Tag: piracy
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Dear Hollywood: If illegal downloads hurt your industry, Avengers should have flopped
The math is pretty straight forward. It was likely the most widely-downloaded camcorder recording of a movie ever. Following the...
Piracy cut in half in France, yet music and movie revenues fell
France made waves in the P2P industry by implementing a controversial graduated response program in 2010 that was designed to...
The cost of piracy
One of the most compelling reasons for the rise in piracy over the past decade is the cost. We have...
Everything You Know About Piracy is Wrong
Piracy has become part and parcel of discussions about media and the internet. And everywhere in online discussion, from the...
BitTorrent’s Wave Becomes a Tsunami with 100 Million Active Users
Dependent entirely on how you feel about piracy, it will either tickle you previously undefined shades of pink or break...
Halloween’s Most Popular Costume? Pirates!
Halloween is approaching, and boy do we have a treat for you. It appears that not only are pirates the...
How The MPAA Is Using The Law To Protect Its Business Model
In what appears to be another shocking attempt to constrain and limit the functioning of the internet, US lawmakers are...
UK ISPs Profit From Invading Customer Privacy
ISPs in the United Kingdom are making money from the process of anti-piracy groups taking legal action against copyright infringing...
Pirate Bay Sunk At Last After Europe-Wide Raids?
The Pirate Bay is down this morning after reports of raids across Europe. According to thinq.co.uk, police in up to...
Google Pitching Pay-Per-View – And Maybe This Time It’ll Work
So Google is pitching a YouTube pay-per-view service to Hollywood studios that would enable video rentals for five bucks a...
Movie Studios Unite To Solve A Common Problem
Two big studios have joined forces to tackle a problem facing the industry. Which is great news, except they're working...
Pink Floyd? More Like… Like… Pink… GONE… Whatever.
If you're looking for iTunes, Amazon, or other digital releases of Pink Floyd's material this month, you'll be appalled and...
TorrentReactor Purchases Entire Russian Village, Renames It ‘TorrentReactor’. No, Really.
What are you downloading right now? Don't give me that face. Few people don't hit the torrents. I've got season...
Ministry Of Sound Oversteps Their Jurisdiction
For the less trendy (and the less British) among us, I'll come right out and say it: The Ministry of...
Exploring The Dark Side of Technology
Feelings are hurt and lives are ruined on a daily basis because criminals are taking advantage. They’re taking the very...
Sorry RIAA, MPAA: The Pirate’s Boat Will Stay Afloat
The entertainment industry has embarked in an all-out war against piracy around the globe, with the hopes of scaring would-be...
Pirate Bay Kitteh LOLS at Skynets
In one of its funnier nose-thumbings at the enemies of its pirate creed, the file-sharing site Pirate Bay put up...
The War Against Piracy: Unlikely “Evils” Named in the RIAA’s Ongoing Crusade
Like an unwanted pack of rats, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has fought a dragged out battle against...
Piracy, Eh? Canada High On US Piracy List
Canada is one of the top five countries responsible for piracy around the world, along with China, Mexico, Russia and...
Germany to Fine for Unprotected Wi-fi Netwurst… er, Networks
Here's an odd one. Seems Germany is now fining users who fail to protect their wi-fi networks. Why? Oh, you're...
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