piracy

Could Piracy Be On The Decline?

by Mike Mansell April 5, 2011
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Back in the medieval days, everyone associated the term “pirate” with crooked and drunken sailors – often with creative names such as “Redbeard” – sporting swords, peg legs, hook hands, parrots, and repulsive breath.  In more modern society, however, the terms “pirate” and “piracy” have taken up quite a different meaning.  Modern day piracy – [...]

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The Video Bay: Pirate Bay’s YouTube Competitor

by Matt Hodges June 28, 2009
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About two years ago, the makers of the ever-popular torrent website, thepiratebay.org, announced that they were working on a new project called “The Video Bay”. A few weeks ago, The Video Bay opened up a test version to the public.  The public trial has since been disabled, but the site is still up.  Currently, anyone [...]

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Rapidshare Fined €24,000,000

by Matt Hodges June 24, 2009
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A German court has ordered the file sharing site Rapidshare.com to pay €24,000,000 ($33,600,000 USD) in fines and must now filter their content against copyright infringement. According to a statement from GEMA, “[t]he judgment states that the hosting service itself is now responsible for making sure that none of the music tracks concerned are distributed [...]

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Court : IP Address Alone Can Not Identify Pirate

by Matt Hodges June 15, 2009
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As of late, European countries are feeling the heat to deal with online piracy.  Compaines such as Logistep, ASC:Law, and Peppermint Jam are continually harassing ISPs to turn over the IP addresses of suspected pirates. But things may be changing.  According to TorrentFreak, anti-piracy lawyers “say that since they logged a copyright infringement from a [...]

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UK ISPs Looking At Tiered Services To Combat Piracy

by Matt Hodges June 14, 2009
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It is no secret that piracy is a big problem for the media corporations and the internet service providers around the world.  We are all aware of the cascading lawsuits from the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America filing for reparations.  Recently, BitTorrent tracker ThePirateBay.org made news with their [...]

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