But it certainly is the place you go for your pirated… I shouldn't call it pirated.
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Not only is pirated software notorious for containing malware, but the worker apparently intentionally disabled his Kaspersky detection software to install the pirated software.
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"We are actually against that, but since almost all books are pirated, we have no option but to accept pirated copies and sell them," he said.
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If that material is found pirated, Custos analyzes the file and follows the trail of pirated or unlicensed content back to the source to impose a swift retribution.
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YouTubers KSI and Logan Paul are working to protect their upcoming boxing rematch against pirated live streams after their initial fight was pirated by more than a million viewers.
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Disney+'s The Mandalorian is predicted to become the most pirated show of the year and may even surpass Game of Thrones to become the most pirated show ever.
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In 2014, total revenue lost due to pirated games was approximately $74 billion and almost 2.5 billion pirated games were downloaded, according to research released last year by Tru Optik.
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It's impossible to squash all of the pirated streams, but Amazon's Twitch is a bit too mature to be hosting pirated streams in such rampant numbers without being a little more proactive — instead of just relying on user reports to police pirated content that was fairly hard to avoid stumbling upon on the platform.
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Her books are widely pirated—her publisher tells her that the most pirated books in Nigeria are her novels, books by T. D. Jakes (the pastor of an American megachurch), and the Bible.
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And did I even know how much TV I'd pirated?
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Why is it so easy to search for pirated porn?
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It's unclear how many people actually saw the pirated version.
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Playing pirated games requires more work than just downloading them.
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The sellers of pirated music know the artists receive nothing.
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The pirated sports streams were live for hours and hours.
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Bus companies continue to play pirated videos without appropriate licenses.
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She recalls watching pirated Hollywood films during her Damascus childhood.
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Game of Thrones remains one of the most pirated shows around – its season 7 premiere quickly became the most pirated show in 2017, with over 90 million illegal downloads in the first three days alone.
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Still, the cable station clearly knew the jig was up as it reportedly pulled the pirated film in favor of another old but pirated version of Captain Barbell, a Filipino superhero film from the '70s.
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Or they buy pirated copies in China on the black market.
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There are the plugins that scrape the internet for pirated material.
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Viewers of these pirated streams have different reasons for tuning in.
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Shady links, questionable emails, pirated videos, and ... the Google Play Store?
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In the anexo we visit, the "sandals" are mostly pirated Crocs.
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Games that incorporated Denuvo's anti-tampering technology simply weren't being pirated.
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The report shows the top pirated shows' likelihood of infecting computers.
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So perhaps think twice about storing pirated content with Plex Cloud.
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Of these, Netflix tends to be pirated for the longest period.
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Video game ROMs, hacks, and pirated software is nothing new online.
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Behind every free, pirated game, there's a lot more going on.
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Pirated copies of the book are already circulating online in Asia.
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There are lots of places online that will host pirated streams.
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The company said its policies prohibit running ads against pirated content.
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She also smokes cigarettes, watches pirated English films and break-dances.
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A pirated movies' vendor says that Roma has sold relatively well.
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Amazon is increasingly concerned about fake and pirated products on its marketplace.
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Doom 2 is why I pirated a game for the first time.
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You know all those episodes of Game of Thrones you pirated downloaded?
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Hackers will also try to disguise adware as pirated AVI video files.
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That pirated copy has since been shared on English-language torrent networks.
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One user linked to a pirated file, which was subsequently taken down.
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People who are using pirated copies of software often can't get updates.
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So do other lines of business, like pirated DVDs and even oil.
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Writers' Workshop, social democratic journals, and pirated Russian editions of Doctor Zhivago.
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You made an art piece that couldn't be pirated with Gristle-ism.
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In Kanye's case, his album has now been pirated over 500,000 times.
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Everything is made on his Macbook, and he never uses pirated software.
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This pirated Hollywood movie gave me my first small taste of freedom.
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" And then: "That data can then be resold, copied, pirated and abused.
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Pirated Twitch streams hijack YouTube's pay-per-view Logan Paul/KSI boxing match For Twitch, the case of the pirated content is less a mystery worthy of the Hardy Boys and more a simple case of history repeating.
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AEST Clarified BitTorrent's position that it does not host nor promote pirated content.
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Post a pirated copy of Ghostbusters to YouTube via your Comcast Internet connection?
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Costs are low in part because institutes use pirated software, avoiding expensive licences.
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It has also been pirated over 500,000 times—enough for a Gold record.
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There's also a range of pirated music apps that stream songs and albums.
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It's not clear how Red Candle Games would fix a pirated version, though.
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Read: HBO Has Had Enough of Pornhub's Pirated 'Game of Thrones' Sex Scenes
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YouTube says it provides video owners with tools to prevent pirated live streams.
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Many services built their businesses on pirated music before they started licensing it.
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Fret not Indians, merely viewing pirated movies online won't land you in jail.
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I started with a pirated copy of Fruity Loops just like everybody else.
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Kaspersky found 33 types of threats connected with Game of Thrones pirated downloads.
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The best-known torrent site in the world now streams pirated content too.
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It may be the most pirated book since, you guessed it, Harry Potter.
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As Motherboard has previously reported, playing a pirated Switch game is not simple.
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AceDeceiver, meanwhile, takes advantage of a tactic used to download pirated iOS apps.
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There's a significant and growing market for bogus, pirated versions of each product.
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Even the guys at the local pirated-DVD stand start to recognize him.
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Does Amazon have a problem with third-party sellers hocking pirated CDs specifically?
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Update [March 2, 6.52PM] - He's also denied previous allegations of using pirated software.
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For years, the United States battled China over pirated movies and counterfeit sneakers.
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This was when concern about pirated music was at its most feverish pitch.
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Pirated content continues to circulate, including rips of legitimate video sites' biggest shows.
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Game of Thrones' season 8 premiere had over three times as many pirated views in its first 24 hours as it had views through official HBO services, with most of those pirated views coming from illegal streams, according to Muso.
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It's not a perfect copy by any means, but neither is it a pirated
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But the campaign may have benefited indirectly from the pirated Facebook records, Fischer added.
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After all, "Game of Thrones" has broken records as the most-pirated TV show.
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Other favorites included amateur girl fights, pirated Nintendo DS games and multiple Naruto downloads.
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VKontakte remains Russia's top social network, partly because it offers pornography and pirated content.
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Curtis: Yeah, it was was pirated stuff that he did that was really raw.
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Companies using pirated software are also unlikely eligible for an insurance payout, Kalinich said.
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After he limited the album to Tidal, hundreds of thousands of listeners pirated it.
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During that time, the user evidently pirated a malware-ridden version of Microsoft Office.
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YouTube, for instance, spent $100m developing ContentID, an algorithm designed to block pirated content.
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"Those who are using pirated software, they don't even have any patch," Bahl said.
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But the company has been working to make it harder to play pirated games.
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The most pirated movie of 2015 — "Interstellar" — was illegally downloaded over 46 million times.
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Popular novels, technical tomes and self-published books are pirated and sold on Amazon.
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Even before this Chinese legislation, some three-quarters of Chinese imported software was pirated.
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"The software we have is pirated; there are no licenses here," Mr. Blanco said.
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A day and half into this year's tournament, pirated highlights are already appearing online.
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Typical web traffic follows, and large downloads — *ahem* pirated movies on BitTorrent — are placed last.
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He says his shows are heavily pirated, meaning his company misses out on vital cash.
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With their longer posts sometimes it's just pirated, copy and pasted from some American website.
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Pirated copies of Arrival, Moonlight, La La Land, Patriots Day, and Fences are all available.
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For once, it seems, an unwise download delivered more than just a pirated Minecraft clone.
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Yet millions of Jakartans also live in slums with pirated electricity and no running water.
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Maybe it's because YouTube is not the place where you go for your pirated movies.
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But pirated videos are still available, and legitimate users sometimes see their posts wrongly flagged.
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Chinese market regulators are investigating the sale of contraband and pirated products on the platform.
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His taxi passes stalls where girls sell traditional white bracelets alongside pirated Jhumpa Lahiri novels.
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Elsewhere, there is evidence the channel is itself being pirated by other illegal broadcast operations.
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Illegal connections, however, have proliferated using smuggled or homemade antennas and pirated Wi-Fi signals.
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While its Windows and Office products are used in China, the software is often pirated.
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"If I ever see this in China …" she said, in a reference to pirated copies.
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Even though the content appears to be pirated, you'll still have to sit through ads.
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Since the show remains the most pirated series in the world, we can't blame them.
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Some of the most popular iOS apps are being pirated using Apple's very own developer program.
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My sister watches pirated TV. I do too, but she won't admit she's breaking a rule.
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It ruled that the tech giant must take down certain Google search results for pirated products.
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Recently, it also became a promotional vector for a potential phishing site offering pirated movie streams.
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The most popular attack loads the pirated media, such as torrents, with a malicious Trojan file.
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You should limit your exposure to potential threats too, which includes steering clear of pirated media.
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"There was $6.2 billion in consumer spending on pirated DVDs last year, excluding China," said Britt.
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Most games, especially on PC, can be pirated within days, if not hours, of being released.
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This resulted in users finding new ways to piggyback pirated movies on to the free services.
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I actually got some of his pirated stuff from Shanghai because I'm a pilot for United.
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Many more tweeted about bingeing on pirated uploads of the show on YouTube, often through night.
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Someone took the pirated data, zipped it up, and made it available as one big torrent.
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The U.S. made these cyber spying codes unclassified, which means the weapons can be "pirated" easily.
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Especially given the potential privacy and security risks involved in downloading pirated content from dubious sources.
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Most download music illegally online or buy pirated CDs and USB memory sticks in street markets.
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This isn't a way to access the myriad amount of pirated content available on torrent sites.
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He promised a crackdown on fake agricultural equipment and pirated software, and greater scrutiny of exports.
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It's a good thing you starting update that crappy Windows Server 2012 (which is pirated btw).
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These 2,700 pirated uploads allowed Google to continue profiting from advertising while the artists got nothing.
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Despite government controls, foreign television shows are widely available as illegal downloads or on pirated DVDs.
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These pirated feeds were made easier to find thanks to the search software of both companies.
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And they did it using a pirated copy of a law enforcement tool—Elcomsoft Phone Breaker.
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It rose from issuing pirated recordings to producing film music for Bollywood blockbusters like "Aashiqui" (22016).
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The ban was instituted yesterday after RT allegedly ran a pirated stream of Obama's last press conference.
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Motherboard was able to confirm that pirated copies of Hitman 20193 are being distributed on Pirate Bay.
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The Files app gives you a place to store and retrieve all your spreadsheets and pirated movies.
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Pirated versions of Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, and Arrow can sometimes contain a nasty surprise.
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The cable provider hasn't issued a statement about its decision to run the pirated version of Endgame.
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Boback created a spinoff, Tiversa Media, hoping to somehow monetize pirated MP22017s that the system pulled in.
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The show remains one of the most popular and most pirated show on the market these days.
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PT on January 7, consisted only of pirated footage from a January episode of MSNBC's Morning Joe.
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It's why its recommendations veer unpredictably from cable news to pirated reality shows to QAnon conspiracy theories.
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According to one analytics firm, the season premiere has already been pirated more than 55 million times.
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The setup was partly to blame for the pirated films and porn readily available in the prison.
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Typically, once a sex tape is leaked, the internet is flooded with graphic photos and pirated links.
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I had my [camming] content pirated and put all over the internet, without any attribution to me.
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The seas around the Philippines were the most pirated, followed by Nigeria and India, the report said.
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As popular as pirated content might be on YouTube, it can also have a short shelf-life.
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Definitely. Above all, users need to be made aware of the ethical implications of watching pirated material.
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Another item that appears to allow a customer to play a pirated version of Super Smash Bros.
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You might actually be able to make the case that it is an illicit ringtone, even pirated.
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The reports are available in a public archive, and the vast majority of them concern pirated content.
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They exist in a legal grey area by acting as a conduit between pirated content and viewers.
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MindGeek has been accused of allowing those studios' films to be pirated by its own streaming sites.
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It's an easier way to access pirated content than visiting The Pirate Bay and downloading torrent files.
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Entertainment industry advocates are hoping Congress goes a step further by making sites liable for pirated content.
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They also need to grab another piece of software that lets them install the pirated games themselves.
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So in short:Does Amazon have a problem with third-party sellers hocking pirated goods in its marketplace?
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On this server, Schulte shared pirated material, coding projects, and personal pictures and videos, as Motherboard reported.
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Pirated copies of books circulate at open air markets, and formal bookstores are scarce in some regions.
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The Mandalorian took Game of Thrones' place as the most streamed, most pirated show in the world.
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You're not an ordinary user; you're a moderator hunting down pirated music, malicious software, and abusive users.
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Stranger still, the pirated episodes available span from episode number 452 to 550, but only 12 are present.
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The seas around the Philippines are the most pirated in the world, according to data producer IHS Markit.
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To understand how big a problem counterfeit and pirated goods represent to business, remember the number $461 billion.
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The solution proposed by the groups is a shared ledger of links and works known to be pirated.
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TorrentFreak's most pirated movies list is an excellent gauge of popular movies as well as the Hollywood zeitgeist.
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The seas around the Philippines are the most pirated in the world, according to data producer IHS Markit.
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On Monday, security firm Kaspersky Lab ranked the top 15 pirated TV shows most likely to contain malware.
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Team Xecuter's $25 software helps Switch owners circumvent Nintendo's restrictions, enabling gamers to play pirated games for free.
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Nevertheless, Chinese citizens are known to be big fans of pirated shows including House of Cards and Sherlock.
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Concerns about pharmaceutical intellectual property protections, pirated software and counterfeit goods were factors in those decisions, USTR said.
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On Monday, one of the most popular Facebook Live videos was a pirated stream of Tom and Jerry.
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He had pirated my book but found it so useful that he now wanted to pay for it.
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Despite government controls, foreign television shows are widely available in China as illegal downloads or on pirated DVDs.
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Maybe then we'd begin to make a difference with all the pirated copies on all of the websites.
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Floor-to-ceiling modular shelves teetered here and there, stuffed with quads that had been pirated for parts.
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Fans can get football highlights—ie, the goals—at no charge on social media, or watch pirated streams.
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With the exception of DMCA takedown notices for copyrighted or pirated content, 8chan operates as an unpoliced forum.
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The wide use of pirated Windows OS versions, which would not automatically receive security patches,exacerbate the vulnerabilities.
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YouTube already gives rights holders an option to monetize their pirated videos instead of just taking them down.
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Bear in mind that a license to Netwire costs $90 per user per year, and can be pirated.
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As most die-hard fans know, the UFC is quick to take pirated footage off of the Internet.
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To be clear, you're not going to be playing pirated Zelda games on your Switch any time soon.
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And Google routinely leads consumers to pirated copyrighted works, even when they aren't actually searching for stolen content.
