VOD Site Branded “Notorious Market” Hits Back at the MPAA
Oct15

VOD Site Branded “Notorious Market” Hits Back at the MPAA

Every year, trade groups representing movie, TV show, music, video game, and a broad range of other content companies make submissions to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). These documents outline sites, services, platforms and other locations that rightsholders believe should be branded “notorious markets” in the USTR’s annual overview of overseas infringing businesses. The USTR’s...

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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 10/15/18
Oct15

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 10/15/18

This week we have two newcomers in our chart. Ant-Man and the Wasp is the most downloaded movie. The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are Web-DL/Webrip/HDRip/BDrip/DVDrip unless stated otherwise. RSS feed for the articles of the recent weekly movie download charts. This week’s most downloaded movies are: Movie Rank...

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Legal Search Engine with Pirate Keywords Confuses ‘Web Sheriff’
Oct15

Legal Search Engine with Pirate Keywords Confuses ‘Web Sheriff’

The Web Sheriff, aka John Giacobbi, has been protecting the Internet from pirates for well over a decade. In the early days, he became somewhat of a cult figure thanks to his polite style and trademarked letterhead. This set him apart from other anti-piracy crusaders who usually sent DMCA takedown requests with a more aggressive lawyer-like style. The Sheriff once had a lively discussion with The Pirate Bay folks, who then sent him...

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Explicit Music Piracy Warnings are Seen As Most Effective
Oct15

Explicit Music Piracy Warnings are Seen As Most Effective

Over the past decades, the entertainment industries have tried out numerous anti-piracy campaigns. From “don’t copy that floppy,” “copyright alerts,” to “get it right,” and everything in between, it has been tried. The problem with these campaigns is that it’s hard to measure the direct effect. This prompted psychology researchers Joanne Ullman and Clayton Silver from the University of...

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Go command and packages cheat sheet
Oct15

Go command and packages cheat sheet

Of the many things the go executable can do, most people know only go run and go build. And, of the many packages in the standard Go library, most people know only the fmt package. This cheat sheet will list many uses of the go executable and the most important packages in the Go standard library. Download the Go command and packages cheat sheet read...

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