With the phenomenal success of Angry Birds, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Rovio would be anxiously protecting its core product from every instance of piracy imaginable. As the company’s CEO explains, however, the opposite …
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Next Frontier in Piracy: Downloading Physical Objects to Your 3D Printer
Exciting times, friends. While we’ve been cleaning up the proverbial ticker tape left behind by jubilant celebration over the recently-stalled antipiracy bills, the Pirate Bay – arguably the premier resource for pirating …
How to Survive Wednesday’s Wikipedia Blackout
Wikipedia will go offline on Wednesday in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill that would allow the U.S. government to cut off funding sources to foreign websites accused of piracy by rights holders.
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“Legitimate and lawful websites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have nothing to worry about under this bill.”
SOPA Won’t Stop Online Piracy, Would Censor Everyone Else
Anti-piracy bills in U.S. House and Senate would block sites with infringing content, but empower the government to censor anything it deems unlawful.
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Congress’s Piracy Blacklist Plan: A Cure Worse than the Disease?
Last month, Yahoo quit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington, over the Chamber’s support of a Senate anti-piracy bill known as the PROTECT IP Act. Now Google is considering doing the same over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a companion bill recently introduced in the House. These high-profile …
British ISP Lobbied to Shut Off Access to Filesharing Sites
Following a landmark legal ruling that forces the United Kingdom’s largest ISP to block access to an illegal filesharing site, movie studios, record companies and other media publishers are banding together to push for British ISPs to block access to the Pirate Bay in an attempt to significantly cut down on piracy within the …
Don’t Be Blue: ‘Avatar’ Named Most Pirated Movie of All Time
Jake Sully may have saved Pandora from destruction, but it doesn’t look like he was able to do the same for the American movie industry. Just two years after being released, James Cameron’s Avatar has been named the most pirated movie of all time in a new study by TorrentFreak.
At an estimated 21 million downloads, Cameron’s …
Miramax CEO Says Monopolies Are a Bigger Threat Than Piracy
Piracy gets the brunt of the blame for media companies’ dwindling profits, but Miramax CEO Mike Lang says that’s not necessarily the problem with media companies these days; monopolies are.
Lang joined Netflix chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, at the MIPCOM conference, an entertainment conference frequently held in Cannes, where …