Healthy Aussie Pirates Set To Face Cash ‘Fines’, Poor & Sick Should Be OK
One of the oldest methods of trying to get people to stop downloading and sharing pirated material is by hitting them with ‘fines’. The RIAA began the practice in September 2003, tracking people sharing music on early peer-to-peer networks, finding out their identities via ISPs, and sending them cease-and-desist orders with a request to pay hundreds to thousands of dollars. Many thousands of people were fined and the...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 08/21/17
This week we have two newcomers in our chart. Baywatch 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 weekly movie download chart. This week’s most downloaded movies are: Movie Rank Rank last week Movie name IMDb...
The Windows App Store is Full of Pirate Streaming Apps
Over the past few years it has become much easier to stream movies and TV-shows over the Internet. Legal streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon are booming. At the same time, however, there’s also a dark market of thousands of pirate streaming tools. In recent months, Hollywood has directed many its anti-piracy efforts towards unauthorized Kodi-addons and several popular pirate streaming sites, which offer movies and...
TVAddons Decimated Without Trial, Here’s a View of the Damage
On June 2, a collection of Canadian telecoms giants including Bell Canada, Bell ExpressVu, Bell Media, Videotron, Groupe TVA, Rogers Communications and Rogers Media, filed a complaint in Federal Court against Montreal resident Adam Lackman, the man behind TVAddons. They claimed that by developing, hosting, distributing or promoting Kodi add-ons, Lackman infringed their copyrights. On June 9 the Federal Court handed down an interim...
Manage your finances with LibreOffice Calc
If you’re like most people, you don’t have a bottomless bank account. You probably need to watch your monthly spending carefully. There are many ways to do that, but that quickest and easiest way is to use a spreadsheet. Many folks create a very basic spreadsheet to do the job, one that consists of two long columns with a total at the bottom. That works, but it’s kind of blah. I’m going to walk you through...
