Hacker News with Generative AI: Piracy

Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds (torrentfreak.com)
A recent study published in the Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice sheds light on people's motivations to use Z-Library. Expensive books and limited access to academic material play a key role among those surveyed. That includes a group of Chinese postgraduate students who believe that shadow libraries help to overcome (academic) poverty.

Academic Poverty, Education, Piracy, Research, Libraries

270 points by hn_acker 8 hours ago | 60 comments

Etsy Accuses Game Boy Publisher of Piracy for Selling Its Own Games (timeextension.com)
"The retro publisher FerranteCrafts has taken to social media to provide an update on why some of its physical games are disappearing from their Etsy store, and the reason is honestly pretty baffling to us."

Piracy, Video Games, Business Disputes, Retro Gaming

6 points by josephcsible 8 days ago | 2 comments

Key Pirate Bay Figures Don't Recognize Themselves in TV Series (torrentfreak.com)
The long-awaited Pirate Bay TV series premiered in Sweden on Friday, through official channel and (eventually also) on The Pirate Bay.

Entertainment, Piracy, Sweden

21 points by hn_acker 9 days ago | 0 comments

Every arthouse buff you know is pirating films (i-d.co)
Earlier this year, Daniel, a filmmaker from England, wanted to watch Béla Tarr’s take on Macbeth, a TV movie by the Hungarian auteur that had aired in 1982 on the Magyar Televízió network.

Filmmaking, Piracy, Arthouse Cinema

115 points by XzetaU8 10 days ago | 135 comments

Pirating "The Pirate Bay" TV Series Is Ironically Difficult (torrentfreak.com)
The Pirate Bay made its debut as a TV series on the Swedish streaming platform SVT Play earlier today. International viewers are left waiting until other services pick it up. In the meantime, some may be tempted to explore unofficial channels for pirated copies of the show. But finding a pirated copy is proving surprisingly difficult.

Television, Piracy, Streaming Services

112 points by HieronymusBosch 13 days ago | 85 comments

DeCENC is another way to beat web video DRM (theregister.com)
An anti-piracy system to protect online video streams from unauthorized copying is flawed – and can be broken to allow streamed media from Amazon, Netflix, and others to be saved, replayed, and spread at will, we're told.

Video Streaming, Security, Piracy, Online Content

20 points by be_erik 15 days ago | 1 comments

Google Asked to Remove 10B "Pirate" Search Results (torrentfreak.com)
Rightsholders have asked Google to remove more than 10 billion 'copyright infringing' URLs from its search results.

Copyright Law, Google, Search Engines, Piracy

33 points by gslin 16 days ago | 7 comments

New Nintendo Music app could spell more trouble for illicit soundtrack posters (arstechnica.com)
Last night, Nintendo pulled off a surprise launch of a new Nintendo Music smartphone app, offering many of the company's staple soundtrack songs as a perk to Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. But the new subscription freebie could give Nintendo additional motivation to once again crack down on Internet users who have been collecting and posting Nintendo music online for years now.

Video Games, Music Streaming, Copyright, Piracy

4 points by duxup 21 days ago | 0 comments

Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder (torrentfreak.com)
After blocking Cloudflare to prevent IPTV piracy just a few months ago, on Saturday the rightsholders behind Piracy Shield ordered Italy's ISPs to block Google Drive. The subsequent nationwide blackout, affecting millions of Italians, wasn't just a hapless IP address blunder. This was the reckless blocking of a Google.com subdomain that many 10-year-olds could identify as being important. Reckless people and internet infrastructure, what could possibly go wrong next?

Google, Piracy, Italy, Internet Censorship, Technology

141 points by gslin 31 days ago | 79 comments

Pirate IPTV Subscribers Warned They Face "Automated Fines" (torrentfreak.com)
The head of telecoms regulator AGCOM confirmed this week that a memorandum of understanding between the Prosecutor's Office, Guardia di Finanza, and AGCOM, heralds a new stage in Italy's fight against IPTV piracy.

