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piracy
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Here Comes The NFT Fraud Boom
20 Jan 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
NFT scammers and digital thieves have arrived and they are taking advantage of the many loopholes that are presenting themselves.
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WARNING: Love Downloading Movies And Series? Here’s Something To Consider
21 Nov 2017 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
If you have a soft spot for The Pirate Bay, or whatever other download site you use, your love affair might soon be over. That’s if these guys get their way.
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Cape Tech Startup’s Groundbreaking Methods To Reduce Movie Piracy
18 Apr 2016 by Kiernan / No Comments
Some clever folks out of Stellies are set for a serious pay day, their technology set to catch those who upload movies illegally online.
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If The Internet’s Most Wanted Man, Kim Dotcom Fascinates You – You Can’t Miss This Article From WIRED
04 Mar 2016 by Kiernan / No Comments
In case you didn’t know it founding one of the world’s premium file sharing websites will make you some serious cash. Not that everyone loves you though.
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The Big Question About Torrents And Piracy Websites – Will They Be Banned By SA ADSL?
18 Nov 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
Odds are if you’ve ever copied your favourite series and movies from a friend’s hard drive you’re a pirate. Is it all coming to an end here in SA?
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MYSTERY: No-One Knows The Origins Of This Murder-At-Sea Video [Video]
22 Aug 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A mysterious video of a mid-sea attack has emerged on YouTube, showing sailors being shot by unknown pirates, and investigations are underway to find out what is actually going on…
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This New App Is Basically Netflix For Pirates
11 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Arrgh! To be a pirate and sail across the ocean of torrented movies and series has never been easier using this new app, Popcorn Time. Described as the “Netflix for pirates,” it allows you to stream torrents immediately and serves as an easily navigational platform. Legal? We highly doubt it.
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How To Avoid Torrenting, And Still Watch Game Of Thrones
20 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Sitting at the tip of Africa has its drawbacks when you are desperate to watch Game of Thrones. That goes for most series. We are stuck with paying exorbitant fees for satellite TV that only has a couple of watchable channels anyway. So what else is there to do, other than pirating Game of Thrones ASAP using torrents?
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Yislaaik: Someone Was Just Arrested In Cape Town For Internet Piracy
12 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Unlucky! A South African man was accused of uploading a film to The Pirate Bay, and has since been arrested, according to CEO of the Southern African Federation Against Copyright Theft (SAFACT), Corné Guldenpfennig.
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They’re Already Selling Pirated Copies Of The Madiba Movie On The Streets
19 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ag shame. After going through the effort of buying pirated copies of Mandela:Long Walk to Freedom in the backstreets of Joburg, it has now been revealed that the DVDs don’t feature the actual movie.
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Who Illegally Downloads The Most Music In The World?
18 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Across the globe, there’s scarcely a person, with Internet access, who has not illegally downloaded at least one song. More often than not it’s actually an entire album, and it’s usually not the first, nor the last time. Knowing this, Musicmetric collected data from around the world and compiled a report that reveals which countries are responsible for illegally downloading the largest amount of music.
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Man Fined $675 000 For Downloading And Sharing 30 Songs
27 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
In a case that has dragged on for nine years, and been in court for three, an American man is set to feel the full wrath of the music industry after it was confirmed by court on Friday that he will have to pay $675 000 in damages for downloading and sharing just 30 songs from once-popular music-sharing sites, Napster and Kazaa.
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Louis Theroux: Pornography Is Advertising For Prostitution
07 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
He’s at it again. Louis Theroux has dived back into the hornet’s nest of the American porn industry 15 years after his intial foray. What he has found is that an industry that used to make billions is now fighting for survival, as so much free pornography is available online. Things have got to a point where Theroux says that pornography is now simply advertising for prostitution.
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Local Label To March Against Piracy Today
07 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Fed up with the damage that piracy is doing to the local music industry, Lords Fire Recordz have planned a march against digital piracy, scheduled to happen in Pretoria today. The group would like to see harsher penalties for those guilty of piracy, and is calling on government to do more to combat the trading of illegal music in South Africa.
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Meet CISPA, The Latest Bill To Try And Destroy The Internet
11 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new bill is making its way through congress – CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which is pretty much SOPA in different shoes. It’s another attempt to give copyright enforces carte blanche to spy on internet users and censor online content without just cause. Which is sort of bad.
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The Pirate Bay To Launch Airborne Servers
20 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Popular torrent hosting site, The Pirate Bay has released plans to host their server database in the clouds. Literally in the clouds, I mean; they want to fit flying micro-drones with super-small computers and connect them with long-range radio transmitters, maintaining a network of “Low-Orbit Server Stations.” Which would make police raids a little more tricky.
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3D Printing, The Next Front Of The Copyright War [VIDEO]
26 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Since the advent of digital media and file-sharing on the internet there have been concerns over digital piracy, however there’s a new development on the horizon which is going to affect a lot more than just the entertainment industry. Soon it may be possible to ‘download’ just about anything.
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Google Blacked Out For SOPA Too
18 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google has joined Wikipedia, BoingBoing and a number of other popular websites in the SOPA protest – not just by ‘blacking out’ their logo, which is cute but largely ineffective, but by putting together a comprehensive and informative infographic on the SOPA bill and piracy, along with access lines for voters to contact members of Congress through.
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UK Student Faces Extradition To USA For Copyright Infringement
16 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A UK judge ruled this week that Richard O’Dwyer, an English university student, can be extradited to the United States to face charges of copyright infringement – O’Dwyer being the former administrator of TVShack, a website that linked to pirated content. This sets a dangerous legal precedent for anybody who does anything fun on the internet.
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Google Now Censoring The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, & Other File-Sharing Services
24 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google seems to be dabbling in the censorship game too, these days. They’ve added sites like The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, and 4Shared to their “blacklist”, which doesn’t prevent the pages from showing up if searched for, but does prevents the names of sites appearing in their Instant and Autocomplete services.
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The Stop Online Piracy Act – What You Need To Know [VIDEO]
17 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The American Senate has officially begun holding hearings on the the ‘Internet Blacklist Bill,’ also known as the “PROTECT IP Act” or the “Stop Online Piracy Act.” It is potentially the most harmful bit of Internet censorship legislation to date, and you should know what’s going to happen if it passes.
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Blink-182 Rewards Fans For Pirating Their Music [VIDEO]
05 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Regardless of which side of the fence you sit on when it comes to pirating music, you have to respect the guys from Blink-182. For their latest single, they used several unauthorized fan clips that appeared on YouTube to make a music video for their latest single.
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It’s A Pirate’s Life For Me
11 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Saeed Yare is a dollar multi-millionaire and I am not. The difference between us: I am but a lowly writer and he is a pirate.
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Chinese Central Television Reports Top Gun Clip As News [VIDEO]
31 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
China’s version of the SABC, the CCTV, is stoking our collective mirth once more with another particularly embarrassing news report. China’s largest news network, and only officially endorsed television news outlet, the CCTV, has repurposed scenes from Top Gun as reportage in a 23 November 2010 evening news bulletin.
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