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[Link] Spotify’s attempt to use the Facebook playbook over Joe Rogan won’t wash
Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Two decades ago, the late and much-lamented David Bowie said something that was eerily prophetic. “Music itself,” he observed, “is going to become like running water or electricity.
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[Link] Pirate IPTV Providers “Exploit PayPal, Mastercard & Visa Branding”
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
Pirate IPTV providers generally require payment in exchange for a subscription. In the majority of cases this involves utilizing a third-party payment processor such as PayPal, Mastercard or Visa.
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[Link] Do Pirate IPTV Customers “Support Human Trafficking & Arms Trading”?
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
Over the years there have been frequent claims by entertainment companies that by using pirate services, users are helping to finance other crimes.
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[Link] Australia’s free-to-air channels demand guaranteed prime position on smart TVs
Read: 19/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
Australia’s commercial free-to-air TV channels have called on the federal government to introduce legislation guaranteeing them prominence on smart TV home screens, claiming they are becoming “increasingly hard to find” among global streaming rivals such as Netflix.
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[Link] Founder of Piracy & Subtitling Site YYeTs Sentenced to 3.5 Years in Prison
Read: 6/12/2021 torrentfreak.com
Following pressure from Hollywood, more than a dozen people behind famous Chinese piracy and subtitling site YYeTs.com were arrested in February. After a legal process in China, the founder of the platform - also known as Renren Yingshi - has been sentenced to 3.
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[Link] Piracy Release Group EVO ‘Blames’ Movie Industry For Its Popularity
Read: 21/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
P2P release group EVO has built quite a reputation in recent years by being the first to release pirated copies of screeners and popular movies.
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[Link] Netflix hit with unfair labor charge from suspended and fired employees
Read: 31/10/2021 www.avclub.com
After weeks of controversy surrounding its release of—and then vocal high-level support for—the transphobic material in Dave Chappelle’s comedy special The Closer, streaming giant Netflix now faces an unfair labor charge from two of its current/former employees.
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[Link] Federal police confiscate largest ever haul of ill-gotten cryptocurrency
Read: 31/10/2021 www.smh.com.au
The federal government has netted its largest ever haul of ill-gotten cryptocurrency and will redistribute the $1.2 million to law enforcement and community safety programs.
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[Link] Google Stadia’s salvaged future as a back-end cloud service is here
Read: 25/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Quick Google Stadia recap: Things have not been great. Google's AAA cloud gaming service launched in 2019 to middling reviews and since then has severely undershot Google's sales and usage estimates by hundreds of thousands of users.
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[Link] Netflix Is Sure 'Content' Doesn't Affect the World, Unless it Does
Read: 15/10/2021 www.vice.com
In a letter to Netflix employees about the backlash associated with Dave Chappelle's new stand up special, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said he believes that media does not cause harm, in part because of the popularity of first-person shooter video games.
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[Link] Netflix edits Squid Game phone number after woman deluged with calls
Read: 9/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Netflix has edited out a phone number that appears in its hit series Squid Game after a South Korean woman and others who use similar combinations were deluged with calls – with some callers even asking to join the show’s life-or-death games.
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[Link] DMCA Takedown Errors Can Make it Harder to Find Movies Legally
Read: 19/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
Copyright holders have sent billions of takedown requests to Google. Their goal is to make it harder for people to find pirated content through the search engine. However, in some cases, takedown requests make it harder to find legal content too.
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[Link] UK Police Shut Down Pirate IPTV Network With “Hundreds of Thousands” of Customers
Read: 16/9/2021 torrentfreak.com
West Midlands Police and the Federation Against Copyright Theft say they have dismantled a major illegal streaming operation in the UK. Two men and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of copyright infringement, fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud.
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[Link] Sky Subscribers’ Piracy Habits Directly Help Premier League Block Illegal Streams
Read: 29/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
UK ISP Sky Broadband is monitoring the IP addresses of servers suspected of streaming pirated content to subscribers and supplying that data to an anti-piracy company working with the Premier League.
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[Link] Netflix Intensifies ‘VPN’ Ban and Targets Residential IP-addresses Too
Read: 11/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Netflix has stepped up its efforts to ban VPN and proxy users from bypassing geographical restrictions. The streaming service is now blocking residential IP addresses too, since some unblocking tools use these to bypass restrictions.
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[Link] Yes, another streaming service is launching in Australia today
Read: 11/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Here's your Shortcuts Guide to the new service. It's the new streaming service owned by US media giant ViacomCBS.
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[Link] ‘Pub Testers’ Being Recruited To Clamp Down on Football Piracy
Read: 8/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
With the new Premier League season due to kick off in less than a week's time, pubs across the country will be showing matches to their customers.
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