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Affordability And Availability, Not Enforcement, Will Help Decrease Piracy Rates Claims Captain Obvious Study
Piracy is a big deal according to rights holders, who will task many hours of effort and much money into preventing people from being able to access their content via illicit channels. But a new study claims legal options are the best way to combat would-be pirates.
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Hollywood Relaxes Anti-Piracy Rules From Draconian To Just Really Strict
The Motion Picture Association of America, representing six major Hollywood studios, publishes anti-piracy guidelines for cinemas that show its movies. This year, for a fun change of pace, they’re actually becoming more lenient.
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Google Has A Custom Search Just For The Pirate Bay
You may have noticed that Google has changed a little bit recently. If you search for a site, it includes a handy-dandy site-search right in the results. And, as TorrentFreak noticed, that includes one for thepiratebay.se. Intentionally or not, Google is now running a pirate search, autocomplete included.
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A New Study Says You Sell More Music If You Get Rid Of Content Locks
Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems are used on things like ebook and movie files to make them more difficult to share. During the Napster era the major record labels got on board with DRMs in a big way hoping that they could reduce piracy by locking their music files down. But a new study shows…