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Google Fiber Users Receiving Automated Fines for Piracy
Google is sending customers of its fibre service that are suspected of illegally downloading copyrighted materials automated fines. Google Fiber users have received fines, sent through automated e-mails, of up to hundreds of dollars. Other automated messages from the internet provider include takedown notices to users thought to be hosting…
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Music Streaming Site Grooveshark Closes
Popular music streaming platform Grooveshark closed last night (30th April) after eight years. In a statement on its website, Grooveshark admits that it failed to acquire the appropriate licences for most of the songs it hosted, and was therefore guilty of copyright infringement. The site and its contents have been…
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Nintendo Takes Down Super Mario 64 Unity Remake
In a move that will shock no one, Nintendo has issued a copyright infringement notice against the remake of Super Mario 64 built by a fan using the Unity game engine. The remake, which was playable within an internet browser, was only one level and available for free, but Nintendo…
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KickassTorrents Domain Seized; Site Taken Down
Popular torrent site KickassTorrents (KAT) has had its Somalian kickass.so domain seized and the site is currently down. KickassTorrents had over one million unique visitors a day, making it the most popular torrent site in the world, more so than The Pirate Bay. Since The Pirate Bay was taken down…
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Founder of IsoHunt Thinks Bitcoin Can Kill Piracy
Gary Fung, the original founder of torrent tracking site IsoHunt – long since closed, then resurrected by others – believes that Bitcoin microtransactions could eventually kill online piracy. Fung, who left IsoHunt after its initial closure back in 2013, told TorrentFreak, “Technologically, I envision studios and other media companies creating…
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Sports Streaming Site Wiziwig Forced to Close
Popular sports streaming site Wiziwig has been forced to close as of 31st December. The site’s owners attribute the move to new laws introduced in Spain – where the site is hosted – that came into effect on 1st January that may result in fines of up € 600,000 and…
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Sony to be Sued for Pirating Music in The Interview
In an ironic reversal, a musician whose music was used in controversial comedy movie The Interview is threatening to sue Sony. Yoon Mi-rae, a US-born hip-hip artist, was in negotiation Sony to have her track Pay Day included in the soundtrack to The Interview. When negotiations ceased without resolution, Yoon…
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Google Speaks Out Over Secret Attacks by Hollywood
The recent Sony Pictures hack revealed that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) had organised a secret campaign against Google, going so far as to pay Attorneys General to do their bidding, due to the perception that the search engine was facilitating online piracy. Now Google has responded to…
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The Pirate Bay Admits it Doesn’t Know if it Will Return
Five days after torrent site The Pirate Bay was taken down by a police raid in Sweden, a member of TPB crew has spoken about the future of the site in an exclusive interview with TorrentFreak. Mr 10100100000, an anonymous member of the TPB crew, told TorrentFreak over an encrypted channel,…
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The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Doesn’t Care if the Site Stays Down Forever
The Pirate Bay, the most infamous torrent indexer on the internet, had its servers in Sweden raided by police on Sunday. The site has been down ever since*. Co-founder Peter Sunde, in a blog post, claims he no longer cares if the site ever returns. Sunde, one of three original…
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White House Wants to Make Illegal Downloads a Felony Offense
The White House has weighed in on the issue of media copyright infringement online, asserting that illegal downloads should be made a felony offense. Alex Niejelow, Chief of Staff to the US Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator and National Security Council’s Head of Cybersecurity Policy, said in a statement, “we believe…
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Google Refuses MPAA Request to Block Torrent Sites
Google has refused requests from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to block the homepages to a number of torrent sites from its online search results. Google has not released its reasons for denying the requests, but it is believed that, since no pirated content is linked on the…
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IsoHunt Brought Back From The Dead, New Spin-Off Created
Earlier this month torrent indexing site IsoHunt was forced to shut down after its owned Gary Fung faced a lawsuit from the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) which ended up with him having to pay them $110 million in compensation. Of course Gary Fung is unable to pay that kind…
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Google Ignores Requests To Delist Pirate Bay Homepage
Torrent Freak reports that the BPI, British Phonographic Industry/British Recorded Music Industry, has failed in a request to Google to get them to delist the Pirate Bay’s new domain thepiratebay.sx. The BPI submitted more than 2000 allegedly infringing URLs to Google including the Pirate Bay’s homepage. Despite the staggering number…
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Torrent Site H33T Goes Offline Following Court Order
TorrentFreak reports that torrent site H33T has gone offline after encountering legal issues with its domain name registration. The domain name registrar for H33T removed all nameservers making the domain name useless according to H33T’s host Leaseweb. The registrar was served a court order because H33T apparently failed to remove…
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