Tag: Piracy

Game of Thrones, Once Again, Sits Atop the Iron Throne of Piracy
The season finale of HBO's Game of Thrones has shattered a piracy record, previously held by...Game of Thrones. According to torrent trackers, over 254,000 pe...
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Kim Dotcom Offers $5 Million Bounty for Information
In January 2012, New Zealand police arrested internet icon Kim Dotcom due to claims from the United States that Dotcom had used his website to host pirated files, costing the music...
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App Pirates Guilty of Copyright Infringement
Back in January the U.S. charged four people in connection with...
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‘Game of Thrones’ Premiere Breaks Piracy Record
When the season four premiere of HBO's fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones...
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Google Suggests You Watch ‘House Of Cards’ Online For Free At Stream-TV Over Netflix [Updated]
Update: Since this was first published, Google is now showing Netflix at the top of the organic results for the House of Cards example. It has also been brought to my...
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Android App Groups Charged For Piracy
The openness of the Android platform has many advantages, but it also makes the platform more of a gamble for developers. Apple's iOS is still the leading platform for many app re...
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Guy Wears Google Glass at a Movie, Shocked When Hassled by Feds
As the debate rages on concerning where you can and cannot operate Go...
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‘Game of Thrones’ is the Most-Pirated Show of the Year, Again
In-between all of the end-of-year best-of lists, there are a few lists that it might be questionable for entertainment properties to end up on. One of these is undoubtedly the lis...
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New Anti-Piracy Plan: Kindergarten Copyright Class?
The United States' largest copyright lobbies, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America, have initiated a highly controversial pro...
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IsoHunt Is Back From The Dead… Sort Of
Earlier this month, IsoHunt, one of the world's largest torrent trackers, shut down after s...
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IsoHunt Settles With MPAA, Will Shut Down
IsoHunt was mine, and presumably many others, first run in with torrents and file sharing. Many have moved on, but the MPAA just couldn't leave it alone. After launching a lawsuit...
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Researchers Argue That Unavailability, Not Search Engines, Lead To Piracy
Every few months, the MPAA comes out of the woodwork to claim Google's search results encourage piracy. According to their logic, the prevalence of illegal sources on Google's fron...
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Study Shows Online Piracy is Good for Showbiz
A new study by The London School of Economics and Political Science...
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Breaking Bad Finale Already Breaking Online Piracy Records
As the Internet went wild watching the final moments of Walter White's ex...
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Netflix: There is a Method to Their Madness
The Netflix team has a very important job when it comes to purchasing what it's consumers can view. How would they differentiate it to buy or not? What does the Netflix customer wa...
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