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Company Offers “Fraudulent” and Deceptive Copyright Registrations
Quote A ring of misleading websites is charging people to pay for copyright registrations in the UK, Australia and elsewhere, even though it's a free and automatic right. In India, where there's also...
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Blackcat Games Domain Seized by UK Anti-Piracy Police
Long-standing private torrent site Blackcat-Games appears to be in legal trouble. The gaming-focused site has been non-operational all day and during the past few hours its domain began redirecting to...
View ArticlePirate Party On Course For Historic Election Win in Iceland
Quote The Pirate Party in Iceland continues its shakeup of the local political arena. According to the latest polls the party now has a serious shot at taking part in the next Government coalition,...
View ArticleBPI Reports Quarter Billion ‘Pirate’ Links to Google, Ask UK Govt. For Help
Quote UK music industry group BPI has hit a new milestone this weekend after the group reported its 250 millionth infringing link to Google. According to BPI, the volume of requests shows that search...
View ArticlePolice Confiscate Hundreds of Computers Over Movie Piracy Allegations
Quote Copyright trolling is usually handled in the civil courts but over in Poland, things are getting out of control. Police have reportedly visited hundreds of homes and seized hundreds of...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 10/24/16
Quote The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Suicide Squad' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Bad Moms'. 'Don't Breathe' completes the top three . This week we have...
View ArticleUK Considers Fines to Force Search Engines to Tackle Piracy
Quote Proposed amendments to the UK's Digital Economy Bill have revealed a desire by some MPs to force search engines to tackle piracy. A new clause would require search engines to come to a voluntary...
View Article“MPAA and RIAA’s Anti-Piracy Plans Harm The Internet”
Quote The Internet Infrastructure Coalition is urging the U.S. Government not to blindly follow the RIAA and MPAA's input regarding online piracy threats. The group, which represents tech firms...
View ArticleRepeat Infringers Can Be Mere Downloaders, Court Rules
Quote A 10-year-old copyright case has prompted an interesting opinion from a US appeals court. In determining the nature of a "repeat infringer" (which service providers must terminate to retain safe...
View ArticlePostimg Problem with CloudFlare
Postimage.org is in danger and needs your help Please contact us if you have a CDN that is capable and willing of serving 1.8 Petabytes of outgoing traffic per month free of charge, or if you can make...
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Microsoft Bing Debuts New DMCA Notice Dashboard
Microsoft's Bing has just debuted a new system which allows any copyright holder to submit and monitor the status of their DMCA complaints to the search engine. At the center of the tool is a brand...
View ArticleUK Piracy Blocklist Expands With 123movies and Other Streaming Sites
Quote The UK website blocking efforts continue with the High Court adding over a dozen new "pirate" sites to the country’s unofficial ban list. The new order, requested by the Motion Picture...
View ArticlePirate Bay Blocking Case Heard By European Court of Justice
Quote The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has just heard a long-running case involving The Pirate Bay, Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN, and a pair of local ISPs. Should the infamous torrent site be...
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Court Orders Cloudflare to Identify ‘Pirate’ Site Operators
Quote In the ongoing copyright infringement lawsuit against alleged pirate sites Sci-Hub, Libgen and Bookfi, a New York federal court has ordered CDN provider Cloudflare to identify the operators of...
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New Legislation to Tackle Pirate Kodi Box Sellers Rejected
Quote Modified Kodi and other IPTV devices allow users to access valuable content for free. Members of Parliament and industry players say they want to clamp down on such devices, by closing loopholes...
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Time Warner Cable Threatens Pirates With Account Termination
Time Warner Cable has added an interesting clarification to its copyright infringement notifications. In addition to warning pirates of the standard "mitigation measures" that are part of the...
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Torrent Site 1337x Hopes New Design Will Prevent Search Engine Bans
Torrent site 1337x.to has enjoyed a massive spike in traffic in recent weeks, mainly due to the demise of KickassTorrents. However, due to a Google ban of its homepage the site is not always easy to...
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123Movies Circumvents ISP Blocking With New .GS Domain
The popular movie streaming site 123movies has started redirecting UK and Indian traffic to a new domain name to circumvent local blocking orders. The site's operators are keen to keep their service...
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Google Asked to Remove 50 Million 4shared Links
This week Google received its 50 millionth takedown request for the popular file-hosting service 4shared. The staggering number clearly shows that there is plenty of infringing content being shared on...
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Anti-Piracy Group Uses ‘Pirated’ Code on its Website
The Business Software Alliance, a trade group representing Adobe, Apple and Microsoft, is well known for its aggressive anti-piracy campaigns. The organization actively encourages people to snitch on...
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