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Supreme Court Lets Student's $675,000 File-Sharing Fine Stand [File Sharing]





The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a $675,000 file-sharing damages award that a jury levied against a college student for making 30 music tracks available on a peer-to-peer network. More »...
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MPAA Head Thinks Piracy Shouldn't Be Called "Theft" [Piracy]





MPAA head Chris Dodd backtracked on the association's stance on piracy in comments made to Variety over the weekend: More »



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Two New Unskippable Warnings for All DVDs [Piracy]





Oh, those government warnings that appear at the start of every DVD and Blu-ray disc are so wonderful. Which is why we should all be extremely happy that there are going to be more, and they're going to la...
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How to Pirate Software Without Getting Caught [Piracy]





Pirating software you don't own is always illegal. But there are times when you do own software that you can't access without pirating it. The cruel irony is that in those times, you're probably more at ri...
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Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement [Piracy]





Federal authorities who seized a popular hip-hop music site based on assertions from the Recording Industry Association of America that it was linking to four "pre-release" music tracks gave it back more t...
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The Three Types Of People
The other message to be taken from this is that people are really divided into two groups, and they wonder why some folks pirate.Have you visited UrlyBits today?Posted by Paul to UrlyBits, 2012. |
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This 92-Year-Old DVD Pirate Is a Total Badass [Piracy]





Strictly speaking, bootlegging movies isn't right. Hyman Strachman knows this, and he does it anyway. According to the New York Times profile of the notorious pirate, he's shipped 300,000 ripped-off movies...
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The World Wide Web Doesn't Revolve Around You, Music Industry [Sopa]





It's always nice when family has your back. So it should come as a great relief to hear that Tim Berners-Lee, father of the World Wide Web, opposes recent controversial web freedom-limiting legislation su...
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Viacom's Billion Dollar YouTube Lawsuit Chugs Forward [Piracy]





The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan just ruled that YouTube will have to defend itself from a Viacom lawsuit in court. Viacom sued YouTube in 2007 for $1 billion, alleging that it was responsibl...
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Microsoft Is Blocking Pirate Bay Links in Instant Messages [Piracy]





The Pirate Bay goes to great lengths to keep itself widely available , but here's something it can't stop: Microsoft is now blocking links to the site in instant messages across all its systems. More&nb...
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Kim Dotcom: The US Government Is Wrong, Here’s Why [Megaupload]





For the first time since his arrest in January, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is responding to allegations in what he calls the "MPAA-sponsored" indictment. Eager to fight back, Dotcom refutes several "non...
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MPAA Wants Megaupload Data Saved for Its Future Lawsuits [Megaupload]





For as big of a deal as the MPAA made about shutting down Megaupload, the trade association is certainly interested in maintaining users' data for some reason. Oh, it's so the MPAA can sue some more people...
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Warning: Scammers Are Targeting Megaupload Users With Fake Legal Threats [Scams]





At least two scams targeting users of file-sharing services have emerged over the last few days. So far the reports all come from overseas, but if it's happening in Germany then similar scams in the US are...
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Google Calls Shenanigans on MPAA's DMCA Interpretation [File Sharing]





The MPAA has a well-earned reputation for, shall we say, "molding" their facts. But with its latest lawsuit against Hotfile, the group has apparently gone too far for Google's tastes. The search giant has ...
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The Pirate Bay Wants to Use Drones to Put Its Servers in the Sky [Piracy]





Here's something that's so crazy it might be considered genius: the Pirate Bay wants to move its servers—the same servers that draw the ire of the feds—up in the air by using GPS controlled dro...
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Cops May Have to Return Dotcom's Fortune Due to "Procedural Error" [Piracy]





When New Zealand authorities raided the estate of MegaUpload boss Kim Dotcom, they confiscated nearly $200 million worth of property. But as it turns out, the court order authorizing this seizure was inval...
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Bruce Springsteen Is Still The Boss, Even if He Did Lift Animals Riffs [Piracy]





During Bruce Springsteen's keynote SXSW speech last night, he disclosed that, like countless artists and musical acts before him, he routinely lifted riffs from his predecessor's songs. So does this mean h...
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Net Neutrality's Death Rattle Starts July 12 [Piracy]





