Tag Archives: Piracy

GOT.

HBO’s Game of Thrones P2P popularity shows no signs of abating. This is evidenced by the over 5 million (and counting) illegal downloads of Season Five’s Premiere.

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Down Under…

As some one of the world’s most enthusiastic P2P nations, an Australian court-ruling subpoenaing an ISP to disclose their end-user, customer data regarding illegally downloading a copy of an American movie could set a precedent for the on-going, global/legal wranglings of DRM.

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They’re Back!

Pirate Bay’s 9 lives look to be continuing as the P2P-site is reportedly planning to re-launch with their best iteration (ever).

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D’oh!

Score one for Sony. Take one away for any given theater that declined to show The Interview (due to missing out on the buzz surrounding said film).

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Direct-To-Torrent.

In light of Sony’s hit movie (Bit Torrent) The Interview being the firm’s #1 online movie the company might want to look more seriously at said distribution model (independent of the circumstances surrounding said release).

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Requested Suspension

Sony’s request that Twitter suspend the account of the person who posted their leaked information is yet another in an on-going development between the ‘net / Social Networking as it once was (decentralized and uncensored) and the Internet / Social … Continue reading

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Rent vs. Buy…

If the enclosed report is actually true (leaving piracy aside) the Industry’s Titans are way behind the curve… (Source) Wired: http://goo.gl/zGrNKY

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FAIL!

The still flawed (yet still in-effect) DMCA struck again as the ‘victims’ this time were non-DMCA-related, bloggers / videos that were essentially taken-down akin to how snare-net fishing can potentially capture everything in one fell-swoon. (Source) Wired: http://goo.gl/qQndNE

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