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News The Pirate Bay has delivered some interesting logo changes in recent weeks. The torrent site temporarily swapped the good-old pirate ship to promote a VPN, a file-hosting service, and a blockchain project. While the site hasn’t explained its motives it is, at least in part, an attempt to earn some additional income. To many […]
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) is aiming to combat piracy with a new blocklist of infringing sites. The BRIP database, which is open to approved contributors from WIPO member states, can be used by advertisers around the world to block pirate sites. In recent years, various copyright holder groups embraced a “follow-the-money” approach in […]
A new study published by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Innovation Policy Center and NERA Economic Consulting, estimates the effect of video piracy on the U.S. economy. With a revenue loss of at least $29.2 billion the impact is significant, but this could have been worse, as a major source of video piracy isn’t […]
With website blocking becoming more prevalent around the world, more and more users are turning to VPNs to regain access. However, according to the operator of one of the world’s largest pirate sites, some advertising agencies consider the traffic as worthless. For more than a decade, copyright holders around the world have pushed Internet service […]
Piracy is a major problem for India’s movie industry but according to a local new report, the enemy is within. Rival production companies reportedly pirate each other’s movies to hurt box office revenues. At the same time, other insiders such as movie theater owners and even the censor board, are also implicated. With Bollywood, India […]
New research suggests that post-release movie piracy through The Pirate Bay is linked to increased box revenue. The counter-intuitive finding is driven by word-of-mouth promotion. The effect, which does not apply to pre-release piracy, results in rather interesting policy implications. Late 2014 The Pirate Bay went offline after Swedish police raided a datacenter near Stockholm. […]