ISPs are about to start policing your downloads on behalf of monolithic organizations like the RIAA and MPAA. Are you ready for the internet nanny state? More »



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Megaupload Working to Recover Thousands of US Government Documents [Megaupload]





When Megaupload fell overnight, one of the biggest complaints was that users were immediately shut out of their document storage. That includes plenty of US Government officials—something Kim Dotcom...
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The Cops Are Reportedly About To Raid The Pirate Bay [Piracy]





The Pirate Bay claims they're about to be shut down again. Sources within government have reportedly told leaders at the file-sharing portal that the Swedish authorities are planning to raid them. More...
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MPAA Goes for Hotfile's Jugular with Summary Judgment Request [File Sharing]





With MegaUpload out of the picture and numerous other file-sharing sites running scared, the MPAA has another major content hub in its sights. And from the looks of court documents unsealed this week, Hotf...
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Torrent Users Throw a Hissy Fit Over Changing File Types [Piracy]





Sadly, even though digital pirates are anarchic on one level, they do still need rules and, in fact, the overlords of torrent sites often meet to establish quality standards. Sadly, their latest decisions ...
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Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing is Booming [Piracy]





The file-sharing landscape is slowly adjusting in response to the continued push for more anti-piracy tools, the final Pirate Bay verdict, and the raids and arrests in the Megaupload case. Faced with uncer...
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Anonymous Members Hacked During Their Own DDoS Attacks [Security]





Membership in the Anonymous hacker collective is not without its dangers—and I don't mean just the 25 Guys in custody. Turns out that someone slipped a Trojan into some popular Anon DDoS software and...
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The Pirate Bay Removes All of Its Torrent Links [Piracy]





The Pirate Bay, the largest torrent site on the Internet, is no more. Or well, it's not like it once was. As of this moment, they've taken down all torrent links on the website and will now only use 'magne...
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If a Bird Chirps in Your YouTube Video, Are You Committing Copyright Infringement? [Video]





A harmless British hippie shot a video about something boring like making a salad from wild greens, and then uploaded it to YouTube. Shortly after, he was informed by YouTube that he was infringing on the...
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Is uTorrent Coming to Android? [Rumors]





There are plenty of things iOS can do that Android can't—Siri and Facetime, for example. However, Andorid may soon be getting its own exclusive feature: P2P file sharing courtesy of uTorrent, the mos...
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Megaupload Kingpin Released On Bail But Banned From the Internet [File Sharing]





New Zealand news sources report that Megaupload co-founder Kim Dotcom was released on bail today almost exactly month after he was arrested. The only catch is that he can't stray too far from his house or ...
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Is the Senate Trying to Sneak In a New SOPA Bill? [Sopa]





After the Internet bandied up together and killed SOPA, you'd think the government would be a little weary of introducing SOPA-like bills less the Internet start a revolution and start calling out dumb pol...
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Vevo: Sorry Our Guests Illegally Streamed an NFL Game on Our Big Screen [Vevo]





The online music video service Vevo has responded to reports that it aired an illegally streamed football game at Sundance. While the company admits that the illegal streaming and broadcast did happen, the...
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Download the Entire Pirate Bay in Just 90 Megabytes [Piracy]





Users of Swedish piracy utopia The Pirate Bay have reason to be nervous, post-Megaupload. It's survived everything companies and cops have thrown its way, but you never know—so download this archive ...
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'Used' Music Service Won't Shut Down Because of Lawsuit—Yet [Lawsuits]





Capitol Records failed to halt the operations of ReDigi, a service which sells "used" digital music, in advance of their looming legal battle. And even if you've never heard of ReDigi, this case holds impo...
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Even After Shutting Down, LimeWire Can't Catch a Break [Piracy]





LimeWire has been kaput as a file-sharing service since October but that hasn't stopped its legal woes. Now, after settling with the RIAA to the tune of $105 million, the MPAA and a host of indie music lab...
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Giant Torrent Index BTJunkie Shuts Down [Piracy]





