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http://getpopcornti.me/es/ - http://translate.google.com.uy/translate?hl=es-419&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fgetpopcornti.me%2Fes%2F I don't know if you knew of this page, but it was a web where you could stream any new release movie, and it feed of torrents to do that, totally free and without ads, obviously wasn't the most legal way to do it It was a github project started in Argentina for a while, where lot of people where involved. Made in HTML, CSS y JavaScript and feeding from https://yts.re/ Today they announce they are closing the web. I know linus and luke where talking about something similar a couple of weeks ago in a wan show, about bittorrent and streaming Personally, I never used it cuz I don't like streaming, I like to have the full file before watching anything Source: http://www.gameover.com.uy/showthread.php?2386

Didn't know if anyone has seen this. I saw it a long time ago and just thought I would share it here. http://youtu.be/GZadCj8O1-0

Hello all, I am a Journalism student currently studying in the UK. I'm working on an article for my convergence portfolio (my courses equivalent to a dissertation), on Popcorn Time and piracy and how great an impact it has or whether it's just common place now days. I have an anonymous poll set up here, and would really appreciate it if you guys could answer it for me. It's a single multiple choice question and literally takes seconds to do, no signups or anything stupid. http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=5328a7afe4b07c9e253b08a5 Any help you guys could give would be greatly appreciated, it's entirely anonymous and won't be going anywhere other than my portfolio and on a DVD for marking. Cheers! Trip

A game within a game. Game Dev Tycoon allows you to develop games and engines while trying to develop your small company to be the next EA. But for an apparent 97% of the people who played the game they could not get far because they were plagued by piracy and people pirating there big ticket games. As people took to the forums wanting help with what to do the game devs let people know that the cracked copy of the game was changed to allow for your game to be pirated and thus your company would fail. The developers released the cracked copy at the time of the legal download so that people could understand what piracy does to businesses and even more so to small businesses and I think they proved a point. This is quite the eye opener to allow for people to see the direct result of there actions and how it is not such a small deal. Some people have the mentality of they seem to think they are the only ones doing it so the $7 the game costs won't be missed. But as we see from this game of the over 3k downloads only 3% of the people actually bought it. For a small developer this just sets you on a road to failure. While there are some people who do not pay for games and only pirate, others sometimes can not afford it because of lack of income or want a demo before they throw their money at a game they have no idea about. Piracy within the gaming community and the movie/music industry are quite different. As movies can make money not just from theatre release, but from dvd sales and tv slots. Gaming companies usually get the majority of there money from initial release or when the game goes on sale later on resulting in lower profit. Hopefully for the people that pirate games you understand a little bit better that the effect it has is bigger than you think. Sources: Eurogamer "It says blah blah our game got pirated stuff like that. Is there some way to avoid that? I mean can I research a DRM or something?"

McAfee patents a Technology that is supposed to block access to pirated content. The patent is titled: "Detect and prevent illegal consumption of content on the internet". http://torrentfreak.com/mcafee-patents-technology-to-detect-and-block-pirated-content-130424/ Is this necessary? Doesn't technology like torrenting lead to media evolution? Couldn't torrenting lead to a better decentrilised economic system, where more people have the chance to create? Or should we continue comprimising the freedom of the internet? More on the topic:

20,066,192 That is the total amount of URL's the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has requested to be removed from google's search results since the 26th of may 2011 when Google started taking down URL's The median amount of URL's per week is currently listed as 90,196. But if you take a quick look at the graph below you will see that this number does not even come close the the amount of links that have being reported in the 21 weeks of 2013 we have had so far. Funny side note, whilst the RIAA is putting in a lot of effort into remove all the links to music sharing sites, Google is kind enough to tell everyone where to go by listing the domains that have the most take down requests. But don't go there guys, piracy is bad m'kay ;) Source: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/reporters/1594/Recording-Industry-Association-of-America-Inc/?hl=en_GB Disclaimer: I've read the LTT CoC and i think this post is oke, but mods please correct me if im wrong.

