It may have broken records for HBO during the season finale, but it seems that people couldn’t get enough of the fantasy show and set about illegally downloading it. Tech company, Muso, have included illegal torrent downloads and unlicensed streams to accumulate the huge figure. What’s more, their report says that the one billion figure […]
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Mr. Know-It-All: Should I Feel Guilty For Watching Pirated TV?
Lots of people do it, but does that mean they shouldn’t feel bad about it? https://media.wired.com/photos/59b71a7ba9e33173fe3622ca/master/pass/PirateTV.jpg Feed: All Latest
Pirated Windows led to WannaCry’s spread in China and Russia
WannaCry, the notorious ransomware demanding up to $ 300 worth of Bitcoins to unlock victims’ computers, hit systems all around the globe over the weekend. According to Finnish cybersecurity company F-Secure, though, Russia and China were affected the most, and it could be due to the rampant use of pirated software in those countries. Microsoft […]
Early Spotify Was Built on Pirated MP3 Files, New Book Claims
Logo: Spotify Spotify has been the biggest music streaming service to find a business model that users can accept, and music labels can endure. In its early days, the company positioned itself as “a viable alternative to music piracy.” But allegedly, the company’s beta was filled with pirated MP3 files. Advertisement Rasmus Fleischer is researcher […]
Kiosk delivers pirated movies to USB sticks in the middle of a mall
Enlarge (credit: TorrentFreak) At this point, the most common ways to get illegal digital content are no secret. There’s peer-to-peer downloading, “cyberlocker”-type sites, and unauthorized streaming sites that demand to put sketchy software on your computer. But what if you could download Hollywood flicks to a USB drive at a convenient kiosk for just a few […]
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Forget DMCA takedowns—RIAA wants ISPs to filter for pirated content
(credit: Elias Bizannes) The Recording Industry Association of America and other rights holders are urging US copyright regulators to update the “antiquated” DMCA takedown process. They want Internet Service Providers to filter out pirated content. What the RIAA and 14 other groups are telling the US Copyright Office is simple: The 19-year-old Digital Millennium Copyright […]
