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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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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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

No matter where people live or how much knowledge and experience they’ve accumulated, governments and corporations rarely shy away from an opportunity to offer behavioral advice.

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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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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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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Real-Debrid is nifty tool that provides access to premium and unrestricted downloads from a variety of file hosting and torrent websites. The popular download service operates as a middleman to access file-hosting platforms, for example, and also uses cached content to stream content from torrent sites instantly.

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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

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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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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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

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

MARCH 13, 2024

Oppenheimer Piracy Spikes Post-Oscars Looking through the data we see that Oppenheimer saw a massive 135% increase in downloads on Monday and Tuesday, compared to the same days a week earlier. While Oppenheimer saw the largest piracy increase, other Oscar winners recorded download spikes as well. Oscar Winners See Piracy Boost Barbie?

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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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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

LaLiga chief Javier Tebas reported that during the first five days of the new Spanish football season, it had “eliminated” 58 Android-based piracy apps believed to have been downloaded by four million users worldwide. Tebas said that 800,000 of those users are in Spain where they use the app to watch pirated football streams.

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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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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

LAION case, heard by the Hamburg Regional Court, centered on LAION's automatic downloading of images, including a copyrighted work by photographer Robert Kneschke, for AI training purposes. LAION had downloaded the photo from a licensed website to check if it matched the description using its software. The Kneschke v.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In general terms, these apps disguise themselves as a game or some other benign tool then once downloaded, users are able to ‘activate’ new functionality, such as streaming the latest movies and TV shows illegally.

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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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Intellectual Property Law Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Whether receiving packets that contain a downloadable or portions thereof constitutes receiving a downloadable. The Federal Circuit affirmed summary judgement of non-infringement of the Downloadable Patents. Non-infringement of the Downloadable Patents. Background Finjan asserted U.S. Patent Nos. The Federal Circuit.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 10, 2021

According to the RIAA, the site enables users to circumvent copyright protection measures on YouTube to download videos unlawfully. The lawsuit was filed by Yout last year after the RIAA filed notices against the site that resulted in it being removed from search results.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 25, 2023

At the end of every year, we take a look at the most-downloaded TV shows among torrenting pirates. For several years in a row, the list was headed by Game of Thrones but that reign came to an end after the series ended. — Below we have compiled a list of the most-torrented TV shows worldwide released in 2023 (per episode).

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 23, 2024

The official website has over 100,000 monthly visits and, since the app is available through a variety of other download portals, the total userbase could be well over a million. Download Link Stops Working While these removals are a success for Sky Italia, these types of app developers are not always easy to defeat.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Instead, it links to third-party sources and offers torrent downloads. TB of WorldCat® data available for public download through its torrents,” OCLC writes. . TB of WorldCat® data available for public download through its torrents,” OCLC writes.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 16, 2023

On March 20, 2020, David uploaded a video about a Docker container for youtube-dl, software that allows people to download videos from YouTube and other platforms. No specific reasons were given but YouTube’s terms of service state that downloading from the platform is not allowed.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 15, 2023

Millions of people use so-called stream-ripping websites to download music tracks from YouTube, without permission. YouTube’s terms and service prohibit this activity but there are hundreds of online tools through which people can easily ‘rip’ and download content from the site.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 12, 2023

In his order, he writes that the evidence included a hard drive of download files and detailed testimony showing that the downloads matched the copyrighted sound recordings. In addition, it was unclear if the infringers were actually Grande subscribers, instead of unauthorized network users such as wifi-stealing neighbors.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In the report, the group lists various pirate sites that allow the public to download games for free. Cyberlockers, Linking and Torrent Sites Download sites remain a key problem for the video games industry and these exist in various forms. Over the past year, the number of estimated game downloads rose 135% according to the report.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 7, 2023

The server wasn’t protected in any way, so passing internet users could download whatever they liked. ” After establishing that the albums had been available for download from October 2013 until November 2022, police charged the man with criminal copyright infringement offenses.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 18, 2024

All the others aim to unblock access, downloading, and viewing of hosted files, for example to break the waiting time limit between two downloads or for viewing files.” Their analysis shows that the vast majority of files hosted on Uptobox are not downloaded or viewed. In essence, 73.5%

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

According to an email, they are shuttering their doors today, November 30th, and are asking users to download anything they need to preserve. Following recent rulings in the EU, the company has made the decision to close up shop, fearful that they could be held liable for infringing material.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 9, 2023

An RIAJ statement notes that Jpopmix offered for download a catalog of music owned by its member companies, without obtaining any type of permission. Users Warned About Downloading Pirated Music An interesting aspect of enforcement activity against pirate sites is how threats are characterized in public.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 22, 2024

In 2021, more than 900,000 users downloaded the app through Google Play, in Spain alone. Last September, Javier Tebas revealed that LaLiga had “eliminated” 58 pirate apps, by unspecified means, together worth a million downloads in Spain. followers); YouTube (23k subscribers).

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 28, 2023

download as the download URL for v1.6.2, Nevertheless, ACE is absolutely right; a short roam around reveals the availability of several VivaTV versions, plus a bunch of other apps for download too. Popular Android App VivaTV The initial target in the first application is the Android-based movie and TV show streaming app, VivaTV.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Yout enables users to download content from YouTube, something the RIAA says is a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) rules against circumventing copyright protection schemes.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 4, 2023

That includes its hugely popular iOS and Android apps, which were downloaded millions of times. To give an impression of its reach, the Android app has over 93,000 reviews and over 10 million downloads. The Apple store doesn’t share any download statistics but the Spinrilla app has 342,000 reviews on the platform.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 14, 2024

In conjunction with a modded console, SigPatches bypass signature verification when games are downloaded digitally, a red line for Nintendo. “The link is accompanied by the statement ‘The patches are downloaded from a new host. 1201) (the “DMCA”), and infringes copyrights owned by Nintendo. . Huge thanks to them!’

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