piracy
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Let’s Stop Pretending That Piracy Is Killing Big Hollywood Blockbusters
This weekend was massive for blockbuster movies, and it’s time to face facts: piracy isn’t killing Hollywood as much as Hollywood would have us believe.
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RIP EZTV
One of the most popular and well-known torrent distribution sites in the world, EZTV, has closed down. Surprisingly, it had nothing to do with the cops, or lawyers.
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SOPA Lives On For The International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition
Last week the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition (IACC) held their spring conference in San Diego, to share intelligence about the latest strategies for combatting “counterfeiting” (by which they mean trademark infringement) and “piracy” (by which they mean copyright infringement). EFF’s Jeremy Malcolm attended as an invited panelist, giving us the opportunity to assert our views that…
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John Oliver’s ‘Last Week Tonight’ Is Slowly Disappearing Behind A Geoblock
There was once a time where we praised HBO and the team at Last Week Tonight for throwing the majority of the show up on YouTube just hours after it had been broadcast in the US. A few weeks ago, however, that slowly began to change for Aussie viewers, and now John Oliver’s show has…