UN Human Rights Rapporteur: Upload Filters “Disproportionate Response” to Copyright Infringement
Later this month, Members of the European Parliament are set to cast their final votes on the EU Copyright Directive. Given the almost continuous outrage online, it’s clear that both Article 11 and Article 13 remain highly controversial. While there is some dissent, the latter is generally supported by rightsholder groups and artists. Opponents, however, fear that the proposals will lead to de facto upload...
‘Rival Studios Leak Each Other’s Movies to Hurt Box Office Revenue’
With Bollywood, India has a thriving movie industry that’s worth billions of dollars and is known all around the world. At the same time, the country also has one of the highest piracy rates, which is seen as a major threat to the industry. Pirated copies of films swiftly make their way onto the Internet and are sold on physical media around the country. In many cases, these leaks occur just hours after a movie premieres in...
“Internet Atrophy” Fears Put Japan’s Downloading Bill On Hold
Downloading movies and music is currently prohibited under Japan’s Copyright Act, meaning that anyone who does so is liable to criminal prosecution or civil suits. Over the past several months, rightsholders and authorities have been seeking to make the downloading of any copyrighted content a crime, something that has raised alarm bells in the country of 127 million citizens. While many can see the benefits of preventing people...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 03/11/19
This week we have five newcomers in our chart. Aquaman 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 Rank...
Resurrecting the Amiga on the Raspberry Pi
I am a fan of retro gaming and preserving the computer history that lead us to where we are today. I think most programmers have a machine that helped develop their love for programming; for me that was the Commodore Amiga. I am currently restoring a couple of Amigas to get them back to working order. read...
