piracy

Piracy originally referred to criminal violence (such as trespassing and robbery) committed at sea, but today the term lends itself to an array of lawless acts, including copyright infringement, airplane hijacking, unregulated radio transmissions (pirate radio) and patent infringement. The term has also been used to refer to raids committed on land by paramilitary forces.

Traditional piracy at sea benefits from a romanticized image in contemporary popular culture, thanks to some picturesque characters such as Captain Hook, Long John Silver, and even the more recent Captain Jack Sparrow from the Pirates Of The Caribbean film series. Colorful language, a lust for hidden treasures, as well as the love of freedom and the open sea are some of the more common motifs to be encountered in pirate stories.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “piracy”

• in Music
  File Sharers Buy More Music Than Non-File Sharers
  New research suggests that file sharers buy more legal music than non file sharers
  by cmimanagers / on Oct 16, 2012
• in Technology
  Google Crushes Piracy by Burying Their Content Deeper Into Search Results
  Google hopes to tackle piracy with another new algorithm.
  by ash98 / on Aug 13, 2012
• in Lifestyle
  File Sharing and Copyright Math
  Entertainment Industry Wants Downloading Shutdown
  by Mozart99 / on Apr 22, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “piracy”

 

• CHICKENS AS PETS: please buy, don’t pirate

  
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  Please be advised a man by the name of Steve Perry is offering pirated copies of a number of chicken ebooks via Facebook. The page he set up to do this has already vanished, perhaps because of Facebook getting involved … Continue reading →
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• New Anti-Piracy Group Will Monitor File-Sharers and Block All Major Torrent Sites

  
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  For years the online environment in Norway has been tipped in the favor of file-sharers. There have been barriers to rightsholders monitoring alleged pirates and torrent sites such as The Pirate Bay have been accessible to all. In May 2011, things began to change when the Ministry of Culture announced proposed ...
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• Digital Music Sales in China Hit $75 Million (No, We Didn’t Miss Any Numbers)

  
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  Digital music revenues are on the rise in China – albeit very slowly, and to a not very impressive level. According to figures from music industry group IFPI, digital music sales in China saw a 49.8 percent annual increase to $75.5 million in 2012. That’s a small number from a massive country. Indeed, that’s ...
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• New DRM Changes Text of eBooks to Catch Pirates

  
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  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 ...
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• Squelching TV Piracy

  
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  Al Arabiya TV reports that two satellite TV channels that apparently earned their money through the broadcasting of films for which they did not own broadcast rights have been knocked off their satellites. Panorama Comedy and Panorama Action, two channels reported to originate in Egypt, have been dropped by the ...
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• West African Piracy Exceeds Somali Attacks, Report Says

  
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  In 2012, Somali pirate attacks dropped by almost 80 percent compared with a year earlier.        
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• Twelve piracy pay TV arrests in Greece and Cyprus

  
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  Twelve new arrests and seventeen sentences for piracy of pay TV signal in Greece and Cyprus. Continued efforts by the police electronic crime prosecution departments in Greece and Cyprus have resulted in twelve more cases involving piracy of pay TV satellite services. These were heard before the Public Prosecutor ...
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• Australian study claims piracy increases with income

  
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  Some new research in Australia examines different data about people who download music and other media illegally: their income and education.
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• Stealing Game of Thrones? At least show a little shame

  
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  If you’re going to be a thief, at least have some shame. Recently I’ve noticed a lot people brazenly asking on Twitter and Facebook for illegally downloaded copies of hit shows such as Game Of Thrones. It’s the virtual equivalent of popping on a stripey jumper and carrying a bag marked “swag” as you go [...]
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• Protesting Piracy in China with...Blow-Up Dolls

  
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  Late last week at Peking University in Beijing, China, men wearing skimpy underwear and carrying inflatable friends streaked the universitys north campus and tried to jump into Weiming Lake. Then, university security showed up. Thats when all hell broke loose. Read more...        
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• File-Sharers Are Well Educated and Earn More Money

  
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  Over the past years numerous studies have shown that on average file-sharers spend more money on legal purchases, whether it’s music or box office tickets . The most logical explanation for this finding is that “pirates” are more engaged than those who don’t share, and that they complement their legal ...
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• Kat.ph Blocked in the Philippines

  
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  This counld be bad news to people who relys on the internet to watch movies, even though they’re 3 to 6 months late. Yugatech has posted that the domain kat.ph has been blocked by Philippine domain registrar dotPH after receiving a TRO from the RTC which was filed by the Intellectual Property Office. However the ...
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• Kepolisian Malaysia Menangkap Pemilik Website Penyedia Konten Film dan Musik Ilegal

  
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  Kepolisian Malaysia telah berhasil menangkap seorang pria yang diduga sebagai pemilik website penyedia konten film dan musik ilegal jiwang.org. Menurut Malaysian Ministry of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism (MDTCC), jiwang.org merupakan salah satu website konten ilegal terbesar di Malaysia yang menyediakan ...
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• KickassTorrents Domain Seized After Music Industry Complaint

  
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  With millions of visitors every day KickassTorrents (KAT) is one of the largest torrent sites on the Internet, trailing only behind The Pirate Bay. This status has put the site on the radar of the U.S. Government and a wide variety of entertainment industry groups around the world. Yesterday the torrent site ...
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• France Gets Its First Victim Through the HADOPI Anti-Piracy System

  
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  The  controversial three strikes law meant to combat online piracy in France saw its first victim at a time when its validity is called into question by the government As many of you already know the system works like this: it all starts with a complaint of a copyright owner; at first the alleged illegal ...
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• School connectivity and filtering – google translate

  
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  Dropped the kids off at school today. I don’t normally do it. It’s out of my way and gets in the way of my early morning swimming regime. It’s the last GCSE so it was only fair that the run in would be comfortable. Let the lad get in the zone. I mentioned that last night I had sent their headmaster an email. ...
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• Solo practitioners at risk of online piracy 

  
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  &via=&related=DolcePixel"> Solo practitioners must be as vigilant as partners at the biggest law firms in protecting themselves — and by extension, their clients — against computer hackers and online pirates, warns the chief information officer at a large Potomac practice. ...
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• Yes, there is a Joyland eBook!

  
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  Remember all the noise about Stephen King not releasing Joyland as an eBook ? Well, they exist anyway. I’ve seen it. (I’m not linking to it here but if you know where to look, or can craft a good Google search or two, you’ll find it.) As Cory Doctorow says: ‘To those publishers here today who believe that ...
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• Singapore at Heart of Counter Piracy Worldwide

  
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  Rear Admiral Giam Hock Koon from the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) hands over command of CTF 151 to Commodore Muhammad Ihsan Qadir. By William H. Watson For the third time nearly five years, the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) has stepped down from a three-month command of the multi-national Combined Task Force ...
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• French File Sharing Law Claims Its First Victim

  
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  After sharing a file or two and ignoring warnings from the government to knock it off, an as-yet-unnamed French Internet user has become the first person fined under France’s controversial ‘Hadopi’ law — a statute that gives file sharers “three strikes” before swooping in with draconian measures like ...
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