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Mr. Nasiri admitted that his bookstores stock many pirated volumes, even if they do not pirate books themselves.
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The American firm's streaming service is not available in China, but pirated copies of the film have proliferated.
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Pirated live sports broadcasts have prompted hand-wringing from both government and private companies for over 15 years.
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Many Indians prefer to buy pirated content on memory cards from local merchants, to save on data costs.
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Microsoft has complained for years that a large majority of computers running its software are using pirated versions.
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They say provisions designed to prevent streaming and sharing of pirated music and video are far too broad.
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Ayone who pirated the game is stuck playing with the non-patched version of the game—for now.
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According to MUSO's data, the most pirated views by country came from India (roughly 10 million views), which MUSO speculates is due to the difficulty of accessing the show there, and China (with roughly 5 million pirated views), which only airs a censored version of the show through official channels.
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Despite their best attempts to close sites or co-opt them, pirated copies of their wares are easily available.
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The Interior Ministry said Mr. Gawish was being charged with possessing pirated software and running an unauthorized personal website.
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TorrentFreak claims this is the fifth year in a row that the show was most pirated on torrent sites.
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The USTR dropped its annual blacklist calling out marketplaces that are rife with counterfeit and pirated goods this week.
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It was a debacle, but Kanye remained committed to the streaming-only model, even people widely pirated the album.
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That came two days after a Canada Supreme Court ruling that Google must scrub search results about pirated products.
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SiliVaccine, as the software is known, appears to contain a decade-old component pirated from a Japanese security firm.
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It could be that his constant VPN changes made it difficult for moderators to pin down his pirated stream.
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In total, the latest season was pirated more than a billion times, either streamed or downloaded through a torrent.
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The Verge was able to download a variety of apps that provided access to pirated movies and TV shows.
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Cheap data plans and thumb drives bring pirated films to millions who may never have been to a cinema.
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Even if the game is eventually pirated, it will have taken 3DM more than a month to do so.
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And black markets mushroomed, not only for drugs and guns, but wildcat gold mining, pirated movies, and stolen oil.
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Other streams included pornography, and copyrighted and likely pirated content, such as the latest season of Game of Thrones.
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Millions are expected to ask: "Who would watch that?" then watch all the pirated clips on YouTube, hours later.
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Yet since the political dispute began, a pirated version of the channel has been streamed illegally in Saudi Arabia.
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Interactive Entertainment Law Group attorney Mona Ibrahim says that it's difficult to calculate the damages for a pirated simulcast.
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China, which reported disruptions at nearly 221,000 organizations, was especially susceptible because of the prevalence of pirated software there.
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China, which reported disruptions at nearly 230,21980 organizations, was especially susceptible because of the prevalence of pirated software there.
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Other companies have used the law to fight back against claims of user-posted pirated content on their platforms.
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Saudi Arabia previously accused beIN of orchestrating "a smear campaign" designed to connect the kingdom with beoutQ's pirated broadcasts.
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Saudi Arabia previously accused beIN of orchestrating "a smear campaign" designed to connect the kingdom with beoutQ's pirated broadcasts.
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As this new report documents, the private sector can do much more to combat counterfeit and pirated products trafficking.
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A Walgreens spokesperson said the company wasn't aware of the issue and prohibits ads on sites with pirated content.
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Apps and websites providing pirated content proliferate at a pace that experts say make the problem difficult to manage.
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The U.S., meanwhile, has agreed to study additional measures of combating the online sale of counterfeit or pirated goods.
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The United States affirms that it is studying additional means to combat the sale of counterfeit or pirated goods.
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Torrent site The Pirate Bay has long been infamous for allowing people to download pirated movies and TV shows.
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Other companies have used the law to fight back against claims of user-posted pirated content on their platforms.
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Basically, O'Rourke was a teenager, and his relationship to the group mostly involved pirated games and conversations on message boards.
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Roku sales had been banned in Mexico for more than a year in a dispute involving hackers offering pirated content.
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The best way to do this, the company contended, is to block websites that serve pirated content in the country.
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Nintendo isn't going to be sympathetic if you irreparably damage your device while trying to fill it with pirated ROMs.
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"My very first scene was pirated immediately, so I choose not to let it get under my skin," Calvert said.
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Because what's on Plex servers is populated by people, most of the commercial content you'd find there is probably pirated.
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Tech platforms have littered the media universe with crap — stolen ideas, pirated video, plagiarized text, manipulated content, and fake news.
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The traffic is generated via pop-up or pop-under browser windows on file sharing and pirated video streaming websites.
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Forbes reported that despite evading most pre-release leaks, Kanye's TLOP was pirated over 500,000 times once it was released.
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Not long after its start, T-Series transitioned from hawking pirated cassette tapes to releasing Bollywood soundtracks of its own.
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"[A]nd the worst part is that before the movie even comes out it's gonna be pirated," Braun told Gizmodo.
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A lightweight, bloat-resistant, stable, and endlessly compatible piece of software that we mostly use to play back pirated movies.
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According to file-sharing and copyright website TorrentFreak, "over a half million people" have downloaded pirated copies of the album.
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Cabinets contained anywhere between 60 and 30,000 pirated games and sold for at least $1,459 each, The Mercury News reported.
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Gone are the days of zip drives, bigger zip drives, faster DVD writing, ripping and pirated versions of Windows 95.
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Commonly referred to as "DRM," these digital locks act as safeguards to protect rights holders from getting their works pirated.
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Multinationals would be more likely to sell or license new technologies if they knew their ideas would not be pirated.
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That's true no matter what kind of porn you're watching for free, even the straight stuff has likely been pirated.
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For example, there's a bustling online market for pre-jailbroken Amazon Fire Sticks that are hacked to play pirated content.
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The worker's home machine got infected with the backdoor after he tried to install a pirated version of Microsoft Office.
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Its "expressive elements were meticulously created by Rentmeester, and then meticulously pirated by Nike," they said in a written brief.
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The company says it will let video owners generate revenue from mid-roll ads that run during their pirated video.
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Using pirated software violates copyright laws, attorneys say, but in practice, software companies have rarely sued young people over it.
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They're being pirated and sold on the retail giant's site, meaning real authors are cheated while Amazon still makes sales.
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Cubans tune in to the thrice-daily state news programmes or to foreign satellite programs pirated from the United States.
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A similarly large, though different, OnlyFans leak was posted last Saturday to forums dedicated to cracking and leaking pirated content.
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Even Twitter saw pirated versions of the stream going around, with one Periscope stream pulling in more than 70,000 viewers.
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The U.S. economy has seen many billions of dollars lost due to the presence of counterfeit goods and pirated software.
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The most successful drawing books were reprinted decade after decade, and some were so popular that pirated editions were produced.
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These rulings were highly influential, especially because they were echoed in religion classes and enforced in non-pirated games stores.
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Google and Microsoft pledged on Monday to crack down on sites hosting pirated content that show up on their search engines.
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It didn't take long for the latest MCU movie to become the king of the box office—and the pirated list.
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But turning a network of people who are watching pirated videos or porn into a big supercomputer is a lot cheaper.
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It is likely to have been spread through spam, and via other programs installed — typically cracked, pirated apps, says Ars Technica.
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According to Reuters, O'Rourke also spent time using pirated software and cracked video games along with other members of the CDC.
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Before moving, he and Amy had been watching "The Sopranos," and at the garrison he began to hunt for pirated episodes.
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But the album was also pirated at 10 times the rate of other new releases at the time, according to NPR.
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Microsoft was forced to ban game emulator apps in the Windows Store earlier this year, after a clampdown on pirated content.
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Forbes notes that the lawsuit says the companies are involved in a "massive music piracy operation" involving over 6,000 pirated recordings.
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The problem is that I don't identify as much with these choices as what I once pirated, discovered, or dug up.
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Rise in kidnapping The seas around the Philippines are the most pirated in the world, according to data producer IHS Markit.
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A thriving black market for Bollywood videotapes soon developed, and many Pakistanis grew up watching pirated films from across the border.
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He's the convicted fraudster-turned rich dude who ran MegaUpload, that file storage website that hosted a ton of pirated content.
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That would include products like pharmaceuticals and pirated movies rather than the consumer, telecommunications and computer memory chip products China appropriated.
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The operators are now in the process of suing Orient Cable and Telecommunications Inc, the station which aired the pirated film.
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In the 1980s and early 503s, Nigerians watched these pirated VHS tapes, but they also watched the output of the NTA.
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Google will generally de-index pages if it receives a credible report that the page contains pirated content or defamatory statements.
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Pirated video streams of televised National Football League games are widespread on Facebook and on Google's YouTube service, CNBC has found.
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Some 11,000 people pirated the YouTube boxing rematch between KSI and Logan Paul through the reflection in a YouTube streamer's glasses.
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Some might consider a way to spread "pirated" content by transferring gigabytes worth of content through the exchange of hard drives.
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Facebook has acquired a startup to help it crack down on users who share pirated videos and other content without permission.
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That led to an odd hodgepodge of cloned systems, strange cartridges, and pirated games that are still with the country today.
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A DAZN representative told Business Insider the service had taken additional measures meant to prevent the same abundance of pirated streams.
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That's especially important for design students who Berahimi says often rely on pirated fonts instead of shelling out for commercial licenses.
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In the late 1990s, when access to the internet and pirated videos became more widespread, locals began to discover the genre.
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"As their films are being pirated, they are now beginning to enforce copyright protections of their own films," Mr. Rosen said.
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Film lovers had the limited choice of either watching second-rate vanity projects or pirated versions of Hollywood and Bollywood movies.
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On a recent day, even some of the titles in Aksos' own busy, flagship bookstore were pirated copies of popular books.
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Because pirated software usually is not registered with the developer, users often miss major security patches that could ward off assaults.
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And don't install Flash in the year of our lord 2020—especially not from a site that's promising a pirated livestream.
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Once vilified by media companies as a magnet for pirated video, YouTube is now embraced by Hollywood and other content creators.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump issued a presidential memorandum on Wednesday aimed at combating the trafficking of pirated and counterfeit goods.
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Strangely, perhaps, Housman also caught on in the United States in the early 20th century, helped along by numerous pirated editions.
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If legal liability is established for this one person, then the court will set fines for everybody else who pirated Voltage's films.
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Empowering the digital ghost haunting our ATMs, downloading our pirated music files, and—presumably—turning our kettle off at one hundred celsius.
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Reuters discovered that many of these pirated app distributors impersonated a subsidiary of China Mobile Ltd, a Chinese state-owned telecom company.
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If this trend continues, the show could be on track to take out the crown for most pirated show of the year.
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That includes people who watched pirated individual episodes online and those who illegally copped a download of the entire season as well.
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However, piracy has boomed as a result: ACE says that last year saw 5.4 billion downloads of pirated films and TV shows.
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In one particularly fascinating example, an ad for the retail version of Minecraft is displayed when opening the pirated version of Minecraft.
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The RIAA and other groups are calling on regulators to implement a more precise time frame for ISPs to remove pirated content.
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WikiLeaks is promoting a pirated copy of Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury, a bestselling book on Donald Trump's first year in office.
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The contractor was running a pirated and cracked version of Microsoft Office, which included a key generator that was infected with malware.
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In TV news, "Game of Thrones" continued its reign in the most pirated TV show category with 14,400,000 illegal downloads per episode.
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As noted esports commentator Richard Lewis flagged on Twitter, there were Twitch employees watching and commenting in some of the pirated streams.
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According to the World Bank for every legitimate copy of a movie sold, nine are pirated, costing the industry billions in revenue.
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A 1988 LA Times report says that one computer executive estimated that it was the most pirated game on the Mac ever.
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This obviously means there's a benefit for when it comes to watching geo-unblocked and pirated content (which we obviously don't condone).
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The National Society of Industries, a manufacturing association, warned the tax hikes in Peru would lead to more contraband and pirated goods.
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In his 2013 novel, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, the novel's protagonist sells pirated DVDs as a young boy.
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PT: Buzzfeed confirmed it ran a pirated stream of Monty Python and the Holy Grail on Facebook Live in a statement Friday.
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The day before my final book was published, I found out that it had been already pirated and was freely available online.
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Game of Thrones, one of the most pirated TV shows of all time, now feels like a phenomenon akin to Sunday mass.
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Three-point-three gigs — which means the hackers claim to have scored the equivalent of 303 pirated seasons of Game of Thrones.
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In 2012, Marcin Iwinski, chief executive of Polish game developer CD Projekt Red, argued that pirated games do not represent lost revenue.
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When they weren't scouring the black market for pirated cassettes from the Gulf states, they were secretly trading music with each other.
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Streaming sites like Watch Series attempt to circumvent copyright regulation by providing links to pirated content, without actually hosting the content themselves.
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They often encounter resistance from Chinese censors — "Platform," which was banned from Chinese theaters, made Mr. Jia's name there through pirated DVDs.
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Dozens of these video streams, pirated from CBS and NBC broadcasts, featured ads from well-known national brands interspersed with game action.
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When a textbook was pirated in Taiwan, the Asia Foundation tried to make sure that the directly copied version was not used.
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I maintained profitable businesses selling fireworks, chinese stars, military gear, baseball cards, and pirated video games (hey, it was the 80's).
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The code remained the same whether it was copied once or a million times, which allowed pirated software to spread like wildfire.
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Supporters of tougher anti-piracy rules, for instance, argue that its "safe harbor" rules don't motivate websites to keep pirated content offline.
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Once those relationships are in place, the developer can rebuild the app to contain pirated content, yet the ads remain, she said.
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China has agreed to consider revoking an e-commerce platform's operating license if there are repeated sales of counterfeit or pirated goods.
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The United States has said it will "study additional measures of combating the online sale of counterfeit or pirated goods," CNBC reports.
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Otherwise, the company's designs would be pirated by bigger labels, which treated avant-garde street culture as a resource to be plundered.
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BitTorrent, the company, sought to distinguish between the BitTorrent protocol and piracy sites, and said it did not host nor promote pirated content.
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Search engines, in particular Google, have clashed in recent times with organizations that represent rights holders about how best to tackle pirated content.
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"Game of Thrones accounted for 17 percent of all the infected pirated content in 2018, with 20,934 users attacked," the antivirus vendor said.
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I spoke with Roan on the phone, and he said that a voice in his earbud said the station's signal had been pirated.
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The decision to branch out into computers came in 20143, after he watched a "60 Minutes" report by Lesley Stahl about pirated movies.
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Some handle it in novel ways, like deliberately making pirated versions of a game near unplayable, or by releasing their software for free.
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And if large companies can get away with it, so too can small, unheard-of entities peddling pirated content on marketplaces like TutuApp.
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The UK police have in recent years cracked down on ad-supported sites that allow users to illegally download pirated films and music.
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The current system obliges ISPs to "expeditiously" remove pirated content after receiving a notice, and grants them legal protection in copyright infringement cases.
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Given the plethora of conspiracies and hate group content on its platform, pirated cable news content is perhaps the least of YouTube's problems.
