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Anti-piracy groups are doing quite well these days in the UK. They've managed to block the biggest file sharing sites, via a fairly straightforward and cheap process, and they have now even managed to block proxy sites that allowed pirates to bypass the block. This is just the beginning though. Now that the ent... |
17 June 2013
07:11 GMT |
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A new research reveals that those who choose to share files over the Internet are better educated than their non-downloading counterparts. The research was commissioned by the Australasian Performing Right Association and regards mostly Australian file-sharers, TorrentFreak reports. According to the study results... |
17 June 2013
02:20 GMT |
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Users are now reporting that more British ISPs are blocking popular BitTorrent proxy sites with BT subscribers discovering that several proxies can't be accessed anymore, including the most popular. Last week, Sky subscribers started complaining that the proxy sites they were using became inaccessible. In fact... |
10 June 2013
12:11 GMT |
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While fans of the pirate streaming site Movie2K have moved on to Movie4K, which may or may not be a legitimate direct successor and may or may not sometimes contain malware, as some users report, the mystery of its disappearance is far from elucidated. In fact, there is a possibility that the original Movie2K, unde... |
5 June 2013
09:27 GMT |
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Iron Man 3's reign as the most pirated movie is over, at least for now, as Jack the Giant Slayer, a new release, became the most downloaded movie on BitTorrent last week.
The fact that Jack the Giant Slayer was a proper quality rip rather than a CAM release shot in a theater probably helped with this.
But the... |
3 June 2013
05:36 GMT |
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As expected, the popular and illegal movie and TV streaming site Movie2K is back, under a new name and a new domain. Other than that, it’s mostly the same. Some users are reporting a smaller selection of titles, compared to the old Movie2K which disappeared from the web last week. That may be the result of t... |
3 June 2013
03:47 GMT |
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It's now clear that Movie2K is coming back, though under a different domain. The site disappeared from the web a few days ago, for reasons which are still a mystery. But the site didn't go completely dark for long. At one point, it started redirecting users to movie4k.to, which displayed a server error, b... |
1 June 2013
07:11 GMT |
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The popular streaming site Movie2K has vanished off the face of the Earth (web). There's no word on what happened to it, but it looks like the admins just took it down to avoid more unwanted attention. The site has recently been blocked in the UK, where it was quite popular, and several proxy sites quickly pop... |
30 May 2013
03:20 GMT |
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Netflix has been getting a lot of attention for the rebooted Arrested Development. The show’s long-delayed and eagerly awaited fourth season debuted, all at once, on Netflix this Sunday.
Fans have waited for the moment for years, but many had to wait even longer since, obviously, not everyone has Netflix and not ev... |
29 May 2013
05:20 GMT |
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Blocking alleged pirate sites is becoming somewhat of a hobby for anti-piracy groups in the UK, and a successful one at that. The Pirate Bay has been blocked for a while, and several other popular BitTorrent sites followed it a few months ago. Seeing just how easy it was to censor sites out of the web, the anti-pi... |
20 May 2013
15:00 GMT |
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Iron Man is now the most popular movie with pirates, despite there being no quality releases leaked to BitTorrent sites yet.
But while Iron Man 3 continues its dominance, there are plenty of new entries in this week's top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent’s chart, as compiled by TorrentFreak.
A Good Day... |
20 May 2013
05:12 GMT |
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Spurred by the great success of blocking The Pirate Bay and recently several other large BitTorrent sites, it seems that the music industry is now pushing to have several more file sharing and streaming sites blocked in the UK.
More than several, in fact, as this is going to be the biggest move of its kind in the c... |
15 May 2013
10:01 GMT |
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Pirates seem to have a sudden urge to see "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters," as it was the most pirated movie of the week on BitTorrent, despite not being a new release. It could be that the movie landed on BitTorrent late the week before, when it only managed to reach the sixth spot, and most people only got around ... |
13 May 2013
04:10 GMT |
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While everyone has heard about MegaUpload's shutdown last year, it's another file sharing site that most pirates miss, Demonoid. The BitTorrent site had been around for years and fostered a thriving community. The site was taken down by authorities last summer and, while there was some hope of it coming b... |
9 May 2013
07:36 GMT |
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Game Dev Tycoon, a unique game that allows players to control a gaming studio, has been released for Linux.
The developers from Greenheart Games have released the game on multiple platforms, and that includes Linux.
Their game made quite a splash after one of the developers has released a slightly modified version ... |
8 May 2013
18:01 GMT |
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Antigua has been threatening to put together a legal pirate site for years now, to get back at the US for unfairly and illegally, it would seem cutting, down on a promising business for the small nation, online gambling.
