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Enforcement on the Agenda: Jail Time for “Arrogant” Fast & Furious Pirate
The Fast and the Furious: Popular with pirates (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The anti-piracy movement has focused a great deal on education this year, but enforcement is still very much on Hollywood’s...
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Kim Dotcom’s Truth is Just Another Moment of Madness
If you’re going to drop a “bombshell,” it probably pays to bring the explosives. Even with two microphones, Kim Dotcom fails to deliver his message | Image Credit: Peter Harrison Unsurprisingly that...
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On Pirate Bay Search, Google Takes One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Friend or foe of pirates? Google still needs to decide. | Image Credit: Wikipedia Here we go again… Rarely does a week pass by when Google doesn’t infuriate on the intellectual property front, and...
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Why the Ghosts of Google Haunt Its Anti-Piracy Efforts
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Just as sighs of relief roll around with Google, finally seeming to penalize major piracy sites in its unpaid search listings, another copyright...
View ArticlePiracy Prince to Pauper: Kim Dotcom Ends the Year “Broke”
After starting the year guiding 60 Minutes’ Bob Simon around his luxury mansion in New Zealand, piracy magnate Kim Dotcom will end 2014 at the other end of the wealth gap. Confirming to an audience in...
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Promoting Piracy: Would the Washington Post Accept Content Theft?
There’s been plenty of fallout from this week’s raid on The Pirate Bay, which finally took the site offline, but perhaps none more misguided than this piece by Caitlin Dewey for the Washington Post. In...
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The Most Pirated TV Shows and Movies of 2014
Game of Thrones topped TV piracy lists for the third year in a row (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The more things change, the more they stay the same. So says the (depressingly familiar) list of titles...
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In the Absence of Names, Rights Holders Pursue the Anonymous
Even with some notable victories early on this year, it has to be said that there’s still plenty of piracy to go around. Unfortunately there are fewer names to blame, with a lot of illegal downloads...
View ArticleHow Can HBO Curb Game of Thrones Piracy?
With popularity comes piracy, we know this as a defining characteric of the digital age. For all the initiatives and appeals to use legitimate, safe viewing channels, illegal torrents and piracy sites...
View ArticleNot So Super, Prerelease Piracy Strikes Again
After the unfortunate losses for Expendables 3 after it was leaked last summer, there’s heightened concern that prerelease piracy will become a common problem as connectivity and access speeds...
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Ad Industry TAGs in New Board Members for a Boost Against Fraud
TAG logo (PRNewsFoto/Trustworthy Accountability Group) We reported earlier this year on the creation of a new entity in the advertising world, the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG), which aims to...
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Apocalypse Never? What the New York Times Failed to Say
If you inhabit any corner of the creative world or entertainment industry, it’s likely you’ve come across reaction to The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t, a New York Times Magazine article dismissing...
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Popcorn Time May Be Over, As Piracy Profits Are Highlighted by MPAA Lawsuit
Popcorn Time may be the poster child for stealing streaming content in 2015, but it looks like this will also be the year that its kernel bursts. Thanks to lawsuits filed by Motion Picture Association...
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Every Day Is Cyber Monday for Pirates Using Google
As you browse the one-off deals and 24-hour only special offers on Cyber Monday, spare a thought for poor old Google. Not only is the search engine having to serve up the latest and greatest deals for...
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The Most Pirated TV Shows of 2015: Frustratingly Familiar
It comes as no great surprise that the (annually frustrating) title of the most pirated TV show of 2015, once again, goes to Game of Thrones. Review our most pirated titles of 2014 – or even 2013 – and...
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