Police Shut Down Thailand’s Most Popular Pirate Site Following Hollywood Request
With millions of views per day, Movie2Free.com was one of the largest pirate sites on the Internet, particularly popular in south-east Asia. In the west, the site doesn’t ring a bell with most people. In Thailand, however, it was listed among the top 15 most visited websites in the country, only beaten by Google, YouTube, and a few others. The site’s popularity didn’t go unnoticed by Hollywood. Earlier this year the...
Japan Pirate Site Traffic Collapsed 50% in Four Months, With a Little Help From Cloudflare
During April 2018, the government in Japan introduced emergency websites blocking measures, seeking assistance from ISPs to block three pirate sites – Mangamura, AniTube! and MioMio. Just four days later, one of the sites – giant manga platform Mangamura – suddenly called it quits, shutting itself down and creating a massive gap in the piracy market. It transpired that a criminal investigation was underway into the...
Google's trusted hardware initiative is open source, pixel-precise postal codes, and more open source news
In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Google’s trusted hardware initiative, Australia’s open source notification service, pixel-precise postal codes, and more! read...
