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Scammers Accused of Uploading Copyrighted Movies Just to Blackmail Downloaders
Piracy is a crime, and downloading copyrighted material or using it without the owner’s permission, as I’m pretty sure that the vast majority of you know, is against the law. This is, incidentally, no judgment of any of you who do involve yourselves in such activities. It’s just a fact.…
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As The Pirate Bay Turns 18, its Founder Says it “Can Not be Stopped”
This week, The Pirate Bay very quietly turned 18-years-old, and for many, it still represents an excellent repository to access certain downloads (many of which admittedly, are not quite legal – The clue is in their name!). Admittedly though, The Pirate Bay is certainly not what it was. These days…
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Nigerian Torrent Downloaders Given Prison Sentences
Downloading torrents of copyright-infringing material is illegal, as we all know, and while those involved in large-scale file-sharing operations – like YIFY/YFS – or maintaining torrent sites face potential prison sentences for their actions, your garden variety torrenter, caught downloading a copy of Deadpool, usually expects little more than a…
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Search Engines to Ban Links to Torrent Sites in Search Results
In another futile attempt to curb piracy, search engines are set to ban links to torrent sites in their search results, allegedly starting June 2017. Working with the UK government, the search engines have been in discussions to come up with an agreement of the actions they will take and…
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Two Attorneys Indicted for Porn Torrent Extortion Scheme
Two US lawyers have been indicted for engaging in an elaborate extortion scheme which involved deliberately seeding copyrighted materials they owned to torrent sites so that they could sue anyone who downloaded and shared them, according to the Washington Post. California attorneys Paul R. Hansmeier and John L. Steele, who…
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KickassTorrents Case Could Put All Torrent Sites at Risk
KickassTorrents, the world’s most used torrent site, has been seized by the US government, and its owner, Artem Vaulin, has been arrested in Poland, awaiting extradition. While Vaulin’s arrest is limited to his involvement with KAT, should the case result in a prosecution it could give US courts extended powers…
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Online Pirates to Face 10 Years Prison in UK
The UK Government has unveiled its new Digital Economy Bill [PDF] in Parliament which features a revision to current laws regarding online copyright infringement. Under the new bill, online pirates could face up to ten years in prison, a substantial increase from the two years of previous legislation. The increase…
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ThePirateBay Steers Back to .org Domain
ThePirateBay is unquestionably the most famous torrent site ever devised and become a target of various organisations aiming to protect intellectual property such as the RIAA and MPAA. Furthermore, these bodies often lobby major governments and attempt to introduce measures to combat piracy. Ridiculous schemes involving blocking the site at…
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HBO Wages War on Game of Thrones Torrents
HBO isn’t best pleased that its stellar hit Game of Thrones is the most downloaded show ever, and has sent out thousands of copyright infringement warnings to anyone deemed to be sharing it online, plus requests to torrent sites to delete torrent and magnet links to any files deemed to…
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Kanye West Gets His Own Pirate Bay
Tune murmurer, paladin of egotism, and self-appointed “voice of this generation” Kanye West – recently exposed using The Pirate Bay to search for copyrighted software, despite threatening legal action against the notorious torrent site just last month – now has his own iteration of The Pirate Bay. Dubbed Kanye Bay,…
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Kanye West’s Latest Album Already Pirated Over Half a Million Times
Kanye West recently released his new album, The Life of Pablo, exclusively on the music streaming service Tidal owned by fellow artist Jay-Z. However, amidst numerous complaints from fans that they have been unable to listen to the album they had paid for on Tidal, piracy has sprung up. The…
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Popcorn Time to be Revived in the Browser
Popcorn time has been blocked, banned and taken down over copyright issues a number of times. It seems that the popular movie streaming service just refuses to die. Despite the seizure of its popcorntime.io site by the MPAA, Popcorn Time is set to return as Popcorn Time Online. It claims…
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The Pirate Bay’s “Hydra” Has Been Decapitated
This time last year, The Pirate Bay was all but dead; the Swedish datacentre that hosted the notorious torrent site had been raided by police in December 2014, leaving it offline for many weeks. Days later, shortly before Christmas, the site’s administrators teased the imminent return of The Pirate Bay.…
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EA, Nintendo, Playstation, and Ubisoft Launch Attack on KickAss Torrents
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA), which has EA, Nintendo, Playstation, and Ubisoft as its members, has reported a number of torrent sites to the US government, specifically highlighting popular site KickAss Torrents as the largest portal for video game piracy. In a letter the ESA wrote to the US Director…
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The Pirate Bay Founder Freed From Prison After Three Years
The founder of infamous torrent site The Pirate Bay, Gottfrid Svartholm, has been freed from prison after three years. Svartholm, also known by his nickname Anakata, served his prison time in both Sweden and Denmark on charges related to his activities with The Pirate Bay, but is now a free…
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