News tagged with pirates
Czech Republic, Slovakia freeze anti-piracy pact
Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas said Monday his country would freeze plans to ratify a controversial international online anti-piracy accord after mounting off-and-online protests.
Feb 06, 2012 |
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After Megaupload closure, BTJunkie shuts down
BTJunkie, a popular file-sharing indexing site, said Monday it was voluntarily shutting down, less than three weeks after the US closure of Megaupload in a crackdown on piracy of music, films and other materials.
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Dutch court orders companies to block Pirate Bay
A Dutch court on Wednesday ordered two major Internet service providers in the Netherlands to block their customers from accessing The Pirate Bay website or face large fines.
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Anonymous targets Finland over anti-piracy efforts
Cyber-activists attacked the websites of Finnish anti-piracy groups after a local Internet service provider was forced to block access to a popular file-sharing website, officials said Tuesday.
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Copyright -- a conceptual battle in a digital age
Our language is made up of metaphors, even in our legal texts. Stefan Larsson has studied what consequences this has when digital phenomena, such as file sharing and downloading, are limited by descriptions intended for an ...
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Digital piracy casts shadow over ebook world
With electronic books growing in popularity, the publishing world focuses on fighting the threat of digital book pirates, much as the music industry once did with illegal downloading.
Oct 13, 2011 |
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China's Baidu, music labels launch online service
(AP) -- Baidu Inc., which operates China's most popular search engine, said Tuesday it will distribute music from three global labels in a deal that its partners say could help clean up China's piracy-plagued music market.
Jul 19, 2011 |
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Hacker group claims hit on US defense contractor
Hacker group Anonymous released a trove of military email addresses and passwords it claimed to have plundered from the network of US defense consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton.
Jul 12, 2011 |
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Home of suspected LulzSec member raided: WSJ
US Federal Bureau of Investigation agents carried out a raid on the home of an Ohio man suspected of being a member of the Lulz Security hacker group, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
Jun 30, 2011 |
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Malaysia seeks to ban sites for illegal downloads
(AP) -- Thousands of Malaysians joined an online protest Sunday against a government effort to block access to 10 popular websites often used to illegally download movies, TV shows and music.
Jun 12, 2011 |
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Finnish record label petition to block Pirate Bay
Finnish record labels said Thursday they filed a petition in court to block access to The Pirate Bay, a popular Swedish website that provides access to copyrighted music, movies, and other material.
May 26, 2011 |
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US cites Baidu, PirateBay, others in copyright piracy
The US Monday named leading Chinese search engine Baidu and Swedish torrent download site Pirate Bay in a list of the world's top online and physical markets for pirated and counterfeit goods.
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Reading Avatar's DNA
You know when you're watching a pirated film downloaded from the Internet -- there's no mistaking the fuzzy footage, or the guy in the front row getting up for popcorn. Despite the poor quality, pirated video ...
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Dec 21, 2010 |
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Pirate Bay financier takes case to Supreme Court
A key financier of the Swedish filesharing site, The Pirate Bay, appealed to the country's highest court on Monday to overturn his four-month prison sentence and fines to the music and movie industry, court ...
Dec 20, 2010 |
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Convictions upheld in Pirate Bay file-sharing case
(AP) -- A Swedish appeals court on Friday upheld the copyright convictions of three men behind The Pirate Bay, a popular file-sharing site that remains in operation despite attempts by authorities to shut ...
Nov 26, 2010 |
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Piracy
Piracy is an act of robbery and/or criminal violence at sea. People who engage in these acts are called pirates.
The term can include acts committed on land, in the air, or in other major bodies of water or on a shore. It does not normally include crimes committed against persons traveling on the same vessel as the perpetrator (e.g. one passenger stealing from others on the same vessel). The term has been used to refer to raids across land borders by non-state agents.
Piracy is the name of an offence under customary international law and also the name of a number of offences under the municipal law of a number of States.
Piracy should be distinguished from privateering, which was authorized by their national authorities and therefore a legitimate form of war-like activity by non-state actors. This form of commerce raiding was outlawed by the Peace of Westphalia (1648) for signatories to those treaties.
Historically, offenders have usually been apprehended by military personnel and tried by military tribunals.
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