The US decided that online gambling is "wrong" and that people shouldn't be allowed to do ... |
3 May 2013
10:26 GMT |
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Tom Cruise's Jack Reacher continues to be the most pirated movie of the week. It was the most downloaded movie on BitTorrent, as TorrentFreak reports, but there are plenty of new entries in the top 10 most downloaded movies as well. The first new entry is straight at number two, namely Schwarzenegger's The... |
29 April 2013
04:20 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, The Pirate Bay moved to a new .gl domain, associated with Greenland, fearing that its current .se domain would be seized. The site had been operating under the Swedish domain for a little over a year, since it switched from the old .org domain.
But with hints that the Swedish authorities were p... |
11 April 2013
03:22 GMT |
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Gangster Squad was the most downloaded movie on BitTorrent last week, a new entry straight at number one. Meanwhile, G.I. Joe: Retaliation climbed a spot to be the second most pirated movie, even if it's just a telesync copy.
Django Unchained was pushed down two places to the third spot. Elsewhere, there are on... |
8 April 2013
09:11 GMT |
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Django Unchained re-entered the top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent list, after the DVD screener version had spent a few weeks in the top 10. This better copy is new and it's proving quite popular with pirates who appreciate quality. Another evergreen is at number two, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,... |
1 April 2013
08:53 GMT |
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About a month ago, a Finnish anti-piracy group decided that the best way to attract attention and get people to stand beside them against piracy was to "steal" The Pirate Bay's source code and use it for one of their propaganda sites.
CIAPC, or TTVK in the Finnish abbreviation, probably it was being really clev... |
28 March 2013
10:34 GMT |
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Plenty of people felt a craving to watch the first installment of The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey, last week or perhaps rewatch it. In any case, it was the most pirated movie of the week on BitTorrent.
The Hobbit has consistently been in the top 10 most pirated movies week after week since coming out. But it hasn&... |
25 March 2013
07:41 GMT |
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Disney's Oz the Great and Powerful proved quite appealing to pirates, as it managed to debut at number one in the top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent over the last week. This, even though it's a poor Telesync copy of the digital release showing in theaters now.
The second most pirated movie is als... |
18 March 2013
07:02 GMT |
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Demonoid was and still is one of the most beloved BitTorrent sites out there. It was also the site that kept getting up after being hit. But it doesn't seem to be happening this time around, the site was shut down last summer and, despite some small signs, it's not back yet. It may never be.
But that'... |
16 March 2013
13:31 GMT |
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Carsten Myhill, the lead content manager working at Ubisoft, says that the new Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag will adopt a mature tone and will tell a complex story, which includes a realistic take on the piracy phenomenon, complete with violence and a look at the more unsavory aspects of the profession. The d... |
11 March 2013
11:35 GMT |
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Now that the Oscars are over, things are getting back to normal and pirates are returning to their usual fare. Case in point is the most downloaded movie of the week, Tom Cruise's latest action flick Jack Reacher.
It's a new entry, going straight to number one, even if it's a poor quality release. Oth... |
11 March 2013
08:21 GMT |
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The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent last week shouldn't be any surprise, at least not to anyone who watched the Oscars.
Silver Linings Playbook shot up from the fifth spot to the top one after Jennifer Lawrence won the award for best actress.
Life of Pi, for which Ang Lee won the best director awa... |
4 March 2013
07:11 GMT |
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No one was expecting the UK to stop at blocking The Pirate Bay and some relatively minor UseNet site. Once the floodgates are open, they stay open. Three more BitTorrent sites are now banned in the UK, ISPs must prevent their subscribers from accessing them.
The names of the three should be familiar to pirates and a... |
28 February 2013
09:21 GMT |
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The so-called "six strikes" anti-piracy scheme is in effect in the US with a few ISPs. There haven't been many details on how exactly the scheme would work, for obvious reasons. ISPs claimed that no one was getting booted off the internet, but that's all they would say.
Now that the whole thing is underway... |
28 February 2013
05:52 GMT |
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Knowing if something on the internet is infringing or not isn't as clear cut as the media companies would have you believe. After all, there are plenty of cases of companies asking websites to remove content that they themselves put there in the first place.
But one Indian movie studio took this to new extremes... |
27 February 2013
15:21 GMT |
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Music sales are on the rise, or rather record label revenues. For the first time since 1999, a year-to-year growth was reported in 2012. At the same time, another report shows that illegal downloads, in the US at least, are dropping, by a significant margin.
According to NDP, the number of people using peer-to-peer ... |
27 February 2013
05:43 GMT |
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The Sea Shepherd organization is well known for being willing to go to extreme lengths in order to protect marine mammals against various groups of people who set out to hunt them. Apparently, these activists' commitment to protecting these animals at all costs has recently been dubbed no more and no less than... |
27 February 2013
03:45 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay bandwidth "saga" is finally over, at least for now. For a few years now, the site has been connected to the internet via the Swedish Pirate Party which has been providing it with bandwidth.
However, pressure has been mounting recently and legal threats were made against the party.
The party members... |
26 February 2013
04:23 GMT |
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The most pirated movie of last week is Red Dawn, which, despite not-so-great reviews, is proving quite popular with the pirates. Also popular is Rise of the Guardians, thanks to a DVD screener release, maybe one of the last ones.
