short years. Revenue still isn't near what it was...
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(Opinion) Reddit Gets Tough With Multiple Bans of Piracy Sub-Reddits
Faced with communities that continually flaunt Reddit's rules on deliberately linking to copyright-infringing content, the site's admins have banned yet more piracy-focused sub-Reddits. The latest...
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ETTV Feeds EZTV ‘Fake’ Torrents…‘Stop Taking Our Releases!’
Popular TV-torrent distribution group ETTV is calling out one of its main 'competitors.' The group accuses EZTV of taking 'its' releases and branding them as their own, publishing fake torrents to...
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Judge Sees No Evidence that Pirates Were Drawn by ISP’s Lack of ‘Policing’
A group of RIAA labels has suffered a setback in their case against ISP Grande Communications. US Magistrate Judge Andrew Austin recommends denying their motion for an amended complaint, as there is...
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‘Piracy is Booming in Russia, With Help From Online Casinos’
The number of illegally recorded films in Russian cinemas is skyrocketing, cybersecurity company Group-IB reports. Nearly all films that were released this year have leaked. According to Group-IB, one...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 09/24/18
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'The First Purge' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story'. 'Sicario: Day of the Soldado' completes the top three....
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Demonoid Goes Down While Owner Remains ‘Missing’
Semi-private BitTorrent tracker Demonoid has been offline for several days. The downtime follows a series of technical issues. More concerning, however, is the fact that the site's staff haven't heard...
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(Opinion) Why Kodi Addons & Pirate Apps Are Disappearing…Quietly
Since 2017, many Kodi addon and 'pirate' app developers have chosen to discontinue their projects and disappear into the shadows. Yet, unlike historical shutdowns of torrent and streaming platforms,...
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Google, Yandex Discuss Creation of Anti-Piracy Database
Google, Yandex and other prominent Internet companies in Russia are discussing the creation of a database of infringing content including movies, TV shows, games, and software. The idea is that the...
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Roku's latest streaming players offer 4K at bargain-basement prices
What just happened? Roku is bolstering its product catalog heading into the holidays with two new devices that offer 4K HDR streaming in stocking stuffer-sized form factor. The only question is,...
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Sky TV Wants The Pirate Bay Blocked in New Zealand
New Zealand could become the next country to adopt pirate site blocking. Sky TV will take the matter to court this year, hoping to force local ISPs to block The Pirate Bay and an unnamed sports...
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Grindr Playing DMCA Whac-A-Mole With Privacy Threat ‘Fuckr’
Back in March, it was revealed that Grindr could be exploited to expose the personal information of its users. Two months later, a further report noted that it was still possible to extract personal...
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BitTorrent Traffic is Not Dead, It’s Making a Comeback
File-sharing traffic, BitTorrent in particular, is making a comeback. New data from Sandvine, shared exclusively with TorrentFreak, reveals that BitTorrent is still a dominant source of upstream...
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Illuminati Kodi Repository Throws in the Towel After ACE Threats
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the global anti-piracy coalition that counts the major Hollywood studios, Netflix, Amazon, and the BBC among its 30 members, has claimed yet...
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CBS Shuts Down Stage 9, a Fan-Made Recreation of the USS Enterprise
Stage 9, a beautiful fan-made recreation of the Enterprise ship from Star Trek: The Next Generation, has been shut down following a cease-and-desist from CBS. The people behind the two-year-old...
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Cox Highlights Double Standard and Wildly Inaccurate Notices in Piracy Case
Internet provider Cox Communications has responded to the federal complaint filed by several major record labels. The ISP refutes all copyright infringement claims and notes that DMCA notices can be...
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