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Piracy Advertising Researchers Fall Victim to Ransomware Attacks

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Rightsholders and anti-piracy groups regularly highlight reports which show that pirate sites are rife with malware and even alert potential pirates-to-be about the dangers of these sites. ering them ‘free content,’ including the latest movies, music, and television shows. Piracy Investigators Hit by Ransomware.

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State Attorneys General Warn Public About Piracy Scams and Malware

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This may help to explain why many recent studies and reports have linked malware to pirate sites. The Digital Citizens Alliance ( DCA ), which has close ties to the content industries, has highlighted these types of piracy threats for years. Of those who never visited pirate sites, ‘only’ 18 percent reported similar issues.

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

TorrentFreak

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. ” In the end, users will do what they feel is most appropriate but there are plenty of reports online of users being happy to hand over the requested information.

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Pornhub Sees DMCA Notices Vanish After Enabling Uploader Verification

TorrentFreak

While Pornhub thrives on free content, FT recently documented that its operations are heavily intertwined with the credit card companies, who help to process many millions in ad revenue. The copyright infringement implications have not been reported publicly by PornHub but data shows a significant impact.