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Kanye West doesn’t understand why people are pirating his new album

Kanye West is in need of some serious cash to pay off his $53 million debt, and his newly released album, The Life of Pablo, is supposed to help him acquire...

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You can now stream pirated content directly from The Pirate Bay

Remember how Popcorn Time returned from the brink of death with a new website that allows users to stream pirated movies and television shows directly from their web browser? Well, the...

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Pirating video games might be impossible in a couple of years

Anyone who's pirated a video game knows that you need a crack to break through the game's anti-piracy protection, and there's a number of hacking groups out there that dedicate all...

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After months of running, The Pirate Bay is right back where it started

The Pirate Bay has spent most of the year hopping from domain to domain in order to avoid being taken down by law enforcement, but a series of domain seizures...

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Game of Thrones was the most-pirated show of the year… again

Game of Thrones has won or been nominated for numerous awards over the years, but there's one award that I'm sure the people at HBO would much rather live without,...

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The MPAA just dealt a couple of massive blows to online piracy

The MPAA dealt a couple of major blows to the world of online piracy this week. Not only did the association take down YIFY, one of the most popular providers...

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One of the biggest names in online piracy is shutting down

If you've ever even dabbled in online piracy, there's a good chance that you downloaded a movie that was released by the popular movie torrenting group known as YIFY. For years,...

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A new study shows that Spotify turns pirates into paying customers

Online piracy has always been more of a matter of convenience than money, and now there's even more data to prove that. A new study from the European Commission’s Joint Research...

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BitTorrent CEO: Our privacy is more important than national security

The easiest way for governments to take away people's freedom and privacy is to tell them that it's for their own safety, or the safety of their children. The NSA...

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There’s now a Popcorn Time-like service for illegal music streaming

Popcorn Time brought online piracy to the Streaming Era of entertainment by offering users a Netflix-like service that allows them to stream pirated movies and television shows to their devices...

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Sony Pictures actually considered acquiring BitTorrent at one point

BitTorrent is practically synonymous with digital piracy, but the file sharing protocol has plenty of legal uses as well. In fact, a leaked draft presentation from about a decade ago shows that...

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The Pirate Bay co-founder got re-arrested as soon as he left prison

I hope Gottfrid Svartholm enjoyed his thirty seconds of freedom, because after the Pirate Bay co-founder was released from Danish prison for the first time in several years, the Swedish man was...

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