Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: In Brazil, there was a […] unbelievable display of public piracy last week that went on to make national headlines. The mayor of the municipality Acopiara, in the north-east of the country, invit… Continue reading Mayor Shows Pirated Movie On Town Square Big Screen In Brazil
Re-visiting the Napster era, Stephen Witt’s book How Music Got Free has been adapted into a two-part documentary on Paramount+. But the documentary’s director believes “The real innovative minds here were a bunch of rogue teenagers and a guy working a … Continue reading Paramount+ Documentary: an Origin Story For Music Piracy – and Its Human Side
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Just before the weekend, dozens of record labels including UMG, Warner, and Sony, filed a massive copyright infringement lawsuit against Verizon at a New York federal court. In common with previous… Continue reading Record Labels Sue Verizon After ISP ‘Buried Head In Sand’ Over Subscribers’ Piracy
Andy Maxwell reports via TorrentFreak: On November 4, 2022, the United States Department of Justice and the FBI began seizing Z-Library’s domains as part of a major operation to shut down the infamous ‘shadow library’ platform. A criminal investigation… Continue reading Z-Library Admins ‘Escape House Arrest’ After Judge Approves US Extradition
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Hikari-no-Akari, a long-established and popular pirate site that specializes in Japanese music, is being targeted in U.S. federal court by Sony Music. […] The music download portal, which links t… Continue reading Sony Music Goes After Piracy Portal ‘Hikari-no-Akari’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Last week, an in-depth investigative report from JBTC revealed that Korean Internet provider KT, formerly known as Korea Telecom, distributed malware onto subscribers’ computers to interfere with a… Continue reading South Korean ISP ‘Infected’ 600,000 Torrenting Subscribers With Malware
Video piracy, a pressing issue often unnoticed in security discussions, is rising and demands immediate attention. In this Help Net Security video, Chris White, Chief Architect at Friend MTS, discusses monitoring, identifying, and disrupting piracy for… Continue reading Securing the video market: From identification to disruption
A federal jury in Las Vegas has convicted five men for operating Jetflicks, one of the largest illegal streaming services in the U.S., the Justice Department announced Thursday. The service, which charged $9.99 monthly, allegedly hosted over 183,200 TV… Continue reading Federal Jury Convicts Five in Major Illegal Streaming Case
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: A popular GitHub repo and over 120 forks containing Switch emulation tutorials have been targeted by Nintendo. While most forks are now disabled, the main repository has managed to survive after be… Continue reading Nintendo Hits 127 Switch Piracy Tutorial Repos After ‘Cracking’ URL Encryption
TorrentFreak’s Ernesto Van der Sar recalls the rise and fall of Napster, the file-sharing empire that kickstarted a global piracy frenzy 25 years ago. Here’s an excerpt from his report: At the end of the nineties, technology and the Internet were a pla… Continue reading Napster Sparked a File-Sharing Revolution 25 Years Ago