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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 […]
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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 […]
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. ‘Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Toy Story 4′. ‘Spider-Man: Far from Home’ completes the top three. This week we have three newcomers in our chart. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw is the most […]
Facebook has removed a five-year-old link to a TorrentFreak article, presumably over a ‘copyright infringing’ meme. The social media platform took the action following a takedown notice from a photographer, whose image was used for the meme. Interestingly, the portrait in question is public domain. When the EU Copyright Directive protests were in full swing […]