Piracy

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Mungo Jerry frontman hopes new anti-piracy tech stops artists losing out
Ray Dorset says band lost £23m in royalties but suggests fingerprinting software could help musicians

Dalya Alberge

25, Jul, 2024 @6:00 AM

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Vinyl came back from the dead – and so did the bootleggers: inside the booming business of knock-off records
As LP sales boom in the UK, so has the illegal trade in poor-quality fakes. But the record detectives are fighting back

John Harris

15, Jun, 2024 @8:00 AM

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‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services
Ownership rights are buried in the fine print and downloading or buying physical copies may be the only ways to keep your favourites

Josh Taylor

13, May, 2024 @3:00 PM

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Four large US publishers sue ‘shadow library’ for alleged copyright infringement
The publishers are claiming unspecified damages from the file-sharing Library Genesis, which they say has distributed files illegally

Ella Creamer

15, Sep, 2023 @4:55 PM

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Illegal streaming gang jailed for selling cut-price Premier League subscriptions
Five men who made over £7m streaming football matches to tens of thousands of customers jailed for total of more than 30 years

Geneva Abdul

30, May, 2023 @6:04 PM

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Music piracy in Italy was a major criminal activity – it should not be romanticised | Letter
Letter: Let’s not be taken in by fanciful tales that seek to justify or even glorify music piracy, says Enzo Mazza

24, Mar, 2023 @5:47 PM

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‘I was the Spotify of the 1980s!’ The Italian pirate mixtape empire that brought pop to the people
Started from an illegal market stall, Mixed By Erry became Italy’s third biggest record label – until police cracked down. A new film asks whether the founders were heroes or criminals

Giorgio Ghiglione

08, Mar, 2023 @8:38 AM

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One in four Australians sharing their streaming video account, survey finds
Exclusive: Finding comes as Netflix prepares to crack down on users sharing login details outside their household

Josh Taylor

09, Feb, 2023 @2:00 PM

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Demand for Japanese manga bucks Australia’s downward piracy trend
With songs and movies readily available on streaming services, illegal downloads have moved to less-available media

Josh Taylor

07, Jan, 2023 @7:00 PM

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Risky online behaviour ‘almost normalised’ among young people, says study
EU-funded survey of people aged 16-19 finds one in four have trolled someone – while UK least ‘cyberdeviant’ of nine countries

Dan Milmo Global technology editor

05, Dec, 2022 @6:00 AM

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Booker prize winner urges people not to circulate pirated copies of his novel
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka spent seven years writing The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which won the prestigious award on Monday, and asks readers to honour the work put into it

Sarah Shaffi

21, Oct, 2022 @1:11 PM

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‘Embarrassing’: Russia scrambles to copy banned social media platforms
Rossgram, a substitute for Instagram, mocked as Russian PM announces policy of ignoring copyright

Andrew Roth

30, Mar, 2022 @7:33 PM

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