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RomUniverse Maintains Innocence and Demands Damages From Nintendo
The admin of RomUniverse has filed his reply to Nintendo's piracy lawsuit. In a pro se defense, the operator maintains that he is unaware of any copyright infringement, claiming protection from...
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ApolloTV Streaming App Shuts Down Following ACE Cease-and-Desist Notice
Movie and TV show streaming app ApolloTV has shut down following threats from the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment. The global anti-piracy coalition hand-delivered a cease-and-desist notice...
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Torrent Sites Help Game Developer to Share Free Copy of ‘Death and Taxes’
With help from some top torrent sites, Placeholder Gameworks has released a free copy of its new game Death and Taxes. The developer torrent has the same features as the $12.99 Steam release....
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French ISPs Block Dozens of Pirate Sites Following Movie Industry Action
For several weeks, French Internet users have reported difficulty accessing dozens of unlicensed streaming and torrent sites. It now transpires that following legal action by several movie industry...
View ArticleHellboy Makers Want $270,000 in Piracy Damages from MKVCage Operator
The rightsholder of the movie Hellboy wants the alleged operator of popular torrent site MKVCage to pay $270,000 in copyright infringement damages. The damages, which are calculated based on the...
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( Opinion ) Plex Slammed By Huge Copyright Coalition For Not Policing Pirates
Plex has become the latest neutral technology to get slammed for not doing enough to prevent movie and TV show piracy. According to pro-copyright lobby group CreativeFuture, which represents more...
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Piracy Trial Between Record Labels and ISP Grande Postponed
The piracy liability trial between a group of RIAA labels and Texas ISP Grande Communications has been postponed until September. The trial was initially scheduled to start last week. However, it...
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SafeKodi: Researchers Help Kodi Users to Spot Malicious Addons
Researchers from Northwestern University and Brave Software have taken an in-depth look at possible security issues with third-party Kodi addons. They find that most addons are safe. Only a very...
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Coronavirus Outbreak Triggers Surge in Pirated Downloads of the Film ‘Contagion’
The Coronavirus outbreak continues to dominate the news worldwide. While health experts and governments are working hard to contain the threat, the public is eager for information. In addition to...
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( Opinion ) New Anti-Piracy Campaign Piles On The Scare Tactics But Who’s...
Yet another major anti-piracy campaign launched last week declaring that visiting pirate sites exposes passwords, photos, plus financial and medical records to criminals intent on ruining people's...
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Jehovah’s Witness Body Uses DMCA to Subpoena YouTube For ‘Apostate’ Identity
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group, is using the DMCA to obtain the identity of a self-proclaimed 'apostate'. In a...
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Cloudflare Geo-Blocks 22 Pirate Sites in Italy Following Court Order
Cloudflare reports that it is currently blocking 22 domain names in Italy, following a court order. A court determined that the websites in question are facilitating copyright infringement and...
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The Pirate Bay Suffers Extended Downtime
The Pirate Bay's main domain has been inaccessible to most people for more than two days. There is no official word from the site's operators, but history shows that the outage is likely being...
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Man Who Leaked Pre-Release Movies Online Sentenced to 27 Months Prison
A UK man who leaked pre-release movies online has been sentenced to 27 months in prison after pleading to one count of conspiracy to defraud. Malik Luqman Farooq of Halifax was part of a group that...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 03/09/20
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'Jumanji: The Next Level' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Spenser Confidential'. 'Frozen 2' completes the top three. This week...
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YTS Releases Pirated Copy of ‘Contagion’ Movie Following Coronavirus Surge
Following the outbreak of the Coronavirus, interest in the movie "Contagion" has skyrocketed. This resulted in an increase in sales of the movie. However, pirated copies of the film are in high...
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Viral Marketing Firm is Pirating Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video & HBO Go
A viral marketing company is engaging in blatant copyright infringement as part of a new campaign. MSCHF has launched AlltheStreams.fm, a 'pirate radio' site that is currently streaming shows from...
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BPI Has Reported Half a Billion ‘Pirate’ Links to Google
UK music industry group BPI has reached a new milestone after the group reported its 500 millionth infringing link to Google. Combined with Bing and Yahoo!, the group is now nearing a billion...
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Japanese Government Approves New Bill to Criminalize Manga Piracy
The government of Japan has approved a new bill aimed at reducing the downloading of pirated content from the Internet. The new law, which is targeted for Jan 1, 2021, will criminalize the...
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Movie Industry Praises the Effectiveness of Pirate Site Blocking in U.S. Senate
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property held a hearing yesterday on how other countries are handling online piracy. While the US is often critical of foreign jurisdictions, in...
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