Pssst… Want to Snitch on Sellers of Pirate Streaming Services?Ernesto Van der Sar, 26 Aug 12:07 PM Those who follow mainstream tabloid media in the
 | Those who follow mainstream tabloid media in the UK and Ireland should be familiar with online streaming piracy by now; whether they like it or not. The harms and threats of illicit streaming devices or using the preferred term in Ireland, dodgy boxes, have been discussed at length in hundreds of news articles. Additional reports on prison sentences for resellers of these services, make clear that these are serious offenses. Intriguingly, despite all the attention, millions of people continue to use these 'cheap' pirate options. This logically means that there are plenty of active sellers who are still willing to take the risk. Report Streaming Piracy Campaign To address the ongoing problem, anti-piracy group FACT has teamed up with the Crimestoppers charity to launch a new social media campaign. Instead of simply warning the public, it's now calling on people to "speak up" and report piracy peddlers 100% anonymously. "Running over six weeks on Facebook and Instagram, the campaign...Read More | "Game of Thrones" and its prequel "House of the Dragon" have proven very popular in pirate circles. The fact that episodes repeatedly leaked before their official premieres made them even more appealing. This summer, HBO released the second season of House of the Dragon, and the series is already confirmed for a third. To the disappointment of some, however, there were no leaks this year. Or were there? After the eighth and final episode was released in early August, there was some online banter about a ninth episode. Many people shared their visions of a hypothetical follow-up episode, enough to confuse those who were not up to speed on the inside jokes. House of the Dragon S02E09 On pirate sites, meanwhile, confusion had also set in. As it turns out, House of the Dragon S02E09 had been uploaded to several reputable torrent sites; masquerading as the real deal, it came with an evil twist. Fake torrent on BTDigg TorrentFreak spoke to one person who spotted the 'episode' in their...Read More |
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