Music labels sue Cox again for allegedly ignoring piracy

Music labels really, really aren’t a fan of Cox’s internet service. Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. have sued Cox again for contributing to copyright infringement after it allegedly refused to take “reasonable measures” to fight piracy. While internet providers are supposed to terminate the accounts of users who ignore warnings against bootlegging music, Cox only […]

‘Objects In Space’ Lets Players Customize Their Starship For Trade, Stealth, Or Piracy

Objects in Space gives you your own starship and a galaxy to explore, picking up trade jobs, hiding from organized criminals, dodging shifty governments, or robbing shady captains as you see fit. Just take some time to tweak your ship’s build depending on what you want to do, though, as not all ships are created […]

Microsoft defends conviction of e-waste recycler over piracy

Many were upset that e-waste recycling pioneer Eric Lundgren was going to prison for creating his unofficial Windows restore discs, and in some cases pointed the finger at Microsoft for its role in the conviction. Microsoft, however, doesn’t think he’s a hero… and thinks it’s getting a bad rap. The software giant has posted a […]

End of Pirate Bay? Torrent sites left fearing 2018 will ‘kill’ off online piracy

The Pirate Bay and other major torrent websites could be dealt a hammer blow next year as the crackdown against online piracy continues. The Pirate Bay is the world’s leading torrent portal, and for almost 15 years has been helping online pirates access free movie and TV downloads. However, one big change to the internet […]

Piracy site for science research dinged again in court—this time for $4.8M

Enlarge (credit: Sci-Hub) First came the $ 15 million fine a New York federal judge imposed on Sci-Hub, a scientific research piracy site that has freed tens of thousands of research papers from behind paywalls. That was in June, and the site’s overseas operator, Alexandra Elbakyan, said she’d never pay plaintiff Elsevier or stop the infringing […]

Walking Dead S08 torrent WARNING – ‘Secret watermarks’ used in fresh piracy crackdown

AMC • GETTY Torrent and stream warning as The Walking Dead season 8 kicks off The Walking Dead season 8 has kicked off, with illegal downloads and streams for S08 starting to circulate on sites such as The Pirate Bay and Putlocker. The landmark 100th episode of the zombie epic was broadcast in the US […]

EU study finds piracy doesn’t hurt game sales, may actually help

(credit: Getty Images) For as long as video game piracy has existed, gamers and the industry have argued about whether the practice really hurts sales of legitimate games. In 2010, the Business Software Alliance estimated that generalized software piracy costs the world $ 51 billion annually and half a million jobs. Even most people who […]

EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn’t hurt sales

In 2013, the European Commission ordered a €360,000 ($ 430,000) study on how piracy affects sales of music, books, movies and games in the EU. However, it never ended up showing it to the public except for one cherry-picked section. That’s possibly because the study concluded that there was no evidence that piracy affects copyrighted […]

Mayweather-McGregor piracy sites on the ropes: Are they down for the count?

Enlarge / Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. , left, and UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor face off during a news conference at the KA Theatre at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino on Wednesday. The two will meet in a super welterweight boxing match at T-Mobile Arena on Saturday. A judge has ordered piracy sites not to […]

Mayweather vs McGregor live stream WARNING – Millions at risk after piracy arrests

GETTY Mayweather vs McGregor live stream WARNING Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor will face-off this weekend for a fight that looks set to break all pay-per-view records. Mayweather, the best boxer of his generation – temporarily out-of-retirement for this bout, is set to take on UFC’s biggest star, Conor McGregor, in the T-Mobile arena, Las […]