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Those numbers will likely go up in the coming days as more viewers watch the episode, but, presumably, so will the pirated views.
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Megaupload went on to become a hub of pirated entertainment materials, which made Dotcom the target of Hollywood scorn and U.S. government investigations.
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My attorney had taken his wallet out and was using a pirated Coin card at the pay station to facilitate the parking process.
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Following the pirated release of most of the new episodes of Netflix's Orange is the New Black, Disney should certainly be on edge.
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These aren't exactly new issues: the RIAA has complained for years that Google makes it too easy for users to find pirated music.
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In March, Trump signed an executive order that gave customs officials more authority to stop pirated and counterfeit items, the official told reporters.
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Image: HBOOne of the most-pirated TV shows could also be the most likely to give unauthorized downloaders a nasty case of malware.
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The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) report on Combating Trafficking in Counterfeit and Pirated Goods is an excellent study of the major problems.
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Like its predecessor, the new service offers sleek streaming-video apps that play a large selection of pirated movies, all distributed via Bittorrent.
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If fail0verflow decides to share the exploit, it could open up many possibilities when it comes to homebrew software and, yes, pirated games.
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Additionally, suppression of extremist speech may contain a lot more grey area than clearly-defined illegal content, like pirated media and child pornography.
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Warez Pronounced like the contraction for "where is" (where's), warez refers to pirated software that's typically distributed via technologies like BitTorrent and Usenet.
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For the majority of games followed by CNBC (though not all) these pirated video feeds attracted more viewers on YouTube than on Facebook.
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KSI's manager said in a statement that the team made the decision to move to DAZN to prevent the match from being pirated.
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"Whilst graffiti exists illegally on private and public property, ANSI originally existed on (and to take credit for) illegally pirated software," Payne said.
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Pirated editions of "Tombstone" are being sold from the hinterlands of the Central Plains to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to the Xinjiang frontier.
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Furthermore, how can it be "pirated" if the business model requires the end user to purchase a license key to activate the product?
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There's a massive market for free, illegal episodes: Last week's season 7 premiere was pirated a colossal 90 million times, Business Insider reports.
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If a goal is scored in Russia, they will quickly find the clip somewhere, either on a legal site or a pirated one.
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At the time, YouTube was better known for pirated content and videos of cute animals than news programming, but RT caught on quickly.
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The clips tend to be short, low on production value, free and, though Pornhub tries to prevent it, sometimes pirated from paid sites.
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That flawed version was banned in America, so a notorious pornographer, Sam Roth, rushed into print a pirated and even more corrupt edition.
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Swiss brands are not the only ones to have been pirated, but are the most targeted due to their global reach, executives said.
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Unlike nuclear weapons, which can be guarded and protected, cyberweapons are "just computer programs which can be pirated like any other," WikiLeaks notes.
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In 1980s Pakistan, Bollywood movies were banned, but that didn't stop fans from watching her films on pirated videocassettes, sometimes with grainy footage.
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One fellow team-member's biggest concern is the income lost when his movie is pirated (yes, there sure is a Vought Cinematic Universe).
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The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) recently issued its annual list of the world's most "notorious markets" for sales of pirated and counterfeit goods.
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The distributors of pirated apps seen by Reuters are using certificates obtained in the name of legitimate businesses, although it is unclear how.
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And yes, those pirated games helped me get through difficult times when I was younger, and allowed me to bond with my friends.
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In an effort to shift attitudes the authorities burned half a million pirated CDs and DVDs in the centre of the capital in 2008.
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I still get emails form people begging me to do more bukkakes and gokkuns but... you can't sell enough of them because everything's pirated.
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Even more interesting is that many of these services are paid for, and some of the most popular pirated shows are local Polish programmes.
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Pirated video around the Olympics is still a big problem for NBC, which may be another reason it's warming up to these highlight deals.
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State television traditionally has shown pirated signals of the championship series of Major League Baseball a few days or even weeks after the event.
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The more "barrier-free" environment can draw illegal activity like the trade and manufacture of counterfeit and pirated goods without proper oversight, USTR said.
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Wullems' set-top boxes offered direct links to pirated material, which constituted making a copyright-infringing "communication to the public," according to the ruling.
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Another issue that is widespread in Asia is the use of non-genuine, or pirated, software, which studies show criminals are taking advantage of.
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These are predominantly found within third party addons — some of which offer pirated material — rather than those found in the Official Kodi Addon Repository.
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The most pirated TV program in 2017 was Season 7 of "Game of Thrones," with well over 10 million illegal downloads in most weeks.
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But the show's ratings can't begin compare to its illegal popularity as the seventh season as a whole was pirated over a billion times.
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The site is reportedly one of the places where his new album, "The Life of Pablo," has been pirated hundreds of thousands of times.
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The apps will now rely on Butter, a version of the Popcorn Time streaming system that doesn't offer pirated material, for its core infrastructure.
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Earlier this week, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against a California man who allegedly sold software that helps people play pirated games on their Switch.
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If these books are "remainders" or "hurts" or pirated, as some publishers have claimed they are, then publishers and authors won't see a dime.
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But today no individual can effectively police the millions of pirated files that mushroom online and reappear the instant after they are taken down.
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Sega had grown concerned about piracy from the Taiwanese market and had added its own security measures to prevent the use of pirated carts.
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Some farmers, like Kyle Schwarting, have taken matters into their own hands: They find pirated software that allows them to fix their equipment today.
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However, the match, which was officially aired on YouTube through a $10 pay-per-view livestream, earned more views through pirated streams on Twitch.
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Software crackers, programmers, and gaming enthusiasts would gather IRL to swap pirated games, known as warez, which would be copied on to floppy disks.
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My 15-year-old self, drunk on freedom and awash in pirated MP3s, might have cheered the demise of a corporate-controlled music clearinghouse.
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Ethics: While initially criticized for perpetuating the pirated porn issues, its partnership program introduced a viable model for ethical free porn to the industry.
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Mr. Nasiri, the owner of Aksos, which is also translating a new title every week or so, denied that his company printed pirated books.
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China is often portrayed as a land of fake gadgets and pirated software, where intellectual property like patents, trademarks and copyrights are routinely ignored.
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Now, anti-copyright naysayers will contend that most of the 16 million people who pirated "Lady Bird" would not have paid to see it.
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The contractor then downloaded and used a piece of software to generate keys that would let him run a pirated version of Microsoft Office.
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YouTube has a similar feature, called "Content ID," that does the same thing, including matching pirated live video streams, according to a company spokesperson.
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People I knew rarely bought "original," non-pirated games, unless they were cartridge-based, because the technology of copying cartridge games was not reliable.
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In the least surprising news of the year, HBO's Game of Thrones was the most pirated TV show of the year, according to TorrentFreak's data.
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Pirated app distributors such as TutuApp, AppValley, TweakBox, and Panda Helper offer free, hacked versions of normally paid software such as Minecraft and Angry Birds.
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Twitch has previously dealt with people abusing its streaming platform to broadcast pirated content, like Game of Thrones episodes and pay-per-view UFC fights.
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"We have people in place who every day—I'm not kidding—every day their whole day at work is taking down pirated content," Braun said.
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However, Roku last year had to stop sales in Mexico until it addressed issues involving access to pirated content, which were only resolved in October.
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China Literature reported in its filing document that pirated online content led to a loss in revenue of 11bn yuan for the market in 2016.
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These are predominantly found within third party add-ons — some of which offer pirated material — rather than those found in the Official Kodi Addon Repository.
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The most pirated TV program in 2017 was the seventh season of "Game of Thrones," with well over 10 million illegal downloads in most weeks.
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Enterprising Angolans have used two free services—Facebook Free Basics and Wikipedia Zero—to share pirated movies, music, television shows, anime, and games on Wikipedia.
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Of course, any time a fight is announced to be the "biggest fight ever," it is also set to become the most pirated fight ever.
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For instance, Ronson profiles Mike Quasar, a porn cameraman and director, who tells Ronson he's powerless to stop his films from being instantly pirated online.
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Though it has reached 26.1 million users (not counting those who pirated the game), 21 million of those acquired the game without paying a cent.
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"It really puzzles me how serious software companies can consider each pirated copy to be a lost sale," said Iwinski in an interview with Forbes.
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The system scans for counterfeit products online on behalf of customers and automates the process of having any fake goods (and/or pirated content) removed.
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Up next: whether digital platforms bear responsibility for other illicit activities, such as the sale of counterfeits, illegal drugs, pirated content and stolen credit cards.
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If pirated versions of these games are available online users might ignore the DirecTV package, or skip locally televised games that they might otherwise watch.
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Pirated copies circulate on the black market and on the Internet, and Yan devotees will travel to Hong Kong or to Taiwan for new titles.
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TinyMovies has about 300 to 400 new subscribers a month, with a $10 USD monthly fee, offering pirated foreign films with Persian subtitles or voiceovers.
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She finds it frustrating that consumers find the act of paying for porn squeamish, but have no such compunctions about viewing free, often pirated, content.
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Further, thanks to the proliferation of downloaded games, it's far harder to sideload or burn disks of pirated titles for use on your modern console.
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Chinese viewers may have already watched the film abroad or pirated it, Variety reported, and others saw stereotypes in the story instead of Asian representation.
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So while I wouldn't necessarily put it in the same league as accessing a pirated stream you found on Reddit, proceed at your own risk.
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Not to mention that many people might see Plex as a place to watch pirated content, with friends eagerly sharing their servers through group chats.
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A collection called "Mega Mix" contained new pirated songs from well-known musicians like Davido and Wizkid, along with songs from 43 less-known singers.
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They created an intracity computer network that, among other things, allowed locals to download pirated movies and TV shows without connecting to the wider web.
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The Russian corner of the internet has a reputation as a repository of pornography and pirated content, and as a birthplace for global fraud schemes.
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Every pirated music video or song posted on YouTube or Facebook robs the creators of income, and YouTube in particular is dominated by unlicensed content.
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These work on the same model as YouTube: they are free, and steer users to amateur videos, snippets uploaded by commercial producers, and pirated material.
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Because tube sites tend to deliver short, digestible clips of content, some of the material they offer may be pirated and taken out of context.
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The pirated software turned out to be a disguised piece of malware, which opened a backdoor into the contractor's computer that anyone could have exploited.
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Its ventures into e-books were ill-fated, for example, because the prevalence of pirated e-books means consumers were unwilling to pay for them.
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Rights Manager didn't exist four years ago, which means we could see fewer pirated soccer highlights on Facebook and Instagram than we did in 2014.
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But she also comes from having my work screen-captured and pirated and put on the internet without any attribution to myself or my persona.
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This makes Hollywood's claim — that consumers already paying a premium for cable content would choose to hunt down pirated versions of the same programming — very confusing.
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However, in the case of the pirated app distributors, Reuters reports that the apps just reappear under a new enterprise developer certificate after Apple takes action.
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The pirated versions of the movie out there are both HDTC (high quality) and CAM (low quality), probably a lot like the mix of performances themselves.
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According to Kaspersky Lab, the decline might be the result of Google downranking torrent websites from its search results, making the pirated content harder to find.
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On April 3, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a crackdown on online counterfeiting, saying global transactions in fake and pirated goods could reach $500 billion annually.
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The software maker has also tried to fight the large problem of software piracy in China, with activation software designed to prevent Windows from being pirated.
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Among the pirated apps was a version of Spotify which had been modified to block the advertisements that play when you're listening with a free subscription.
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The bump-up in Saudi Arabia's status as a concern was in part due to an illicit service for pirated content called BeoutQ, the report said.
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That means that platforms could set up a reporting system, like ones used to suppress pirated movies, and take down deepfakes when they're notified of them.
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An affidavit by a federal agent, released as part of a seizure warrant for the site's web domains, specified numerous "pirated" songs found on the sites.
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In the case of TutuApp, that means no ads and access to exclusive "VIP customer service" for these pirated games and apps, whatever that may involve.
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But unwanted Game Boy emulators, pirated software, and porn aren't the only ways that Apple's enterprise certificate program has grown beyond Apple's ability to easily control.
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We'd spend hours condensing books into this format she'd decided it could read, just a billion pirated PDFs about economic theory and meteorology and natural history.
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The season 53 premiere had almost 55 million pirated views across illegal streams, downloads, and torrents in the first 24 hours, according to analytics firm MUSO.
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This is the time when pirated copies of DVD screeners (mailed to industry insiders ahead of the Oscars and Golden Globes) begin to show up online.
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Of these, Netflix tends to be pirated for the longest period — 227.6 months, compared with 5.993 months for Amazon Prime Video or 25.99 months for Hulu.
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While people can expose themselves or share pirated content somewhat anonymously on Periscope, Facebook makes it more difficult to create fake accounts by requiring authentic names.
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They get them loaded with pirated movies and music for a small fee at a local corner shop, often packaged with an app called MX Player.
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Amid confusion and panic among many in India, the Bombay High Court has ruled that it is not illegal to watch pirated content on the web.
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A second direction gives CBP far broader powers to crack down on counterfeit and pirated goods and other copyright infringements that cost American companies billions more.
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" Bossert reminded everyone that stolen or pirated versions of software would not receive patches that could prevent such attacks, noting "the worm is in the wild.
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Aside from updating the version on its platform, according to THR, Netflix will be monitoring pirated videos for the original scene and issuing take-down notices.
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Then a friend at the National Theater referred Ogunjiofor to a man who imported videocassettes from abroad and sold them with pirated foreign movies on them.
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At the more extreme end, one Russia-based researcher pirated what she claims is every paywalled academic paper and put them on a website for free.
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The Kaspersky Antivirus would have flagged that other malware, meaning that the contractor would have had to have disabled the antivirus to install the pirated software.
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The Pirate Bay is notorious for hosting a massive, user-maintained index of torrents to pirated material: Movies, TV shows, music, and software, among other things.
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It's one of the most hotly anticipated shows of 343—but it's also set to be one of the most pirated shows of the year too.
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If Plex amassed that data and stored it, it could be used in the future to out those with illegal, pirated media collections, these users said.
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Some people are under the impression that using pirated goods in China is legal, while others are simply not used to paying for software, he said.
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In China, where pirated software is believed to have contributed to the spread of the ransomware, about 4,000 of the 40,000 institutions affected were educational establishments.
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Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said Friday that the solution to the problem of pirated and counterfeit goods "doesn't rest solely" with US government action.
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Rather, it's a filmed version of the original Broadway show (what fans refer to as a "pro-shot" musical, as opposed to dodgy, pirated bootleg recordings).
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While Twitch's livestream directory might have a couple pirated sports streams or sketchy gambling streams, its top ranks aren't nearly as dominated by ads for cheats.
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China shall provide that e-commerce platforms may have their operating licenses revoked for repeated failures to curb the sale of counterfeit or pirated goods. 3.
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When they are loaded with third-party add-ons, the user can access a virtual treasure trove of pirated entertainment media from all over the world.
