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Latest Porno Torrent Blackmail Tactic: Pay Up Or We Tell Your Family
It’s one thing if your friends, family, and neighbours find out that you’ve been doing some torrenting. It’s a bit worse if they find out what kind of porn you like. Unluckily for horn-dog pirates everywhere, a new “pay-up-now” letter that’s going around pretty explicitly threatens to go around telling people exactly that.
Will Adobe’s Move To The Cloud Finally Keep The Pirates At Bay?
Today, Adobe announced the latest round of updates to its ubiquitous software suite, with its Creative Cloud subscription service taking center-stage. Not only is the old Creative Suite moniker being dropped completely, but a whole slew of cloud-dependent features were introduced. While the updates will be a boon to a huge number of Adobe customers, it’s going to annoy the hell out of one core Adobe demo: the pirates.
Netflix: Where We Set Up Shop, Torrenting Drops
The Chief Content Officer of streaming giant Netflix claims the modern trend for easily streaming legal content is impacting on the more hardcore Bittorrent scene, with pirate traffic dropping in countries when Netflix switches on its servers. According to Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, this is because “…people are mostly honest.”
The Pirate Bay Finds Safe Harbour In Iceland
After making a run for it from Sweden to Greenland, and then finding that Greenland really didn’t want a bunch of pirates plundering its waters, Iceland seems happy to have the Pirate Bay. So, time to update your bookmarks: ThePirateBay.is is TPB’s new home.
Kim Dotcom Says His iTunes Library Is Worth Over $20,000
With the recent launch of Mega, Kim Dotcom has been on the upswing lately, at least when he’s not getting stranded by a busted helicopter. Recently, he sat down with the Financial Times to discuss his status as a hero/villain, the future of content delivery, and the $US20,000 he claims to have sunk into iTunes downloads.
These Are North Korea’s Favorite Things To Pirate
When North Korea isn’t busy shooting missiles into the sea or photoshopping its navy to make it look a little less pathetic, it takes to a very global hobby: torrenting. TorrentFreak took a peek into exactly what the would-be-supervillain nation-state likes to pirate and well, they’ve got to get their surveillance software somewhere.
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