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Explicit Music Piracy Warnings are Seen As Most Effective
Researchers from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, conducted a study to find out which piracy warnings are seen as most effective by the general public. As it turns out, more explicit variants tend...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 10/15/18
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Ant-Man and the Wasp' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again'. 'Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation'...
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VOD Site Branded “Notorious Market” Hits Back at the MPAA
A video-on-demand platform recently declared "Poland's most popular piracy website" by the MPAA has hit back at Hollywood's claims. In a submission to the United States Trade Representative in early...
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Japan Plans to Criminalize Pirate Link Sites, Up to Five Years in Jail for...
Sites that link to copyright-infringing content aren't currently illegal under Japanese law but efforts are underway to close the loophole. The government is considering prison terms of up to five...
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GTA ‘Cheat’ Developers Have Homes Searched and Assets Frozen
Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive Software are taking a clear stand against cheat developers. An Australian Federal court has granted search and seizure orders against several people who are...
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Judge to determine if subtitle sites deserve piracy block
Roadshow is targeting four sites that provide access to allegedly copyright-infringing subtitles for TV shows and movies, with Addic7ed, opensubtitles.org, Subscene, and YIFY subtitles under aim....
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Court Orders Swedish ISP Telia to Block The Pirate Bay & FMovies
Sweden's Patent and Market Court has ordered a local ISP to block access to several large torrent and streaming platforms. The interim ruling, which comes into force at the end of October, requires...
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Vodlocker Hammers Streaming Sites with JavaScript-based DDoS
Vodlocker.to offers a handy video embed tool which several smaller pirate streaming sites have grown to rely on. Starting recently, however, the site also appears to have become the source of a rather...
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YouTube DOWN: Error 500 Internal Server Issues
YouTube is suffering a serious outage – with thousands reporting issues with the Google-owned video service. YouTube users have been confronted with error messages as they tried to login, upload or...
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Roku to Go Back on Sale in Mexico After Copyright Victory
Popular streaming device Roku will go back on sale in Mexico after a ruling by a court in Mexico City. The device has been off the shelves for more than a year following an initially successful...
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Court: ISP’s Lack of Terminations Didn’t Lure Pirating Subscribers
There is no evidence that Internet provider Grande Communication's lack of repeat infringer terminations acted as a draw to pirating subscribers. US District Court Judge Lee Yeakel has adopted the...
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Australia Targets Google With Tough New Anti-Piracy Law
Australia already has laws to enable the blocking of overseas sites that facilitate piracy but the content industries want more. New legislation unveiled today will give copyright holders new tools to...
View ArticleGoogle could finally face serious competition for Android
It won’t be easy — but major phone makers can actually try The fact alone that Google will start charging in Europe for what one could fairly call “parts of” Android is in itself huge news. The...
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Accused Pirate Can’t Escape Liability By Pointing at a Family Member Without...
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the right to a private family life doesn't shield accused file-sharers form potential liability. This means that an accused pirate can't hide...
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Bell and Rogers Ask Government to Simplify Site Blocking and Criminalize...
Earlier this month, Canadian telco regulator CRTC denied a controversial site blocking proposal put forward by the FairPlay coalition. This came as a major disappointment to Bell and Rogers, two of...
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Yandex Under Fire Again, This Time For Linking to Blocked RuTracker
Russian search giant Yandex is under fire again, this time for linking to previously blocked sites including RuTracker. A law passed last year forbids search engines from linking to sites previously...
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Operator of YouTube Rippers Should Stand Trial in the US, Major Labels Say
Several major labels including Universal, Warner Bros, and Sony, are squaring off with the Russian operator of YouTube-ripping sites FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com. The latter has filed a motion to dismiss...
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Pirate Bay Founder’s ‘Njalla’ Criticized For Protecting Pirate Sites
In 2017, Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde announced the launch of a new privacy-oriented startup. The Njalla domain name service offers site owners enhanced levels of privacy but not everyone is happy...
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Steam Bans All Links to TorrentFreak News as “Potentially Malicious”
Steam users who want to keep up with the latest news in the file-sharing, copyright, and game cheating lawsuit arenas are not currently free to do so via Steam. For reasons best known to the gaming...
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Rapidvideo Responds to MPAA’s Piracy Claims: “We’re Totally Legal”
Every year the major Hollywood studios report a list of the most notorious pirate sites to the US Government. While the listed targets usually don't respond, there is some serious pushback recently....
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