Both of them are new entries though they occupy the first two slots in the top 10. The... |
25 February 2013
06:21 GMT |
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Apparently, Google is now in talks with payment processors like Visa and PayPal to cut off funds to pirate or illegal sites. The Telegraph says Google wants to kill these sites by making sure they can't get any money.
Any site deemed "illegal" would be a target as would any site that doesn't respond to le... |
19 February 2013
12:21 GMT |
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The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 2 is making a comeback as the most pirated movie on the web after spending several weeks in the top 10 a few months ago when the movie first came out.
It was just a poor TS copy then, but it's now available in glorious detail as a DVD rip. The upside is that this will be th... |
18 February 2013
14:11 GMT |
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True to its promises, The Pirate Bay has went ahead and reported the Finnish anti-piracy group CIAPC to the local police for infringing The Pirate Bay's copyrights with a "parody" site.
The group outright copied The Pirate Bay's CSS code and only replaced the logo on the homepage with an image of a sinking... |
18 February 2013
08:37 GMT |
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A few days ago, there was some fuss over a Finnish anti-piracy group, CIAPC, "stealing" website code from the Pirate Bay and passing it as its own in a website dedicated to fighting piracy. The group seems to think that doing the very thing they oppose the most somehow proves something.All it proves is that they don&... |
16 February 2013
08:51 GMT |
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Analgesic Productions, the indie developer behind the title Anodyne, is ready to forgive video game pirates for their infringements as long as they offer feedback for the game and vote to get it approved for the Steam Greenlight program.
Sean Hogan, the founder of Analgesic, writes in comments on torrent sites, acco... |
12 February 2013
09:38 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay is still the most popular pirate site in the world, despite all of the attempts to shut it down or at least block access. Still, the blocks are remaining in place, the Finnish Court of Appeal has ruled that the block ordered on the site is to stay.
ISPs have been ordered to block the site by a lower c... |
12 February 2013
08:05 GMT |
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Wreck It Ralph continues to be the most pirated movie of the week, sitting in the top spot for the second week in a row after debuting there. It's one of the best animations of 2012 so its popularity is not surprising.
Further down in the top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, there's some trading o... |
11 February 2013
08:06 GMT |
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Plenty of companies have taken advantage of the tools Google provides for them to request the removal of infringing content from search results. In fact, Google sees millions of these requests every week. It goes through all of these requests and doesn't approve the obviously wrong ones, but many erroneous ones ... |
4 February 2013
09:15 GMT |
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It's been more than a year since MegaUpload was shut down and, while Kim Dotcom & co. are now closer to making their case in a court of law, the raid has been a massive success for the media companies that ordered it. Not only was MegaUpload – one of the largest pirate havens – gone, but many other... |
4 February 2013
08:06 GMT |
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The deluge of DVD screeners hasn't stopped, this week's most pirated movie being the popular animated film Wreck It Ralph, though there are a couple of new entries in there that have arrived via the regular, illegal channels.
Overall, the number of screeners is going down, for a while all the top 10 downlo... |
4 February 2013
06:41 GMT |
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Mega has been going strong for the two weeks since it's been around, but all of the attention doesn't necessarily focus on the positive aspects. There was some criticism on the way Mega handles files that may be infringing, deleting everything it finds, no questions asked.
This had to do with Mega-Search, ... |
1 February 2013
05:52 GMT |
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Mega has been taking big steps to ensure that the site doesn't become a haven for piracy, especially as all the world was watching for any weakness. It seems to be working, Dotcom boasted that the site only gets 50 takedown notices per day, that's for nearly 50 million files uploaded in total. Mega doesn&#... |
31 January 2013
10:39 GMT |
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So far so good, as far as Kim Dotcom is concerned. A week or so after Mega launched to a lot of fanfare and a lot of scrutiny, the site hasn't turned into a copyright infringement bonanza as some had warned (or maybe hoped).
The site is getting a lot of usage, in fact, Dotcom revealed that it now hosts some 50... |
31 January 2013
07:31 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay documentary is coming a week from now, but if you can't handle the wait, director Simon Klose has now put out a new clip from the movie. It's not a trailer – you can find that here, it's an actual (albeit small) extract from the documentary itself.
Pirate Bay spokesperson Peter Sunde t... |
30 January 2013
11:55 GMT |
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After a deluge of DVD screener rips, thanks to the Oscars and all the other awards of the season, retail DVD and Blu-ray rips are making a comeback on BitTorrent. Incidentally, the Oscars are still a month away so there's still time to catch up and see all the nominees, preferably by going out to a theater.
In ... |
28 January 2013
06:21 GMT |
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KickassTorrents has been down for a day or so now, leaving pirates scattering to any of the other BitTorrent sites around. But it's back now, it seems that the domain name problems have been fixed and the site has been working for a few minutes now, it was showing the nginx (its webserver) welcome page only a ... |
28 January 2013
04:01 GMT |
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