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Stream-Ripping Site Acted Illegally, German Court Rules
Stream-Ripping Site Acted Illegally, German Court Rules ZeeZee, a site that extracted music tracks from online radio streams and offered them to users upon request, has been declared illegal by a...
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Dragon Box Has to Pay ACE 14.5 Million in Piracy Damages
Dragon Box Has to Pay ACE 14.5 Million in Piracy Damages ACE, the coalition of major Hollywood studios plus Amazon and Netflix, has scored a legal victory against streaming box vendor Dragon Media,...
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YouTube Strikes Now Being Used as Scammers’ Extortion Tool
YouTube Strikes Now Being Used as Scammers’ Extortion Tool In a terrible abuse of YouTube's copyright system, a YouTuber is reporting that scammers are using the platform's "three strike" system for...
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Record Labels Appeal Legal Defeat Against Stream-Rippers
Record Labels Appeal Legal Defeat Against Stream-Rippers Last week, a Virginia federal court dismissed a piracy lawsuit against the popular stream ripping sites FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com. The court...
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Court Orders 1337x, LimeTorrents, and More Blocked in Spain
Court Orders 1337x, LimeTorrents, and More Blocked in Spain A court in Spain has ordered the country's largest Internet service providers to begin blocking seven torrent sites including 1337x and...
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University Buys 14.4 Petabyte Bandwidth to Boost ‘Anonymous’ Torrent Client
University Buys 14.4 Petabyte Bandwidth to Boost ‘Anonymous’ Torrent Client The Tribler lab at Delft University of Technology has sold part of its Bitcoin stash to purchase bandwidth for its...
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Pirate IPTV Device Seller Fined Following Sky Investigation
Pirate IPTV Device Seller Fined Following Sky Investigation A man who sold modified set-top boxes and pirate IPTV subscriptions has been fined by a court in Wales. An investigation by Sky and Trading...
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Movie Piracy ‘Alternative’ UltraViolet is Shutting Down
Movie Piracy ‘Alternative’ UltraViolet is Shutting Down Cloud-based movie 'locker' UltraViolet was once portrayed as an excellent piracy alternative. While the service brought in millions of users...
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(Opinion) BitTorrent Token Sold Out Quickly, But Who’s Buying?
BitTorrent tokens (BTT) went up for sale this week and within 15 minutes were completely sold out. This brought in a healthy $7 million from interested investors. While there is plenty of talk about...
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Deezer Tries to Remove ‘Pirate’ Downloading Tool, But Under What Law?
Deezloader Remix is a tool that allows users of streaming service Deezer to download and keep audio files obtained from the platform. Deezer has filed a takedown notice to have the project removed but...
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Reddit ‘Shadowbans’ Posts With Openload URLs
Reddit ‘Shadowbans’ Posts With Openload URLs Reddit is actively shadowbanning posts that link to the popular file-hosting service Openload. To users it looks like their submissions are being...
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Pirate-Powered CDNs Operate Innovative Illicit Streaming Model
With the popularity of torrent sites on the wane in Russia, an interesting business model for mass streaming is thriving in the region. According to a report shared with TorrentFreak by cyber-security...
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Pirate Bay ‘Promotion’ Increases Post-Release Box Office Revenue, Study Shows
New research suggests that post-release movie piracy through The Pirate Bay is linked to increased box revenue. The counter-intuitive finding is driven by word-of-mouth promotion. The effect, which...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 02/04/19
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 02/04/19 The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Bohemian Rhapsody' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘The Grinch'....
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Ukraine Cyberpolice Shut Down Dozens of Pirate Sites
Ukraine Cyberpolice Shut Down Dozens of Pirate Sites Police in Ukraine have just announced the closure of more than 56 pirate sites, allegedly owned by the same man. At least six more were shuttered...
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U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability
U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability The U.S. Government's Copyright Office is continuing its review on the future of the DMCA's safe harbor provisions. It's...
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Flickr will start deleting old photos starting tomorrow
Bottom line: Nobody likes adhering to strict guidelines after having what essentially amounted to unlimited storage for years but it's a necessary evil that should make for a better overall user...
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Malaysia Blocks 246 Sites to Tackle Pirate Set-Top Box Epidemic
Malaysia Blocks 246 Sites to Tackle Pirate Set-Top Box Epidemic To tackle what is increasingly seen as a piracy epidemic, authorities in Malaysia have reportedly blocked 246 sites that supply pirate...
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Kenyan Govt. Protests as National Anthem Hit With YouTube Copyright Complaint
Kenyan Govt. Protests as National Anthem Hit With YouTube Copyright Complaint The Kenyan Department of Justice has aired its displeasure after a video on YouTube featuring the country's national...
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Movie stream ebooks gun for John Wick 3 on Kindle store
We discovered a novel spam campaign over the weekend, targeting fans of John Wick on the Amazon Kindle store. The scam itself involves paying for what appears to be the upcoming third movie, turns...
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