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HBO Cracks Down on Paying VPN "Pirates"
HBO has started to crack down on paying customers who access the HBO Now service from outside the United States. Subscribers from countries including Canada, the UK, Germany and Australia who use VPNs and other unblocking tools are now being threatened with account terminations.
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'Game of Thrones' piracy hits record high despite HBO's stand-alone service
You know the argument that Game of Thrones fans wouldn’t illegally download the series if HBO would simply make new episodes available online
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Experts Urge Canada to Stop Threatening Piracy Notices
Due to a recent change i Canada’s copyright law, ISPs are now required to forward copyright infringement notices to their customers. As a result, hundreds of thousands of Internet subscribers have received warnings in their mailboxes since the start of the year, with some asking for cash settlements.
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Inside Popcorn Time, the Piracy Party Hollywood Can't Stop
POPCORN TIME WAS an instant hit when it launched just over a year ago: The video streaming service made BitTorrent piracy as easy as Netflix, but with far more content and none of those pesky monthly payments. Hollywood quickly intervened, pressuring Popcorn Time’s Argentinian developers to walk away from their creation. But anonymous coders soon relaunched the copyright-flouting software.
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Key Pirate Bay Domains Must Be Seized, Court Rules
In a decision handed down minutes ago the Stockholm District Court has ordered two key domains owned by The Pirate Bay to be seized. While the ruling means that the site will lose its famous ThePirateBay.se domain, don't expect the site to simply disappear. TPB informs TorrentFreak that they have plenty more domains left in store.
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CBS 'Supergirl' Pilot Leaks to Piracy Sites
High-quality copies of the pilot for CBS drama
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Google Fiber sends piracy fine notices straight to subscribers
Google Fiber is reportedly sending out copyright infringement notices to subscribers offering settlements ranging from $20 to $300.
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EFF fights abuse of court orders to close sites in the wake of Grooveshark
The EFF (Electronic Freedom Foundation) has involved itself in lots of online battles -- including the fightback against NSA surveillance, and the drive for net neutrality. The latest fight sees the organization joining forces with web performance and security firm CloudFlare in tackling the site blocking activities of the record industry.
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Pirate Bay Co-Founder Fredrik Neij Released From Prison
Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij has been released from prison today. Neij was the last person to serve a custodial sentence handed down after the Pirate Bay trial, marking the end of a controversial chapter in the site's turbulent history.
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European Copyright Madness: Court Strikes Down Law Allowing Users to Rip Their Own CDs
Today the High Court of the United Kingdom handed down an excellent decision—excellent because the result is so unreasonable, so out of touch with reality, and so divorced from the needs and expectations of ordinary users, that it provides a textbook illustration of the need for urgent reform of the outdated and unbalanced European Copyright Directive.
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FBI Wants Pirate Bay Logs to Expose Copyright Trolls
Over the past months two Pirate Bay co-founders have been questioned by Swedish police, acting on behalf of the FBI. The officers were looking for information on Pirate Bay backups and logs as part of an investigation into the honeypot scheme of the notorious Prenda copyright trolls.
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Kim Dotcom's Seized Data Could Soon Be in U.S. Hands
Kim Dotcom's battle to stop more of his seized data being sent to the U.S. has suffered a setback. Three Court of Appeal judges today set aside earlier High Court rulings meaning that the Attorney-General can now issue new directions to police enabling the devices to be shipped to the United States.
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TPP’s Copyright Trap
Our Last Stand Against Undemocratic International Agreements That Ratchet up Term Lengths and Devastate the Public Domain
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What Do We Want From the Next Librarian of Congress?
There’s a reason ‘librarians everywhere’ were singled out for an EFF Pioneer award in 2000. Time and again, in fights against censorship and intrusive surveillance laws, librarians have been allies of the public, serving as the institutional representation of the ideals of intellectual freedom, unfettered speech, and reader privacy. By Parker Higgins.
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Kim dotcom interview: I am no longer with Mega. Mega is not to be trusted.
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Copying And Sharing Was Always A Natural Right; Restricting Copying Never Was - TorrentFreak
In the still-ongoing debate over sharing it's paramount to realize that sharing and copying was always the natural state, and that restricting of copying is an arbitrary restriction of property rights.
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2baay is Open for Limited Signup! - A Blog for Private Torrent Trackers & Piracy
2baay is a Private Torrent Tracker for MOVIES / TV / GENERAL Signups are open! Signups are open! Sign up and join the community! Signup Link: http://www.2baay.com/signup.php
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iTunes is Illegal Under UK Copyright Law
The High Court recently overturned private copying exceptions introduced last year by the UK Government, once again outlawing the habits of millions of citizens. The Intellectual Property Office today explains that ripping a CD in iTunes is no longer permitted, and neither is backing up your computer if it contains copyrighted content.
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BitTorrent to RIAA: You’re ‘barking up the wrong tree’
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sent a letter to BitTorrent last week asking the company to help stop copyrighted infringement of its members' content. Brad Buckles, RIAA's executive vice president of anti-piracy, asked BitTorrent CEO Eric Klinker to "live up to" comments made by former chief content officer Matt Mason. Two quotes by Mason stand out in particular: “We don’t endorse piracy.” and “If you’re using BitTorrent for piracy, then you’re doing it wrong.
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Anti-Piracy Group Hits Indie Creators For Using the Word 'Pixels'
An anti-piracy firm working for Columbia Pictures has hit Vimeo with a wave of bogus copyright takedowns just because people used the word 'Pixels' in their video titles. Several indie productions are affected, including an art-focused NGO, an award-winning short movie and a royalty free stock footage company.
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