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Pirate Site Search Traffic Tanked Following Google Updates
A detailed analysis of the yearly pirate site traffic trends shows that visitors from search engines dropped by roughly a third.
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YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Used to Upload 'Pirate' Movies & File DMCA Notices
The same IP address used to upload 'pirate' movies to YouTube also sent DMCA notices targeting the same batch of content.
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Popular Pirate Sites 'Disappear' From DuckDuckGo's Top Search Results
After popular pirate sites started disappearing from Google's top results, the same now appears to be happening at DuckDuckGo as well.
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Apple TV Plus Joins Motion Picture Industry Anti-Piracy Group
Apple TV Plus is joining the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, an entertainment industry group that seeks to crack down on piracy. The move represents a strengthening bond between Apple an…
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Kim Dotcom Predicts NZ Supreme Court Will Rule in Favor of Extradition * TorrentFreak
Kim Dotcom is predicting that the New Zealand Supreme Court will decide in favor of extraditing him to the United States. The Megaupload founder says that he has faith in at least one judge on the panel, claiming that she knows the "U.S. govt is a rogue operator" and "knows what her fellow Judges are doing and why."
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Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain
Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin generated and saved every possible melody to a hard drive, then turned it back around to the commons.
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Gen Z Is Leading a New Wave of Internet Piracy
Between Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+, it seemed like streaming giants might have finally won. Gen Z is proving that piracy will never die.
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Operator of Popcorn Time Info Site is Liable for Piracy, Supreme Court Rules
The Danish Supreme Court has upheld a conditional prison sentence against the operator of a website that provided information on the piracy app Popcorn Time. The site itself didn't host the infringing software, but the detailed instructions it provided were enough to warrant criminal liability for copyright infringements of the site's users.
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How the Entertainment Industry Solved Piracy, Then Made It Popular Again
Streaming services are starting to look a lot like cable packages.
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There's a new streaming competitor on the block: The Pirate Bay
What does The Pirate Bay have in common with Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Disney, HBO, and Hulu? A streaming service. Yep, the notorious torrent platform is trialing a new feature that lets you stream high-quality video directly from the browser, as spotted by TorrentFreak. That’s what the new ‘B’ icon under torrent entries is for, in case you were wondering. Clicking it takes you to a new site called BayStream, where you can stream the content without downloading it.
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Rise of comic book piracy 'a real problem'
Comic book creators search for ways to combat the rise of illegal digital sharing of their work.
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Cloudflare Refutes MPA and RIAA's Piracy Concerns - TorrentFreak
Cloudflare is frustrated with the continued criticism from entertainment industry groups, which accuse the company of assisting pirate sites. In a letter to the U.S. Government, the CDN provider once again rebuts these claims, stressing that it's not obliged to shut down potentially infringing websites.
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LaLiga’s app listened in on fans to catch bars illegally streaming soccer
It used a Shazam-like technology to identify soccer games
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After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed
In a quiet corner of my high school’s study room in 2009, I booted up my busted laptop while making sure nobody could peer over...
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Denuvo DRM cracks seem to be happening faster and faster
Rage 2 is the second Denuvo game to get a zero day crack this year, and others have been cracked within days.
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The Pirate Bay Lives On, A Decade After 'Guilty' Verdicts
Ten years ago this week, four men were found guilty and sentenced to prison for running The Pirate Bay. At the time, Peter Sunde said that the site would continue, no matter what. A decade on he has been proven absolutely right and that in itself is utterly remarkable.
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'Game of Thrones' premiere was pirated nearly 55 million times in one day
It won't surprise you to hear that Game of Thrones is a pirate magnet, but the sheer scale of that piracy may be reaching new heights. The analytics company MUSO has determined that people pirated the show's season eight premiere just shy of 55 million times in the first 24 hours. About 76.6 percent of those viewers relied on bootleg streams, while the rest were split between downloads (12.2 percent), public torrents (10.8 percent) and private torrents (0.5 percent).
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Reddit's /r/Piracy is Deleting Almost 10 Years of History to Avoid Ban
Under pressure from Reddit's administrators over copyright issues, the site's largest forum dedicated to piracy discussion has opted for "The Nuclear Option". After voting by its contributors, all posts older than six months are now being deleted. That's almost 10 years of data, the vast majority of it completely legal. The negative effects are already being felt.
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Ironically, Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy
To be very clear the rise in streaming video competitors is a very good thing. It's providing users with more choice, lower prices, and better customer service than consumers traditionally received from entrenched vanilla cable TV companies...
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BitTorrent Live returns as a Snapchat-like social media app
BitTorrent is relaunching BitTorrent Live -- a Snapchat-like service it introduced in 2011 and shut down in 2017 -- as a social media platform.
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