Here’s what you need to know about the ‘felony streaming’ bill in the new stimulus package
Congress passed a $2.3 trillion spending and relief package this week that funds the governments, sends out $600 stimulus checks, and includes a number of …
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HBO is already chasing ‘Game of Thrones’ season 7 pirates
The first episode of Game of Thrones Season 7 only aired on Sunday, but HBO isn’t messing around with pirates. TorrentFreak reports that IP Echelon, the anti-piracy company HBO …
ISPs plot to take over the browsers of movie pirates, which is all kinds of screwed up
According to a report from TorrentFreak, movie rightsholders and major internet service providers are in “very thorough” discussions on new anti-piracy measures. You might think “measures” means …
Swedish ISP forced to block The Pirate Bay after years-long battle
The Pirate Bay has had a years-long running battle involving rightsholders and ISPs in Sweden, and things just took a bad turn for the pirates. …
Survey shows actually yes, you would download a car
In the mid-2000s, the movie industry sponsored a series of ads that equated illegally downloading a movie to committing a series of badly-shot crimes out …
Nintendo will pay you $20,000 to break the 3DS
Nintendo’s handheld game systems have long had an issue with piracy and hacking, and now the company is finally going to do something about it. …
Which countries pirate the most expensive software?
For decades now, piracy has remained a lingering problem that software companies have tirelessly and unsuccessfully tried to eliminate. So whether it’s a college student …
The Pirate Bay will be losing its iconic web address
For as long as I can remember, thepiratebay.se has been the place to go for illegal torrents. But a ruling handed down by Sweden’s court of …
New study claims that pirates make $70 million a year by spreading malware
They say crime doesn’t pay, but a new study estimates that pirates make somewhere in the range of $70 million every year by installing malware …
Leaked docs reveal TPP will force ISPs to hand over copyright infringers’ identities
Oh goody: A recent WikiLeaks document dump of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement reveals that the deal compels Internet service providers to hand over the …
Thousands of Popcorn Time users targeted by anti-piracy group
With an intuitive and easy to use interface, Popcorn Time has become the go-to service for users who, let’s be honest, want to pirate TV …
Popcorn Time Blamed for Huge Explosion in Movie and TV Show Piracy
Not all that long ago, downloading pirated movies was something left to technically savvy folks who knew their way around a BitTorrent client. Originally launched …
Now You Can Really Cut the Cord: Pirate TV Service Now Has 500 Free TV Channels
The biggest barrier for cord cutters today remains the same as it was a month ago and a year ago: live TV. Eliminating your standard …
‘Game of Thrones’ Season 5 finale sets new piracy record
We’re not going to ruin your day with any Game of Thrones spoilers here, but rest assured it may be hard to avoid them elsewhere. …
Netflix now feels HBO’s pain as it battles rampant ‘Orange Is The New Black’ piracy
Over the past few months we’ve documented HBO’s ongoing struggle to battle Game of Thrones piracy, an arguably winless battle that has seen the cable …
Google Fiber sends ‘automated fine letters’ to suspected pirates
Et tu, Google? With piracy running rampant these days, we’re starting to see content producers and owners going after pirates via each suspected individual’s specific …
The clever way Netflix determines subscription rates in each country
History has shown that any effort aimed at eradicating piracy via brute force is destined to fail. Arguably, the only way to truly stem piracy is …
HBO goes after Game of Thrones pirates on Periscope
Not only is HBO’s Game of Thrones the most torrented show on TV today, the show’s season 4 finale has the bittersweet distinction of being …
Leak: Here’s Hollywood’s new plan to attack movie pirates
Hollywood hasn’t had much luck curtailing movie piracy over the past several years, but a new draft of anti-piracy legislation could be a frightening sign of …
Man jailed for 33 months for pirating ‘Fast and Furious 6’
The British justice system can occasionally deliver as stern messages as any Texas or Mississippi municipality. A judge in the idyllic town of Wolverhampton has …
Confessions of a music thief
I have stolen music. A massive amount of music, in fact. Over the past decade or so, I have illegally downloaded hundreds of songs from various …
It turns out illegal downloads in the U.K. will remain illegal
After a report on Tuesday detailing a new legal initiative on online piracy in the U.K. claimed that the local government has decriminalized illegal downloads, …
U.K. has a new punishment-free plan to turn download pirates into buyers [updated]
The British government has apparently decriminalized online piracy, VG247 reports, and pirates who download illegal copies of movies, music and games will no longer be …
Shocker: Extensive new study says movie piracy isn’t that harmful to Hollywood
A new study looking at the relationship between movie piracy and Hollywood revenues has found that the mass illegal downloads movie studios complain about while …
Shocker: Hollywood downloads pirated content just like everyone else
Hollywood has been on a holy war against piracy for years, but that doesn’t mean it actually managed to achieve anything worth bragging with, especially …
Game of Thrones finale shatters piracy records with 2PB of illegal downloads
The finale of the fourth Game of Thrones season shattered all previous illegal download records, TorrentFreak reports. First, a quarter-million people shared a single file at …
Pirating copyrighted content is legal in Europe, if done correctly
The Internet provides access to many surprising things, including the means to enjoy copyrighted content without paying for it. Whether it’s movies or TV shows, music, books, …
