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News In 2018, four of Japan’s largest manga publishers filed a motion at a Tokyo court demanding that Cloudflare stop providing services to several ‘pirate’ sites, including Mangamura replacement Hoshinoromi. The companies now reveal that a settlement has been reached with Cloudflare to “stop the replication” of the sites on its Japan-based servers, if a […]
In the weeks and months leading up to and beyond the 2012 raid on Kim Dotcom and his former associates, the Megaupload founder was being spied on by the authorities in New Zealand. Between December 2011 and March 2012, the highly secretive Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) spy agency listened in on the private communications […]
News Several takedown notices, reportedly sent on behalf of the NFL, are asking Google to remove VPN-related URLs. According to a recent request, these sites promote the use of VPN services “to illegally stream NFL games.” While many of the pages show how VPNs can bypass geographical restrictions, Google has left most URLs in its […]
News The New Zealand Court of Appeal has refused to grant Kim Dotcom access to his private communications captured illegally by the country’s spy agency. The Court found that while the intercepted communications, which formed part of the Megaupload investigation, are ‘relevant’, the need to protect national security tips the scales in the state’s favor. […]
News Following what began as a controversial political dispute in Denmark, publicly-funded talk radio station Radio24syv will shut down on October 31. Fearing that years of online archives could be lost forever, three IT experts created a project to download every show for posterity. As a result, they are now being accused of mass piracy. […]
Japan is set to make it illegal to download any infringing content from the Internet after the government adopted the policy this week. The law currently covers movies and music but will be extended to encompass games, manga, and other copyrighted content. Infringers will face up to two years in jail. Downloading music and movies […]
A seized domain name of a website that provided information about the Popcorn Time software, has resulted in an intriguing legal battle. Several organizations, including Electronic Frontier Norway informed a local court that the seizure went too far. To prove their point, EFN published “An illegal book?” which consists of a printout of the site […]
A PreDb is an online database that advises users when a particular pirate file hits the Internet. The vast majority of these services are for information purposes only and contain no links to pirated content. However, anti-piracy companies apparently cannot tell the difference between these and pirate sites. We caught up with the operator of […]