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SOPA Bill Gets Shelved Due to a Lack of "Consensus"
Big media isn’t used to losing a fight, but then again this is the Internet we are talking about here. The much despised SOPA censorship bill introduced by Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith seems to have...
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CD Projekt Red Calls off Legal Threats
CD Projekt Red has called off its witch hunt for…. pirates, and in an open letter to the community is asking for forgiveness. Just in-case you missed the back story, CD Projekt Red is the development...
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Magicka Dev: DRM “Doesn't Make Sense,” Belongs in 2003
If DRM was a Disney film character, it'd be Scar from The Lion King. It harms innocent folks, lets the riff-raff pillage and plunder as they please, and somehow magically causes widespread...
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MegaUpload Users Planning to Sue FBI Over Lost Data
All the fire and brimstone rhetoric following the MegaUpload shutdown makes it seem like there was no legitimate use for the site. Despite that image, thousands of users were using MegaUpload to store...
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Seven Ways to Stop Piracy WITHOUT DRM
It’s a fact of life: Pirates be pirating. Last year, UK Interactive Entertainment estimated a 4:1 ratio of pirated games against those that were legally purchased. What do those numbers mean? A lot,...
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Confessions of an Elite Pirate
The BitTorrent community used to think that law enforcement had better things to do than hunt them down, but that all changed in mid-2005, when US-based EliteTorrents was raided by the FBI and ICE. The...
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Study Finds BitTorrent Does Not Hurt U.S. Box Office Numbers
Researchers from the University of Minnesota and Wellesley College recently got together to answer one simple question: does BitTorrent hurt U.S. box office numbers? According to this study, the answer...
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Leaked Recording Industry Document Threatens Google Lawsuit
The recording industry has long been critical of Google’s handling of its search results, and several months ago, the RIAA and IFPI accused Google of profiting from piracy, and throwing up roadblocks...
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RapidShare Throttles Download Speed For Free Accounts To Drive Off Megaupload...
The demise of Megaupload has left a bit of a void in the file sharing community, and rival sites such as RapidShare are beginning to struggle with ways to combat the influx of questionable content....
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Epic Games Kills Bulletstorm Sequel, Dirty PC Pirates Partly To Blame
When an Ubisoft dev blamed piracy for the lack of an "I Am Alive" PC port towards the end of last year, he touched a nerve with a lot of desktop gamers -- at least if the heated comments left on the...
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Dropbox Blocks Torrent Downloading Service Boxopus Over Piracy Concerns
When Dropbox announced its “get link” file-sharing feature a couple of months back, a number of tech news outlets, including this one, were quick to report on it. Some of these reports, though, focused...
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Microsoft Inadvertently Serves Pirates Windows 8 Pro on a Silver Platter
Imagine if a car thief walked into a dealership and was handed the keys to a new automobile, no questions asked. That would be too easy, right? Well, that's essentially what Microsoft did with Windows...
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BitTorrent Hopes to go Legit in 2013
BitTorrent, and the words “legit” are rarely seen in the same sentence, but the company behind one of the world’s most popular peer to peer downloading clients is hoping 2013 will be the year this all...
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Column: EA Should Feel Ashamed About SimCity's DRM
EA's SimCity DRM is bad and they should feel badSome people believe piracy has no negative effect on sales. I am not one of those people. So I sympathize with EA's desire to combat piracy with SimCity....
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EA Patches SimCity and Throws Free Games at Disgruntled Customers
EA’s public relations team plays Spincity all weekend long.SimCity made our list of “most anticipated games of 2013”, and with good reason. This PC reboot was not only long overdue, but the franchise...
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Torrent-based Streaming App Popcorn Time to Stage Comeback
Torrent site YTS takes over development of the controversial appStarted as a small experiment by “a bunch of geeks from Buenos Aires”, Popcorn Time emerged out of nowhere on the tech media’s radar...
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Game Developer Hands Out Steam Codes to Pirates
Good or bad idea?11 Bit Studios, the developer behind This War of Mine, has been hanging around The Pirate Bay lately, though not because it's looking to get anyone in trouble for pirating its game....
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Adobe Files Lawsuit Against Forever 21 for Pirating Software
Autodesk and Corel join lawsuitIt comes as no surprise that businesses will cut corners to reduce costs by any means necessary. Such measures might result in removing free items or services for...
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Microsoft Will Upgrade Non-Genuine Windows PCs to Windows 10 for Free
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me!Software piracy has been the bane of Microsoft's existence ever since the first copy of Windows was pirated. Since then, it's been a cat and mouse game between...
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