IPTV, Piracy, Italy, Law Enforcement, Telecom

12 points by austinallegro 37 days ago | 2 comments

U.S. Judge Asked to Collect $1.4M Moldovan Judgment Against Cloudflare (torrentfreak.com)
Two book authors are asking a U.S. federal court to enforce a $1.4 million piracy judgment against Cloudflare.

Law, Cybersecurity, Piracy, Cloudflare

78 points by isaacfrond 37 days ago | 33 comments

5th Circuit rules ISP should have terminated Internet users accused of piracy (arstechnica.com)
Music publishing companies notched another court victory against a broadband provider that refused to terminate the accounts of Internet users accused of piracy.

Law, Copyright, Internet, Piracy

27 points by impish9208 41 days ago | 9 comments

New Italian Law Threatens ISPs with Prison over Piracy Reporting Failures (torrentfreak.com)
Italian ISPs are required to work with AGCOM and rightsholders to ensure the Piracy Shield blocking system operates as intended. It's a burden that only benefits rightsholders, but the ISPs are expected to cover their own costs. That contribution was insulted this week by a legal amendment that threatens ISPs with prison for failing to report piracy to the authorities. Google describes it as a requirement to flood the judiciary to avoid prison.

Piracy, Law, Italy, Copyright

73 points by isaacfrond 45 days ago | 53 comments

ISPs Betrayed over Pirate Site-Blocking Threats, the Reckoning Will Be Invisible (torrentfreak.com)
Italian ISPs are required to work with AGCOM and rightsholders to ensure the Piracy Shield blocking system operates as intended. It's a burden that only benefits rightsholders, but the ISPs are expected to cover their own costs. That contribution was insulted this week by a legal amendment that threatens ISPs with prison for failing to report piracy to the authorities. Google describes it as a requirement to flood the judiciary to avoid prison.

Piracy, Law Enforcement, Italy, Copyright

8 points by gslin 46 days ago | 4 comments

Piracy (cobanov.cloud)
This meme is so true.

Piracy, Memes

121 points by cobanov 51 days ago | 118 comments

Pirate library must pay publishers $30M, but no one knows who runs it (arstechnica.com)
On Thursday, some links to the notorious shadow library Library Genesis (Libgen) couldn't be reached after a US district court judge, Colleen McMahon, ordered what TorrentFreak called "one of the broadest anti-piracy injunctions" ever issued by a US court.

Legal Action, Piracy, Copyright, Libraries, Publishing

113 points by ohjeez 53 days ago | 2 comments

Court orders Google to uninstall pirate IPTV app sideloaded on Android devices (torrentfreak.com)
Recent developments in the ongoing battle against pirate IPTV service MagisTV reveal an unprecedented move by an Argentine court. In addition to blocking 69 domains associated with the service, the court has ordered Google to "immediately uninstall" Magis TV apps from Android devices. This measure targets apps that users have sideloaded, as MagisTV is not available on the official Google Play store.

Legal Issues, Piracy, Android, Google, IPTV

72 points by miki123211 59 days ago | 43 comments

Movie industry touts takedown of " largest" pirate streaming ring (arstechnica.com)
A group representing major film studios said it collaborated with Vietnamese authorities to take down what it called "the largest pirate streaming operation in the world."

Entertainment, Piracy, Law Enforcement, Vietnam

20 points by PaulHoule 71 days ago | 15 comments

UFC and MLB Join Pirate IPTV Blocking as Broadcasters Collaborate to Cut Costs (torrentfreak.com)

Sports, Piracy, Copyright, Streaming, Television

7 points by gslin 76 days ago | 0 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Softguard Superlok (blogspot.com)
Sierra left the encryption key offset for King's Quest set to 0.

Retro Computing, Software, Security, Game Development, Piracy

128 points by anyfoo 76 days ago | 43 comments

17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist (torrentfreak.com)

Germany, Piracy, Law, Technology, Censorship

521 points by isaacfrond 90 days ago | 228 comments

Webtoon Targets 170 Pirate Domains Through DMCA Subpoena (torrentfreak.com)