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Cooperative ‘Copyright Troll’ Lawyer Sentenced to Five Years in Prison
John Steele, one of the attorneys behind the 'copyright troll' law firm Prenda, has been sentenced to five years in prison. The attorney was one of the masterminds behind the fraudulent scheme that...
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Alleged Mastermind of Giant Pirate Manga Site Arrested in Manilla
The alleged former operator of Mangamura, a site blamed for causing an estimated $2.9 billion in damages to the Japanese manga industry, has been detained in Manilla. According to immigration...
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YouTube revamps its copyright claim system for creators
It now requires reporters to specify which part of a video infringes on their copyright. Those in the business of hosting videos created by the public need to have a solid copyright protection...
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Sports Streaming Piracy Is Worth Millions to Sponsors
Sports streaming piracy is seen as a major threat to the industry. However, new research suggests that there's also a significant upside to it. GumGum Sports and MUSO find that pirates add £1 million...
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YouTube ‘Blocks’ Popular MP3 Stream-Ripping Sites
Several stream-ripping sites have been unable to download and convert files from YouTube starting a few hours ago. It appears that the video streaming platform is actively blocking requests from these...
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Court Orders Cloudflare to Terminate Accounts of Pirate Sites
An Italian court has ordered Cloudflare to terminate the accounts of several pirate sites. The ruling comes after a complaint from local broadcaster RTI, which successfully argued that Cloudflare can...
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Dropbox Transfer: new WeTransfer-like large file sharing service
Dropbox Transfer: new WeTransfer-like large file sharing service Dropbox unveiled a new product called Dropbox Transfer the other day. The new service is currently available to select customers only...
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Two Pirate Site Operators Jailed For a Total of 66 Months
Two men have been found guilty of running Usenet portal Town.ag. Following an investigation and massive police raids carried out in 2017, the men went on trial last month in Germany. The site's...
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Apple Needs to Tackle ‘Pirate’ Music Apps, Labels Insist
Apple needs to do more to prevent unauthorized apps that deliver music to users in unlicensed ways appearing on its App Store. That's the demand from the Recording Industry Association of Japan and...
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Judge Denies $10K Default Judgment Against Alleged Pirate
Adult entertainment company Malibu Media recently requested a default judgment of more than $10,000 against an alleged pirate. While the accused man didn't put up a defense, a federal court in New...
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DISH Sues Hosting Company & ‘Pirate’ IPTV Customer
US-based broadcaster DISH Networks is suing yet another IPTV provider in the United States, but with a twist. In a lawsuit filed at a Delaware federal court, DISH claims that East IPTV illegally...
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Aptoide Removes ‘Popcorn Time’ and ‘Showbox’ Apps Following Piracy Lawsuit...
Aptoide, an alternative marketplace for Android apps, has removed the popular Popcorn Time and Showbox listings from its repository. The company hasn't commented on its decision, but it follows not...
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Fake MPAA Asks Google to Remove Thousands of URLs, Including MPAA.org
This week we spotted an odd takedown request. None other than Hollywood's MPAA asked Google to remove MPAA.org from its search results. This wasn't the real MPAA though, but an imposter that has sent...
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Magnificent BitTorrent Speed or Half-Baked Magic Beans?
On July 9, BitTorrent Inc. released a much-heralded and new version of uTorrent that promises to make downloads faster while earning seeders BitTorrent Tokens (BTT). The big question is whether it...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 07/15/19
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Hellboy' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Alita: Battle Angel'. 'Shazam!' completes the top three. This week we have three...
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( Opinion ) UK Pirate Site Blocking Requests Have Stopped, For Now
A few years ago, movie and music industry companies would regularly go to the UK High Court to demand pirate site blockades. These efforts, which were previously seen as an essential tool to combat...
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Court Questions Whether Ebook ‘Pirate’ Site Operator Can Be Sued in Texas
Earlier this year, author John Van Stry sued Travis McCrea, the former leader of the Pirate Party of Canada, over his eBook download platform, EBook.bike. The US-based author sued McCrea in a Texas...
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Premier League Wins New ISP Piracy Blocking Order
The Premier League has won an injunction from the Commercial Court in Ireland to have live 'pirate' streams of its football matches blocked by local ISPs. Under the order, ISPs Eircom, Sky, Virgin and...
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‘Repeat Copyright Infringer’ Case Against Cloudflare Can Continue, Court Rules
In a case filed in California, Cloudflare stands accused of failing to terminate customers that have been repeatedly called out as copyright infringers. The case wasn't filed by Hollywood or the major...
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Organized Crime Unit Orders Pirate IPTV Sellers to Cease & Desist
The Covert Development and Disruption Team of the UK’s North West Regional Organised Crime Unit says it has issued cease and desist notices in England and Wales to people involved in the sale of...
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