piracy
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Copyright Police Target Dodgy Set-Top Boxes As Aussie Pirates Turn To Streaming
As Australians lose their taste for BitTorrent, content owners are opening up a new front in the war on copyright infringement. It was always going to be difficult to measure the effect of Australia’s piracy crackdown when it’s child’s play to bypass the blocks on BitTorrent search engines like The Pirate Bay. Meanwhile there are…
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US Supreme Court Declines To Hear Kim Dotcom’s Civil Asset Forfeiture Appeal
Photo: AP Former Megaupload chief Kim Dotcom’s long, wild ride through the courts has crashed into another setback, with the Supreme Court declining to hear an appeal in the 2012 seizure of his assets in New Zealand.
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Game Of Thrones Season 7 Was Pirated Over A Billion Times (Probably)
A billion times. That’s how massive the flood of pirated Game of Thrones video was for the show’s most recent season. The recently released data presents some interesting insights, too — namely that torrents aren’t nearly as popular as illegitimate streaming sites.
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Sydney Man Gets Four Years Prison For Counterfeit DVDs
Back in 2013, 1.2 million High Quality Counterfeit DVDs were seized from a home in Sydney’s Quaker’s Hill. Today one man was sentenced to four years and six months prison for possession and sale of the DVDs, which the court says had a potential value of $21 million.