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Operation Redirect: Police Anti-Malware Action Protects Music & PiratesAndy Maxwell, 30 Aug 01:19 PM Most anti-piracy campaigns of the last four or

Operation Redirect: Police Anti-Malware Action Protects Music & Pirates Andy Maxwell, 30 Aug 01:19 PM Most anti-piracy campaigns of the last four or five decades feature a direct order (Don't Pirate) followed by some additional information for people to consider before making an informed choice. The direct order "Don't Pirate" has never changed, but it only becomes effective when paired with a reason to abstain, ideally something that provokes consideration of the consequences. Most angles have already been tested. "Home Taping is Killing Music" implied that if piracy continued, people would stop making music. Other campaigns have encouraged people to think of bands just starting out, artists struggling to make ends meet, and people who paint scenery on the set of Hollywood blockbusters. When none of those hit the spot, "Don't Pirate" was paired with "….because you're probably going to get sued." Yet even when pirates were prompted to think only of themselves, some inevitably continued to pirate. One Anti-Piracy Strategy Consistently Performs The best anti-piracy strategy is the a...Read More Are you looking for a VPN service? TorrentFreak sponsor NordVPN has some excellent offers. ©2024 TorrentFreak | Office 21338 PO Box 4336 Manchester, North West M61 0BW United Kingdom Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company

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Fmovies Piracy Ring Was Shut Down by Vietnam, Assisted By ACEErnesto Van der Sar, 29 Aug 04:29 PM Pirate sites tend to come and go but in recent mon

Fmovies Piracy Ring Was Shut Down by Vietnam, Assisted By ACE Ernesto Van der Sar, 29 Aug 04:29 PM Pirate sites tend to come and go but in recent months, significant shutdowns have been more frequent than usual. Fmovies is one of the most prominent casualties. Founded in 2016, the pirate streaming site had been a thorn in Hollywood's side for years. While rightsholders typically avoid naming pirate sites in public, fearing an indirect promotional effect, Fmovies was a recent exception. To illustrate how brazen the platform had become, lawmakers in U.S. Congress received a demo of the site late last year courtesy of MPA Senior Executive Vice President, Karyn Temple. This showed how easily the latest movies and TV shows could be illegally streamed inside one of the country's best-secured buildings. Something had to be done to prevent this from happening and the MPA already had a solution in mind; site blocking. However, since implementing new legislation is a slow process, that raised the prospect of Fmovies and a myriad of related streaming portals continuing to operate. Fmovies ...Read More Are you looking for a VPN service? TorrentFreak sponsor NordVPN has some excellent offers. ©2024 TorrentFreak | Office 21338 PO Box 4336 Manchester, North West M61 0BW United Kingdom Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company

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Google Asks Court to Gut "Kitchen Sink" Lawsuit Claiming it Profits From PiracyAndy Maxwell, 29 Aug 10:06 AM In a lawsuit filed at a New York federa

Google Asks Court to Gut "Kitchen Sink" Lawsuit Claiming it Profits From Piracy Andy Maxwell, 29 Aug 10:06 AM In a lawsuit filed at a New York federal court in June, leading textbook publishers including Cengage Learning, Macmillan Learning, Elsevier and McGraw Hill, accused Google of profiting from sales of infringing copies of their textbooks. According to the complaint, Google's "systemic and pervasive advertising" drives potential buyers to the websites of 'Pirate Sellers' who utilize Google Shopping Ads to advertise infringing copies of the plaintiffs' books. Since the rogue sellers used names including "Cheapbok," "Biz Ninjas," and "Shop Hoth," all of which appeared in the publishers' takedown notices, Google should've known it was dealing with pirates, the publishers claimed. "Failed to Terminate Repeat Infringers" Despite this alleged knowledge, and regardless of their takedown notices, the publishers said that it was still possible for users to place orders with pirate sellers after clicking Google ads. The publishers say this could've been curtailed if Google had consistently ter...Read More Are you looking for a VPN service? TorrentFreak sponsor NordVPN has some excellent offers. ©2024 TorrentFreak | Office 21338 PO Box 4336 Manchester, North West M61 0BW United Kingdom Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company

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Pirate Sites, Billions of Visits, Wiped Out in Hours: Sifting the Fmovies WreckageAndy Maxwell, 28 Aug 03:51 AM With an estimated 190 million visits

Pirate Sites, Billions of Visits, Wiped Out in Hours: Sifting the Fmovies Wreckage Andy Maxwell, 28 Aug 03:51 AM With an estimated 190 million visits in March 2024 alone, few pirate streaming sites have ever come to close to the popularity of Fmovies. How it was even possible for an unlicensed platform to attract so much traffic is closely linked to Fmovies' uncanny ability to stay almost perpetually online, year after year. Potential answers to these questions lie in a rich pool of circumstantial evidence; one that promises much but always seems to fall short when it comes to the crunch. Fmovies and Associated Sites Fall Like Dominoes Whether the full and unedited Fmovies story will emerge anytime soon is unclear. However, perhaps the most intriguing aspect, and potentially the most sensitive, is how in a matter of months, Fmovies went from being almost impossible to shut down, to literally shutting down overnight. We outlined a few of our theories last month, concluding that Fmovies was almost certainly pushed. The precise circumstances under which that pushing took place are elusive, but w...Read More Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 08/26/2024 Ernesto Van der Sar, 28 Aug 01:09 AM The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. Downloading content without permission is copyright infringement. These torrent download statistics are only meant to provide further insight into piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources. This week we have three newcomers on the list. "Inside Out 2" is the most shared title. The most torrented movies for the week ending on August 26 are: Movie Rank | Rank last week | Movie name | IMDb Rating / Trailer | 1 (…) Inside Out 2 7.7 / trailer 2 (…) Longlegs 6.9 / trailer 3 (1) Twisters 6.8 / trailer 4 (4) Deadpool & Wolverine 8.2 / trailer 5 (…) The Killer 5.7 / trailer 6 (5) Despicable Me 4 6.2 / trailer 7 (6) The Union 5.6 / trailer 8 (7) Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 7.9 / trailer 9 (2) Jackpot! 5.9 / trailer 10 (8) Bad Boys: Ride or Die 6.8 / trailer Note: We also publish an updating archive of all the list of weekly most to...Read More Are you looking for a VPN service? TorrentFreak sponsor NordVPN has some excellent offers. ©2024 TorrentFreak | Office 21338 PO Box 4336 Manchester, North West M61 0BW United Kingdom Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company