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Bedroom pirate gets 4 years for running a £300K streaming site
A Northern Ireland man ran a series of very lucrative streaming sites, including BedroomMedia.com and FastPassTV, that made gobs of ad revenue.
Facebook set to clamp down on video piracy
Videos on Facebook largely belong to other people but that’s set to change as the company develops new tools and procedures to quickly identify and remove infringing content.
Pirate sites ban Windows 10 over privacy worries
Paranoia has spiked over the notion that Microsoft plans to keep people from running software they never bought.
Explaining how to use pirate site Popcorn Time can get you arrested
The law is moving to crush the “Netflix for pirated movies” like so many crunchy snacks littering the floor of a crowded movie theater.
Madonna Hacker who leaked songs sentenced to 14 months
A 39-year-old Israeli man accused of hacking the pop star Madonna has been sentenced to 14 months in jail, after a reaching a plea agreement with authorities.
Hollywood gets Piracy app Popcorn Time blocked in the UK
The UK High Court has ordered internet service providers (ISPs) to block Popcorn Time, a piracy app that’s as easy to use as Netflix. 
Season 5 Game of Thrones episodes leaked online
HBO says that preview copies of Game of Thrones have somehow been breached. They’d already been copied at least 1 million times before Sunday’s airing of the new season’s first episode. 
ISPs ordered to hand over names and addresses of illegal file sharers
In a landmark case, a Hollywood studio won the rights to unmask alleged pirates of the movie The Dallas Buyers Club.
Tumblr blocks torrent-related posts from search results, along with adult content
Logged-in users will have to click the lock icon to switch out of “safe mode” and get to any posts tagged with, or mentioning, torrents. 