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Crunchyroll's biggest selling points were that it had shows up on the service faster than pirated versions, professionally translated, and it was supporting the original creators.
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Navarro has been leading the Trump administration's efforts to curb the spread of fake and pirated products online -- particularly on Amazon, the world's largest online retailer.
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Navarro has been leading the Trump administration's efforts to curb the spread of fake and pirated products online — particularly on Amazon, the world's largest online retailer.
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The mining software is distributed via links for things like pirated software, according to a blog posted on Monday by Kaspersky Lab security researcher Aleks Gostev.
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He's well aware 'TLOP' has been pirated more than 500k times, and while he'd never steal music ... he knew the Internet would have a field day.
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However, right holders in the U.S. and elsewhere "continue to report serious challenges to reducing high levels of counterfeit and pirated goods on Taobao," USTR's report noted.
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Two days before its official release, pirated versions of the hotly anticipated Super Mario Party have leaked online, highlighting Nintendo's struggle to fight piracy on the Switch.
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But one of the most popular reasons to jailbreak a Switch is to play pirated ROMs, which Nintendo has been increasingly trying to remove from the internet.
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This high-ranking search score made it a valuable target for bad actors peddling pirated movies, who exploited a personal resume profile tool on NCBI called sciENcv.
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The series also has the distinct honor of being one of the most pirated television shows ever, something HBO has worked hard to prevent in recent years.
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Microsoft's Windows Store has been full of junk apps for years, but a new problem has emerged with apps providing access to pirated movies and TV shows.
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It's common for malware developers to outsource actual hacking to smaller players, with new malware being marketed, analyzed and eventually pirated and reverse-engineered by the competition.
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SOPA and other copyright protection proposals have specifically targeted web infrastructure, hoping to ban registrars and other providers from directing users to websites that host pirated content.
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This means that pirated copies of Switch games should be easily identified by Nintendo, as the network can pinpoint a discrepancy between the software and your hardware.
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Spotify's early use of pirated music is certainly the juiciest anecdote and his story of how he was initially tipped off to that practice is pretty funny.
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"Right holders in the United States and internationally continue to report serious challenges to reducing high levels of counterfeit and pirated goods on Taobao," the report reads.
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The disclosure reflects Amazon's increased concern over the counterfeit problem on its marketplace, as the words "counterfeit" and "pirated" were never mentioned in its annual filing before.
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Google and Microsoft's Bing have teamed up to make it harder for people in the UK to find pirated films and music and illegally stream sport events.
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Custos also intends to incentivize the users of the peer-to-peer networks they are tracking with a monetary reward for identifying the source of pirated material.
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The film's actors and other people from the film industry have been requesting people not to download the pirated version and to watch the film in theatres.
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In February, Motherboard reported that a flight simulator was trying to catch people using pirated software by infecting them with malware designed to steal their Chrome passwords.
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The images were grainy, as if they had been pirated, making the scene far more compelling and dramatic than anything we might have seen on C-Span.
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Ding Li, 21, a recent graduate in Beijing, said he only pays for occasional high-profile games and "when I really can't find free or pirated" streams.
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Earlier this week, IGN reported that Nintendo was cracking down on users who pirated games, so it's possible there could be a similar solution to this situation.
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Pirated software, known as "warez," was accompanied by ANSI art—a form of flashy hacker graffiti that credited the software crackers responsible for providing the illicit files.
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The game never had an official digital release, and the only way to play it is with the four original disks from 1997, or a pirated copy.
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It's not likely that Plex itself wanted to gather metrics like duration, bit rate and resolution in order to identify users' pirated files for its own purposes.
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But this context is usually stripped out when a work is pirated and uploaded to one of the many "free tube" sites that offer material without charge.
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Yes, but: Despite a plethora of paid options, many consumers still access sports games through pirated channels on Reddit and other websites where feeds are illegally embedded.
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But Google's business model remains largely "indifferent to whether consumers arrive at legitimate or pirated goods," according to a recent statement by the Association of American Publishers.
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY The deal includes stronger Chinese legal protections for patents, trademarks, copyrights, including improved criminal and civil procedures to combat online infringement, pirated and counterfeit goods.
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USTR said the deal includes stronger Chinese legal protections for patents, trademarks, copyrights, including improved criminal and civil procedures to combat online infringement, pirated and counterfeit goods.
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When Lee and Haddock's London twopenny weekly, Parley's Illuminated Library, published a pirated version of A Christmas Carol under the byline of Hewitt, Dickens had had enough.
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It is still generally illegal to jailbreak game consoles, because the Librarian of Congress ruled that jailbroken game consoles are almost exclusively used to play pirated games.
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What's more, getting pirated content often involves installing extra software on your system, software that's typically granted a lot of control over what happens over your internet connection.
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Google and Microsoft inked a deal in the UK earlier this year to combat piracy by demoting links to websites that contain pirated content, according to The Guardian.
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You may not of heard of these sites, but because users can upload everything from pirated movies to pornography on some of them, they are quite popular indeed.
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Torrentz didn't host files itself; it instead acted as a search engine, directing people to sites (like KAT) hat facilitated actual peer-to-peer sharing of pirated content.
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Would there be an audit to insure that the deal contained none of the hacked content that Wallace had uploaded, none of the pirated music, no child pornography?
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BBC reports that the block comes as a result of two Bollywood production companies issuing a mass takedown request against websites allegedly hosting pirated copies of its films.
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Not exactly pleasant noises, admittedly, but I anticipate they will bring back a flood of memories, Proust-style, of BBSes, hours-long download times and pirated screen savers.
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While Nintendo has built a system that allows it to identify pirated software, players who are getting their consoles banned aren't necessarily pirates: they are often just modders.
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Netflix also told THR that it will be actively monitoring and issuing take-down requests for pirated distribution of versions of the show that feature the unedited clip.
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And so we had some great letters from people who pirated our game, and if it inspires them, I don't care if they didn't pay for the game.
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Kaspersky notes that the number of people affected by pirated TV-show malware last year was 126,340—a third less than the number of people affected in 2017.
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It turns out that robots aren't very good at identifying pirated porn, TV shows, music or anything else, and that could be a serious issue for Internet companies.
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Us running away from leaks That's not to mention the fact that Game of Thrones continues to be one of the most pirated shows in all of history.
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As the owner of Takedown Piracy, an anti-piracy service that helps protect copyright holders, he has helped to remove over 1.5 million pirated videos off such websites.
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Facebook said via a spokesperson that it uses "reference streams" provided by video publishers and media companies to check for pirated content with a tool called Rights Manager.
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But KSI's manager, Liam Chivers, took a swipe at YouTube and said the team made the decision to move to DAZN to prevent the match from being pirated.
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The infrastructure created to support the version of Smoke Loader in the pirated Microsoft Office files was registered to a "Zhou Lou" of the Hunan providence of China.
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Along with offering free downloads for thousands of pirated games, RomUniverse allegedly sold a $30 annual membership that would give visitors access to an unlimited number of downloads.
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Analysts have, however, warned that a lot of ransomware attacks in India would go unreported because of the high use of readily available pirated software by small companies.
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When paid content from Brazzers, for example, is pirated and posted on PornHub, the studio loses its cut of the subscription fee viewers would normally pay to watch.
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Within weeks, thousands of sacred stones, which had memorialized numerous medieval Armenian merchants — a community whose legacies include Europe's first cafés and Captain Kidd's pirated loot — had disappeared.
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Users increasingly find it easier to use custom media PCs running software like Kodi or Plex that make streaming pirated content to your living room a trivial affair.
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It pointed to a study that found the annual cost to the United States economy of pirated software and counterfeit goods could be as high as $600 billion.
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Microsoft and other Western companies have complained for years about widespread use of pirated software in a number of countries that were hit particularly hard by the attack.
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Along with broad attacks in Europe, many of the estimated 200,000 computers hit by WannaCry were in Asia, where widespread use of pirated software has increased their vulnerability.
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Adoption of broadband internet spiked early in the decade, and, combined with BitTorrent, it became much easier to download and distribute pirated copies of large apps and games.
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It has urged sports bodies to take legal action against the BeoutQ channel which carries pirated broadcasts of global sports events to which beIN Sports holds the rights.
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That low density means that for most Indians, pirated content is the only way to see movies, costing the industry some 3543 percent of potential annual gross collections.
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The result of such a probe could find that China caused losses in the billions of dollars for the U.S. economy due to counterfeit goods and pirated software.
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The Qatari company also accused BeoutQ of moving beyond just online streaming and into the sale of specialized set-top boxes that receive satellite broadcasts of pirated material.
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For much of the past year, BeoutQ, a bootlegging television network, has been unimpeded in broadcasting pirated beIN Sports events using a satellite operator based in Saudi Arabia.
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It was 2007, and he and his law school roommates had been watching a pirated movie when suddenly it cut to a documentary that was apparently spliced in.
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For consumers, it isn't clear yet if there is any security risk or if pirates will be able to gain access to free pirated games using the hack.
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Its unclear exactly how much revenue these pirated software services have generated or exactly how much this has affected the developers behind the legitimate versions of the hacked apps.
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A meeting on the status of anti-piracy efforts at search engines has produced a collaborative approach to better addressing the issue of pirated works appearing in search results.
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Torrent Freak also found that Google displays links to streaming sites known to host pirated content, like Putlocker and Alluc, alongside links to legitimate services, like Hulu and Crackle.
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As Nintendo's anti-piracy method uses encrypted certificates to verify a game's legitimacy, pirated games and modified consoles can be immediately detected and banned from the company's online servers.
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While Kodi is a neutral and legal streaming system, there are lots of add-ons that provide pirated media, and it's a very popular use case for the platform.
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We believe in the film and so the fact that the film's been pirated all over China had the unintended benefit for us of getting the film out there.
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Stahl pointed out that pirated music and movies were spreading primarily on peer-to-peer networks—an obscure precinct of the Internet that was sometimes called the Deep Web.
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That prediction wasn't wrong — but it happened after a jaunt through the world of free, pirated music with Napster, which launched a few months after this article was published.
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There were also concerns that Plex Cloud users whose libraries included pirated movies and TV shows could be putting themselves at risk by publishing those files to the cloud.
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Online, more than 800,000 people paid to watch it for $10 a stream — a respectable number, even with the million or so people who pirated the fight on Twitch.
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The growing shift by listeners to paid subscription services from free or pirated music listening are a key factor driving the improved financial health of the wider music industry.
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As you can see in this aerial shot from May 2016 (after the Slims was pirated), the Slims is a fraction of its former self — largely silt and mud.
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As Motherboard has reported, Nintendo Switch piracy is built on a complex supply chain of exploits, pieces of custom firmware, and tools to allow users to play pirated games.
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Amongst the pirated music, beauty hauls, and cat videos, YouTube has become a safe and supportive space for those who are exploring or questioning their sexuality or gender identity.
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Online pirates have reportedly pirated Disney's new Pirate of the Caribbean film, and they're asking for a whole lot of booty in return for keeping it off the Internet.
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One morning, I walked around the corner to a dirt road lined with small shops, where you could find Popsicles, concrete mix, puppies, prostitutes, and the latest pirated DVDs.
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According to the IP Commission's 2017 report, the American economy suffers annual losses between $225 billion and $600 billion from counterfeit goods, pirated software, and theft of trade secrets.
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The week around Christmas is the top grossing week for movie theaters in China, as young Chinese head out to theaters together instead of watching pirated DVDs at home.
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In recent years, since the government began cracking down on pirated content and, especially since 2012, imported content, companies have been thirsty for high-quality original material made locally.
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Also of interest, Reelgood now has seven team members who previously worked on Popcorn Time – the not-quite-legal service that was once dubbed the Netflix for pirated content.
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At the time Rights Manager launched on Facebook, video owners had two options: They could either take the pirated video down, or leave it up for the added reach.
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An even bigger legal headache on top of the pirated variations of Sega Genesis games, modders have also uploaded other commercial Genesis games that aren't available on the platform.
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It can't be pirated and watched for free because the whole point of it is that it's intimate and personal—you're actually interacting with the person behind the screen.
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A record 16.5 million viewers tuned into the season seven finale last August, not to mention the folks who pirated the show more than a billion times last year.
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Catch the debut of Curb Your Enthusiasm season nine on October 1 on HBO if you aren't one of those terrible criminals who pirated the episodes already or whatever.
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Throughout the city, thousands of pirated CDs are churned out each day, and some artists even pay to appear on them, hoping the exposure will somehow be worth it.
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And for all of the impact of the weekend's cyberattack, Mr. Parenty said he did not think that there would be a big effect on attitudes toward pirated software.
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This week's hearing focused on two pieces of the law: Section 512, which spells out platforms' liability for pirated content, and Section 1201, which limits cracking digital copy protection.
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He taught himself how to play by listening to pirated cassettes of Ali Farka Touré, Dire Straits and Jimi Hendrix, although he often didn't know what he was hearing.
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Then a friend played him "Bromance," a rousing house track by the Swedish producer Avicii, and Kygo's focus shifted; he downloaded pirated music software to make his own tracks.
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY USTR said the deal includes stronger Chinese legal protections for patents, trademarks, copyrights, including improved criminal and civil procedures to combat online infringement, pirated and counterfeit goods.
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The most vulnerable authors are those who write series: when book one does well, but book two is heavily pirated, book three could end up dead in the water.
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The NSA told Microsoft about the tool soon after it leaked, but plenty of people around the world either don't update their computers or used older, pirated versions of Windows.
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An international collective of search giants thinking of creating a blacklist of all known pirated works, which will be compared with search results every five minutes and any matches removed.
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The new additions to the top 10 most pirated this week include the comedy Tag, the weird body-horror future of Upgrade, and the harrowing tale of two people Adrift.
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Even though the bulk of Chinese users of Microsoft software acquired pirated versions without paying Microsoft, the company was nonetheless criticized for ending support in favor of its newer software.
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A trail of virtual breadcrumbs has since led reporters to unearth thousands of prohibited iOS apps, from gambling and porn software to pirated games and ad-free versions of Spotify.
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Yet BuzzFeed News' queries show the company's recommendation system continues to promote conspiracy videos, videos produced by hate groups, and pirated videos published by accounts that YouTube itself sometimes bans.
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A model like this will also have a local economic impact by encouraging traditional moviegoers to stay home, reducing in-theater revenue and making high-quality pirated content readily available.
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A pirated compact disc of Microsoft's Windows 10 can be bought for around $2 in New Delhi, compared with $130 needed to buy the operating system from Microsoft's online portal.
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But the wide and immediate availability of a pirated version of his film certainly undercuts the potential for CK to profit off a theme of sexual misconduct in the future.
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Thousands came to fill up the Manchester Arena, hundreds of thousands paid to watch the official YouTube stream, and more than a million others tuned in to pirated Twitch streams.
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It recently won a court order blocking the sale of Roku streaming devices in Mexico on grounds that the gadgets are used by criminals to illegally sell pirated television content.
