May 05, 2020

Reveal the identities of alleged pirates, court tells ISP

It's not the first ISP to be held accountable for alleged piracy: Cox is looking at a $1b damage order.

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October 31, 2019

Judge lambasts porn company for spewing copyright lawsuits

A US court shielded ISP account holders from a request for expedited discovery to see whose IP addresses were used to share pirated videos.

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April 29, 2019

Piracy streaming apps are stuffed with malware

Researchers have found that hackers are exploiting vulnerable piracy streaming devices to steal credit card data or rope them into botnets.

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February 15, 2019

Apple fighting pirate app developers, will insist on 2FA for coders

Are you an Apple developer? Care about security? Using 2FA? You will be soon...

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October 11, 2018

Jailbroken PS4 seller sued by Sony

The consoles allegedly sold on eBay by the California man were packed with over 60 pirated games.

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September 20, 2018

Man who shared Deadpool movie on Facebook faces 6 months in jail

US government recommended six months behind bars. That’s one month for every million people that viewed a part of the pirated movie, apparently.

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September 04, 2018

Hollywood accuses itself of piracy

As the EFF puts it, the makers of buggy bots (there are two so far) are poster children for the failure of automated takedown processes.

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August 22, 2018

Netflix, HBO GO, Hulu passwords found for sale on the Dark Web

On average, they're fetching $8.71 (about £6.60) for one-time use, though some sellers are also selling bundles of accounts at higher prices.

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March 27, 2018

Biggest pirate in the US sentenced to 5 years

Sharebeast, Newjams and Albumjams were sites to pirate prerelease songs from the likes of Justin Bieber, Pitbull and Beyonce.

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