Oct 17
Those who routinely use torrents to illegally download their favorite movies, TV, and music will find themselves with one less website to grab the latest Homeland from. Torrent database IsoHunt is shutting down.
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Oct 16
If the movie industry wonders why piracy seems to persist, here’s one possible answer: people pirate ’em because they don’t have the option of paying for a legal copy online.
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Oct 15
The issue of piracy – its causes, its persisting reality, its effects — have been debated to the moon and back. Numbers tell a story rooted in fact, however, and according to some statistics assembled and compared by a couple sources, lack of legally available digital movie options consistently results in an increase in piracy, […]
Oct 08
"Torrenting" is kind of a dirty word. It makes you think piracy, doesn’t it? Well it shouldn’t. Torrenting isn’t illegal. It’s not even morally ambiguous. It’s just a way to send data
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Oct 05
Groups like the RIAA are putting in millions of DMCA requests to pull "pirate" links off Google, and even though it doesn’t seem to help
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Oct 05
Pirates, you have scholarly advocates in the London School of Economics. The LSE’s Media Policy Project has published a report entitled “Copyright & Creation: A Case for Promoting Inclusive Online Sharing”, and it argues that copyright infringement is not harming the creative industries nearly as much as is common believed. The authors even go so […]
Oct 04
Contrary to what the popular press might have us believe, piracy isn’t killing content. At least, that’s what a team of scholars from the London School of Economics has found after conducting a deep analysis of the situation.
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Sep 27
After asking Google to censor Microsoft.com, Microsoft has given Google a copyright takedown request for a Microsoft Wikipedia page. Microsoft must want to scrub all mentions of itself on the Internet or something. It’s the only sensible explanation for its vigilance!
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Sep 24
We got a first look at the BitTorrent Bundle back in May when it was introduced as a new file format for content creators. Basically, this Bundle will allow those creators to package several items together for free with additional items being available for those who move forward and unlock it. We recently got a […]
Sep 23
This painfully reductive video obtained by Wired represents what the movie and recording industries want our kids to know about copyright. It does a really nice job of making "share" sound like a bad word.
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