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Then there's the complex supply chain involved in getting a pirated game onto peoples' consoles, which involves hackers creating different sorts of software to obtain and eventually run the games.
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But it would not make it straightforward to install Cydia or pirated, or malicious apps, according to the former Apple security engineer, who is familiar with these types of exploits.
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If one of Facebook's mid-roll or pre-roll ads were to appear in a pirated video, the owner can then use the "claim earnings" tool to redirect ad revenue.
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However what they are choosing to use is predominantly pirated content from many of the same producers and performers that they purport to want to support and be champions of.
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WOULD IT BE THAT EASY TO JUST MOVE IT AROUND TO WHERE IT WOULD SUDDENLY BECOME – THIS WOULD BECOME SORT OF A PIRATED VERSION OF A DANGEROUS IOS AROUND AMERICA?
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If you're watching your porn for free, it is very likely the content is pirated—which means it is stolen—and the paperwork intended to protect performers is likely missing.
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Apparently Pornhub's users have been uploading a slew of pirated scenes—the ones you'd specifically want to avoid watching with your parents—putting the site at risk of copyright infringement.
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Cablevision, the cable TV operator owned by Mexican media giant Televisa, had taken Roku to court alleging that Roku's gadgets are being hacked to allow users to watch pirated channels.
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While piracy is a rampant problem in Mexico, Roku says it's not enabling the channels distributing pirated content on its platforms, and, in fact, is taking them down when found.
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A federal investigation is underway into an alleged bootlegging operation on Capitol Hill that sold thousands of dollars worth of pirated copies of popular TV shows, NBC Washington reported Wednesday.
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To give one measure of the interest in these pirated streams, one posted two years ago by a user called WizzyIggy had been viewed 177,43 times as of Monday afternoon.
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Rather than directly hosting the pirated files, Pirate Bay hosts torrents — a kind of data file that enables people with torrenting software to them download files directly from other users.
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A task force of editors in the developed world are desperately trying to get Bangladeshis play by Wikipedia's existing rules by closely monitoring and banning people who upload pirated content.
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One of my favorite finds on the site involves the pirated NES game Titenic, a bootleg adaptation of the movie Titanic produced by the prolific pirate cart house Hummer Team.
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A wide spanning community of reverse engineers, developers, and hackers are constantly creating software and tools that pirates can use to add features to their Switch and run pirated games.
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Gun CAD files will join child porn and pirated movies on the list of content it's nearly impossible to find on big tech platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube.
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That might be a shock, considering Martocci estimates that 95 percent of digital instruments and sample packs are pirated because they're often expensive with no try-before-you-buy option.
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Authorities there had protested it — several of them had colluded with Blackbeard, who had bought a house, married a local woman and fenced pirated goods in the diminutive capital, Bath.
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It began in August 1619, when some 20 frightened, bewildered and beleaguered Africans arrived in Jamestown, Va., as prizes that had been pirated from Spanish ships on the open seas.
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In the years after the American-led invasion, cheaply printed and brazenly pirated books from Pakistan were as dominant as that country's fruits and vegetables in the markets of Kabul.
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Along a stretch of five or six blocks, vendors selling everything from wristwatches to dish towels to pirated DVDs began their operations on the sidewalk and bled into the street.
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While Amazon says it has a "zero tolerance" policy for copycat products and has developed tools to help manage the problem, its marketplace continues to be plagued by pirated goods.
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The online service offers a wide swath of pirated movies from major networks such as HBO and streaming services including Netflix as well as current releases from top movie studios.
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This flashy interpolation didn't really exist in opera lovers' imaginations before Maria Callas was captured doing it in pirated, widely circulated live recordings from Mexico City in the early 1950s.
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The rapper admitted online that he doesn't use Jay-Z's premier streaming service, and had to get a pirated copy of the Tidal-exclusive new album 4:44 through a friend.
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The app does explain in the terms of service that by giving the app permission, users are consenting to LaLiga using their phones to detect fraudulent behavior, like pirated soccer games.
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Granted, the much-anticipated match managed to choke several sites with excessive traffic, with both Reddit and Discord experiencing some limited service due—most likely—to those seeking a pirated stream.
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Orient Cable, a regional cable provider in Dipolog City in the Zamboanga del Norte district of the Philippines, aired a badly pirated version of Endgame, according to the Philippine News Agency.
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One possibility is that the botnet was timed to coincide with the upcoming first anniversary of NotPetya, Russia's best-known malware, which ravaged pirated and unpatched Windows computers around the world.
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After the meeting, Boback's lawyer mentioned that a partner in his firm knew Orrin Hatch, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who had spoken out against pirated music and movies.
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Years ago, if you wanted to watch a TV show from another country, you'd have to venture into the shadier sections of the internet for scratchy, pirated versions with shoddy subtitles.
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Nintendo will likely be the primary target for software hackers who want to customize their Switch, and those who will likely seek to run pirated software and games on the device.
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While Kodi is legal software that can be installed in a set-top box for streaming, it supports a myriad of third-party add-ons that provide access to pirated media.
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There was a time in my life (ahem, grad school) when I would have pirated the software, but now that I can afford it, I'm trying to atone for my sins.
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Putting a collection of those links in one Drive and sharing it over social media is like passing around a secret phonebook containing the listings for all your favorite pirated content.
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Separately, Sharp also plead guilty to conspiring to "distribute more than one million pirated copies of copyrighted Android apps with a total retail value of more than $1.7 million" through SnappzMarket.
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In fact, after looking further at the website, Mile High Media's studios (Sweet Sinner, Sweetheart, Erotic X, Dark X, Hard X, etc.) make up a large percent of the pirated content.
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"We live in harmony," said Rohaina Babar, a 40-year-old Muslim woman who sells clothes from one of Quiapo's many street stalls that offer everything from headscarves to pirated DVDs.
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And then it also comes from a literal place of having a lot of my shows pirated, screen captured, and then posted online without any credit or my name on them.
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Because sites like KickassTorrents only allow users to provide links to pirated content, the defense goes that those sites should not be held responsible for what users do with that freedom.
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The earlier Kaspersky report noted the NSA contractor accidentally infected his or her own system with separate malware at the time by trying to install a pirated version of Microsoft Word.
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The OECD cited the post-financial crisis revival in trade, the emergence of globalized value chains and booming e-commerce as reasons for the rise in pirated goods trade since 2008.
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These merchants' legacies, documented in Sebouh Aslanian's From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean, include the legendary treasures of the "Adventure Prize" ship pirated in 1698 by celebrated outlaw Captain Kidd.
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China alone reported disruptions at nearly 13,000 organizations, including about 4,000 academic institutions, figures that experts say are most likely to be low estimates, given the prevalence of pirated software there.
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"We were forced to go to court against Twitch Interactive with a demand to cease the spread of pirated broadcasts," Rambler Group's project manager Mikhail Gershkovich told Russian news outlet Kommersant.
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The game has also benefited from a thriving mod scene, much of which involved pirated music — something the developers have been trying to discourage without suppressing the community as a whole.
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When Game of Thrones was at its cultural zenith, pirated copies of the show, available for download on torrent sites like The Pirate Bay, often contained various forms of hidden malware.
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At a recent meeting of major industry players in New York on the subject of ad-supported pirated content, TeaTV was one topic of conversation, according to a person in attendance.
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Augustine Fou, an independent ad fraud researcher and consultant, said despite the industry's supposed concern about having ads show up next to pirated and other content, the problem has just intensified.
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A WORLD WE ALL DREAMED OF Poland's love of video games stems from the Communist era when students flocked to street markets to swap pirated games, building up a flourishing community.
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Last February, Amazon began warning investors in its annual report that it may never be able to prevent third-party merchants from selling "counterfeit, pirated or stolen goods" on the platform.
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It recently won a court order blocking the sale of Roku streaming devices in Mexico on the grounds that the gadgets are used by criminals to illegally sell pirated television content.
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Since these types of results are algorithmically-generated, it's unlikely that Google is intentionally promoting this type of content so prominently, given its prior efforts to promote legitimate sources over pirated ones.
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Roku had argued at the time of the original ruling that it was not enabling the distribution of pirated content on its platform, and was, in fact, taking channels down when found.
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It claimed that the employee had to disable the anti-virus software in order to activate pirated software, and its possible a third party pilfered the classified files while it was vulnerable.
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The answer to the most obvious question is no, you can't just fire this up and start playing Wave Race 64 (or a pirated Zelda) on your Switch 15 minutes from now.
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And a week ago I couldn't wait any longer, I was in a craze, so I downloaded a pirated version as soon as I learned it was already available in some countries.
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More people have probably accessed it via pirated copies, but that's barely enough to cover basic pay for his cast and crew, which go beyond the production costs the fan's payments cover.
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Arguably he didn't have much choice: Between May 2010 through August 2012, he helped run Applanet, distributing over 4 million pirated Android apps that would have retailed for more than $17 million.
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Unlike, say, the PlayStation or Saturn, the Dreamcast didn't even need a modchip or tricksy CD swap tricks to play pirated discs, so its copy protection was a disaster in this regard.
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Our games were certainly not for sale over there, because they were the 'bad guys' and the villains, but they would get these pirated versions, and these games would give them hope.
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Late last month, a number of Japanese Twitter users began noticing pirated clips of Gachinko Fight Club being recommended on YouTube, through both the site's suggested videos sidebar and its autoplay feature.
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Titanic numbers of pirated songs and movies, and countless lawsuits, later, he's putting the finishing touches on what he hopes will be another world-changing protocol—this time for moving around money.
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While a model can be used to scan for porn star's faces, it can just as easily be trained to hunt for undesirable things — like pirated movies, spam, and even underage performers.
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Kaspersky says the analyst's computer was infected with malware through "an illegal Microsoft Office activation key generator," that was apparently used to activate some pirated software that was downloaded on the computer.
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Since "The Life of Pablo" dropped on Saturday, more than half a million people have already downloaded a pirated copy of the album, according to TorrentFreak, a file-sharing and copyright website.
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The online retail giant has added non-compliant USB-C cables to its list of items prohibited for sale on its website, which already includes pirated DVDs and non-compliant electrical products.
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While there are some very primitive and difficult tools that can let you run unsigned code or play pirated games, it's clear the game console manufacturers have hardened their systems near perfection.
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When a company-provided software patch did not work, the employee was told to use one from Qihoo 360, which supports pirated and out-of-date versions of Windows, the person said.
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Facebook and Twitter and YouTube all declined to comment on specific plans to combat piracy, but pointed us to their respective policies or technology features meant to prevent pirated content from spreading.
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Yandex in particular has been under threat by regulators for its refusal to take more serious steps to block pirated content — the company argues that it isn't required by law to do so.
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With all of this familial love, it's impossible not to see how a show watched by millions, and pirated by even more, could make incest seem a little bit less shocking for television.
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This list from Variety, found by Quoctrung Bui, one of our graphics editors, makes an important point: The top 10 pirated movies of 2015 were downloaded far more often than in previous years.
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And even more important, it could help cut down on people turning to free, pirated live streams when they're unwilling to sign up for a recurring subscription or watch through other, legal means.
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In turn, Perlego says it helps publishers monetise their content to a large segment of price-sensitive students that would otherwise buy their books from the used-books market or download pirated copies.
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But this isn't as easy for millions of users running pirated versions of Windows, or for businesses and users who are blissfully unaware of just how prone to exploits their ancient computers are.
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It's also hard to feel any sympathy for a guy who's been accused of paying people to upload pirated content and makes these embarrassing god awful music videos about how rich he is.
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And yet, if Huanxi Media can crack the code of the Chinese market, where most people watch pirated movies on Youku, Mubi will still have a 30 percent stake in the joint venture.
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Pirated broadcasts of the boxing match seemed to be everywhere on social media: on Twitter, one top stream had 70,000 people tuning in on Periscope, and there were other ones floating around, too.
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The studio even uploaded a special version of its game Shooting Stars on a number of torrent sites as an experiment, one that couldn't be completed if you were playing a pirated copy.
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The two strategies aren't mutually exclusive, however, and the tension between them is central to the ongoing efforts to convert music from a discrete product that can be pirated into an ongoing service.
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Last month, a French court ruled that pirated sports content belonging to beIN was accessible via a Saudi-based satellite operator, but said it had not found evidence of "clear and illegal disruption".
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In the decades in which Nigerians could no longer go to the movies in the cinema, pirated home videos of foreign films from Hollywood, Bollywood, and Hong Kong had filled the entertainment vacuum.
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Such can be a fate of nuanced art in a sphere of gross politics, where Kollwitz's stated, and achieved, intention to express "the suffering of human beings" could be pirated to tendentious ends.
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There's long been a far-fetched rumor that Adobe intentionally leaks pirated copies of Photoshop and Illustrator to hook young, aspiring artists on its software before they transition into careers as professional designers.
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The Recording Industry Association of America recently released the results of its annual study on the state of counterfeit and pirated goods, and quite frankly their methods seem a little less than scientific.
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The United States Trade Representative said the Phase 1 deal includes stronger Chinese legal protections for patents, trademarks, copyrights, including improved criminal and civil procedures to combat online infringement, pirated and counterfeit goods.
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But as the country scrambles to recover from a global hacking assault that hit its companies, government agencies and universities especially hard, the risks of its dependence on pirated software are becoming clear.
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But unlike other common security screwups—using "password" for your password, downloading pirated software from shady websites—there's no practical way for a modern human to avoid opening the occasional mystery-meat attachment.
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While details on the widespread piracy of Photoshop are largely anecdotal, a 2009 report from a group of software makers, including Adobe, estimated that more than 40 percent of PC software was pirated.
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The United States Trade Representative said the Phase 1 deal includes stronger Chinese legal protections for patents, trademarks, copyrights, including improved criminal and civil procedures to combat online infringement, pirated and counterfeit goods.
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In April, President Donald Trump ordered a crackdown on counterfeit items on e-commerce sites, saying the value of global trade in pirated and counterfeit goods is half a trillion dollars per year.
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The record-setting revenue is particularly impressive considering that GoT is the most-pirated show ever, and HBO has struggled with not one, but two episodes leaking online ahead of schedule this season.
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Lawyers representing the United States had previously argued that Megaupload's practices, such as paying rewards to repeat copyright infringers, were evidence that Megaupload was made with the aim of providing access to pirated files.
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It was removed from the list in 2012 after it made efforts to address concerns of intellectual property rights holders and committed to reduce the number of pirated and counterfeit goods on its website.
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The issue first arose when Cablevision, the cable TV operator owned by Mexican media giant Televisa, took Roku to court alleging that Roku devices were being hacked to allow users to watch pirated channels.
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Despite attempts to prevent pirated versions of "Avengers: Endgame" from reaching fans ahead of the film's release, a 1.2-gigabyte torrent of the movie recorded in a Chinese theater has found its way online.