The giant Torrent indexing search engine BTjunkie has shut down, scared shitless because of the Megaupload bust, no doubt. Unlike some file sharing services, they are shutting down for good, not just for t...
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Tom Brady Watched Last Year's Super Bowl with an Illegal Stream [Super Bowl]





Tom Brady—Patriots QB, NFL boy of gold, Gisele's hubby and Uggs slanger—is in the Super Bowl this year so he doesn't have to worry about where to watch the game. Last year though, Brady didn't ...
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Feds Seize 307 Sports Domains Ahead of Sunday's Super Bowl [Internet]





The Super Bowl is like a goose that lays golden eggs from which cash cows hatch. It makes obscene amounts of money. So, that could be why the DHS has stepped up its confiscation of sports-related domains i...
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Seven Ways to Stop Piracy Without DRM [Piracy]





Piracy's a fact of life. As a defence against having their intellectual properties swiped, cracked and traded online like so many baseball cards, a lot of companies have turned to Digital Right Management;...
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The Pirate Bay's Founders Are Going to Nice Prison [Piracy]





Not just any prison—Swedish prison. After fighting copyright infringement charges for years, the three gents behind the world's most notorious torrent site are headed to the slammer. Luckily, TPB liv...
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Neil Young: Piracy Is The New Radio [Blockquote]





You can't beat an old rocker flying in the face of the man. Neil Young has decided to let everyone know what he thinks about piracy, and it turns out he's probably a fan of Megaupload. More »...
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You Wouldn’t Download A Car
Well, now that you mention it….
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Your Megaupload Data Could Be Deleted By Thursday [Megaupload]





Since the feds shut down Megaupload, there's been concern about what would happen to the user data stored using the service. Turns out that it may just be deleted, as early as this Thursday. More &...
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The FBI Is Already Getting Sued for Shutting Down MegaUpload [Piracy]





Well that didn't take long. Pirate Parties International is assembling a list of users who had lost data in MU's shutdown last week as it builds a case for an upcoming lawsuit against the Feds. More&nbs...
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Kim Dotcom Denied Bail in MegaUpload Case, Deemed a "Flight Risk" [Megaupload]





That bail hearing scheduled for Monday in the MegaUpload conspiracy trial didn't go as well as MU founder Kim Dotcom had hoped. It looks like he's going to remain in custody for a few more weeks. More&n...
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The Pirate Bay Says Downloading Actual Products Is Next [Piracy]





Any moron can download a movie or album—but torrenting a new pair of jeans? That's the future right there. At least according to Swedish anti-copyright royalty The Pirate Bay, which declared physical...
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File Sharing Sites Cast Themselves into Exile Over MegaUpload Bust [Video]





With the popular MegaUpload file sharing website shut down, several other online locker services, all of which have legal uses, are limiting their features or closing down entirely in an apparent effort t...
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FileSonic Just Killed Itself By Disabling File Sharing [Piracy]





In what looks like a preventive measure in reaction to the Megaupload shutdown, FileSonic has disabled all file sharing capabilities and is now nothing more than a personal storage solution. It looks like ...
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The Full Valenti: Dodd Trades His Olive Branch to Tech for a Howitzer, After SOPA/PIPA Gets Delayed

Poor Chris Dodd — he just got the top media lobbying job in Washington, D.C., at the very moment that the strong-arming-pols, scare-the-children, Jack Valenti era in media lobbying is now decidedly over.
It’s obviously a very confusing time f...
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Why Did the Feds Target Megaupload? And Why Now? [Megaupload]





The federal government, with help from police abroad, came down on Megaupload.com with the online cop fury of an Old Testament God. But why Megaupload? And why now? More »



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Senate Leader Harry Reid Postpones PIPA Vote [Piracy]





In response to tuesday's online blackout in protest of the proposed SOPA and PIPA bills floating around congress, Senate leader Harry Reid has opted to postpone the vote on the bill, believing there's a wa...
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Jailed MegaUpload Employees Denied Bail [Megaupload]





MegaUpload's founder, Kim Dotcom, was arrested in New Zealand with at least three other MU employees as part of federal actions against the file-sharing website today. And The four had better get used to t...
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