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HBO exec sees Game of Thrones piracy as a compliment

Shane McGlaun, Apr 2nd 2013 Discuss [2]

With all the hoopla that has been built up around piracy over the last several years, you might expect anyone associated with a television or movie studio to see people who pirate their content as the devil. At least one HBO executive seems to have a different opinion of pirates. Recently HBO programming president Michael Lombardo spoke with Entertainment Weekly about Game of Thrones and piracy. Read The Full Story

The Pirate Bay becomes world’s largest file-sharing website

Craig Lloyd, Apr 1st 2013 Discuss [1]

The Pirate Bay has been the brunt of most legal battles dealing with piracy over the last few years, but apparently that isn't stopping the website from remaining incredibly popular. The torrent tracker has surpassed 4shared, Mediafire, and other popular file-sharing websites to become the world's largest once again. Read The Full Story

Megaupload shutdown increased legal movie downloads, according to study

Craig Lloyd, Mar 8th 2013 Discuss [6]

What once was a haven for illegal downloading is now just an afterthought. After the shutdown of Megaupload last year, it seems users are starting to resort to legal downloading means, according to a study from Carnegie Mellon University. The study suggests that studios saw a boost in digital movie and music sales since the shutdown. Read The Full Story

Pirate Bay North Korea move slightly exaggerated

Chris Burns, Mar 5th 2013 Discuss [2]

The website and ecosystem known as The Pirate Bay are known for their involvement in the uploads and downloads of countless files across the internet and the legal ramifications of their involvement with said files - and this week they've moved to North Korea. Or so they say they did this month. In fact what they've done is to - so they say - set up a ruse to capture the attention of the public so that they public can become more aware of the fact that anyone can tell them a lie. Read The Full Story

Pirate Bay flees to North Korea for freedom’s sake

Brian Sin, Mar 4th 2013 Discuss [6]

It looks like The Pirate Bay has set sail for another country, and a country none of us would have expected. North Korea has taken The Pirate Bay in, and has even offered it virtual asylum. It was only last week when The Pirate Bay was forced from its home in Sweden due to the threats the Swedish Pirate Party received from a local anti-piracy group. TPB was then provided shelter in both Norway and Spain. UPDATE: Courtesy of The Pirate Bay itself, this news announcement was a complete hoax. Have a peek at the real story in our March 5th report. Read The Full Story

ISPs consequences for abusing Six Strikes program revealed

Brian Sin, Feb 27th 2013 Discuss [8]

5 internet service providers, including AT&T, Verizon, Time Warner Cable, Comcast, and Cablevision launched their "Six Strikes" anti-piracy program this Monday. The program is the latest attempt for ISPs to stop its users from pirating software and media illegally. At the launch of the piracy program, the ISPs kept quiet about the consequences that would ensue if the users reached their 5th or 6th warning, but now they've explained their punishments. Read The Full Story

The Pirate Bay forced from Sweden, heads for Norway and Spain

Brian Sin, Feb 26th 2013 Discuss [7]

Due to a slew of threats from a local anti-piracy group, Sweden's Pirate Party had to let go of The Pirate Bay. The local anti-piracy group, Rights Alliance, told the Swedish Pirate Party that if they continued to work with The Pirate Bay beyond today, they would be faced with legal action. What makes the Right Alliance more scary than they seem is that they are backed by large movie and music companies throughout the entire world. Read The Full Story

Illegal music file sharing down 26%, free streaming services to blame

Craig Lloyd, Feb 26th 2013 Discuss [7]

While downloading music illegally may seem like all the rage, it turns out that it's quite the contrary. According to a report from the NPD Group, the volume of illegally downloaded music from peer-to-peer (P2P) services declined 26% in 2012 compared to 2011. The number of users downloading music illegally also dropped 17%. Read The Full Story

Six-strike Copyright Alert System goes into effect today

Craig Lloyd, Feb 25th 2013 Discuss [14]

As mentioned previously, the Copyright Alert System goes into effect starting today, which gives internet service providers the power to issue six strikes to it users before throttling your internet. It sounds pretty intense and lenient at the same time, since six strikes is quite a few times to screw up before the ISP calls it enough. Read The Full Story

Google under attack by anti-piracy groups over DMCA takedown limits

Craig Lloyd, Feb 19th 2013 Discuss [5]

Google currently allows copyright holders to request a takedown from the search giant's search results, but they only allow 10,000 URL requests per day, which just isn't enough for some copyright holders nowadays, and they're fighting with Google to raise the limit to 40,000 requests per day, which is supposedly enough for companies to request without reaching a cap. Read The Full Story

Weekend Watching: TPB AFK “Pirate Bay Documentary” download live!

Chris Burns, Feb 8th 2013 Discuss [0]

This weekend the documentary TPB AFK has gone live: start to finish a free download, entirely appropriate given the subject matter. This documentary covers none other than the rise and current operation of The Pirate Bay, the world’s most popular online file-sharing service. This documentary has been four years in the making and makes its mark right at the outset as the first film ever to be premiered at a major motion picture festival and offered as a digital download at the same time – and again, it’s totally free.

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