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The revelation of the code further validates findings outlined in the previous BuzzFeed News article, which revealed that several IBT properties were buying traffic that originated on pirated video-streaming and file-sharing websites.
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But it's not farfetched to imagine curious teenagers or those eager to find pirated software for free to go Google searching for this seedy iOS underbelly, and it's truly not that difficult to find.
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Clearly, the people behind these channels have figured out how to game YouTube's recommendation algorithm faster than YouTube can chase them down, leading the company to recommend their pirated videos before imminently deleting them.
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The most generous explanation is that WikiLeaks wanted to freely share the details from Wolff's widely discussed book, but if you're looking for pirated ebooks, there are plenty of other places to get them.
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This, by the way, is the same act that is protecting social media sites from being sued for helping ISIS and that protects sites like YouTube from being repeatedly sued over hosting pirated material.
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It went from being a physical object, something that you needed to drive to Tower Records and buy, to being data that was largely pirated and then broken up into all these different streams.
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The issue here is likely the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which essentially gives Facebook a reason to not seek out pirated content since it's only liable if it knows about it and ignores it.
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"The businesses that are accused of using the Roku platform to distribute pirated content in Mexico developed Roku channels, and then sold subscriptions to these channels directly to end users," explains a Roku spokesperson.
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YouTube and Google collectively receive more than 900 million takedown notices per year around pirated videos, from artists and companies who are desperate to keep their works from being streamed illegally, and without compensation.
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Scammers are actively exploiting a bug in Firefox that causes the browser to lock up after displaying a message warning that the computer is running a pirated version of Windows that has been hacked.
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Prior to its release, many people in Pakistan had been sharing pirated PDF copies on social media and one bookseller in the capital Islamabad said that 300 people signed up for pre-sale copies.
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The worker disabled it in order to run a tool known as a keygen that would generate a software key that would allow him to run the pirated Microsoft Office software on his machine.
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It was then that the former partners at Tidal turned on each other (despite the producer's 2013 admission of using pirated software himself), and a (trolling) battle for the ages was set in motion.
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Proponents of Popcorn Time argued that the site was an easy and convenient way to access public-domain films, but the service was also host to illegally downloaded or pirated movies and TV shows.
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It is not clear whether every company or institution in China affected by the ransomware, which locked users out of their computers and demanded payment to allow them to return, was using pirated software.
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Many users, he said, did not update their software to get the latest safety features because of a fear that their copies would be damaged or locked, while universities offered only older, pirated versions.
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Often located on foreign soil, many vendors who sell on these third-party marketplaces are now inundating American homes with counterfeits, pirated products and other contraband such as deadly fentanyl and other synthetic opioids.
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The U.S. and China agreed that both parties will work to "combat the prevalence of counterfeit or pirated goods" by taking "effective action" when the online platforms have failed to prevent intellectual property infringement.
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At that time, EU also released an act, which is directed at unlawful material and is applicable for all EU countries; terrorists' speech, violence content, children molestation, fake products and pirated material were involved.
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Artists may be alarmed by Clayton's generally untroubled view of sharing pirated files, but it is hard not to be swept up in his celebration of viral culture and the joys of public listening.
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Once completed in Asaba, the movies find their way to every corner of Africa, released in the original English, dubbed into French or African languages, and sometimes readapted, repackaged and often pirated for local audiences.
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Popular coding repository GitHub received a DMCA request (the same tool copyright holders use to remove links to pirated music and movies online) to remove a domain name from the ad blocking list and consented.
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A Kodi set-top box is not in itself illegal, but people can purchase "fully-loaded" Kodi boxes from third parties that come with all the software they need for convenient streaming of pirated media.
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And just days ago, YouTube apparently began recommending pirated episodes of that reality show to Japanese users, who seemingly binged it in the thousands, playing "Over Your Shoulder" over and over again in the process.
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If people felt sorry for those poor college students being picked on by the big music industry, imagine how the public will feel about patients with inadequate insurance availing themselves of necessary but pirated prescriptions.
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So, young Cuban designers are coming up with "guerrilla" means of promotion, like offline apps, tee-shirt branding and commercials on El Paquete, a package of often-pirated media delivered across Cuba on USB sticks.
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That means strong, well-defined consequences for repeat offenders, easing the process for filing notices and ensuring that services are using the best technology to take pirated material off their sites and keep it off.
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"The first is to convert users who consume pirated music; they can access music through our free tier which also gives artists the opportunity to earn from their work," Batra said in an emailed statement.
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As long as Spotify or Apple Music or Tidal have most of what you want, you'll probably see people make do with whatever is available and augment their downloaded libraries with purchased or pirated music.
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In a May 0003 profile, Slate called him "the salvation of the underpaid photographer," estimating that he had obtained millions of dollars of settlements for photographers whose work would otherwise have been pirated without penalty.
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During the World Cup, it added its own commentary over some of the pirated coverage, and recently it began showing anti-Qatar messaging and personal insults against members of Qatar's ruling family between its broadcasts.
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As China's technological ambition grows, it is trying to shed its reputation for fake gadgets and pirated software, and get ready for a day when it must defend its own intellectual property against rival economies.
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Intelligence officials and security experts say that digital clues point to North Korea-linked hackers in the ransomware attacks that have crippled computer systems, including in China, where the use of pirated software is common.
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According to HBO, Game of Thrones' series finale drew 19.3 million viewers, not to mention that the show has, up until The Mandalorian's release, had the honor of being the most pirated television show ever.
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Tencent Music's IPO comes as the global music industry gets back on track with more listeners streaming music through smartphone apps compared to a few years ago when the market was dominated by pirated music.
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In an internal investigation, Russian security company Kaspersky Lab claims to have obtained classified NSA documents after a contractor for the U.S. intelligence agency used a pirated copy of Microsoft's Office software infected with malware.
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Real numbers are famously obscure, though one researcher estimates that pirated porn on so-called tube sites costs the business $2 billion a year—and those tube sites are among the most trafficked on the internet.
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I understand if it might feel more than a little difficult to feel remorse for the parties involved, that has been a common refrain for pirated content popping up from whatever group for whatever reason though.
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The manager of the Sex Pistols, Malcolm Mclaren, makes a cameo in Vivienne Westwood's infamous Sex Boutique on the King's Road, and clips would later turn up, pirated, in seminal documentaries on the birth of punk.
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While this all may make little sense from an outsider perspective — after all, if we can know how many people pirated Game of Thrones, why can't we know how many people watched a show on Netflix?
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The whole time Kim Dotcom was riding high off money gained by letting people share pirated entertainment, he popped off in the kind of brash, trash-talking bluster that makes a person look like an asshole.
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Image: ShutterstockYou can find almost anything on Reddit, including free, pirated movies, which is why one movie studio has started to not just go after the sources of these videos, but the places that aggregate them.
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Season 8 of HBO's Game of Thrones, the world's most popular show, was pirated 66 million times globally, according to anti-piracy and market analytics firm Muso, compared with 19 million who watched the finale legally.
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Roku is once again selling its products in Mexico after a court ruling overturned a July 2017 ban on the popular streaming devices due to concerns that hackers were using them to illegally stream pirated content.
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It holds the Guinness World Records for Most Pirated TV program, Largest TV Drama simulcast, Most Emmy awards for a fictional series and Most Most Emmy Awards for a drama series (110 nominations and 38 wins).
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Photo: Getty ImagesSpoilers be damned, a local Philippine cable station has invited the fury of theaters and fans by airing a pirated version of Avengers: Endgame just one day after the film premiered in the country.
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She bought Photoshop from a small tienda down the street, one that sold pirated music, films, and software, and would share images of herself on hi5, a social networking site that was popular at the time.
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How Kaspersky says it happened: A member of a secret NSA hacking group uploaded the classified surveillance tools to his home computer, which became infected with a virus thanks to a pirated copy of Microsoft Office.
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The case is the latest episode in Nintendo's battle against piracy, with the company recently increasing its efforts to shut down any operation that distributes pirated Nintendo games, including websites that served a critical archiving resource.
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Seeing as how Game of Thrones holds the honor of being the worlds' most pirated show for five years running, it makes sense that as it comes to a close, producers want to be more careful.
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While Kodi's open-source software itself doesn't facilitate piracy, through a number of downloadable add-ons, it's relatively easy for consumers to figure out how to stream pirated content thanks to online tutorials and YouTube videos.
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Industry leaders say the growing adoption of paid music streaming services is enabling the market to reach new regions of the world while helping weaning a generation of music fans away from free or pirated music.
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In the mid- to late aughts, the porn industry was undergoing rapid change as sites like Pornhub and XVideos hosted user-pirated content from major studios on their platforms, where anyone could watch it for free.
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So does the new attention on the perils of digital platforms, from the proliferation of so-called Fake News, the outrage over objectionable content, or how hackers use pirated movies and TV shows to infect computers.
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"As far as [pirated] Switch games go this is the biggest ever," JJB, the administrator of WarezNX, a popular Switch piracy community that typically uses the gaming chat platform Discord, told Motherboard in an online chat.
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But right away there were signs the novel would take on a life of its own: A pirated version of Wilbour's translation was soon released in Richmond, Va., where the Union's copyright laws did not apply.
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They argue that a phone with a third-party operating system might have shorter battery life, security vulnerabilities, may break some of the phone's software features, and can allow users to install pirated or unauthorized software.
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Since primarily all they do is find existing sites that host pirated content, grab working links, and present them in Kodi's user-friendly interface, Betzen rates the complexity about the same as creating a simple web page.
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"These were people who were figuring out crafty ways to use the internet while big studios were trying not to get DVDs pirated," said University of Southern California lecturer Heather Berg, whose research focuses on sex workers.
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Mediengruppe Bitnik, whose work Random Darknet Shopper involved sending a bot on a darknet shopping spree where it randomly bought drugs—ecstasy, for instance—pirated goods, and other nefarious items which were then sent to a gallery.
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"Ease of use, fast uninterrupted streaming, high definition pictures and sound, multiple language support, tailored services—are just a few example areas where companies can really outperform piracy and differentiate their products from pirated versions," he noted.
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A report by the independent, bipartisan Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property estimates that pirated software, counterfeit goods and theft of trade secrets costs the U.S. economy between $225 billion and $600 billion a year.
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China seems to be the biggest target, after the U.S. concluded that Beijing's trade actions have meant a loss of billions of dollars to the U.S. economy, due to the presence of counterfeit goods and pirated software.
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As a teenager in the late 80s and early 90s, my friends' older siblings hauled out often-pirated VHS tapes of her feature films, along with the original Decline, as examples of cool movies featuring cool characters.
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But if the recent history of the internet is any guide, stopping people from sharing just about anything — whether it's pirated music or a 3D-printed gun blueprint — is going to be very hard, if not impossible.
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The photos are childhood snapshots of Ms. Perry and her twin brother, Sandy, who was one of the N.C.A.A. basketball players whose likenesses were pirated, just a few years ago, by the video game company E.A. Sports.
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"What we call free porn is a misnomer, because it's very often pirated or stolen," said Shira Tarrant, author of "The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know," and a professor at California State University, Long Beach.
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For recipients, the pirated bars pose a compliance threat: Anyone who holds such metal - including jewelers, banks and electronics firms - risks inadvertently violating global rules designed to keep metal of unknown or criminal origin out of circulation.
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Since achieving his dream, he has relished the adventure of sailing pirated waters in the Gulf of Aden, accepted the risks of North Sea storms, and endured 10-month long stretches of separation from everyone he loved.
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The agreement also calls on China to "significantly increase" enforcement actions against exports of counterfeit and pirated goods by May 14, and to increase training of customs personnel to stop trade in fake goods by Nov. 14.
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And while the TickBox TV and Candadian TV Addons suits have substantive differences, it's still worth noting that neither targets the specific developers behind those infringing plugins, or the people putting pirated materials online in the first place.
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Some channels decided to exit Roku on their own, and others were booted by the device maker in the days that followed, including popular sources for pirated or illegally streamed content like XTV, USTVNOW, Channel Pear, and others.
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Furthermore, senior officials in the Cuban government have acknowledged publicly that due to the growing presence of the internet and the availability of pirated media from abroad, the state has lost control of the information on the island.
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Known as Section 230, that clause prevents plaintiffs from suing your ISP for unwittingly transmitting a pirated movie, and it has historically protected platforms like Facebook and Twitter from liability for anything someone does in a public post.
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Three members of a Santa Clara family and three accomplices were charged with forging arcade cabinets, loading them up with pirated versions of classic arcade games like Pac-Man, Galaga, and Tank Battalion, The Mercury News reported Thursday.
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The memo signed by Trump said that the value of global trade in counterfeit and pirated goods may rise to half a trillion dollars a year, with about 20 percent of this trade infringing upon U.S. intellectual property.
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Again, don't hold your breath waiting for pirated games on this console — this exploit could snap shut any moment — but if you're interested at all in the inner workings of your electronics, this should be a fun time.
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To her credit, Wright uses the fraught matter of pirated antiquities to wrestle with the complex morality of archaeology, undermining the glamour of the Indiana Jones archetype and challenging the notion of museums as a site of serenity.
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The show, which was available legally via HBO in the US or Sky in the UK, became the most pirated television series of all time, with more than 100,000 illegal downloads per day at one point in 2015.
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At the beginning of April, Wikipedia editors had detected roughly 70 different accounts that were uploading pirated content; by April 16, they had detected close to 300, though it's unknown how many people those accounts actually belong to.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Counterfeited and pirated goods accounted for up to 2.5 percent of world trade, or as much as $461 billion, significantly damaging companies and state coffers, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Monday.
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Thinking about the park triggers flashes of Archie comics, pirated DVDs, my first ever Red Hot Chili Peppers album, and the nasi goreng I'd sometimes try to convince my dad to get on our way home from school.
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Taobao has spent more than a decade trying to revive its old image of an online bazaar teeming with fakes and "shanzhai" items, which are not outright pirated goods but whose names or designs intimate those of legitimate brands.
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And then there were the "fully loaded" Kodi boxes—otherwise vanilla streaming devices that come with, or make easily accessible, so-called addons that seek out unlicensed content—that deliver pirated movies and TV shows with push-button ease.
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There are a few big-name films like Antz, Cars, and Resident Evil, which the CIA has withheld (alongside less prominent copyrighted videos) in case someone was planning to download a 174GB file to fish around for pirated media.
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Fans complained about the lag, and HBO—aware that Game of Thrones had become "the most pirated program across the world," according to Dr. Zoe Shacklock, an associate lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St. Andrews—conceded.
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I genuinely hope you had the restraint to save it for Sunday, instead of squinting through the pixelated pirated version, which rendered the darker scenes impenetrable and had the dragons looking like they were made out of Lego bricks.
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There are hundreds of copies of music-streaming apps that shill pirated content to make it harder to track them down one by one and allow for single-shot bursts of revenue capture before they're found out or retired.
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Taobao was put on the USTR blacklist in 2011 but removed in 2012 after it made efforts to address concerns of intellectual property rights holders and committed to cut the number of pirated and counterfeit goods on its website.
