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Anti-Piracy

Pirate Bay Proxy Provider Agrees to Pay BREIN $343,000 & Give Up Domain

A "large-scale' provider of proxies and mirrors that allow users to access The Pirate Bay despite ISP blocking measures has shut down following action by…

December 18, 2020, 19:18 by Andy Maxwell

Piracy

Pirate Bay Suffers Downtime, Tor Domain is Up (Update)

The Pirate Bay has been hard to reach for almost a day, something which causes concern among some BitTorrent users. The outage is probably caused…

December 18, 2020, 17:45 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Piracy

Large Torrent Tracker Will Shut Down Voluntarily to Prevent Legal Trouble (Update)

Popular Danish torrent tracker Asgaard saw a surge in new users over the past weeks after rival trackers were shut down. While the operators were…

December 18, 2020, 12:42 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Lawsuits

YouTube-DL Dispute Helps Yout.com Enhance Lawsuit Against RIAA

The RIAA recently caused outrage by filing a copyright complaint that took down YouTube-ripping tool youtube-dl from Github. In a pre-emptive move, YouTube-ripping platform Yout.com…

December 17, 2020, 20:25 by Andy Maxwell

Law and Politics

“Freedom to Share” Launches EU Citizens’ Initiative to Legalize File-Sharing

A new European Citizen Initiative titled "Freedom to Share" aims to legalize file-sharing. The group, which is backed by Wikimedia Italy as well as Pirate…

December 17, 2020, 10:46 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Law and Politics

RIAA: Twitter Does Nothing to Stop the Industrial Scale Piracy on Its Service

Facebook and YouTube detailed their anti-piracy measures during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property hearing yesterday. To the frustration of lawmakers, Twitter was noticeably…

December 16, 2020, 23:01 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Anti-Piracy

Music Mission Anti-Piracy Campaign “Keeps Tracks in Charts For Longer”

This May, anti-piracy company AudioLock and music distributor Label Worx, later joined by more than 800 supporters made up of labels and distributor platforms, announced…

December 16, 2020, 12:05 by Andy Maxwell

Law and Politics

EU’s Digital Services Act Proposes New Content Removal Rights and Rules

The European Commission has just released a draft of its Digital Services Act, which will dictate how online services deal with potentially illegal content. The…

December 15, 2020, 20:34 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Pirate Bay Proxy Provider Agrees to Pay BREIN $343,000 & Give Up Domain

Pirate Bay Suffers Downtime, Tor Domain is Up (Update)

Large Torrent Tracker Will Shut Down Voluntarily to Prevent Legal Trouble (Update)

YouTube-DL Dispute Helps Yout.com Enhance Lawsuit Against RIAA

“Freedom to Share” Launches EU Citizens’ Initiative to Legalize File-Sharing

RIAA: Twitter Does Nothing to Stop the Industrial Scale Piracy on Its Service

Music Mission Anti-Piracy Campaign “Keeps Tracks in Charts For Longer”

EU’s Digital Services Act Proposes New Content Removal Rights and Rules

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