Piracy Stories for 2019

Cox Owes $1 Billion To Record Labels for Harboring Music Pirates, Jury Decides 87
Twitch Sued For $2.8B Over Alleged Pirated Streaming of Premier League Games 28
FBI Busts Massive Pirate Streaming Service With More Content Than Netflix 124
The Pirate Bay Is Trialing High-Quality Video Streaming Links 35
EU Study Shows Online Piracy is Complex and Not Easy To Grasp 44
Federal Court Approves First 'Pirate' Site Blockade In Canada 24
Disney + and 'The Mandalorian' Are Driving People Back To Torrenting 277
US Court Shields Internet Subscribers From Futile Piracy Complaints 48
Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blocking, Swiss Copyright Law Says 48
Top MPAA Lawyer, Mastermind Behind Its Plan To Attack the Internet, Arrested On Blackmail and Sexual Assault Charges 67
Netflix-like Pirate Sites Offered More Video Than the Real Netflix, Feds Say 31
Disney Fights Streaming Account Sharing With Help From Cable Industry 46
As Streaming Offerings Become More Expensive and Convoluted, People Are Setting Up Their Own Smaller, More Intimate Platforms 159
Pirate Our Games, Don't Buy Them From Key Resellers, Say Indies 97
A Look at How Movies and Shows From Netflix and Amazon Prime Video Are Pirated 219
Texas Appeals Court Says Government Can't Be Sued For Copyright Piracy 107
Popular Soccer App Spied on Fans Through Phone Microphone To Catch Bars Pirating Game Streams 131
Kim Dotcom In Final Bid To Halt Extradition 100
Piracy is Ethically Acceptable For Many Harvard Lawyers, Research Finds 101
Hundreds of Thousands of 'Pirate' Sites Disappear Following Takedown Notices 43
Movie Companies Sue 'YTS' and 'YIFY' Site Operators in US Court 169
RIAA Obtains Subpoena To Expose 'Infringing' Cloudflare Users 84
Pornhub Expresses Interest In Acquiring Tumblr 62
'Avengers: Endgame' Footage Leaks on Reddit, YouTube, and Twitter 80
French ISPs Ordered To Block Sci-Hub, LibGen 77
US Requests 12-Year Prison Sentence For Prenda 'Copyright Troll' Lawyer 66
Music Labels Sue Charter, Complain That High Internet Speeds Fuel Piracy 197
Flood of 4K James Bond Leaks Further Point To iTunes Breach 114
Police Department Accused of Updating Their Radios With Pirated Software 143
Netflix May Be Losing $192 Million Per Month From Piracy, Study Claims 252
Studies Keep Showing That the Best Way To Stop Piracy Is To Offer Cheaper, Better Alternatives 111
Oracle Claims a Fighter of Pirated Apps is a Front For Ad Fraud 28
Hollywood Tries To Cripple Several Alleged Pirate TV Services In One Lawsuit 30
How TV Pirates Accidentally Pushed a 25-Year-Old Indie Song to the Top of the Charts in Japan 43
Software Pirates Use Apple Tech To Put Hacked Apps on iPhones 38
Pirate Bay 'Promotion' Increases Post-Release Box Office Revenue, Study Shows 42
Netflix, Amazon, and Hollywood Studios Shut Down Dragon Box 54
Online Piracy Can Be Good For Business, Researchers Find 59
Russian YouTube-Ripping Site Wins In US Court 77
Sony Appears To Be Blocking Kodi On Its Recent Android TVs 115

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