Pirate Bay Uploader Faces Debt Collectors After Failing to Pay Settlement
Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN is well known for numerous actions against various players in the piracy ecosystem. The company’s targets have included big sites – The Pirate Bay, for example – through to various individuals and groups that facilitate access to infringing content online. In 2016, that included Netherlands-based torrent release team, 2Lions. 2Lions uploaded thousands of torrents to several popular...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week on BitTorrent – 06/24/19
This week we have three newcomers in our chart. Dumbo 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...
Scammers Abuse Steam to Attract Would-Be Movie Pirates
According to an October 2018 report, Steam has around 90 million active monthly users, making it the largest digital distribution platform for PC games. Steam user accounts overall are many times more numerous. In April, PCGamesN indicated that the platform had attracted its billionth account, noting that “a significant number of these are undoubtedly spam, scam, alt, and bot accounts.” Indeed, an activity that appears to...
Check your password security with Have I Been Pwned? and pass
Password security involves a broad set of practices, and not all of them are appropriate or possible for everyone. Therefore, the best strategy is to develop a threat model by thinking through your most significant risks—who and what you are protecting against—then model your security approach on the activities that are most effective against those specific threats. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has a great...
What are you working on this summer?
Do you have a summer goal? Do longer days allow you to finally carve out time to work on a certain passion project? Will you be spending time AFK (away from keyboard) to enjoy no-code hobbies or volunteer? Are you traveling to any conferences or taking a family vacation? If you’re still looking for inspiration, read what our writers had to say: “Getting some sleep. :-)” —Mike Bursell “Learning...
