Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again, ‘The Hangover Part 3′ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Dead Man Down’. ‘Iron Man 3′ completes the top three.
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Hey Hadopi, You’re Breaking The Law. We Made “Three Strikes” Illegal Across All Europe.
This week, the French authority Hadopi issued its first order of disconnecting the net for a person who shared culture and knowledge. Hadopi’s behavior is completely illegal. In 2009, the European Parliament made such disconnections unquestionably and explicitly illegal.
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New DRM Changes Text of eBooks to Catch Pirates
A new form of DRM developed in Germany alters words, punctuation and other text elements so that every consumer receives a unique version of an eBook. By examining these “text watermarks”, copies that end up on the Internet can be traced back to the people who bought and allegedly pirated them. The project is a collaboration between researchers, the book industry and the Government and aims to be a consumer-friendly form of DRM.
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Torrent-Enable any RSS Feed With a Couple of Clicks
RSS feeds are a great tool for keeping up to date with the latest information across the web, whether that be plain news updates or other fresh content. Now a new website allows users to transform any RSS feed into a torrent-enabled RSS feed which can be imported into a torrent client for automated downloads of a limitless array of content.
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File-Sharers Are Well Educated and Earn More Money
New research commissioned by the Australasian Performing Right Association reveals that Australian file-sharers are more affluent and better educated than their non-downloading counterparts. One in three Aussie Internet pirates earn more than $100,000 and one in four enjoyed a university education. The results further confirm that pirates tend to be relatively young, with 44% of file-sharers under 30 years of age.
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UK Police Torrent Site Threats Explained
As revealed earlier this month, UK police have begun working with rightsholders on a campaign to shut down file-sharing sites. Many site operators have received warnings that their activities are not only breaching copyright law, but also the UK’s Serious Crime Act. With some sites considering closing but most remaining defiant, what do the police threats mean from a legal perspective? To find out, TorrentFreak spoke with intellectual property lawyer Darren Meale.
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Music Biz Refines Technique, Large-Scale Web Blocking Just Around the Corner
As the music and movie business continues to streamline and hone their processes on the back of the experiences of past experiences, blocking websites via the High Court is getting close to a formality in the UK and could soon be the same in Ireland. Groundwork done with zero opposition and a sympathetic court, large-scale blocking is only just around the corner – guaranteed.
