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How Many Songs Do Australians Pirate?
Musicmetric, an analytics company, tallied up all the torrenting that happens across the world to find out which country is the biggest pirate and while the United States is an unsurprising number one, Australia is wedged in halfway down the list.
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Every Time You Torrent, Feds Log Your IP In Just Three Hours
Those of us who have downloaded pirated music, video or ebooks using a BitTorrent client have probably had their IP address logged by copyright-enforcement authorities within three hours of doing so. So say computer scientists who placed a fake pirate server online — and very quickly found monitoring systems checking out who was taking what…
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More People Pirate Game Of Thrones Than Watch It On TV
According to TorrentFreak, Game of Thrones averages around 3.9 million pirated downloads per episode. According to the great Internet resource known as Wikipedia, only 3.8 million people watch Game of Thrones on HBO. That means more people pirate the show than actually watch the show on TV.
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Anonymous, Decentralised And Uncensored File-Sharing Is Booming
The file-sharing landscape is slowly adjusting in response to the continued push for more anti-piracy tools, the final Pirate Bay verdict, and the raids and arrests in the Megaupload case. Faced with uncertainty and drastic changes at file-sharing sites, many users are searching for secure, private and uncensored file-sharing clients. Despite the image its name…