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Anti-Piracy Police Begin Targeting eBook Pirates - 22 septembre 2014
After very publicly taking down a number of sites offering music, movies and TV shows without permission, City of London Police appear to have taken down their first ebook-related domain. OnRead is now under police investigation but according to its operators the site operated legally. That seems unlikely, (...)
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MPAA Research : Blocking The Pirate Bay Works, So"¦.. - 29 août 2014
Hollywood has helped to get The Pirate Bay blocked in many countries, but not on its home turf. There are now various signs that this may change in the near future. Among other things, the MPAA has conducted internal research to show that site blocking is rather effective.
Website blocking has become one of the (...)
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Google Asked to Remove 1 Million Pirate Links Per Day - 22 août 2014
For the first time ever Google is now processing an average of one million removal requests per day. The new record follows an upward trend with copyright holders reporting more and more allegedly infringing search results in an effort to deter piracy.
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"Six Strikes" Anti-Piracy Scheme Costs 3 Million Per Year - 31 juillet 2014
New tax records reveal that the Center for Copyright Information, the outfit overseeing the "six strikes" copyright alert system in the US, cost $3 million last year. This figure is quite substantial as it translates to roughly $2 per individual piracy warning.
February last year, the MPAA, RIAA and five major (...)
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RIAA Reported 50 Million Pirate Links to Google - 21 juin 2014
The RIAA has reached a new milestone in its ongoing efforts to get pirated content removed from the Internet. This week, the music industry group reported their 50 millionth URL to Google. Despite the search engine’s swift removal policy, the RIAA sees pirated files reappearing almost immediately, calling it a (...)
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News Corp Wants Google to Implement Anti-Piracy Algorithms - 9 juin 2014
Following in the footsteps of the movie and music industries, media conglomerate News Corp is now going after Google over the copyright infringement issue. Chief executive Robert Thomson urges Google to change its algorithms to demote and remove pirated content, to stop the ever increasing piracy rates.
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Copyright Troll Demands Comcast’s Six Strikes Data for Lawsuit - 25 mai 2014
Thanks to the "six strikes" program, leading ISPs in the U.S. now hold databases containing allegations of infringement against their customers. That data was supposed to be private, but now the most prolific filer of copyright lawsuits in the U.S. is trying to obtain information from Comcast in order to build a (...)
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Rapidgator Wiped From Google’s Search Results, Again - 25 mai 2014
Hoping to get its URLs restored Rapidgator submitted a counter-notification to Google, but several weeks have passed since and the problem remains. TorrentFreak spoke with Rapidgator operator Mike, who is concerned about the lack of response and the ease at which sites can be removed from Google.
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The Connection Between The Copyright Industry And The NSA - 19 mai 2014
There is a direct connection between copyright monopoly enforcement and mass surveillance, and between mass surveillance and lack of free speech. If you want to keep free speech, the copyright monopoly must be reduced sharply.
As I described in a previous column, the copyright monopoly cannot be enforced without (...)
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Google Asked to Remove 100 Million Pirate Search Results in 2014 - 6 mai 2014
A little more than four months into the year, Google has already processed copyright takedown requests for a record-breaking 100 million search results. This is a significant increase compared to last year, and the end of the takedown surge is not yet in sight.
In the hope of steering prospective customers away (...)
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Google Asked to Censor Two Million Pirate Bay URLs - 21 avril 2014
The Pirate Bay reached a dubious milestone today, as copyright holders have now asked Google to remove two million of the site’s URLs from its search results. According to Google this means that between one and five percent of all Pirate Bay links are no longer discoverable in its search engine.
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Saudi Arabia Government Blocks The Pirate Bay (and More) - 2 avril 2014
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Culture and Information has blocked access to The Pirate Bay, for reasons yet unknown. In addition to the notorious torrent site, Torrentz.eu, Rarbg and possibly several others are blocked too. As always, local users are already discussing ways to work around the restrictions. (...)
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Music Industry Wants Pirate Site Blockades in More Countries - 23 mars 2014
Music industry group IFPI released its latest Digital Music Report this week. The report includes some mandatory pages on the continuing piracy problem and claims that pirate site blockades are hugely effective. According to the music group it’s now time to expand the blockades to other countries, and censor mobile (...)
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Russia’s Facebook Prepares To Make Peace With USTR Over Piracy - 9 mars 2014
Russia’s Facebook vKontakte is preparing steps to have it declassified as a rogue site by the U.S. Trade Representative. That will mean the introduction of filtering technology to identify and delete millions of infringing MP3s, movies and TV shows from the social networking giant, with Internet-wide implications. (...)
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Privacy Disaster : Type IP Address, Get Internet User’s Phone Number - 8 mars 2014
While an Internet user’s IP address is often visible, significant effort is required to convert that into a real-life identity. So imagine what would happen if you could type the IP address of an Internet user into a web browser and receive his phone number in return. Unbelievably, that happened this week. (...)
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BREIN Ends Pirate Bay-Related ISP and Proxy Lawsuits - 8 mars 2014
Despite killing more than 200 in 2013, BREIN has decided to end its legal battles against Pirate Bay proxies. A recent court ruling, which undermined the anti-piracy group’s legal basis against the services, has also forced the discontinuation of legal action against several ISPs, BREIN said yesterday.
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Fileserve Ordered to Pay $869k to Compensate Movie Studio’s Piracy Losses - 3 mars 2014
The makers of independent movie American Cowslip have won their case against file-hosting service FileServe. District Court Judge Audrey Collins issued a default judgment against FileServe on Thursday, ordering the company to pay $869,500 in piracy damages.
With nearly 200 million pageviews a month, FileServe was (...)
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Six Strikes Anti-Piracy Scheme Turns One Year, But Does It Work ? - 26 février 2014
Today marks the one year anniversary of the six-strikes anti-piracy scheme, a good time to reflect on its efficacy. While no official numbers have yet been released, it appears that copyright alerts haven’t changed a whole lot. BitTorrent piracy hasn’t dropped, nor have we seen a massive revenue increase for the (...)
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AT&T Develops Credits System to Limit File-Sharing Bandwidth - 30 janvier 2014
A patent application by telecoms giant AT&T details a traffic management system set to add a little more heat to the net neutrality debate. Rather than customers using their Internet connections to freely access any kind of data, the telecoms giant envisions a system in which subscribers engaged in (...)
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BitTorrent Inc. Settles With U.S. After EU Privacy Rule Breach - 23 janvier 2014
BitTorrent Inc. is one of a dozen U.S.-based tech companies charged by the Federal Trade Commission with falsely claiming compliance with a treaty on European Union data-sharing. The companies, which also include ISP Level 3, all wrongly indicated current membership of the U.S.- E.U. Safe Harbor Framework, which (...)
