piracy

The Man Who Broke the Music Business (www.newyorker.com)

Dell Glover manufactured CDs for a living, but he began to wonder: if the MP3 was just as good, why bother with the CD?

Dish & Sling Sue ‘Pirate’ IPTV Operation For Circumventing Widevine DRM (torrentfreak.com)

Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood’s New Villains - Illegal subscription services that steal films or TV shows bring in $2 billion a year in ads and subscriber fees. (www.bloomberg.com)

Sky Italia Targets Pirate Streaming App VancedFlix Through GitHub (torrentfreak.com)

GitHub has removed the popular pirate streaming app VancedFlix from its servers in response to a takedown notice sent by Sky Italia. The request targets a similarly named repository on the developer platform, as well as the app’s APK file that’s linked under the download button on the official site VancedFlix.

Cool one hour podcast with peter sunde (darknetdiaries.com)

I really like this podcast, which is usually aboutother things, but because I love the bay and Peter Sunde and everything they (at least used to) stand for....

ACE Shuts Down Huge Football Piracy Ring, Total Destruction TBC (torrentfreak.com)

Right now, dozens of domains linked to live football piracy sites are redirecting to the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment. Domains began displaying the ACE seizure banner on Saturday and the list has been growing ever since.

Warner Bros. Wants Tumblr to Identify Beetlejuice 2 ‘Leaker’ (torrentfreak.com)

The image, which has since been removed, doesn’t give away too much. However. Warner Bros. is clearly alarmed by the leak. The movie studio has a history of cracking down on the unauthorized distribution of leaked material and this is no exception.

Russia Piracy Takedowns Up By 100%, “Western Rightsholders to Blame” (torrentfreak.com)

“If Western brands do not want to fight piracy in a particular country, it means that they are actually legalizing piracy of their content”

Plex To Launch a Store For Movies and TV Shows (entertainment.slashdot.org)

z-library offers 1 month free premium for testing their desktop software (z-library.se)

In case you want to download a bunch of books for free....

Some ideas for the future of Rentry! Let's talk! (rentry.co)

Lokking for cool niche services, shells, free stuff. - Lemmy (lemmy.ml)

rentry.co now showing ad to recover server costs (rentry.co)

There’s a FOSS alternative for rentry.co which is sentrytwo.com - Codeberg...

Visits to piracy websites have increased 12% in the past four years (www.fastcompany.com)

LOL....

Re: Why don't people fight for their pirating rights? (www.reddit.com)

i was just banned from reddit for 3 days for “threatening violence” in this comment...

Tachiyomi replacement is out (github.com)

Youtube slowing down due to addblock (www.tomsguide.com)

Any suggestions on alternatives for blocking adds?

TachiyomiSY devs have announced to work on a new "spiritual successor" of Tachiyomi (ani.social)

This message has been posted on their discord server yesterday, currently the app is being worked on and has no definitive ETA. We probably have to use other forks until that. I don’t know whether I can share the discord server’s link so not sharing that until a mod gives heads up.

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