piracy
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Yacht’s Private Security Sparks Firefight After Mistaking Yemen’s Coast Guard for Pirates
Private security aboard a luxury vintage yacht opened fire on Yeman’s coast guard in the Gulf of Aden Friday, causing a brief exchange with the country’s military. The security team apparently mistook the Coast Guard for pirates.
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Twitter Doesn’t Like Piracy, Even When It’s in the Public Service
Across Twitter on Friday, open-source advocates and academics alike poured one out following the suspension of Sci-Hub, a site that lets researchers bypass the costly paywalls for more than 70 million papers from across the globe.
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European Police Bust Alleged Pirate Streaming Service With Over Two Million Users
Sick of streaming paywalls and unending searches on multiple services to find where that one movie doesn’t cost five bucks? Seems like a whole lot of people in Europe are too. Police throughout the European Union have taken down a TV and movie streaming ring that they claim involved over two million subscribers, dozens of…
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Coronavirus: Self-Isolation Sees Piracy Surge
As you may have guessed, with self-isolation and the lockdown of entire countries, people are spending more time at home, and there be pirates amongst them. Yarrr!