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

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Manga pirates often take credit for what amounted to a highly successful unpaid marketing project but having seen the potential, manga publishers understandably want this market for themselves. Legal Action by Publisher Shueisha. In January 2019, Shueisha launched direct publishing platform MANGA Plus with accompanying mobile apps.

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Piracy Advertising Researchers Fall Victim to Ransomware Attacks

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The group has a long history of publishing anti-piracy research and has highlighted the malware angle before. ering them ‘free content,’ including the latest movies, music, and television shows. “As this report shows, malicious actors dangle free content as ‘bait’ to lure users to be victimized.

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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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