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MPAA’s latest anti-piracy move accidentally, completely screws Hollywood studios
From Marlon Brando’s civil rights statement in absentia to Michael Moore’s anti-war speech, the Academy Awards ceremony played host to its share of high-profile protests. This year, though, the biggest protest will likely happen outside the Dolby Theater. Pando has learned that visual effects industry workers plan a mass demonstration against the major studios’ ongoing efforts to offshore post production work.
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Hollywood's Copyright Lobbyists Are Like Exes Who Won't Give Up
You know when you break up with someone and they just don’t get the message? A few months later, they’re trying again, testing the waters with a few small things that just keep getting bigger. They friend you again on Facebook. They start liking your posts. They show up at...
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Popcorn Time Is So Good at Movie Piracy, It's Scary
A new app called Popcorn Time raises that very question. Available for Windows, Mac and Linux, Popcorn Time lets you stream the latest movies — including American Hustle, Gravity and Frozen – with just a couple clicks. The software uses BitTorrent to find and download movies, but eliminates the usual hassle of wading through sketchy torrent sites and waiting for the file to finish downloading.
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Could The Malaysia Airlines Missing Jet Be An Act Of Piracy?
The associated press has reported that some U.S. investigators are now looking into the possibility of the jet’s disappearance being an act of piracy. Based on this theory, the investigators are now looking into whether the flight deck was compromised and if the plane may have landed somewhere rather than crashed.
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Supreme Court Denies Kim Dotcom Access to U.S. Evidence
Kim Dotcom and his alleged Megaupload co-conspirators have been denied access to the evidence gathered by U.S. authorities against them. Megaupload's legal team argued that this information is essential to mount a solid defense, but the Supreme Court ruled that full disclosure is not required under New Zealand law.
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The State of the Discordant Union: An Empirical Analysis of DMCA Takedown Notices by Daniel Seng :: SSRN
By conducting a census on half-a-million takedown notices and more than 50 million takedown requests in its datasets, this paper takes a detailed and systematic
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Piracy App Popcorn Time, Booted from One File-Hosting Provider, Moves to Another
The anonymous crew behind the Popcorn Time movie-piracy app moved quickly to switch to a new file-hosting provider, apparently located in France, after its account was shut down earlier Saturday by the company previously hosting its downloads. This Wednesday, an anonymous group of developers launched Popcorn-time.tv, registered to a P.O. Box number in Panama.
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Hollywood studios sue Megaupload and Dotcom
Seven major Hollywood movie studios have filed a massive copyright infringement lawsuit against Megaupload and its founder Kim Dotcom.
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39% of Film Industry Professionals are Movie & TV Show Pirates
Every month, reports condemn the general public for downloading movies and TV shows without permission, but perhaps those industries need to look a little closer to home. A new survey among film industry professionals suggests that almost 40% have downloaded movies and TV shows illegally.
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MPAA and RIAA Members Uploaded Over 2,000 Gigabytes to Megaupload
This month both the MPAA and RIAA filed civil lawsuits against Megaupload and its founder Kim Dotcom for massive copyright infringement. What they failed to mention, however, is that many of their members' employees were actually sharing files on the site. In addition, Disney, Warner Brothers and Fox were all eager to set up content distribution or advertising deals with Megaupload.
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Porn Actors Start Campaign To Save Their Struggling Industry
Adult performers have launched a campaign to encourage fans to pay for the porn they watch, rather than pirating videos on the internet. The Pay For Your Porn campaign, backed by publishers Adult Empire, argues that piracy is hurting the industry, and that porn fans need to take responsibility for that if they want the industry to remain sustainable.
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"U.S. Prisons Play Pirated Movies to Inmates"
The former operator of USAWarez.com and USATorrents.com, who has served more than two years in prison for copyright infringement, has outed several prisons for showing pirated movies to their inmates. One of the prisons mentioned says that the matter is still under investigation.
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File-sharing site Torrentz.eu taken offline by City of London police
One of the web's largest search engines for downloads on file-sharing websites has been taken offline by the City of London police for linking to pirated content. Torrentz.eu was already blocked in the UK by a number of British ISPs, having been blacklisted in October 2013 alongside 20 other file-sharing sites, but the side's domain name was removed entirely on Monday. By Tuesday, however, the site was back up following legal complaints from the owners.
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Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Arrested in Sweden
Peter Sunde was arrested today in a police raid in southern Sweden. The Pirate Bay co-founder was wanted by Interpol as he had yet to serve prison time for his involvement with the site. Sunde's arrest comes exactly eight years after the police raided the Pirate Bay servers, which marked the start of the criminal prosecution against the site's founders.
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MPAA: Consumer Right to Resell Online Videos Would Kill Innovation
The MPAA is concerned that innovation in the film industry will be ruined if consumers get the right to resell movies and other media purchased online. Responding to discussions in a congressional hearing this week, the MPAA warns that this move would limit consumer choices and kill innovation.
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WordPress Demands $10,000 For DMCA Takedown Censorship
WordPress has had it with copyright holders who abuse the DMCA takedown process to censor perfectly legal content. Through a lawsuit they demand $10,000 in compensation to cover the damage they, and one of their users suffered through a false DMCA takedown notice.
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The MPAA Is Trying (and Failing) to Take Down an Entire Subreddit
Instead, the MPAA just told everyone exactly where to illegally download movies on Reddit.
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The Troubling Truth of Why It’s Still So Hard to Share Files Directly
Last month, a free app called OnionShare was quietly released that lets you simply share files directly with another person without a middleman. The Copyright lobby never wanted it to see the light of day. And here's why.
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Pirate Bay Founders' File-Hosting Site Wiped From Google
Google has removed all links to Bayfiles, the file-hosting service created by the Pirate Bay's founders. For reasons unknown, people searching for the site can no longer reach it through the search engine. The site's operators are puzzled, but say that the change has very little impact on visitor numbers.
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Twitter Removes Users "Pirated" World Cup Avatars
Twitter has removed the profile pictures of several of its users after the company received a takedown notice from World Cup organizer FIFA. The football organization forbids the use of any of its official logos and emblems on social media, including pictures of the World Cup trophy.
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