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venturebeat.com - 24 days ago

McAfee says piracy has tripled even in wake of Pirate Bay prosecution

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The number of new piracy sites on the web has tripled in the third quarter, despite prosecution of the owners of the controversial Pirate Bay file-sharing web site, according to security software maker McAfee . McAfee said it detected a 300 percent jump in the creation of file-sharing sites ...

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latimesblogs.latimes.com - 29 days ago

Seeing how they run from the Pirate Bay

— latimesblogs.latimes.com — Just how big is the Pirate Bay among illegal downloaders? A new report by DtecNet , a... Beverly Hills-based firm that tracks online piracy, found that transfers via the Bit Torrent protocol -- the most popular file-sharing application -- fell nearly ... (more) Seeing how they run from the Pirate Bay

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torrentfreak.com - 28 days ago

Pirate Bay Founders Banned From Running The Site

— torrentfreak.com — In August the bandwidth supplier to The Pirate Bay was ordered by a court to disconnect the... world’s largest BitTorrent tracker from the Internet. Within hours the site had relocated to a new host, which immediately received similar threats. After ... (more) Pirate Bay Founders Banned From Running The Site

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Fast Company - Technology:  Did Sinking Pirate Bay Cause More Piracy? And Does It Matter Anyway?

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McAfee says piracy has tripled even in wake of Pirate Bay pr http://bit.ly/3tD1bw 21 days ago

RT @futuramb: "Pirate Bay prosecution caused number of piracy sites to grow" - http://bit.ly/2J8oMF - unintended consequence or foreseeable? 22 days ago

Pirate Bay prosecution caused number of piracy sites to grow - in a predictable swarming way http://bit.ly/2J8oMF 23 days ago

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Did Sinking Pirate Bay Cause More Piracy? And Does It Matter Anyway?
Fast Company - Technology — ... hasn't changed their downloading habits. In fact it's increased the risk to all Internet users malware. And actually it's made piracy more of a public issue and multiplied the number of piracy Web sites that exist. Which could result in greater piracy. In other words, authoritarian stances on piracy actually achieve the opposite, and punish the very people who spend the most to keep the music biz in, as you might say, biz. Oh what a tangled Web we weave... [Via VentureBeat, The Independent]