Collaborate Disseminate
After climbing the charts of Apple’s App Store, the trendy Kimi app, with its collection of bootlegged movies, has disappeared. From a report: Pretending to be a spot-the-difference vision-testing game, the widely downloaded app ranked above Netflix, H… Continue reading Apple Pulls Popular Movie Piracy App Kimi From the App Store
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Reddit is not required to share the IP-address of six users who made piracy-related comments on the website. The company successfully protested the third attempt of a group of filmmakers, which pla… Continue reading Reddit Doesn’t Have To Share IP-Addresses of Piracy Commenters, Court Rules
Illegal subscription services that steal films or TV shows bring in $2 billion a year in ads and subscriber fees (non-paywalled link). From a report: Ever since taking on Netflix at its own game, old Hollywood has struggled to turn a profit in streamin… Continue reading Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood’s New Villains
For the third time in under a year, film studios are pressing Reddit to reveal users allegedly discussing piracy, despite two prior failed attempts. Studios including Voltage Holdings and Screen Media have filed fresh motions to compel Reddit to comply… Continue reading Reddit Must Share IP Addresses of Piracy-Discussing Users, Film Studios Say
Karl Bode, reporting for TechDirt: Back in 2019 we noted how the streaming sector risked driving consumers back to piracy if they didn’t heed the lessons of the past. We explored how the rush to raise rates, nickel-and-dime users, implement arbitrary r… Continue reading Piracy Is Surging Again Because Streaming Execs Ignored The Lessons Of The Past
Andy Maxwell reports via TorrentFreak: As the crew of Artemis 2 prepare to become the first humans to fly to the moon since 1972, the possibilities of space travel are once again igniting imaginations globally. More than 92% of internet users who want … Continue reading Reckless DMCA Deindexing Pushes NASA’s Artemis Towards Black Hole
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: A document detailing technical requirements of Italy’s Piracy Shield anti-piracy system confirms that ISPs are not alone in being required to block pirate IPTV services. All VPN and open DNS servic… Continue reading Italy’s ‘Piracy Shield’ Anti-Piracy System Launches, Applies To All DNS and VPN Providers
A new macOS Trojan-Proxy is riding on cracked versions of legitimate software; it relies on DNS-over-HTTPS to obtain a C&C (command and control) address. Continue reading New macOS Trojan-Proxy piggybacking on cracked software
TorrentFreak: File-sharing and hosting giant Uloz has announced a radical change to its business model. The Czech site has been under fire for some time and was recently branded a ‘notorious market’ by the MPA. However, Uloz says that an imminent ban o… Continue reading File-Sharing Giant Uloz Bans File-Sharing Citing EU’s Digital Services Act
An anonymous reader writes: A newspaper run by the Communist Party of Vietnam is reporting the “disappearance” of a number of popular channels from pay TV packages. Citing National Geographic and Nat Geo Wild as examples, the paper notes they’re owned … Continue reading Disney Pulls TV Channels From Vietnam, Govt ‘Concerned’ Piracy Will Run Riot