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’12 Years a Slave’ won Best Picture—and now everyone’s pirating it

Success has its price.

On Mar 4, 2014 by Miles Klee

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Cut Copy wants you to torrent its new single

You know times are tough in the music industry when bands are trying to monetize torrents.

On Feb 25, 2014 by Ramon Ramirez

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Will the ‘Outernet’ bring the entire world Wi-Fi—from space?

The project's founders hope to subvert state censorship and greatly expand Web access.

On Feb 3, 2014 by Miles Klee

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A torrent site wants to be the new academic library

A couple of U.S. academics have proposed their own way of sharing research among themselves.

On Feb 3, 2014 by [email protected]

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Louis C.K.’s 1998 directorial debut hits the Web

Who needs distributors when you've got the Internet and a million fans?

On Jan 29, 2014 by Miles Klee

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More than a third of Pirate Bay uploads are porn

Here’s what's surprising about TorrentFreak‘s new findings.

On Jan 27, 2014 by EJ Dickson

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Inside the confusing, contradictory world of Internet piracy studies

Why can't researchers agree on whether piracy helps or hurts the media business?

On Jan 6, 2014 by Kevin Collier

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Swedish man slapped with $650,000 fine for film piracy

A former torrent site moderator uploaded more than 500 films—but he's only paying for one.

On Dec 17, 2013 by Miles Klee

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AT&T patents tech that can block copyright pirates in real-time

The copyright wars are moving to real-time.

On Dec 17, 2013 by Dell Cameron

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Pirate Bay docks at Ascension Island, population 800

According to Wikipedia, the island—which has no natives—once had lots of local flora, but Portuguese goats ate most of it in the 1500s.

On Dec 10, 2013 by Kevin Collier

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Half a million people pirated the final episode of ‘Breaking Bad’

But 10 million watched it legally.

On Sep 30, 2013 by Joe Kloc

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Private Torrent sites are collecting their own trove of secret data on users

More than 30 sites are sharing usernames, email addresses, and IP addresses to keep out the troublemakers.

On Sep 8, 2013 by Kris Holt

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Journalists hit with criminal complaint for publishing name of pirate site

German book publishers took action against journalists who mentioned the name of ebook piracy site Boox.to.

On Aug 30, 2013 by Tim Sampson

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There’s no containing the Pirate Bay

A recent study shows the limitations to cracking down on pirating sites: When one goes down, a dozen others spring up to take its place.

On Aug 28, 2013 by Aaron Sankin

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Comcast picked the worst possible site to send a bogus copyright claim

There's no better chronicler of copyright abuses on the Internet than TorrentFreak. 

On Aug 21, 2013 by Kevin Collier