TorrentFreak

AUGUST 10, 2024

Stay Safe, Trust No One Case in point, ‘staying safe online’, which according to Google’s autocomplete is a popular question when people are preparing to download anything, from music to PC games, to general software and Android APKs. A decision was made not to install the software and that turned out to be a good thing.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

“Meta downloaded millions of pirated books from LibGen through the bit torrent protocol using a platform called LibTorrent. “By downloading through the bit torrent protocol, Meta knew it was facilitating further copyright infringement by acting as a distribution point for other users of pirated books.” copyright law.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

and then collect and distribute performance royalties to their members, the MLC issues blanket licenses to streaming and download services (collectively, digital service providers or “DSPs”) and then collects and distributes mechanical royalties to its members. By: Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 31, 2023

Netflix's King of Collectibles is sued over show idea, Google takes down Downloader app and USPTO launches new roundtable on piracy. The post 3 Count: Not-so Goldin Touch appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

Internet Archive hits back in music label lawsuit, German police seize billions worth of bitcoin and Nightshade gets 250K downloads. The post 3 Count: 78 RPMs appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

For downloaders in the early 2000s, faster connections couldn’t come soon enough. In the meantime, ads promising faster downloads began appearing everywhere. Others linked to all-you-can-eat ‘direct download’ portals with flashy names and equally flashy graphics. In most cases there was no content to download.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 20, 2025

Specifically, the authors say that Meta willingly used BitTorrent to download pirated books from LibGen, knowing that was legally problematic. “Put another way, by opting to use a bit torrent system to download LibGens voluminous collection of pirated books, Meta ‘seeded’ pirated books to other users worldwide.”

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

” 3: ‘Piracy’ Website Offers NFT Art as Free Downloads. Finally today, the BBC is reporting that an Australian artist has created a new website that lets users download “every NFT” on the Ethereum blockchain for free. Google also added that deals with other publishers are “at an advanced stage.”

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 11, 2025

The authors previously alleged that Meta shared copies of pirated books with third-parties when it downloaded shadow library data via BitTorrent. Because seeding typically refers to the state where a BitTorrent user has a complete copy of the downloaded files, the rightsholders became interested in Metas leeching activity.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 18, 2024

According to an infamous anti-piracy PSA that just recently celebrated its 20th birthday, downloading a copy of a movie is the same as stealing a physical disc from a regular store, stealing a handbag, or even stealing a car.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 18, 2025

Apple was hit with a lawsuit Tuesday in Delaware federal court alleging its Arcade subscription service infringes a patent covering the process of searching for and downloading games.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 11, 2024

These tools allow people to download music from platforms such as YouTube and, despite their legal use cases, the music group considers stream-rippers a prime copyright infringement tool. The RIAA goes on to list other typical pirate threats, including torrent indexers, direct music download sites, and cyberlockers.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Sites were overwhelmingly free and if MP3 files were spotted by an alert surfer, it was almost considered rude not to download them, bandwidth permitting. The belief that somehow everything is free on the internet was widespread in the late 1990s.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

According to the reports, Lin set up a company that acquired the rights to 18 movies and then began to “tempt” users into downloading those films illegally. It then began to target alleged downloaders of those films, seeking to obtain quick but lucrative settlements from the alleged infringers.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In recent years, music industry groups have become increasingly concerned by tools that allow users to download MP3s from online streaming services, including YouTube. It cannot download content from third-party sites. These so-called ‘stream-rippers’ violate the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision; they argue.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 14, 2021

They uploaded those videos to Twitter, but Ngo would later download those videos and reupload them to his own accounts. He claims to have only used tools provided by Twitter and, as the plaintiffs allege, have downloaded the videos separately. Those tweets have already been removed by Twitter.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Next up today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that Voltage Holdings, a company best known for strongly litigating against piracy of films it holds the rights to, has begun sending out threatening letters to suspected UK pirates, seeking settlement fees for alleged illegal downloads.

