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YouTube Is Reportedly Suing A Copyright Claim Troll
It’s well known that despite its popularity, YouTube has a number of problems. One of the biggest is regarding how it polices its copyright claims. It honestly isn’t too much of an exaggeration to say that practically anyone could put a copyright claim in against a video and, with varying…
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User Beat Saber Videos on YouTube Blocked Due to Jimmy Fallon
Users Getting Copyright Notices for Streaming and Uploading Gameplay Video game streamers of popular VR game Beat Saber are reporting that they are having problems uploading to YouTube recently. In fact, one user has found himself at the receiving end of a copyright strike following the end of his stream.…
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Stardock’s Star Control Origins Returns to Steam
Available via Steam Once Again Stardock‘s Star Control Origins was unceremoniously pulled out of Steam three weeks ago following a DMCA claim by Paul Reiche III and Fred Ford. Reiche and Ford are of course, the original series creators of Star Control. Moreover, both are in an on-going dispute for…
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Nigerian Torrent Downloaders Given Prison Sentences
Downloading torrents of copyright-infringing material is illegal, as we all know, and while those involved in large-scale file-sharing operations – like YIFY/YFS – or maintaining torrent sites face potential prison sentences for their actions, your garden variety torrenter, caught downloading a copy of Deadpool, usually expects little more than a…
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10-Year Prison Sentences for UK Pirates Creeps Closer
A bill with the unanimous support of MPs, which could see online pirates be sentenced to up to ten years in prison, is one step closer to becoming law. The Digital Economy Bill will scrap the two-year maximum sentence for illegally distributing copyrighted materials currently in place and will fall…
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NBC Universal Patents Pirate-Hunting Tech
NBC Universal has filed a patent for a new technology designed to track and collect data on online pirates. The tech uses a high-volume file sharing swarms detection system to determine popular torrents and gather data on those downloading and sharing those files. The patent filing, entitled “Early Detection of…
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Online Pirates to Face 10 Years Prison in UK
The UK Government has unveiled its new Digital Economy Bill [PDF] in Parliament which features a revision to current laws regarding online copyright infringement. Under the new bill, online pirates could face up to ten years in prison, a substantial increase from the two years of previous legislation. The increase…
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TTP Could Outlaw Filesharing Sites
WikiLeaks has been releasing secret documents from the recently-signed Trans-Pacific Partnership, which ties a cabal of Pacific countries, including the US, Canada, and Australia, to an intercontinental trade agreement, over the last week, and the latest papers, related to intellectual property, could threaten the existence of filesharing websites. TTP is…
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Mad Max: Fury Road is 2015’s Most Pirated Film
2015 has seen a sharp rise in piracy on the previous year, with Summer blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road topping this year’s illegal download chart. George Miller’s Mad Max sequel/remake/reboot/revisiting has had 22.90 million torrent shares so far this year, the runaway leader ahead of Jurassic World (18.16 million), Avengers: Age of…
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Hollywood Sues US Popcorn Time Users
The studio responsible for producing maligned Adam Sandler comedy The Cobbler, which currently holds a risible 9% on Rotten Tomatoes, has filed a lawsuit in Oregon against 11 people who watched the film through ‘Netflix for pirates’ app, Popcorn Time. This is the first time that a copyright holder has…
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Lawyers Tell UK Government You Can’t Jail Online Pirates for 10 Years
The UK Government, currently in consultation over a proposed revision to current copyright infringement, has been told point-blank by the British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association (BILETA) that sending pirates to jail for 10 years – one of the government’s proposals – is “unacceptable, infeasible and unaffordable.” The…
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Hollywood Issuing DMCA Takedowns for Content on Their Own Computers
Are you familiar with this message? “In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org.” It appears at the bottom of Google search results, usually…
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Online Pirates in UK Could Face 10 Years in Prison
The UK government is considering a law that would see online pirates face up to 10 years in jail. At present, online piracy carries a maximum sentence of 2 years in prison, in extreme circumstances, but MPs have begun a consultation regarding increasing the penalty to 10 years, which would…
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UK Expands Torrent Site Blacklist to Proxies
The UK High Court has quietly added a number of proxies and mirrors to its torrent site blacklist, restricting backdoor access to sites such as Torrentz and ExtraTorrent. Of course, ExtraTorrent has already launched a new mirror site to bypass the block. The list of blocked torrent sites in the…
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Browser-Based Game Boy Advance Emulator Shut Down by Nintendo
Nintendo, in its on-going mission to ruin our fun, has forced a popular Java-based Game Boy Advance emulator offline. The emulator, which allowed users to play GBA games in-browser, has been taken off GitHub after Nintendo issued a takedown notice, citing copyright infringements for every game offered through the emulator,…
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