Tag: Piracy

The Pirate Bay Did Not Get Shut Down
The Pirate Bay went down for quite some time today. Whenever the site goes down for more than five minutes, people begin to fear the worst. There was also the small coincidence of...
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ISPs To Start Six-Strike Anti-Piracy Program Later This Year
You may recall an effort on the part of the Center for Copyright Information to start a...
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File Sharing Is Now Legal… In Portugal
Portugal has a piracy problem. The European country has been the focus of anti-piracy group ACAPOR for some time now. It all came to a head last yea...
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Mediacom Takes File Sharing Punishments To Absurd New Levels
Are you a Mediacom subscriber? Do you use file sharing services to obtain content? If so, you may want to switch to a different provider. The ISP's new three-strike system is absur...
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Don’t Expect To Get Your Megaupload Data Back Anytime Soon
Collateral damage is unavoidable in war. A good general tries to keep this to a minimum, however, as the people who have no stake in the fight can only suffer. It seems that those...
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You Don’t Have to Secure Your Wi-Fi to Help Prevent Piracy, According to Judge
In a ruling that should make internet freedom activists very happy and many copyright holders very sad, a California Judge...
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Google, Takedown Requests & The Unknown
As you may know, Google is now using the amount of takedown requests it receives for a site...
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Are 30 Songs Really Worth $675,000? The Justice System Thinks So
We brought you the story of Joel Tenenbaum back in May. He was facing massive statutory damages at the hands of the RIAA for sharing 30 songs via the file sharing service, Kazaa. U...
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iOS Users Also Don’t Want To Pay For Anything According To Wind-Up Knight Developer
Game developers are on the forefront of the piracy debate. They have more to lose than any other industry as their game is the only thing keeping them afloat. That's why it was pre...
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Online Petition To Allow YouTube to MP3 Conversion Tops 1 Million Signatures
An online petition demanding YouTube to allow access for third party recording tools has topped 1.1 million signatures, and shows no signs of stopping....
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Google May Have To Start Censoring Search Results In France
The entertainment industry has a bone to pick with Google. They feel that the search engine d...
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UK Pirate Bay ISP Blockade Did Nothing To Stop Piracy
The entertainment industry is pretty short-sighted when it comes to finding solutions to piracy. They file a little lawsuit here and a little domain ban there in hopes that people...
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Jimmy Wales Got a Little Testy with Reporters About the O’Dwyer Case
In spite of what appeared to be a decision from the United Kingdom's Home Office to continue with the extradition of accused copyright-infringer Richard O'Dwyer to the United State...
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Despite Protests, UK Will Feed Richard O’Dwyer to US Officials Anyways
In a paradigm switch of imperialism, the United Kingdom is apparently to now be considered the Far Eastern United States given the fate of TVShack webmaster Richard O'Dwyer. Despit...
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Pressure Mounts on UK to Halt Richard O’Dwyer’s Extradition to US
Although the United Kingdom has yet to withdraw plans to extradite Richard O'Dwyer to...
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