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Stream-Ripping Giant Convert2MP3 Settles With Music Industry and Shuts Down
Stream-Ripping Giant Convert2MP3 Settles With Music Industry and Shuts Down The music industry has booked another victory in its efforts to shutter YouTube converter sites, also known as...
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Rightsholders Want to Completely Delist ‘Pirate’ Domains From Search Results
In a closed-door meeting this week to discuss the formation of a new anti-piracy law, rightsholders in Russia proposed that pirate sites should be completely delisted from search results, rather than...
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RIAA Targets Large Polish File-Hosting Site Chomikuj
The RIAA has obtained a subpoena from a court in the United States ordering Cloudflare to reveal the personal details of the operator of a large file-hosting site. In its native Poland, Chomikuj...
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Torrent Site YTS Quietly Relocates to .LT Domain Name
Popular torrent site YTS has recently moved to a new domain name, using a Lithuanian top-level domain. The operators haven't commented on their motivation, but it seems likely that a recent lawsuit...
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Spain’s Pirate Site Blocklist Expands Following Hollywood Complaint
Spain’s Pirate Site Blocklist Expands Following Hollywood Complaint Following a complaint from major Hollywood studios including Disney, Paramount, Sony, and Universal, a Spanish court has ordered...
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Scammers Abuse Steam to Attract Would-Be Movie Pirates
Scammers Abuse Steam to Attract Would-Be Movie Pirates A number of scammers are abusing the Steam platform to lure would-be pirates to questionable download sites. After clicking images and links...
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Pirate Bay Uploader Faces Debt Collectors After Failing to Pay Settlement
A member of a release team that uploaded thousands of torrents to The Pirate Bay, KickassTorrents and ExtraTorrent faces new action after failing to pay a settlement agreed with BREIN. In 2016, three...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 06/24/19
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Dumbo' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Brightburn'. 'Escape Plan: The Extractors' completes the top three. This week we have three...
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Operators of ‘Linking’ Sites Walk Free in Criminal Piracy Case
A Spanish Criminal court has acquitted four men who were accused of facilitating copyright infringement through the defunct linking sites SeriesYonkis, PeliculasYonkis and VideosYonkis. The judge...
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The Pirate Bay Faces Massive ISP Blocks in Spain
The Pirate Bay Faces Massive ISP Blocks in Spain Back in 2015, Vodafone admitted that following an order from the Spanish government, it had begun blocking The Pirate Bay, the world's most famous...
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UFC: Online Platforms Should Proactively Prevent Streaming Piracy
UFC: Online Platforms Should Proactively Prevent Streaming Piracy Mixed Martial Arts fights, including the popular UFC events, are among the most pirated live-streams on the Internet. Responding to...
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Confirmed: Supremacy Kodi Repo Was Indeed Targeted By Police
Confirmed: Supremacy Kodi Repo Was Indeed Targeted By Police Following the surprise shutdown of the Supremacy kodi add-on repository on June 13, TorrentFreak can today confirm that its operator was...
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Retired Police Officer and ‘Copyright Troll’ Square Off in Court
Copyright-trolling outfit Strike 3 has its hands full with a retired police officer. The man, who denies pirating anything, is pursuing a counterclaim for abuse of process and wants to see the...
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‘Copyright Troll’ Lawyer Appeals 14 Year Prison Sentence
‘Copyright Troll’ Lawyer Appeals 14 Year Prison Sentence Paul Hansmeier, one of the lead attorneys behind the controversial Prenda law firm, is appealing his conviction as well as the 14-year prison...
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BMG Sues Hilton Hotels Over ‘Infringing’ YouTube & Facebook Promo Videos
BMG Production Music is suing Hilton Worldwide after the hotel company allegedly used unlicensed music in several videos published to YouTube and Facebook. A lawsuit filed in New York states that...
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Video Piracy Rates Drop Sharply, But For How Long?
Data from a new survey released by Ampere Analysis shows that video piracy rates are dropping in the United States and several European countries. The research firm links the decrease to a wider...
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‘Pirate’ IPTV Service Simply-TV Responds to DISH Lawsuit
Simply-TV, a recently-defunct 'pirate' IPTV service, is being sued in the United States by broadcaster provider DISH Network. In a recent response to the complaint, the alleged operators of the...
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Bilibili Uses DMCA to Obtain Identities of Source Code Leakers From Github
China-based video-sharing site Bilibili has taken to the US courts in an effort to identify individuals who leaked its source code, usernames and passwords online. NASDAQ-listed Bilibili, which has...
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Google Flags Hundreds of Pirate Sites for ‘Abusive Experiences’
In an effort to make the web a safer place, Google maintains a list of abusive sites that display misleading ads or other nastiness. This list is used by Chrome and other browsers to ban all ads on...
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( Opinion ) Pirates: So You Want to Join ‘The Scene’?
The Scene, an infamous collection of individuals, groups and servers, is the source of countless terabytes of pirated content. Super-secretive by nature, members of The Scene value their exclusivity...
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