Showing posts with label piracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label piracy. Show all posts
Monday, 6 August 2018

Music piracy has fallen in the UK

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"The number of Britons that are illegally downloading music is decreasing, according to new custom research from YouGov. YouGov’s Musi...
Tuesday, 31 January 2017

in 2016 Google took down 1.7 billion ads that violated its advertising policies

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"We have a strict set of policies that govern the types of ads we do and don’t allow on Google in order to protect people from misleadi...
Monday, 9 January 2017

Game of Thrones was the most pirated TV show in 2016

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Source:   Data from Torrentfreak, reported by Advanced Television, 3rd January 2017 Note - It's interesting that there are no Netfl...
Wednesday, 24 February 2016

Kanye West's album The Life of Pablo was illegally downloaded 500,000 times on the first day of release

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"Soon after the album was released pirated copies started to populate many torrent and direct download sites, something many people on ...
Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Netflix accounts for 37% of US peak download internet traffic

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Source:   Netflix Q4 2015 resutls, 19th January 2016
Monday, 27 July 2015

Nearly 65m people watch the BBC iPlayer abroad via proxy servers of VPNs

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"Over 60 million people around the world are bypassing online restrictions to use the BBC’s iPlayer service, according to figures from ...
Friday, 10 July 2015

Password sharing 'will cost the video content industry $500m in 2015'

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"OTT video service credential sharing will cost the industry $500 million in direct revenues worldwide in 2015, according to research f...
Wednesday, 23 April 2014

10 million torrents have been uploaded to The Pirate Bay

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"Last summer The Pirate Bay celebrated its tenth anniversary, and today the site reached another noteworthy milestone. Just a few hour...
Friday, 7 March 2014

An estimated 200,000 homes in Australia subscribe to Netflix illegally

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"TV networks in Australia are expressing fresh concern that local viewers are 'pirating' Netflix with help from VPN services. O...
Thursday, 3 October 2013

The final episode of Breaking Bad was illegally downloaded >500,000 times in 12 hours

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"The season finale of Breaking Bad has resulted in a record number of pirated downloads for the popular TV-series. Just 12 hours after ...
Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Netflix uses pirate sites to determine what TV shows to buy and offer

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"This week Netflix rolled out its service in the Netherlands and the company’s Vice President of Content Acquisition, Kelly Merryman, s...
Monday, 16 September 2013

Charles Dickens made no money from the sale of his books in America

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"Now suppose that someone sees there’s money to be made from books, and decides to print and distribute my book themselves, without any...
Wednesday, 8 May 2013

When Netflix enters a territory Bittorrent traffic falls as the Netflix traffic grows

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"What are you doing to combat piracy? One of the things is we get ISPs to publicise their connection speeds – and when we launch in a ...
Friday, 22 March 2013

Botnet fraud costs advertisers $6 million a month in false clicks

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"Security researchers have discovered a botnet they have dubbed "Chameleon" which they calculate is costing display advertise...
Monday, 11 March 2013

The shutdown of Megaupload caused an increase in digital movie sales and rentals

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"This week researchers from Wellesley College and Carnegie Mellon University released a comprehensive study that evaluates the impact o...
Thursday, 20 December 2012

Google receives 2.5 million copyright removal requests per week

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"As policymakers evaluate how effective copyright laws are, they need to consider the collateral impact copyright regulation has on the...
Friday, 19 October 2012

People who download music from Peer-to-Peer sites buy 30% more music than people who do not

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"US P2P users have larger collections than non-P2P users (roughly 37% more).  And predictably, most of the difference comes from higher...
Monday, 17 September 2012

Ed Sheeran's album + was illegally shared more than 300,000 in 6 months in the UK

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"The data, collected independently by Musicmetric and seen exclusively by the BBC, is believed to be the biggest analysis of its kind t...
Thursday, 30 August 2012

The number of URLs requested for removal from Google's search results per week

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Click to enlarge Source:   Blog post by Google, 28th August 2012
Friday, 3 August 2012

83m Facebook profiles are not 'real'

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"Facebook has more than 83m fake profiles, including millions created for users' pets and a large number of accounts the company de...