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State Attorneys General Warn Public About Piracy Scams and Malware

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Participating law enforcers include California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark, and Georgia Attorney General Christopher Carr. According to DCA’s executive director Tom Galvin, pirated content is often used as bait to exploit naive Internet users seeking cheap access to online entertainment.

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MANGA Plus Invites Users to Confess Piracy & Name Most-Used Pirate Sites

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It’s proven popular with fans for the range of free content in multiple languages but for a number of reasons it fails to compete with pirate sites. Shueisha also reserves the right to hand over information to third parties in cases based on “laws and regulations including inquiry pursuant to Criminal Procedure Law.”

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Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC BY-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User

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.” According to some, this almost utopian model with ‘free’ and ‘sharing’ underpinning everything, had no chance of survival. Right now, a company is claiming that Blender’s free content is actually their content and as a result, must be immediately removed from the internet.

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