By Deeba Ahmed
Talon White has received 12 months of prison sentence after being involved in the illegal streaming of copyright-protected TV shows and movies.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Downloading music via stream-ripping tools can be perfectly legal, the French Ministry of Culture has confirmed. The resulting copies fall under the private copying exemption. However, this only ap…
Whether purchased knowingly or inadvertently, unauthorized products can significantly harm a small business, for whom the margins of error are slim to nil.
By Waqas
Dubbed Crackonosh by researchers; the malware uses the victim’s computer resources to mine cryptocurrencies for its developers.
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A bill aimed at combating online piracy has been submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation. The document will allow copyright holders to independently enter links to sites with illegal content in a special register, after which these links …
Sony Music has obtained an injunction that requires the freely available DNS-resolver Quad9 to block a popular pirate site. The order, issued by the District Court in Hamburg, Germany, is the first of its kind. The Quad9 foundation has already announce…
By Deeba Ahmed
Dubbed Vigilante by researchers; the malware prevents the system from those sites that redistribute pirated software/data.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New malware blocks victims from visiting The Pirate Bay, …
An anonymous reader quotes Ars Technica:
The now-unemployed owner of a shuttered ROM distribution site has been ordered to pay $2.1 million in damages to Nintendo after trying and failing to defend himself in the case.
In September 2019, Nintendo fi…
By Waqas
It is time for anti-piracy groups to rejoice as the database of DDoS-Guard is reportedly on sale on a hacking forum.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The now-unemployed owner of a shuttered ROM distribution site has been ordered to pay $2.1 million in damages to Nintendo after trying and failing to defend himself in the case. In September 2019, …