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The company has been fighting a legal ban in the Mexico, where cable operators are trying to stop the import and distribution of Roku devices on the grounds that they are sometimes hacked in order to watch pirated channels.
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In January, the media arms of Bell, Rogers, and Quebecor formed FairPlay, a coalition of dozens of Canadian media entities lobbying the federal telecom regulator—the CRTC—to implement a system for blocking websites serving pirated content in Canada.
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As well as selling SD cards containing pirated Switch games, Nintendo's lawsuit also alleges Euskaldunak offered modified NES Classic consoles that come pre-loaded with over 800 different games, many more than the off the shelf version comes with.
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As TechCrunch's Matt Burns pointed out before, a partnership between a service like Plex and Amazon could be tricky due to the fact that some Plex users' libraries contain pirated material – something that Amazon prohibits hosting on its servers.
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One person on Twitter recommended that pirated internet torrents should now come with a "national anthem file attached," and another wrote that food vendors in cinemas should exclaim "Bharat Mata ki jai," or "Hail Mother India," when serving popcorn.
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Of course unlike the other platforms mentioned, Google doesn't host these deepfake videos, it simply indexes those hosted on other sites — though in the past Google has downgraded content, such as pirated movies and TV shows, in its results.
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Virginia representative Bob Goodlatte contended that, compared to a platform like YouTube, the speed and simultaneity of livestreaming presents a slew of challenges when it comes to taking down, say, a pirated UFC stream before the damage is done.
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I have friends, more technologically minded than me, who prefer streaming matches through a Kodi box (a set-top device that runs an open-source media app that can be used to stream pirated content, including illegal sports streams).
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When nearly one-third of the audience for "Hannibal" is coming from pirated sites — despite the fact that a legitimate download for each episode was available the following day — you don't have to know calculus to do the math.
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Since the start of the crisis, beIN's broadcasts — matches for which it has paid hundreds of millions of dollars for the exclusive rights — have been pirated by entity known as beoutQ, which Qatar contends is based in Saudi Arabia.
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The game—in two different file formats—is being widely shared on torrent sites, in piracy-focused Discord channels, and in gaming mod forums, where people talk about how to modify their consoles to play homebrew, unlicensed, and pirated games.
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BeIN Media Group filed a complaint in France against Saudi-based Arabsat to try to establish, in what it said was a "credible" court, that Arabsat was carrying pirated broadcasts of global sports events to which beIN held the rights.
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Having been crowned the "most pirated TV show" for a few years now, it should come as no surprise that HBO's "Game of Thrones" sparked another surge in online piracy, after the debut of the first episode of the new season.
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In place of its usual feed of videos, song links and industry gossip, the site displayed a seizure notice from the federal government, a result of a raid of dozens of websites suspected of trafficking in counterfeit goods and pirated content.
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There's a pirated version of Niantic's Pokémon Go that allows you to spoof your location so you can access parts of the world you aren't physically located in, and cheating software for popular games like battle royale shooter PUBG Mobile.
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The article did not link to sites where the pirated copies were available, did not mention the names of these pirate sites, and used three screenshots to show the watermarks that indicated these video files had been distributed as screeners.
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Of those 55 million pirated views, MUSO says that the vast majority (76.6 percent) came from unofficial streams of the episode, with web downloads accounting for 12.2 percent of views, public torrents for 10.8 percent, and private torrents for 0.5 percent.
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But his reference to hacking Clinton's correspondence adds to the mystery: Clinton's email is not known to have been hacked, though some of her messages were captured when presumed Russian hackers pirated the email of her campaign chairman, John Podesta.
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So, naturally, Angolans have started hiding pirated movies and music in Wikipedia articles and linking to them on closed Facebook groups, creating a totally free and clandestine file sharing network in a country where mobile internet data is extremely expensive.
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Another reason is that the prevalence of using pirated versions of previous editions of Windows (thereby disqualifying oneself from Microsoft's free security upgrades) is much less in the United States than it is in China, Russia, and so many other countries.
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And strolling the streets and market stalls of Beijing, where pirated DVDs and bogus Rolexes abound, it is clear that Chinese consumers are themselves often duped into buying fakes (or, like consumers elsewhere, knowingly buy good imitations because they are cheaper).
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It notes that nine set-top box distributors were referred to the FCC in October for streaming pirated content, and seven of those displayed the FCC logo even though there was no record of their compliance with the commission's requirements.
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But Google doesn't care if your search for the movie "Mean Streets" or the music from "The Last Waltz" (both of which I produced) brings up licensed versions or pirated copies: The company sells ads and cashes in either way.
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Reuters found almost 60 bicycles using the app, which equips them with GPS-trackers, in Tepito, a tough neighborhood north of the historic city center best known for its black markets where clothing, pirated films and illegal drugs flow freely.
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These latest findings build on a 2015 Digital Citizens investigation that found that one-third of sites offering pirated content contained malware, adware, and Trojans that could hijack a user's computer, steal sensitive information, and penetrate other devices on the network.
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Rioux can't give us a firm count, because in the early days the book was extensively pirated, and then it went into the public domain, but she estimates that ten million copies have been sold, and that's not including abridged editions.
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They have since built a relationship with Aparat, granting them permission to stream certain pirated content, even going as far as giving the sole distribution rights within Iran on foreign productions (without the involvement of the original producers of the content).
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Many users of these boxes embrace them not only because they offer cheap access to pirated content, but because they provide users with openness and flexibility not seen in more above board options like Roku or their traditional cable box.
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Plus, with every smartphone now equipped with a high definition camera, most homes connected to high-speed internet, and the ease of streamable services on already-familiar social media sites, it's no wonder there was such a torrent of pirated feeds.
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Team Xecuter, an established piracy group that has also developed tools for the Xbox and Nintendo DS, released a version of their Switch tool that allows people to play pirated games and have more control over their console earlier this year.
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The growing adoption of paid music streaming has helped wean a generation of music listeners away from free or pirated music, and has led to services such as Spotify and Apple Music becoming the recording industry's single biggest revenue source.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration plans to unveil efforts on Friday to crack down on counterfeit and pirated goods sold on major e-commerce sites and urge companies to do more to vet third-party sellers and increase self-policing efforts.
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The debate about online piracy and what to do about it revolves around three straightforward propositions: (85033) Online piracy reduces legal sales; (2) online piracy hurts consumers; and (3) making pirated content harder to consume increases demand for legal content.
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But there was a compelling logic to the porn world's fears: While older generations grew up accustomed to paying for porn, millennials have grown up with easy access to an endless stream of free amateur or promo or pirated professional content.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration plans to unveil efforts on Friday to crack down on counterfeit and pirated goods sold on major e-commerce sites and urge companies to do more to vet third-party sellers and increase self-policing efforts.
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The Parties shall combat the prevalence of counterfeit or pirated goods on e-commerce platforms by taking effective action with respect to major e-commerce platforms that fail to take necessary measures against the infringement of intellectual property rights. 2.
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The initiative comes after President Donald Trump signed a "phase one" trade deal with China that requires both countries to "combat the prevalence of counterfeit or pirated goods" by taking "effective action" when platforms fail to prevent intellectual property infringement.
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In perhaps the most jarring example, Serena Williams's first match in four months, last week at the ASB Classic in Auckland, was not available to watch in the United States unless you were resourceful enough to find a pirated stream.
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The move, taken by the office of the United States Trade Representative on Wednesday, came after American and international trade groups said that Alibaba's Taobao marketplace was not doing enough to police sales of fakes and pirated apparel and luxury goods.
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Trump himself has been especially critical of China for failing to stop the sale of pirated goods: His website pledged he would "use every lawful presidential power to remedy trade disputes if China does not stop its illegal activities," including piracy.
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At least we still have the final book from George R.R. Martin to look forward to, if he ever finishes the damn thing—and there will always be the endless barrage of pirated GoT sex scenes and crossover fan videos to consume.
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Ryan Reynolds, who voices the titular Pokémon character in Warner Bros.' upcoming movie Pokémon Detective Pikachu, shared what appeared to be a link to a pirated copy of the entire movie uploaded to YouTube — three days before its official theatrical release this Friday.
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Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo)In a hilarious twist of fate, the creator of Nintendo Switch jailbreaking software SX OS—which helps gamers play pirated games on the console—has been caught slipping anti-piracy countermeasures into its own code, Nintendo Life reports.
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Globally, counterfeit and pirated good imports are estimated to be worth nearly $500 billion annually, making up 2.5 percent of global imports, according to an April report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and the European Union's Intellectual Property Office.
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The court issued the orders after two prominent Bollywood production houses, Red Chillies Entertainment and Prakash Jha Productions, attempted to stop these websites from distributing pirated copies of two recently-released Bollywood movies, Jab Harry Met Sejal, and Lipstick Under My Burkha.
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" A handful of case studies show us where those opportunities lie: Otis sells pirated DVDs that otherwise would be out of his buyers' price range; Lee peddles water at busy intersections, believing "this is all there is for young men like him.
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The decision comes cable provider Cablevisión, owned by media company Televisa, previously requested a court order to stop the sale of Roku devices in the country because hackers would use it to offer Roku owners pirated content from HBO, ESPN, and Televisa's channels.
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It also offers pirated versions of mobile Minecraft, Clash Royale, the aforementioned ad-free Spotify, and what appear to be knock-off games spanning franchises like Yu-Gi-Oh, The Simpsons, and numerous other well-known US and Japanese gaming and entertainment brands.
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In my time perusing its selection, I found a popular ad-free version of Spotify, a free pirated version of Microsoft's $6.99 version of Minecraft for iOS, and scores of knock-off mobile games based on Pokémon, The Simpsons, and other popular franchises.
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Makeup artist Trayvon Dickerson, 19, was minding his own business and posting some chic shots of his fashionable self using the hashtag #BlackGaySlay when a troll pirated his pic in hopes of creating...I don't know, a very uninspired and homophobic meme?
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I try to save my internet-provoked outrage for things that matter, like the Trump administration giving psychotropic drugs to imprisoned immigrant children, or the poor streaming quality of certain pirated episodes of Degrassi: The Next Generation that I enjoy watching in bed.
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"A lot of the foundation has been laid already where consumers are ready" to pay for content online, added Sourcepoint co-founder and COO Brian Kane, pointing to the rise of services like Netflix and Spotify possibly at the expense of pirated content.
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In a market that until a few years ago was dominated by pirated music, Tencent Music's strong financials are due to a business model that does not rely primarily on the monthly subscription payments that sustain Spotify and other Western music streaming companies.
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On Tuesday, Ryan Reynolds tweeted a link to what appears to be a hi-res, pirated leak of the entire film—just days before it's set to officially hit theaters: The link leads to a 102-minute video watermarked with Reynolds's name.
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Facebook has had a lot of issues with pirated content in the past, and it has been two years since the company first announced "Rights Manager," technology to detect and remove video clips shared by people who don't have rights to the video.
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While on-demand subscriptions to services like Netflix and Hulu climbed to 187 million in the U.S. in 2018, millions of consumers are going outside legitimate app marketplaces to find free, pirated content to the latest shows, pre-release movies, and video games.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The decade-plus evolution of YouTube from repository of cat videos and pirated content to potential TV replacement hit a road bump last year when marketers discovered their advertisements were showing up next to extremist videos and other unsavory content.
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Over the last few years, Digital Citizens Alliance has documented a troubling blurring of the lines between mainstream digital platforms and the so-called Dark Web where anything goes – including stolen credit card information, drugs, pirated movies and TV shows and prostitution.
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U.S. and Chinese officials on Wednesday signed their first-step trade agreement, which includes calls for both sides to work to "combat the prevalence of counterfeit or pirated goods" by taking "effective action" when online platforms fail to prevent intellectual property infringement.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The Trump administration plans to unveil efforts on Friday to crack down on counterfeit and pirated goods sold on major e-commerce sites and urge companies to do more to vet third-party sellers and increase self-policing efforts.
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The brainchild of three Ethiopian science graduates and their software company, Swift Media, the Chinese-built kiosks allow customers to transfer any of 6,000 pirated foreign movies or 500 music albums onto a USB stick they insert for as little as 10 cents per file.
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There are plenty of events similar to this one, but so often the refrain is made that people have to turn to pirated streams because the alternative is paying for cable or something that is really against the spirit of these easy-to-access platforms.
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PARIS (Reuters) - A French court has ruled that pirated sports content belonging to the Qatar-based broadcaster beIN was accessible via a Saudi-based satellite operator, but said it had not found evidence of "clear and illegal disruption", court documents seen by Reuters showed.
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One user who self-identified as Taiwanese on Steam said that even though Red Candle Games issued a patch to remove the offensive poster, Chinese players have downloaded a pirated version of Devotion that couldn't be patched and still continued to offend Chinese users.
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Facebook's new Watch Party video-streaming feature is wildly popular with pirates, who use it to run illicit movie marathons In the time-honored tradition of all internet streaming platforms, people are using Facebook's group video-watching platform to watch pirated movies, Rob Price reports.
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Checkpoint found that malformed subtitle files can give hackers the ability to embed code into subtitle files popular with pirated movies and TV. Because these subtitles are usually trusted by video players and users alike they were an oft-overlooked vector for hack attacks.
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At the shadiest end of the scale you have your pirated software from the darkest corners of the web—install anything (whether an app or a movie) from these places and you're really running the risk of something untoward taking hold of your system.
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Early Spotify Was Built on Pirated MP3 Files, New Book ClaimsSpotify has been the biggest music streaming service to find a business model that users can…Read more ReadThe actual ownership history of the various patent rights involved in MP3 technology is complicated and messy.
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Roku has begun to crack down more on private channels – a feature originally intended to allow developers to test their channels ahead of submission to Roku's channel store, but which soon became a means for channels streaming pirated content to reach Roku's user base.
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"I am very angry and upset about the way advertising revenue has been essentially pirated by the Facebook-Google world, without nearly enough giveback — no giveback, really — to the people who create those brilliant pieces that are posted all over their platforms," Brown said.
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Dubbed the most pirated television show six years in a row, Game of Thrones is in high demand for hackers, and to show just how many people are pirating the episodes the University of California's Abigail De Kosnik set out to make an epic timelapse.
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"We also may be unable to prevent sellers in our stores or through other stores from selling unlawful, counterfeit, pirated, or stolen goods, selling goods in an unlawful or unethical manner, violating the proprietary rights of others, or otherwise violating our policies," the filing said.
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"The technology that was created for Leakserv has been built from scratch and focusses solely on revenge porn content, where the solutions that were built for Onsist are more build to find any kind of pirated content and fake goods in general," he tells TechCrunch.
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The study, paid for by telecom operator Vocus Group, surveyed a thousand New Zealanders last December, and found that while half of those polled say they've pirated content at some point in their lives, those numbers have dropped as legal streaming alternatives have flourished.
