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Downloading Any Pirate Content To Be Made Illegal in Japan
Downloading Any Pirate Content To Be Made Illegal in Japan Japan is set to make it illegal to download any infringing content from the Internet after the government adopted the policy this week. The...
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South Korea Expands Site Blocking Efforts with SNI Eavesdropping
South Korea Expands Site Blocking Efforts with SNI Eavesdropping South Korea will expand its site blocking measures with SNI eavesdropping, so HTTPS sites can be blocked as well. The new measure,...
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EU Commission Portrays “Article 13” Opponents as a Misled and Misinformed Mob
EU Commission Portrays “Article 13” Opponents as a Misled and Misinformed Mob With the ink barely dry on Wednesday's agreement for the final draft of Article 13, the EU Commission published an...
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Vox Targets The Verge Critic With Dubious YouTube Takedown
Vox Targets The Verge Critic With Dubious YouTube Takedown Vox Media has targeted a YouTuber over a critical reaction video of The Verge's highly criticized "PC Build" how-to. The company sent a DMCA...
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ACE Sues Cord-Cutting Service “Omniverse” For Copyright Infringement
ACE Sues Cord-Cutting Service “Omniverse” For Copyright Infringement Several major Hollywood studios, Amazon, and Netflix have filed a lawsuit against Omniverse, which offers live streaming TV...
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Filmmakers Want Phone Ban and Special Court to Tackle Indian ‘Cam’ Piracy
Filmmakers Want Phone Ban and Special Court to Tackle Indian ‘Cam’ Piracy Now that 'cam' piracy is being outlawed in India, the local Film Federation is calling for a special court to handle these...
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Pirate Site Slammed for Meddling with DRM-Free Games, Circumvention Ensues
Pirate Site Slammed for Meddling with DRM-Free Games, Circumvention Ensues Pirate site IGG-Games, which sits among the top 1,500 sites in the world, is under fire for meddling with pirate releases....
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When Building a Torrent Site, Streaming Service, or App, Intent is Almost...
When Building a Torrent Site, Streaming Service, or App, Intent is Almost Everything Every few weeks, plans for starting new torrent sites, streaming platforms, and apps, appear on Internet...
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Torrent Sites Ban Popular Uploader ‘CracksNow’ for Sharing Ransomware
Several torrent sites have banned the account of the popular software uploader CracksNow. The software and cracks were repeatedly flagged as malicious and some came with the GandCrab ransomware. While...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 02/18/19
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 02/18/19 The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Creed II' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Fantastic Beasts: The...
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Dutch Filmworks Continues Quest to Identify Alleged Pirates
Dutch Filmworks Continues Quest to Identify Alleged Pirates Film distribution company Dutch FilmWorks is continuing its legal battle to identify BitTorrent pirates. The company is appealing the case...
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EU Commission Deletes Article 13 Post Because ‘Mob’ Understood it Incorrectly
EU Commission Deletes Article 13 Post Because ‘Mob’ Understood it Incorrectly On Friday, the EU Commission published a piece on Medium that suggested that Google has taken over the minds of millions...
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Cloudflare Suspends Streaming Sites and File Hosters, But Not Over Piracy
Cloudflare Suspends Streaming Sites and File Hosters, But Not Over Piracy Cloudflare has suspended the account of the video streaming service RapidVideo, as well as several similar platforms. Some...
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93 Students At One University Suspended From Web for Pirate Downloads
93 Students At One University Suspended From Web for Pirate Downloads Downloading and sharing copyrighted content is illegal in the UK but is rarely associated with serious consequences. However,...
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Hollywood Uses ‘False Whois’ Domain Suspensions as Anti-Piracy Tool
Hollywood Uses ‘False Whois’ Domain Suspensions as Anti-Piracy Tool Hollywood's Motion Picture Association has a voluntary agreement with the Indian domain registry NIXI to suspend pirate sites that...
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China to Crack Down on ‘CAM’ Piracy & Online Distribution Platforms
China to Crack Down on ‘CAM’ Piracy & Online Distribution Platforms By Andy on February 20, 2019 Following a recent call from China's National Copyright Administration (NCAC) for the public to...
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Omniverse Hopes to Swiftly Resolve ACE’s Streaming Piracy Lawsuit
Omniverse Hopes to Swiftly Resolve ACE’s Streaming Piracy Lawsuit Streaming TV provider Omniverse has responded to the lawsuit filed by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) last week....
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Academics Issue ‘Emergency’ Statement Over Japan’s Proposed Download Law
More than 80 academics, researchers, lawyers, and other experts have issued an 'emergency statement' urging the government to reconsider the scope of new proposals that would criminalize downloading...
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Facebook Held Liable for Copyright Infringing ‘Links’ in Italy
Facebook Held Liable for Copyright Infringing ‘Links’ in Italy Social networking giant Facebook must pay damages for failing to remove a link to a copyright infringing YouTube video, an Italian...
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UK ISP Will Ban Two Million Kids From Accessing Pirate Sites
UK ISP Will Ban Two Million Kids From Accessing Pirate Sites Not-for-profit Internet service provider LGfL, which supplies broadband to 3,000 UK schools, has agreed to block access to a huge number...
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