Piracy is a big issue around the world, you may have you opinions, but regardless it hurts developers. Many people I know torrent games to see if they are worth buying. Due to the fact games can be deceiving when just looking at pictures on Steam before paying for it why don't we have more demo's to test out the game for a short amount of time. I think that if Steam made it mandatory for developers to have a demo available for new games it could help improve their profits and save our money as consumers. If we see a game we might like, but are not sure to buy, having a demo available might just help you say yes or no. What do you guys think of this idea?

Before you leave some snarky comment and leave this page, hear me out for a bit. I usually never condone piracy (if you've ever heard me before, you'd know that, let alone take part in it, but I felt it was my civic duty to in the case of Watch Dogs. It's the second time I have pirated something in the last year (last time it was mafia 2 so I could mod it, due to the legit game taking away this functionality). Pirating watch dogs (and Mafia 2) was quite easy. I used the Skidrow site, and a few clicks later, it was downloading, whether through my browser or bit-torrent. 12hrs later, it was sitting there ready to be unzipped and played. Once downloaded I didn't have to once: - Log in to anything - Download a lengthy patch for a DRM site - Connect ingame to the internet - Hassle around with some sort of launcher - Wait for a server to respond - Have an internet connection at all After I had extracted it, it was ready. I could place the folder anywhere on my machine, and it would simply run with the executable. I distinctly remember having this same experience, yet supporting the developer. Where? GOG. That's where. I bought S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky. Same thing applied, except I didn't feel guilty. Not only that, but the game worked great. Clear Sky is known not to be a good port but I got 60FPS+ 150% of the time. So why would I pay money for something that gives less of an experience. Something that doesn't work. Something I have to tackle to the ground, grab by its throat and shove it in line, just to play. Then have it attack me repeatedly as I try to play. I would happily buy Watch Dogs off GOG because I'm guaranteed it will: - Be paying the same amount as everyone else - Have a world wide version of the game, not region locked - Work - Work well - Be a good port - Have great customer support if something does go wrong So what is the point of this??? Well, I think GabeN and GOG actually have the right idea. If you offer a service that is guaranteed to work, equal, cheap, DRM free and easily accessible with a small amount of quality control, you will sell more copies, have less pirates and have a bigger fanbase. Unfortunately GabeN's store doesn't offer all this. Then Ubisoft is wondering why people are pirating there games, and then bring out this shit??? Your game is going to get cracked one way or another, simple as that. So why have 10 layers of DRM to prevent the inevitable??? WHY??? Game devs constantly ridicule DRM free service, but it would actually, I think, reduce the amount of pirates and provide a GAIN in sales, rather than a drop. If I can get a game that is just as easily accessibly as a pirated copy, 100% will work no coin miners attached, morally right, I think 90% of people will choose said option. Anyway, enough of my thoughts, does anyone else think this would actually work, or am I slowly going insane and they should actually just layer up the DRM?

I've always believed that piracy is a large reason for non-free applications and games to avoid Android, and now I can say that my beliefs were correct. Source: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/YannSeznec/20130820/198453/Gentlemen_Or_how_our_most_successful_game_is_also_our_least_profitable.php

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/26/4659904/kevin-spacey-on-netflix-we-have-learned-the-lesson-that-the-music-industry-didnt well worth watching

we could be about to enter an era that pundits have been wringing their hands about for some time: the age in which it’s possible to rip, mix and print physical objects with the same ease that was once reserved for music and other media. Indeed, US copyright czar Victoria Espinel has warned that it could lead to an increase in counterfeit and pirated goods. Some entrepreneurs seem eager to bring about this future: A company subtly named Pirate3D held a very successful Kickstarter campaign in June for its 3D printer, the equally subtly named The Buccaneer. Source: http://qz.com/115824

http://www.movoto.com/blog/novelty-real-estate/torrenting-us-state/ Check that link out.Then check out whatever you want. Overall Torrenting By State The map below shows the states that torrented the most, per capita, across all the torrents we tracked. This includes the top 100 most torrented TV, movies, and games from the past 40 days. Which States Torrent Games The Most? What Is The Most Popular Torrented Movie By State? What Is The Most Popular Torrented Game By State? -This is what we've been looking for. As I've said before,check the link out if you really want more details about any specific game/movie/whatever you might want. "That Watch Dogs would be a popular torrent right now is to be expected—it's one of the biggest releases of the year. But who could have guessed that Oklahoma really loves pirating Naruto? And it's kind of a bummer to see smaller games like Among the Sleep make the cut, too. It's fascinating stuff." Take these with a grain of salt though,they've only been tracking torrents for the past 40 days.

