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Pirate Apps Corrupt Kids & Bust Your TV, Industry Warns
Modified Kodi devices might be a great way to enjoy streaming content but they can corrupt your children and damage your TV. That's the message from The Industry Trust for IP Awareness and...
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Landmark Movie Streaming Trial Gets Underway in Sweden
A landmark trial of two men accused of running a popular streaming site begins today. The operators of Swefilmer, whose case had been put on hold pending a copyright ruling from the European Court,...
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Internet Freedom Day: How Massive ‘Blackout’ Protests Killed Two Anti-Piracy...
Five years ago today the Internet went on strike to fight SOPA and PIPA, two anti-piracy bills. As part of the historic protests tech giants such as Google and Wikipedia stood by many smaller players...
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Netflix VPN Crackdown, A Year of Frustrations
Last year Netflix launched an aggressive campaign to prevent its users from bypassing geo-blockades through VPN services. The crackdown has met fierce resistance around the world but is still in...
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Megaupload 2.0 News Delayed By ‘Expected’ Roadblock
Megaupload 2.0 News Delayed By ‘Expected’ Roadblock A few hours ago Kim Dotcom was gearing up to make an important announcement about a new version of the defunct Megaupload service. However, with...
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Powerful Copyright Alliance Mulls its Own Anti-Piracy Service
The powerful pro-copyright organization Copyright Alliance appears to be mulling its own anti-piracy service. In a survey published this week, the organization, which counts the MPAA, RIAA and dozens...
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Piracy is Theft! Classic Anti-Piracy Ads From the ’90s
Piracy is by no means a new phenomenon. The entertainment industries have been concerned by unauthorized copying for several decades, and still are. Anti-piracy campaigns are not new either, and today...
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After ‘Pirate Shoplifting’ Stunt, Movie Director Speaks Out
After director Casey Tebo went "shoplifting" to make a point about online piracy, commenters on YouTube and Twitter showed him no mercy. However, noticing that no matter how far the director was...
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Usenet Provider Giganews Wins Landmark Copyright Battle
Giganews is celebrating a hard-fought legal battle against adult publisher and serial copyright litigant Perfect 10. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed the Usenet giant a comprehensive...
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UK ‘Pirates’ Get 20-Day Grace Period After Each Warning
UK Internet providers will soon begin sending piracy warnings to subscribers whose accounts are used to share copyright-infringing material. The associated "Get It Right" campaign has now published a...
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The US ‘Six Strikes’ Anti-Piracy Scheme is Dead
The "six-strikes" Copyright Alert System is no more. In a brief announcement, MPAA, RIAA, and several major US ISPs said that the effort to educate online pirates has stopped. It's unclear why the...
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‘Nerd Judge’ Questions Evidence in KickassTorrents Case
The legal team of alleged KickassTorrents owner Artem Vaulin is trying to have the criminal case against him dismissed in the US. District Court Judge John Z. Lee has scheduled an oral hearing for...
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BitChute is a BitTorrent-Powered YouTube Alternative
BitChute is a BitTorrent-Powered YouTube Alternative YouTube is without doubt one of the Internet's best platforms, but it does have its weaknesses, particularly when it comes to monetizing...
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Denuvo Piracy Crisis as Resident Evil 7 Gets Cracked in Record Time
After just five days on the market, the Denuvo-protected PC version of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard has already appeared on pirate sites. Denuvo usually offers months of protection, so this is not only...
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Tax Authority Grilled VLC Player Over Link From a Torrent Site
With more than two billion downloads, VLC is one of the most popular media players around. The open source tool can play virtually every video file available and comes recommended by many, including...
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Police Seize Domains of Fifty ‘Pirate’ Newspaper and Magazine Sites
Italian authorities have seized 50 domains involved in the unlawful distribution of copyrighted content. The seizure, ordered by the Court of Rome, targeted sites that were offering free digital...
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Pirate Party’s Pirate Site Was Legal Under EU Law, Court Rules
Pirate Party’s Pirate Site Was Legal Under EU Law, Court Rules Six years ago the Czech branch of the Pirate Party declared open war on a local anti-piracy outfit, opening several 'pirate' sites to...
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Popular Kodi Addon ‘Exodus’ Turned Users into a DDoS ‘Botnet’
Exodus is one of the most-used Kodi addons out there, allowing users to obtain easy access to pirated movies and TV-shows. However, over the past week the same users were unwittingly part of a DDoS...
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Music, Movie & Gaming Industries Seek Piracy Blockades in Belgium
An entertainment organization comprising companies from the music, movie, and videogame industries is targeting several pirate sites for blocking in Belgium. The Belgian Entertainment Association...
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Movie Cammer & Prolific Uploader Receives Community Sentence
A man from the UK who admitted recording movies in a cinema then uploading them to the Internet has been handed a community sentence. Shaun Forry was charged with fraud and copyright infringement...
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