Tag: Piracy
Illegal TV streaming sites cost European economies over 3 billion Euros a year
A new study by Bournemouth University estimates that TV companies in Europe lost €3.21 billion in 2021 because of people using illegal streaming sites to watch TV. The researchers also […]
Can the film industry learn from the music industry to stop piracy?
Over the weekend we heard the news that Sony Pictures has been hacked by a group known as “GOP” (who aren’t the same people as the US Republican “Grand Old […]
Google says its anti-piracy algorithm will now visibly affect file-sharing sites’ rankings
Google is tweaking its search engine to make sure that the most “notorious” piracy sites are less likely to appear when people search for music, films and other copyrighted content. […]
Police arrest man for running proxy servers
City of London anti-piracy police have arrested a man in Nottingham for running a proxy server. The 20-year-old from Nottingham is believed to have been running a proxy server that […]
Anti-piracy campaign set to kick off in UK
In an effort to fight digital piracy, the movie and music industries have announced a deal with the UK’s leading ISPs to send warning emails to alleged copyright infringers. Called […]
Pirate Bay co-founder arrested after two years on the run
The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde has been arrested in Sweden after two years on the run. Sunde had been wanted by Interpol since 2012 after being sentenced in Sweden to eight months in jail and fined 32 million Swedish…
Can Bitcoin stop game piracy? Could Bitcoin make Free2Play games obsolete?
Piracy has long been the bane of the games industry – but one enterprising pirate may just have figured out how developers could make money from piracy… by using Bitcoin. And could this have implications for how legitimate game developers…
Here are the most popular porn torrents in the Vatican…
With a population hovering around the 800 mark and the mood in the world's smallest country pious rather than provocative, it's safe to say there probably isn't all that much loving to go round in the Vatican. That's not to…
Did closure of piracy-haven Megaupload lead to a decrease in cinema ticket sales??
Megaupload was a haven for movie pirates before its closure at the beginning of the year. One would therefore expect that, following the authorities shutting the site down, ticket sales at cinemas would go up, right? Apparently not. A new…
BitTorrent porn video filesharer hit with $1.5 million fine
The largest ever fine levied against a BitTorrent file sharer has been handed down by an Illinois court to pornography sharer Kywan Fisher. A judge has ruled that Fisher must pay $1.5 million dollars to adult movie production hose Flava…
