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Potential Abuse Prompts US Court to ‘Re-evaluate’ Treatment of Piracy Cases
Potential Abuse Prompts US Court to ‘Re-evaluate’ Treatment of Piracy Cases An Illinois man in his 70s, sued for pirating "The Hitman's Bodyguard," has been hitting back at his accusers. The man...
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NBCUniversal Repeatedly Flags BitTorrent.com as a “Pirate” Site
NBCUniversal Repeatedly Flags BitTorrent.com as a “Pirate” Site NBCUniversal works hard to remove pirated content from the Internet. In recent years it has sent more than 30 million takedown...
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Scribd Files Complaint Against DRM Circumvention Tool
Scribd Files Complaint Against DRM Circumvention Tool Scribd has filed a complaint targeting a tool that allows users to permanently download books, audiobooks, magazines, and other digital content...
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‘CracksNow’ Apologizes For Ransomware Torrents, Says Accounts Were Hacked
‘CracksNow’ Apologizes For Ransomware Torrents, Says Accounts Were Hacked The popular software uploader CracksNow has denied uploading any torrents that linked ransomware. His accounts at various...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 02/25/19
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald'. 'Ralph Breaks the...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 02/25/19
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald'. 'Ralph Breaks the...
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New Govt. Proposals Aim to Restrict Pirate Sites in India
New Govt. Proposals Aim to Restrict Pirate Sites in India The latest draft of India's National E-Commerce Policy includes a number of measures to crack down on pirate sites. Among other things,...
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Teksavvy Wins Appeal in Defense of Accused ‘Pirating’ Subscribers
Teksavvy Wins Appeal in Defense of Accused ‘Pirating’ Subscribers Canadian ISP TekSavvy doesn't have to expose personal details of its customers to ME2 Productions, the company behind the movie...
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Piracy Is Driven By Availability & Price, People Prefer Not to Break the Law,...
Piracy Is Driven By Availability & Price, People Prefer Not to Break the Law, ISP Study Says A new study carried out by New Zealand telecoms group Vocus Group NZ has concluded that "piracy isn't...
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Oscars Screener Leaks Drop to All-Time Low
Oscars Screener Leaks Drop to All-Time Low The number of leaked screeners of Oscar-nominated movies has dropped to a new low. Just seven films made have their way to pirate sites thus far. There's no...
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Reelplay IPTV Service Faces Blocking Action in Australian Court
Reelplay IPTV Service Faces Blocking Action in Australian Court TV distributor International Media Distribution (IMD) has launched legal action in Australia's Federal Court targeting IPTV provider...
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Sony Wants $16,800 in Damages From ‘Jailbroken’ PS4 Seller
Sony Interactive Entertainment (Sony) is requesting $16,800 in damages from a California man they accuse of selling jailbroken PS4 consoles filled with pirated games. Because the man failed to respond...
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Spotify Officially Launched in India; Premium Pricing Starts at Rs. 119 Per...
Music streaming service Spotify has officially launched in India, in both free and paid tiers. Spotify Premium India subscription price is Rs. 119 per month and Rs. 1,189 per year. Spotify also offers...
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Pirate Site Blocking Rejected By Swiss Supreme Court
The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland has rejected an application to have one of the country's largest ISPs block pirate sites. The Court recognized that the overseas 'pirate' platforms were...
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Netflix may be losing $192M per month from piracy, cord cutting study claims
Netflix may be losing $192M per month from piracy, cord cutting study claims As many as 1 in 5 people today are mooching off of someone else’s account when streaming video from Netflix, Hulu or...
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Pirate Proxy ‘Unblocked’ Fights Censors With 38th Domain Name
Millions of people use dedicated proxy sites to bypass pirate site blockades. "Unblocked" has grown to become a leader in this field, which has made the site a target in its own right. This has...
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Steal This Show S04E12: Software Will Eat The World (Part Two)
Steal This Show S04E12: Software Will Eat The World (Part Two) Today we bring you the next episode of the Steal This Show podcast, discussing renegade media and the latest decentralization and...
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German Data Privacy Commissioner Sounds Alarm Over ‘Upload Filter Oligopoly’
German Data Privacy Commissioner Sounds Alarm Over ‘Upload Filter Oligopoly’ Germany's Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information has issued a warning over the data privacy...
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As More Universities ‘Ditch’ Elsevier, Sci-Hub Blossoms
As More Universities ‘Ditch’ Elsevier, Sci-Hub Blossoms The University of California (UC) is the latest institution to cancel its subscription to leading academic publisher Elsevier. UC cites high...
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bannedhost.net Has No Real Ties to Switzerland, Criminal Investigation Shows
bannedhost.net Has No Real Ties to Switzerland, Criminal Investigation Shows Popular file-hosting service bannedhost.net proudly represents itself as a Swiss company. With the US Government branding...
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