piracy

Popcorn Time, the once-popular app that made watching pirated movies and television shows almost as easy as using Netflix, has shut down. Bloomberg News: The app debuted in 2014 and within a year became one of the most popular services for accessing il…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: A GitHub user who goes by the name “Widevinedump” has published several repositories that allow people to download HD video from popular streaming platforms, including Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix….

New amendments to Malaysia’s Copyright Act mean that “People who offer streaming services and devices that ‘prejudicially’ hurt copyright owners can face fines equivalent to $2,377 or more, prison sentences up to 20 years, or both,” reports Engadget.
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Long-time Slashdot reader kjshark writes: Eric Clapton has successfully sued a German woman who posted an illegal recording for €9.95, about $11 on eBay. The CD was a single-bootlegged recording of a Clapton concert from the 1980s.

After Clapton…

headless 曰く、Microsoft が海賊版 Microsoft Office のユーザーに対し、Microsoft 365 のサブスクリプション 1 年目を半額にするオファーを行っているそうだ (Ghacks の記事、 Softpedia の記事、 On MSFT の記事)。

Ghacks によると、オファーは海賊版 Office のメッセージバーに表示され、クリックすると海賊版ソフトウェア使用のリスクを解説するページが既定のブラウザーで開く。このページの日本向けバージョンは存在しないが…

Recently Australian developer Geoffrey Huntley announced they’d created a 20-terabyte archive of all NFTs on the Ethereum and Solana blockchains.
But one NFT startup company now says they tried downloading the archive — and discovered most of it…

Last December, academic publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society filed a lawsuit demanding that Indian ISPs block access to Sci-Hub and Libgen for copyright infringement. The ongoing case now includes an intervention application from a…

NFTs are unique blockchain entries through which people can prove that they own something. However, the underlying images can be copied with a single click. This point is illustrated by The NFT Bay which links to a 19.5 Terabyte collection of ‘all NFTs…

あるAnonymous Coward 曰く、中国から1本100円で仕入れたiPhone/iPad用の偽Lightningケーブルを「純正品質」「純正工場製品」などと文言をつけて販売していた北海道の夫婦が商標法違反で逮捕されたそうだ（北海道文化放送）。函館税関苫小牧支署から商標権侵害するものを輸入しているとと警察へ通報があり発覚したそう。 300円という値段設定をみて、フリマサイトの最低出品額で売ってたのだろうかと想像がついたが、北海道文化放送の記事にある「純正工場製品」で検索してみると、3月に家宅捜…