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Why is Video Piracy Still Called A “Censorship” Problem?
Why is video piracy still called a censorship issue? And when did it become a threat to privacy? What I continue to find amazing is the fact that supporters of video piracy continue to refer to the...
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RIAA Reports on Illegal Download Initiative
The RIAA reported last week on its year-long initiative to fight music piracy. 20 million. Yes, that’s the number of links to illegal music files removed by Google alone over the course of the last...
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“Game of Thrones” Piracy Better Than an Emmy?
HBO’s “Game of Thrones” piracy is better than an Emmy, according to Time Warner chief Jeff Bewkes. On an earnings call Bewkes said that piracy was in this case “a tremendous word of mouth thing as...
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Lana Del Rey Takes Music Piracy Personally
Lana Del Rey takes piracy personally. Following a series of highly publicized pop star music leaks (Katy Perry, Lady Gaga) this summer, the plight of Lana Del Rey might seem to be a drop in the ocean...
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Internet Piracy Continues Growth Despite Easy Access
Internet piracy is a growth industry, according to “Sizing the Piracy Universe,” a study commissioned by NBCU and conducted by Dr. David Price and UK based NetNames. We reported on the study...
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Advertising Week: Digital Piracy – It’s Worse Than You Think
Today at AdWeek: (l-r) Wenda Harris Millard, Rick Cotton, Scott Meyer, Bob Liodice Digital Piracy was the topic of a panel at New York’s annual Advertising Week this morning. The bottom line: It’s...
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Copyright Infringement as a Growth Industry
Copyright infringement is driven by a hunger for content. People want media and they want it now no matter how it’s accessed. Copyright infringement has created a huge market opportunity and a vast...
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Copyright 101 – If It Doesn’t Belong to You, It’s Not Yours
Copyright is all about control — controlling the rights and access to your own content. It boils down to this: If it doesn’t belong to you, it’s not yours. Kids understand this. Shouldn’t the rest of...
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Kanye West Fails to Find the Fun in Coinye, His Cryptocurrency ‘Parody’
Kanye West at the Tribeca Film Festival | Image Credit: Wikipedia If cryptocurrency jokers Coinye were hoping to raise a smile with the name for their new Bitcoin rival, Kanye West isn’t laughing. The...
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The Other Problem with Pirate Sites
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Nine out of ten of the ads on pirate sites promote “goods or services which fall outside the legitimate economy or promoted goods or services which could be illegal, fake or...
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RuPaul Decoy Album is Anti-Piracy Entertainment
RuPaul at a party for the launch of her Starrbooty DVD. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Eccentric entertainer RuPaul Charles became an unexpected advocate for intellectual property protection last week, as...
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Popcorn Time Piracy with a Side of Kim Dotcom
That didn’t take long. Popcorn Time is/was the piracy site that according to TechCrunch ”takes all of the hassles out of torrenting a movie.” TechCrunch goes on to describe Popcorn Time as...
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MP3Tunes Ruled Liable for Copyright
The founder of MP3Tunes was found to be liable for copyright infringement on Wednesday in a New York court. The founder, Michael Robertson, was found to have been “willfully blind” to the piracy...
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Congress to Advertisers: New Tech Can Attack Ad-Supported Piracy
Piracy sites are renowned for intrusive pop ups and illicit ad placement | Photo credit: Pascale PC Emerging technology is making it easier to tackle piracy sites that profit from ad revenue, if and...
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Kim Dotcom: Steal from the Poor & Give to the Paranoid
Kim Dotcom, painted portrait by Cart’1 @ Abode of Chaos DDC_7614 (Photo credit: Abode of Chaos) Kim Dotcom felt no great need to compensate the creators he ripped off to build piracy site Megaupload,...
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Walking Dead and Game of Thrones Piracy Highlights Need for Stricter Filters
Gale Anne Hurd is becoming something of a figurehead in the fight against content theft, first for her own series and now with a look at Game of Thrones piracy. Gale Anne Hurd Test Pattern Event 3...
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Expendables 3 Pre-Release Leak Must Prompt an Anti-Piracy Pushback
Sylvester Stallone | Image Credit: Wikipedia Hollywood has long eyed the struggles of the music industry as a leading indicator for potential movie business woes. Piracy has ruined many an album...
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British IP Police Aim to Cut Off Piracy at the Source
After examining the various merits of Creative Content UK‘s lighter approach to copyright enforcement last week, it’s back to the UK for another anti-piracy curve ball. This time it’s London’s...
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Real World Reminders that Pirates Do Pay
Pirate Bay logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) There’s a certain element of online society that trumpets piracy as an unbeatable crime. The theory that piracy sites can be brought down but their owners will...
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Final Pirate Bay Founder Arrested for Copyright Infringement
A little over a month ago we wrote a short reminder that far from the glamour associated with some online piracy, authorities in the real world pursue and prosecute pirates. Even the larger-than-life...
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