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The government agency responsible for anti-piracy enforcement in France has reported its latest set of results. Between January and August 2019, Hadopi sent more than 644,000 warning notices, with around 479,000 going to first offenders and 165,700 to repeat infringers. Ultimately, 86 people ended up with a criminal conviction but many others received fines and […]
Earlier today Twitter exploded when a tweet by US President Donald Trump was taken down for alleged copyright infringement. A copy of the DMCA notice obtained by TorrentFreak shows that Warner Music was behind the takedown. It became the seventh copyright complaint filed against Trump’s Twitter account in 2019 alone, raising questions about Twitter’s repeat […]
Today we bring you the next episodes of the Steal This Show podcast, discussing renegade media and the latest decentralization and file-sharing news. In this episode, we talk to Finn Brunton, author of ‘Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency’ This is part one of a two-part interview […]
Video streaming giant Netflix has always seen itself as the prime alternative to piracy. According to South African Internet providers, it certainly is, at least in terms of traffic. After Netflix launched there three years ago the platform has dwarfed BitTorrent traffic. The effects that legal streaming services have on people’s motivation to pirate can […]
The RIAA has submitted its most recent overview of “notorious markets” to the U.S. Government. As usual, the music industry group lists various torrent sites, download portals and stream-ripping sites as direct threats. This year, however, the messaging app Telegram is also highlighted as a problem. Responding to a request from the Office of the […]
The anti-piracy memorandum signed by rightsholders and major Internet companies in Russia has expired. This means that search engines no longer have to remove allegedly-infringing content from their indexes. Whether they will continue to do so in advance of legislation compelling them to do so now appears reliant on goodwill. Following intense pressure on local […]
Swedish Internet service provider Bahnhof is known as a champion of user-privacy but, in line with other Swedish ISPs, it now has to store IP-address logs for at least 10 months. The company ensures, however, that the “copyright mafia,” a term it uses to describe copyright trolls, won’t get access to the data. In addition, […]
File-hosting giant Mega.nz has been blocked by some ISPs in Brazil following a ruling from the São Paulo Court of Justice. The New Zealand-based platform believes that the Court has been misled but it’s not the only site affected. Several other domains are listed by the Court, including one apparently operated by Openload, one of […]
Nintendo is continuing to home in on those who copy its classic gaming creations. In a new DMCA complaint filed at Github, the gaming giant targets a remake of Donkey Kong that was created by the technical director of an Australia-based technology consultancy company. The creation, which utilizes tools developed by Facebook, was publicly documented […]
Facebook no longer allows its users to share links to The Pirate Bay on their timelines or in chat messages. The blockade follows similar measures taken against other pirate sites in previous weeks. This is not the first time Facebook has taken against against The Pirate Bay but the current measures go substantially further. Ten […]