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Sky Italia Targets Pirate Streaming App VancedFlix Through GitHub

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The app openly promotes the availability of free content from paid services such as Netflix, HBO Max, and Disney+ , although the operators suggest that legal responsibility for the streamed content lies with third-party services. ” Sky Italia Takes Action Copyright holders tend to see the legalities quite differently. .”

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VPN, DNS, Give Up, or Go Legal: Aussies’ Reactions to Pirate Site-Blocking in 2023

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As reported yesterday, the Australian government has just released the 2023 edition of its Consumer Survey on Online Copyright Infringement. “To access free content (e.g. When compared to how many citizens resorted to pirate sources in 2015, the figures for 2023 show improvement almost right across the board.

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Piracy Advertising Researchers Fall Victim to Ransomware Attacks

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ering them ‘free content,’ including the latest movies, music, and television shows. They found that less than 10% of these sites linked to malicious content, which includes the less severe “potentially unwanted software.” In addition, nearly 80% of the researched sites served at least some malware ads.

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State Attorneys General Warn Public About Piracy Scams and Malware

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According to DCA’s executive director Tom Galvin, pirated content is often used as bait to exploit naive Internet users seeking cheap access to online entertainment. Piracy operators dangle free content. That doesn’t have priority, at least not in this campaign.

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MANGA Plus Invites Users to Confess Piracy & Name Most-Used Pirate Sites

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It’s proven popular with fans for the range of free content in multiple languages but for a number of reasons it fails to compete with pirate sites. Competing With Piracy. In January 2019, Shueisha launched direct publishing platform MANGA Plus with accompanying mobile apps. Confess Here Please.

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Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC BY-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User

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.” According to some, this almost utopian model with ‘free’ and ‘sharing’ underpinning everything, had no chance of survival. Right now, a company is claiming that Blender’s free content is actually their content and as a result, must be immediately removed from the internet.

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Pornhub Sees DMCA Notices Vanish After Enabling Uploader Verification

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While Pornhub thrives on free content, FT recently documented that its operations are heavily intertwined with the credit card companies, who help to process many millions in ad revenue. The copyright infringement implications have not been reported publicly by PornHub but data shows a significant impact.