So I was actually thinking that piracy is justified as long as your country supports it heavily like for example the syrian arab republic actually has almost no original games and all are pirated and thus a man has no choice but piracy. Or if for example a 13 year old kid who has no money no jobs (of course) and his allowance is just not enough and he hears about it and goes crazy pirating because he doesn't have enough money. Of course Im just asking for your opinion on stuff like that.

Source BBC so by the seems of it people are moving to legit services and other file sharing services, in the US. I don't know how good netflix and other providers are for content and pricing, for the US (nor europe), but it seems to be good enough to fight piracy. tbh piracy is never going to die as if people can get something for free then they are going to take it for free, this doesnt apply to everyone as some people want to pay for it but cant get easy access to it or over it priced to hell. A decent service at a fair price, with good content, that is avaliable to everyone is imo the best way to reduce piracy.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24726078 Sites such as TPB, KAT and a few other well known torrent sites have already been blocked in the UK, but this is a lot. So far, AFAIK there haven't been any sites deliberately blocked that were wrongly accused of pirating (If I remember correctly there was a time when one of the blocks came into effect when some reasonably large website's IP was included in the ban list by "accident") but it's only a matter of time before the incompetent government and legal system block some legit sites, or start to censor people. Not that the blocks normally work anyway, and most reasonably sized torrent sites just set up dedicated proxies when this happens.

From Gizmodo: Source: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/07/leaked-australian-government-plan-to-deal-with-piracy-hits-the-web/ Note they do state it is just a discussion paper and nothing finalizated but they clearly state as stated "There are a number of factors that contribute to online copyright infringement in Australia. These factors include the availability and affordability of lawful content, the case with which consumers can access unlawful material and consumer awareness of legitimate services." Opinions?

I just saw abc news on tv today about crack down on online piracy “Downloading a movie that you haven’t paid for is theft,” Turnbull told the ABC’s morning current affairs program AM. scoure: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-31/discussion-paper-highlights-role-of-isps-in-piracy-fight/5637418 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/07/malcolm-turnbull-has-the-answer-to-online-piracy/ http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/illegal-downloading-is-simply-theft-turnbull/story-e6frg996-1227008381203

So this is awkward. Just about every Silicon Valley tech company worth noting, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Samsung and others, have all come together to slam Australia’s anti-piracy proposals. It isn’t pretty. For those behind the 8-ball, the Australian Government is on the verge of a massive piracy intervention in this country, considering proposals involving site blocking, three-strike schemes and potential bandwidth throttling for convicted offenders. The rhetoric around the proposal has reached fever pitch, with anti-piracy bulldog Village Roadshow,using its submission to the Government’s consultation process to compare pirates to paedophiles and terrorists. Classy. The Computer and Communications Association (CCIA) is an industry group consisting of a massive bloc of tech companies and global telcos, including (but not limited to), eBay, Facebook, Foursquare, Google, Intuit, Microsoft, Motorola, Pandora, RedHat, Samsung, TiVo and Yahoo. So, you know, pretty much every global tech heavyweight that matters. The CCIA observes in its paper that the government shouldn’t introduce policies like site-blocking and graduated response schemes, and instead should focus on stuff like working with rights-holders to make content more freely available, and to lower prices. >Google Australia has said similar things out on its own before. The CCIA goes on to say that, despite the lack of a graduated response scheme, rights holders are already able to take legal action in Australia against film pirates, re-iterating that three-strike schemes have been shown to yield little to no results in stemming piracy. The industry giant also gave the government a stern warning that such policies on copyright were not being generated out of knee-jerk reactions to overblown problems made up by rights holders. The submission closes with the CCIA urging the government to “think carefully before pushing further to expand authorisation liability”. Read the full submission here. Source http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/09/silicon-valley-slam-global-tech-giants-hate-australias-piracy-proposals/ Looks like the big stick is about to come out, wack, wack, your out.

