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Leading the piracy parade is ‘better than an Emmy’?  Please, speak for yourself Mr. Bewkes… According a story yesterday in AdWeek, … Continue Reading → The post We Can’t all be H...

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Why aren’t we alarmed by the web giants’ efforts to increase their control of online commerce? Amazon and Google are … Continue Reading → The post Do we really want Google and Amazon t...

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Notorious Pirate site Movie2k.to is gone…at least for now Some good news for indie filmmakers whose work is routinely stolen … Continue Reading → The post Movie 2k Blocked? first appear...

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Derek Khanna first came to public notice in 2012 after writing a lopsided anti-copyright “policy brief” for Republican Study Committee called … Continue Reading → The post Hey Derek�...

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Over the past months, as I’ve journeyed across the web investigating pirate websites I found that many shared something in … Continue Reading → The post MacKeeper Software Ads Blanket Pi...

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The fact that online piracy has flourished over these past few years is nothing new.  Neither is its co-dependence on an … Continue Reading → The post Facebook’s Link to the Online Pir...

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Need more evidence that Google’s YouTube earns income from pirates who upload (and monetize) films for which they don’t own … Continue Reading → The post YouTube (and Netflix) monetize...

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“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” — Sir Walter Scott   Surprise, surprise–Google … Continue Reading → The post Chronic, Ill-Gotten Gains- Google...

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Kim Dotcom’s much ballyhooed new venture, Mega, has gone live. and is, according to a tweet from the mastermind himself, already wildly popular, … Continue Reading → The post Mega Goe...

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Black markets are endemic in criminal culture, so it’s not much of a surprise, given the popularity of Internet commerce, … Continue Reading → The post Content Leeches-The Dark Underbell...

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