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‘Sketchy AF’: What to Know About How OpenAI Staff Discussed Book-Pirating (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-09-19 | tags: openai, chatgpt, copyright case

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Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-18 | tags: warez scene, piracy, bittorrent

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Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-17 | get NordVPN subscription → | tags: darrell issa, site-blocking bill, motion picture association

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“Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-31 | tags: zlibrary, anthropic, sony

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Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-29 | by Kirsten Korosec | tags: sony music, anthropic, claude

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Nintendo takes down over 400 GitHub repositories for Switch emulators in one go — Relentless DMCA strikes tied to piracy concerns over illegal cryptographic keys (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-24 | by Hassam Nasir | get Nintendo Switch OLED model console → | tags: nintendo, switch, yuzu

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Now movie theaters are starting to ban Meta smart glasses too. Here’s why (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: meta platforms, smart glasses, cinema privacy

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Back in 1996, Quake's shareware CD locked id Software's entire catalog behind flawed encryption that made it a free-for-all (techspot.com)

2026-08-20 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: quake, id software, shareware

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Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | by Raymond Chen | tags: windows 95, hologram, anti-piracy

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Japanese authorities use new tool to identify initial torrent uploaders — anti-piracy group says it identified seeder on popular anime torrenting website without torrent swarm monitoring (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: nyaa, coda, bittorrent

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Netflix Sued For Losing 'Master Copy' of Unreleased Nicolas Cage Movie (slashdot.org)

2026-07-31 | tags: netflix, nicolas cage, fortitude

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The Kids' Guide to Piracy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: piracy, torrenting, steam

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Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge (theverge.com)

2026-07-21 | by Emma Roth | tags: anthropic, ai models, copyright lawsuits

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US seizes over 1,000 websites in FIFA World Cup piracy crackdown (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: fifa, bein media group, operation offsides

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The lost joy of music piracy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-16 | by Pigeons | tags: brian, member, staff

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Future Nostalgia Project asks retro hoarders to ‘Copy That Floppy!’ — flips the early 1990s anti-piracy campaign on its head to encourage budding archivists (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-09 | by Mark Tyson | tags: drive, floppy, hardware

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Vietnam arrests suspects behind HiAnime anime piracy service (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-07-06 | get Anime piracy prevention kit → | tags: anime, hianime, piracy

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Video Game History Foundation Says Piracy Remains the Only Viable Preservation Method (slashdot.org)

2026-07-04 | get Game Preservation USB Drive → | tags: cards, cards got, died

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Video Game History Foundation founder says piracy remains the only viable game preservation method (techspot.com)

2026-07-03 | get Game Preservation USB Drive → | tags: video game history foundation, frank cifaldi, piracy

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BitTorrent’s disastrous, legendary, and controversial story (theverge.com)

2026-07-02 | by Janko Roettgers | get BitTorrent Classic Download → | tags: bittorrent, bram cohen, peer-to-peer

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Amazon says restricting Fire TV sideloading is about safety. It's also about piracy (techspot.com)

2026-07-01 | get Fire TV Sideloading Safety Kit → | tags: amazon, fire tv, sideloading

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Private and community servers for Minecraft and COD are illegal and amount to piracy, ESA tells California Senate — Stop Killing Games-backed bill fails to pass committee (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-01 | by Luke James | tags: minecraft, mojang, private servers

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Amazon Blames Piracy Apps With Malware For Killing New Fire Stick Sideloading (slashdot.org)

2026-06-30 | tags: fire stick, vega os, amazon

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Amazon blames piracy apps with malware for killing new Fire Stick sideloading (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-30 | tags: fire stick, vega os, streaming piracy

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Exec blames malware threat for Amazon blocking sideloading on new Fire Sticks (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-30 | get Fire TV Sideloading Kit → | tags: fire sticks, vego os, streaming piracy

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The video game industry just told lawmakers Minecraft and Call of Duty private servers are illegal piracy (techspot.com)

2026-06-30 | get Minecraft Server Hosting → | tags: minecraft, call of duty, california

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European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-29 | get VPN Privacy Protection Kit → | tags: euroispa, european commission, site blocking

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PirloTV sports piracy network disrupted as 44 domains seized (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-06-25 | get PirloTV Streaming Device → | tags: pirlotv, uefa, ace

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Retro pirate gets two-year suspended jail sentence for being stuck in the past, burning and selling remix CDs of famous artists — four-year investigation into copyright infringement on 40-year-old medium began in 2018 (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-18 | by Mark Tyson | get Pirate CD Remix Kit → | tags: music copyright, remix cds, uk law

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Police dismantles 9 crime groups in illegal streaming crackdown (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-06-03 | get Streaming Security Camera → | tags: europol, illegal streaming, copyright piracy