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Summary A student unknowingly infected the Covid-19 research facility by installing a pirated copy of data visualization software that was unfortunately rigged with the Ryuk ransomware. Quotes My thoughts It's quite disappointing to see how a large research institution focused on Covid-19 allows BYOD to access such critical files via RDP. It is also stupid for the student to ignore Windows Defender's warnings just to save some bucks. But this made me think, why would a well funded research institution not issue company owned laptops and devices? Windows 10 has Windows Autopilot, macOS has zero-touch deployment and provide a legit copy of the data virtualization software. They have backups but aren't up to date? Makes me wonder how frequent their backups are. I know that many in this forum have posted things like "How to get a lifetime Office 365 for free?" or "Keygen crack for Adobe CC" and it's nice that such posts are deleted. Another question I have is how can a student have such clearance with the institution? Is he/she an undergrad intern? or a post-doc candidate? As far as I know, sensitive and confidential data is usually hands-off to students unless they are directly part of the research program. Sources Zdnet

I, by no means agree with piracy, but i still do it. I also buy music and movies on amazon, but i pirate a lot more unfortunately. Ive come to realize sometimes im pirating things that I wont even watch or listen to, I just have come to think, "Hey i can get anything on the internet for free, so i might aswell get whatever I want" Im curious to know if anyone is in a similar situation and if you all dont approve of piracy or dont care at all. My father would never pirate a single thing, but he knows I do and even streams off my server, content he knows is pirated. Would you watch content someone pirated because your not comitting the crime of piracy? please let me know.

I'm kinda upset right now. Because it's one thing to republish comics without asking. But it is an entirely different thing to lie make uninformed false claims about licenses. So first and foremost Creative Commons is not just one license. It's a collection and every one - including CC0 - has some amount of limitations. For instance CC-Attribution or CC-BY means you can use and adapt something for any purpose, but you have to link both the artist and the license, and you can't claim the artist supports your particular project. And if XKCD used CC-BY, the usage in the Wan show would be okay. But @LinusTech claim, that these comics are CC-BY is just wrong. XKCD comics use a CC-Attrribution-Non Commercial License and it's cleary visible beneath each and every comic they make. So dear Linus, the WAN show is a commercial you've just used someones comic without their permission in your commercial go pay them > go have a discussion on copyright, apparently xkcd does not really want to be payed But also: Make sure you're not claiming somebody uses a license, that they don't. The bare minimum of just checking on the site with the comic would have saved you here. And I would find it appropriate, if you corrected your false claim on the next WAN show. Edit: I have been informed xkcd prooobably does not mind it's comics being used in the way Linus did ... but I still don't think he was aware that fact, so his usage remains a bit messy - hence I think it is valid to call him out on this one. Still love your hot takes, Linus, I hope you can appreciate mine. Second Edit: I'm kinda sorry for poking this topic as I did not know the general discussion on WAN and pirating and showing external sites has already been dragged out as much. I advise forum members to not not spend more energy on this thread, than necessary.

So this has been known for years that this launcher was a virus. But what do you guys think?

It looks like the UK is at it once again, FACT, or the Federation Against Copyright Theft has teamed up with computing giant IBM to utilize their "Big Data" intelligence analytics software to gain access to data that would not normally be available. The new team seeks to shut down services that offer illegal content, such as the now non existent SurfTheChannel. However it doesn't seem to be targeting those who are downloading such content, only those who are uploading it. The UK has become relentless with their Internet policing and it is time to stop before something significant will happen which would disrupt the country. We are becoming a choked nation which is likely to revolt within the next few years if this kind of thing continues are develops. There will be ways around these things set in place by the government however they will become much more difficult to find. Original Article: http://torrentfreak.com/fact-teams-up-with-ibm-to-track-down-movie-and-tv-show-pirates-130910/

Its not surprising at all that GoT was pirated massively after season 6 was broadcasted. I was one of those people as i dint have access to it in a legal manner. If there was a way for me to pay for it and get access i would gladly pay but since region blocking/restrictions prevents me and other people from getting content which i love i do not see a future where i will stop getting digital media through torrents. Its actually a huge shame to so such a popular series or any other content not being available globally in this digital age and loosing out on potential revenue. Source: http://www.techspot.com/news/64574-millions-pirate-game-thrones-shortly-after-release.html Source: https://torrentfreak.com/game-of-thrones-season-6-premiere-triggers-piracy-craze-160425/