online piracy

Sep 26

Online Piracy Is Still Very, Very Real. Why Can’t Companies Stop It?

Piracy has gone through many iterations and manifestations since 1983.

By Joshua Fruhlinger

Dec 31

Copyright Violators Want the Nerdiest Movies and Shows

TorrentFreak published the top 50 most-searched terms, scrubbed from the search engine of "one of the most popular torrent sites on the Internet," on their BitTorrent Zeitgeist 2014 list this morning. The list of movies and shows clearly skews young adult, male and totally nerdy.

By Jack Smith IV

Dec 15

Pirate Bay Take-Down Barely Affects Online Privacy Because Almost Nothing Can

Last week, popular torrenting site Pirate Bay went down when Swedish Police raided their servers. Unfortunately for enemies of online

By Jack Smith IV

Jan 4

Leader in IMAGiNE Piracy Ring Receives Longest Sentence Yet For Movie Piracy

By Steve Huff

Nov 21

SOPA Opera – The Craziest Congressional Takes On Internet Piracy

By Nitasha Tiku, Ben Popper and Adrianne Jeffries

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