TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

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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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2023

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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TorrentFreak

JUNE 21, 2022

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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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 3, 2023

” “Streaming services offering free content from other platforms can be too good to be true and aren’t always legal. As previously reported, requests to see underlying research have met with obstruction , which by default casts doubt on all claims, at least until properly evidenced.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 6, 2022

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.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Ruchi Sharma highlights a few findings of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister’s report “Why India Needs To Urgently Invest In Its Patent Ecosystem?” and emphasizes on the need to facilitate data access by IPO for the betterment of the national innovation system, something which the above report is silent on.

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43(B)log

APRIL 7, 2023

His predicted countermoves: web was predicated on amateur content; producers who lacked mechanism to reach an audience would provide that content for free—massive databases of free content that could be ad-supported b/c it didn’t cost much to obtain. Under consent decrees, they have to report to authors first.

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