Category: piracy
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Piracy before the internet [pic]
Whether groups like the RIAA and MPAA want to admit it, there was piracy before the internet became part of everybody’s life. I remember when I was in grade school, before I even knew what the internet was, I was recording songs of the radio since I didn’t have the money to go buy a…
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Why piracy is better than renting [pic]
I’ve never been one to hide the fact that I am a pirate. While I have Netflix and watch a lot of movies and tv shows on it, I have a major hatred for DRM, extra long trailers that I can’t skip, annoying FBI warnings and numerous other things that come along with watching something…
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Netflix drives customers to piracy by delaying new releases
Greetings Readers! With the exception of when they raise prices, everybody seems to have a major love of Netflix, myself included. Unfortunately, I think that love affair is about to come to an end. It was announced today that Netflix has decided to let the greedy people over at Warner Bros. keep Netflix from renting…
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Dark times ahead for Bittorrent
Its hard to find any good news in the Bittorrent community these days. Between the sale of The Pirate Bay to the court ordered mass deletion of torrents on Mininova, it seems that nothing can go right for the popular P2P community. With groups like the RIAA, MPAA, IFPI, BRIEN and countless others constantly harassing…
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Game developer figures out how to interact with pirates for its benefit
Greetings Readers! For years now, we have been hearing of software pirates getting sued for illegally downloading games and other software just like their music and movie downloading brethren. While there seems to be a few people that understand that you can’t win against the pirates, most major gaming companies have yet to grasp this…