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Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 7, 2025

The following are 25 of the most common classes and what they broadly or generally contain.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 1, 2025

In light of Amazon’s decision to disable the ‘Download or Transfer via USB’ feature from their Kindle devices, Arnav Kaman discusses DRMs/TPMs, the rights of the user, what users can do with their ebooks within the fair use doctrine, and the future of ebooks in this guest post. This would be perfectly within Kindles rights.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

They note that rampant piracy was a primary reason the industry moved from selling physical albums to making individual downloads and streams available. This present lawsuit is based on alleged BitTorrent downloads. It’s not immediately clear whether these were only torrents for individual songs.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 29, 2024

As downloading of ‘physical’ MP3-based tracks from peer-to-peer networks finally began to subside, in no small part assisted by the rise of legal streaming platforms like Spotify, a new foe had already emerged. Many use the open source ripping software youtube-dl to easily download music from YouTube.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 27, 2025

The title tag ‘WEB-DL’ is an indication that the copy was downloaded (rather than ripped) from an online source, potentially an online screener viewing platform. Paramount operates a service for precisely that purpose, but there’s no information to suggest any specific origin.

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The TTABlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

March 5, 2025 - 11 AM [Virtual]: Asustek Computer Incorporation v. ASOS plc , Opposition No.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 21, 2023

As the days get shorter, downloads of specific pirated movies start to increase. As a follow-up, we now take a closer look at the seasonal download, reaching an unexpected conclusion. As a follow-up, we now take a closer look at the seasonal download, reaching an unexpected conclusion.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 14, 2024

remain online, but downloading pirated books turns out to be quite a challenge. Inactive LibGen Admin and Downloads? Starting last weekend, regular LibGen downloads suddenly stopped working. There is no indication that the current download problems are related to this court case, however. Today, Libgen.rs, Libgen.is

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

. “A thorough examination of the evidence presented and the evaluation report submitted reveals that all the cited websites are hosting pirated versions of movies or TV shows, allowing users to access these illegal copies by downloading or streaming them,” IPOPHL writes.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 20, 2024

In the report, the group lists various pirate sites that enable the public to download games for free. The ESA, which represents video game companies including Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, and Ubisoft, hopes that the interests of its members will be taken into account.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Link-Busters clients (selection) Websites such as Z-Library and Anna’s Archive allow the public to download free books. The rise of shadow libraries, combined with the threat of AI scraping, has made these companies very active on the anti-piracy front. These books can also be used for AI training.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Shueisha’s application notes that around April 2024, its attorney investigated pirate sites that were offering links that allowed site visitors to illegally download its manga content.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 9, 2023

With 2,790 downloads of “Bansal Cheats” and $2,000 in statutory damages per download, this amounts to over $5.5 This is a reasonable figure, according to the court, which notes that the maximum damages per download would be higher.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 27, 2023

This means that all downloads and uploads can be browsed, including data related to those transfers, as seen below. The problem here is that with an entirely exposed WebUI, people can find out what Russians are downloading. The image above shows a WebUI for the Tixati torrent client.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 13, 2025

Or, as commonly seen today, specific content available for download on many specialist sites. On closer inspection, the offer is actually for the recipient to download their own comment history, unless they’re the author of all comments on the site, which seems highly unlikely. At best, the wording seems ambiguous.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 25, 2024

Through Oscartorrents.com , pirates could download the nominated films, review them, and vote for their favorite. This rogue Oscars alternative taunted Hollywood by attracting over 100,000 ‘pirate’ votes and many more illegal downloads. Estimated torrent downloads (Jan 15 – 24) Below is an overview of all findings.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Mixdrop is a well-known cyberlocker site that allows users to upload media content for streaming or download by others. The injunction was obtained by a group of large rightsholders and appears to primarily target the site Mixdrop.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

In general, it is legally safer to embed content than to download/reupload. withhold key facts, like whether the video was embedded or downloaded/reuploaded. However, these cases show that embedding isn’t risk-free, especially outside the Ninth Circuit. Lynk Media is positioning itself for many appearances on this blog.

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The Trichordist

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The fight over frozen mechanicals continues to pay off as songwriters log another cost of living increase for physical/downloads while streaming falls farther behind.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 31, 2023

In common with other torrent sites operating publicly, most RARBG users downloaded their files and headed for the hills. While RARBG supplied users with.torrent files to download content via BitTorrent clients, the site also offered magnet links, accessible by clicking the magnet-shaped icons next to each release.

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