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The company's app is unlikely to attract much interest as it currently stands, and unlike torrent technology for downloads (which became popular primarily as a way to share pirated content) BitTorrent Live will have to attract the interest of major broadcasters to prove its utility.
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Nor is it because of a lack of enterprise and optimism: on the permanently traffic-jammed streets of Lagos, Nigeria's main commercial city, hawkers gingerly ease their way between cars trying to sell almost anything from snacks to books, pirated DVDs and even toilet seats.
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The last meaningful legislation in this area was the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in 1998, which was based on the idea that creators should monitor the Internet for illegal copies of their works and give "notice" to websites and services to take pirated material down.
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The move by the U.S. Trade Representative's office against the online bazaar run by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd followed complaints from U.S. and international trade groups for apparel and luxury goods that Taobao was not doing enough to police sales of fakes and pirated products.
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Shortly afterwards comes this reassuring passage: Some opponents of website blocking have seized upon reports of governments misusing intellectual property enforcement measures for unrelated means, such as the Russian police raid on advocacy groups and opposition newspapers in the name of searching for pirated software.
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" In February, Amazon included counterfeiting in its financial disclosures as a risk factor for the first time, saying it might not be able to prevent its merchants "from selling unlawful, counterfeit, pirated or stolen goods" or "selling goods in an unlawful or unethical manner.
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In January, the Department of Homeland Security issued a report that requires Amazon and other e-commerce platforms to turn over information about third-party sellers and warns the online platforms could face "civil fines, penalties, and injunctive actions" for selling counterfeit or pirated goods.
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He said Trump had made intellectual property protection and enforcement against pirated and counterfeit goods a priority in Americas trade relationships, with intellectual property rights a key part of a new North American trade agreement and the first phase of a U.S.-China trade deal.
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Participants, like University of Akron School of Law professor Mark Schultz, were critical of Section 512 — which protects online service providers (including websites) from liability if users post pirated content, as long as the provider takes down infringing files after being notified of their existence.
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Trump, who has embraced an "America First" policy aimed at rebalancing global trade in favor of U.S. companies and workers, said China had pledged action to confront the problem of pirated or counterfeited goods, and that the deal included strong protection of intellectual property rights.
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Taobao, China's most popular consumer-to-consumer shopping website, was put on the trade representative office's blacklist in 2011 but removed in 2012 after addressing concerns of intellectual property rights holders and committing to cut the amount of pirated and counterfeit goods for sale online.
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On Monday, Trump met privately with Jack Ma, the founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group, a China-based tech giant whose online platform for small sellers — an eBay-like website called Taobao — has long faced criticism for pirated items sold on its platform.
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Services like BitTorrent or Skype took that logic to the next level, allowing ordinary users to add new functionality to the internet: creating a distributed library of (largely pirated) media, as with BitTorrent, or helping people make phone calls over the internet, as with Skype.
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Related: Our Lady of the Holy Death Is the World's Fastest Growing Religious Movement One of the first Santa Muerte shrines lies on the border between the Mexico City neighbourhoods of Morelos and Tepito that are known for their boxers, crime, and pirated goods.
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Well, look, I am very angry and upset about the way that advertising revenue has been essentially pirated by the Facebook, Google world, without nearly enough giveback, no giveback, really, to the people who create those brilliant pieces that are posted all over their platforms.
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Photo: APStreaming media player Roku has begun to crack down on those among its more than 1,000 privately operated channels which are distributing pirated content, TechCrunch reported, and is warning users that subscribe to them that it can shut down the channels any time it chooses.
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If you, like me, took an absurd amount of measures to prevent seeing Avengers: Endgame spoilers before watching the movie, learning that a local TV station in the Philippines aired a pirated version of the film one day after it was released may make your head roll.
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But even though the NSA gave Microsoft enough notice about EternalBlue for it to issue a new patch a month before the Shadow Brokers leaks, plenty of people either didn't update their operating systems quickly or were using pirated versions of Windows that couldn't be updated.
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Pornhub tries to combat piracy (it only took them four days to take down Kanye's latest album after it appeared on the site) and the learning curve of torrents has generally kept pirated media (music, TV, non-adult films) out of the hands of the average fwapper.
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Other risky shows include Suits, Vikings, The Big Bang Theory, Supernatural, Grey's Anatomy, and This Is Us.In 2018, Game of Thrones pirated downloads reportedly accounted for 17 percent of infected downloads—20,934 users—even though Game of Thrones didn't even release any new episodes in 2018.
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TorrentFreak managed to get a screencap of the show on HBO Nordic: Game of Thrones was the most pirated TV show of 2015 and 2014, something HBO has tried to combat by offering viewers a simultaneous premiere in 170 countries, and getting rid of advance press screeners.
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The investigation will focus on whether activation keys used to confirm a copy of a game is not pirated are (or have been) used for the purposes of geo-blocking — thereby limiting consumers' access to a purchased game, based on where in the region they are located.
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The move by the U.S. Trade Representative's office against the online bazaar run by Alibaba Group Co Holding Ltd followed complaints from U.S. and international trade groups for apparel and luxury goods that Taobao was not doing enough to police sales of fakes and pirated products.
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And now instead of manually reviewing all pirated content instances, rights owners can set automated rules for whether infringing uploads should instantly be blocked, allowed but the viewing metrics shown to the owner, allowed with the owner claiming the ad earnings or sent to manual review.
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The internet responded how it always does to scarcity: Pirated copies of Fire and Fury are being widely shared in a way that rarely happens with any book, let alone a nonfiction book (as opposed to, say, a new installment of Harry Potter or Game of Thrones).
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In the past few years, the same kids who danced in the streets have begun rapping about felonies; weed has become mere garnish for pirated pints of Hi-Tech and Wockhardt; guns, once kept mostly out of view from cameras, are ubiquitous and equipped with extended clips.
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I reached out specifically to Disney, Apple, and Netflix to ask what their policy was on going after pirated content, and haven't heard back, but it's obvious that these companies assume that at least some of their viewers aren't paying the full price for their services.
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They formed a motley group: several farmers, a carpenter, a tattoo artist, a funeral home worker and a D.J. who doubled as a distributor of the paquetes — the black market recordings of American and Latin American movies, television and news shows that are pirated off satellite dishes.
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According to a new report by the Digital Citizens Alliance, an advocacy group that specializes in internet threats to the public, Kodi boxes are readily available through online merchants like eBay or Craigslist for $75 to $100 and offer an ever-growing selection of pirated content.
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The top Republican and Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee are worried that a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposal to open up the market for the set-top boxes that consumers use to watch television could lead to "an expansion" in the distribution of pirated content.
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The official way to watch the heavily hyped boxing match was supposed to be a $13 pay-per-view stream on YouTube, but pirated broadcasts of the bout seemed to be everywhere on social media; on Twitter, one top stream had 70,000 people tuning in on Periscope.
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The top Republican and Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee are worried that a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposal to open up the market for the set-top boxes that consumers use to watch television could lead to "an expansion" in the distribution of pirated content.
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"We also may be unable to prevent sellers in our stores or through other stores from selling unlawful, counterfeit, pirated, or stolen goods, selling goods in an unlawful or unethical manner, violating the proprietary rights of others, or otherwise violating our policies," Amazon wrote in the report.
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The film was one of the most-pirated films of 2015; this proved to be crucial to its success, because its popularity as a bootleg item fed its virality, which fed its popularity — all of which helped make it one of the internet's most well-loved films.
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According to a screenshot featured in The Joy of Cybersex, Windy City Freedom Fortress, founded by onetime Rand McNally R&D executive Robert A. Copella, explicitly told users not to upload "kiddie porn or pirated software," though it did feature open calls from users for content like bestiality material.
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Reuters reported last week on how companies like TutuApp, TweakBox, and the now-defunct App Valley were distributing pirated games and ad-free copies of Spotify to people's iPhones by abusing Apple's enterprise certificate program the same way that Facebook and Google did with their data-siphoning VPN apps.
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Proposed copyright protection laws such as the Stop Online Piracy Act, which would have censored sites that hosted pirated content, was widely believed to be one that could have fundamentally ruined the internet; limiting how Angolans (or anyone else using Wikipedia Zero) access the site could have detrimental impacts.
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But while illegal copies and pirated versions of games were the previous dominant form of illicit activities related to games, recent developments and trends in online gaming platforms have created new possibilities for cybercriminals to swindle huge amounts of money from an industry that is worth nearly $100 billion.
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While many fans fawn over exclusive photos of HBO's Game of Thrones series each week in preparation for Sundays' new episodes, some people also flock to sites like Pornhub to get a free fix of thousands of pirated sex scenes from the series, to HBO's great disdain, TorrentFreak reports.
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Here's what's going on: Netflix has used Microsoft's PlayReady DRM since 2010 so that it could more easily bring its streaming service to the loads of TVs, devices, and set top boxes you can find it on today while satisfying its content providers that their work wouldn't get pirated.
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Taobao "is an important concern due to the large volume of allegedly counterfeit and pirated goods available and the challenges right holders experience in removing and preventing illicit sales and offers of such goods," the agency said, citing complaints from brand owners about the proliferation of fakes on Taobao.
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He sings "Screener Season" (yep, named after this time of year when pirated rips of the awards-season contender press screeners end up online) from Coppola's perspective, using the track's velvet-smooth, funky, synthy pop to ask questions about legacy and only being as good as the last thing you made.
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The action onstage wasn't the only place where viewers could get a look into the action, there was a $10 pay-per-view stream on YouTube, but more people seemed to end up watching pirated streams on Twitch with boxing fight streams reaching over a million concurrent users at one point.
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Users for platforms such as Facebook, Google, YouTube, Wikipedia, and others fear that the directive could be detrimental to how they use the site — content platforms aren't liable for what they're hosting, provided they make the effort to remove anything that is infringing on one's copyright, like music or pirated movies.
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Few seem to agree that actively blocking Angolans from editing Wikipedia articles is a good solution, but other editors say they are sick of manually deleting pirated content from Wikipedia articles and suggested that those using Wikipedia Zero should only be allowed to read Wikipedia, not edit it or upload files.
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While Wikipedia editors in Portugual can simply go to another website to download or share pirated files, Angolans don't really have that option "This is the type of thing that reflects larger battles that have gone on about the internet overall," Charles Duan, a copyright expert at Public Knowledge, told me.
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As the US dismantles net neutrality protections for the internet, a powerful group of Canadian telecom companies, cultural organizations, one labour union, and the national broadcaster are all lining up behind a proposal that would allow the government to block access to websites that illegally host pirated content within Canada.
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As a result, giantess content and the dozens of fetish producers serving the scene were pushed over to porn's ascendant custom video model: taking cash up front to produce a film catered to an individual's hyper-specific desires, then making a few bucks on subsequent sales before the clip's inevitably pirated.
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By contrast, a 2017 Nielsen survey found that people who admitted to having read a pirated book in the previous six months tend to be middle class, educated, female as well as male, between the ages of 30 and 44 — and with an income of $63,000 to 90,000 a year.
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But once it became clear that Kodi could be used as a way to easily stream pirated content, using specific third-party plugins that pull from illegal streams online, many dealers started popping up hawking "fully loaded" Kodi boxes that allowed users to access tons of TV shows, movies, and music for free.
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Shed light on yo' block with this lightpoleDumb nigga, broke boy, pockets lipoAll caps you sucking dick, it's not a typo Like 1TakeJay's living room freestyle "To Da Neck," or Shoreline Mafia's pirated "Musty," the song, recorded in Chike's bedroom over a plinking, hardly altered Too $hort instrumental, was made without much forethought.
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Rather than going after individuals for exorbitant fines for downloading a handful of songs like copyright holders did a decade ago, enforcement these days has focused on the providers of pirated content, with the much more efficient goal of taking down entire streaming sites rather than just a few of their visitors.
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It was after the NSA worker installed the pirated Office software and re-enabled the Kaspersky scanner that Kaspersky detected the backdoor on his computer—along with other malicious files including Java exploit code, various viruses, adware, and run-of-the-mill hacking tools, such as a password dumping tool, the company says.
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The story follows contestants of a dystopian game show also called "HIT TV." It's instigated by a disembodied mouth with a molasses-sweet cadence broadcasting through a pirated TV signal to offer "points" to players who kill her targets, á la the omniscient radio DJ and her lackeys in 1979's The Warriors.
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But instead of historic sights or live events, you're more likely to come across flashes of boobs and butts, replete with an audience suggesting what to reveal next, and maybe a pirated TV show or soccer game, too the 2nd most popular Facebook Live video on the Facebook Live Map is a cam girl.. pic.twitter.
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Movie piracy may seem like a relatively harmless thing compared to blatant hate speech and abuse, but it also highlights a major problem: if Facebook can't figure out how to stop pirated content from showing up with a simple search of "free movies," how can anyone trust it to get the bigger things right?
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Whether you played video games, surfed the web, watched a DVD, TVOD, or linear TV, wandered through YouTube, read a book, streamed Hulu or Amazon, or pirated content (hopefully not), you can see the market for relaxation time and disposable income is huge, and we are but a little boat in a vast sea.
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" Cirio announced that the pirated content won't be indexed by search engines for the time being, but it will be available—like any public library—to students, researchers, journalists, cultural producers, and "and anyone who can't afford the subscription fees imposed by those giant publishers, thereby overcoming economic and linguistic barriers to crucial information.
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" By high school, Mr. Noah writes, he had become an enterprising businessman, copying and selling pirated CDs; he and his business partners would soon segue into the D.J. business, throwing raucous dance parties in Alexandra, "a tiny, dense pocket of a shantytown," known as Gomorrah because it had "the wildest parties and the worst crimes.
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After all, Plex today largely appeals to the DIY home media enthusiast: those who want software to organize vast collections of movies and TV shows they've ripped from discs (or, let's be honest, pirated), plus DIY cord cutters who don't want to pay for a streaming TV service like Sling, Hulu Live TV, YouTube TV or others.
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That day, the group also filed an application to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) asking the federal regulator to create an "Independent Piracy Review Agency" that will "consider applications identifying piracy sites" and recommend websites serving pirated content to the CRTC, which would then order internet service providers to block their customers' access to those websites.
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Although Elsevier, the publisher whose papers seem to be by far the most pirated, has filed a lawsuit, and although Elbakyan must remain in hiding for the present in face of potential indictment under U.S. law, Sci-Hub is proving to be as powerful and divisive a tool as, surely, it was intended to be from the start.
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This "pirated education" would address the discrepancy between the density of universities in the Boston area and the low rates at which public high school graduates attend college by connecting "local educators and young learners through an experimental role-playing program"; semester-long courses would be taught in a day, and students would decide what constitutes useful knowledge.
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For porn actors and companies that produce porn, an AI-fueled content ID system would be a lot more efficient than hunting down every pirated instance of their work and sending a takedown notice to the website owner or host—something independent artists of all kinds deal with constantly, to a distracting and soul-crushing degree.
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