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Motion Picture Association VP Declares ‘Majority of Kodi Users are Pirates’
MPAA Senior VP Calls Majority of Kodi Users Pirates Kodi is an entirely legal and excellent media player which is available to download on a number of formats. It is also used by many to pirate TV shows. Please note which order those two sentences came in. Kodi and piracy…
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ThePirateBay Steers Back to .org Domain
ThePirateBay is unquestionably the most famous torrent site ever devised and become a target of various organisations aiming to protect intellectual property such as the RIAA and MPAA. Furthermore, these bodies often lobby major governments and attempt to introduce measures to combat piracy. Ridiculous schemes involving blocking the site at…
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YIFY Founder Opens Up About Five Years of Movie Piracy
Toward the end of last year, famed torrent uploader YIFY, and its home website YTS, was closed following a settlement between its owner and the MPAA. Now, its founder – using his old YIFY alias – has revealed the history of the popular upload group, from its inception to its…
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Popcorn Time Returns Despite MPAA Shutdown
The most popular fork of Popcorn Time, which was subject to a shutdown by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), has announced its return, using the new Project Butter streaming platform. The use of Project Butter to revive Popcorn Time is ironic, since the app was developed as a…
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Google Receives 1500 DMCA Takedowns Per Minute
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act gives copyright holders the ability to make takedown requests for any content they deem a breach of copyright law. During the last month, Google received 5,609 takedown notices spanned across 65 million links. This translates to 1,500 demands per minute or 25 per second! According…
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Popcorn Time Ramps Up For Full Comeback
When the main fork of popular torrent video-on-demand app Popcorn Time closed in October, citing legal issues and splits within the development team, many suspected that the so-called “Netflix for pirates” was a goner. But it seems that reports of Popcorn Time’s demise has been greatly exaggerated, with the developers…
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YTS Closure Down to Deal Struck With Hollywood
YTS, the website that was home to the infamous YIFY torrents, closed for good last week, calling time on years of good quality, low file size HD pirated movies. YIFY, which was the primary source of content for popular pirate streaming app Popcorn Time, nor YTS revealed what had motivated…
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MPAA Seeking Programmer to Take Down Pirates
Are you a software programmer in need of a job? Do you hate people who torrent the latest instalment in the Twilight franchise (brave stance, I know)? Yes? Then the Motion Picture Association of America wants you! The MPAA is an organisation with a history of throwing its weight around…
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‘Pixels’ Copyright Notices Removed the Studio’s own Trailer
Pixels is an atrocious video game-themed movie and less endearing than a swarm of angry wasps. The film has gained notoriety for its sheer incompetence and it has received an astonishingly low score of 18% on Rotten Tomatoes. Not content with ruining the childhood memories of many iconic arcade games,…
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E-mails Reveal MPAA Planned Media Campaign to Smear Google
Back in December last year, we brought you a story revealing that Google had filed a lawsuit against the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and Mississippi State Attorney General Jim Hood, with whom it is alleged the MPAA has a more than cosy relationship with. The lawsuit accuses Hood…
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The Pirate Bay Applies for .PIRATE Domain Name Registry
As a response to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) applying pressure on the domain name industry, Reservella Ltd., the parent company of The Pirate Bay, has applied to register the generic top-level domain (gTLD) extension .PIRATE. The move is hoped…
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MPAA Considering Pulling out of UK Pirate Notice Program
Earlier this year the MPAA entered an agreement with the UK government to begin sending out warning notices to Internet pirates. However, it seems that they don’t really believe in them and probably much rather want dangle huge fictive settlement fees in front of us and hunt the pirates with…
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MPAA Settlement Figures Are Nothing but Hot Air
The Sony hack has provided us with a lot of insight in what is going on behind the lines and at places the public usually doesn’t even know about. The amount of leaked data was huge and there are still people going through it to discover all the hidden secrets.…
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Google Files Lawsuit Against MPAA and State Attorney General
In retaliation for the Motion Picture Association of America’s secret campaign to undermine it, Google has taken legal action against both the MPAA and one of the Attorneys General the MPAA paid to do its dirty work. The campaign, codenamed Goliath, was revealed by leaked documents from the recent Sony…
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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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