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Congratulations, Game Of Thrones Finale, You Set A New Piracy Record!

The Season 3 finale of Game of Thrones may not have broke a ratings record but it did set a new bar for piracy.  The finale episode, “Mhysa,” (recapped here) stopped just shy of breaking a ratings...

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French File Sharing Law Claims Its First Victim

After sharing a file or two and ignoring warnings from the government to knock it off, an as-yet-unnamed French Internet user has become the first person fined under France’s controversial ‘Hadopi’...

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Things We Saw Today: The Grumpy Catbus

Timothy Doyle created this memetic Miyazaki mashup masterpiece for an upcoming Lil Bub gallery show at Spoke Art. (io9) Porn pirates (that’s people who steal, illegally recopy, and distribute porn...

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With New Google Deal, You Can Finally Watch Game Of Thrones On Something...

Fans of HBO series like Game of Thrones have often expressed their disdain for not being able to legally watch the show on anything but the paid cable network. That’s changing as HBO has made a deal...

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Game Of Thrones Maintains Title Of Most Pirated TV Show For Second Year In A Row

And here’s their acceptance speech, “I’d like to thank the cable companies for keeping a strangle hold on paid channels, the internet, and especially HBO for letting us show so much crazy sh*t.”  In...

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Congratulations, The Hobbit, You Are This Year’s Most Pirated Film

An Unexpected Journey, the first installment of the Hobbit trilogy, was kept neither secret nor safe this year. The temptation of making humorous gif sets was too much for the poor hobbits of the...

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Some Guy Got Detained by the FBI Homeland Security for Watching a Movie...

Update, 1/22/2014: an update on the original Gadgeteer story clarified that it was the Department of Homeland Security and not the FBI who interrogated the Google Glass wearer in question, despite...

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Latest Game of Thrones Wedding Breaks Piracy Records, George R.R. Martin...

This does not surprise me. Also read on for what A Song of Ice and Fire novelist, George R.R. Martin had to say about recent episode events. Spoilers will be marked as such, you’re good to go until...

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Today In Unsurprising News: Genre Television Ranks Highly Among The Most...

As has been shown time and again, people who download the most pirated media also tend to purchase more than others. Given that geeks are known for being voracious media consumers, it’s no real...

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Technology and Anime, a Beautiful Love Story

It’s 2014. It’s Saturday afternoon and I’m checking my queue on Crunchyroll to see if some of the anime series I’ve been following this season have been updated. Technology has altered the way I...

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Bring Me My Brown Pants!: Game of Thrones Breaks Yet Another Piracy Record

Another big Game of Thrones episode, another piracy record broken. Season four finale “The Children” (recap here) smashed the record previously held by “The Lion and the Rose.” And the season three...

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Doctor Who Script Leak Leads to Disciplinary Action

Last week, we learned that both the scripts for the first 5 episodes of the new Doctor Who series as well as an extremely rough cut of the first episode were leaked. BBC Worldwide has begun...

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Guinness World Records Makes It Official: Game of Thrones Is The Most Pirated...

Game of Thrones has been the most pirated show on television since 2012 – and it’s about to be awarded (?) the honor of being The Guinness Book of World Records’ “Most Pirated TV Program” ever....

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No Clash of Kings: HBO’s Game of Thrones Retains “Most Pirated TV Show” Crown

It’s good to be the King? HBO’s Game of Thrones and piracy are like, BFFs at this point. In 2012 they were the most pirated television show of the year. In 2013, the same. This past year has seen...

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The Most Pirated Movies of 2014 List Is Full of Your Genre Faves

We know people chronically love downloading Game of Thrones, but what movies took the yarrrcake in 2014? With security firm Excipio, Variety broke down the numbers of what people loved to watch online...

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Game of Thrones Season 5 Premiere Sets Ratings Records Despite the First 4...

We’ve posted about Game of Thrones piracy and ratings so much in the past it almost loses all meaning but let’s jump into the fray once again, shall we? At the end of last year, HBO’s hit series took...

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Supergirl Pilot Leaks Online Way Ahead of Series Debut

The Supergirl pilot isn’t scheduled to officially air on CBS until November, but a high-quality version has leaked online in one of the earliest leaks for a TV show. Really, we don’t blame people for...

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Things We Saw Today: Thor: Ragnarok Accidentally Leaks, and Pirates Are...

A Norse God-size mixup let some people download Thor: Ragnarok from iTunes a month before the film was meant to be available. As you can imagine, once a few folks had their hands on Ragnarok, it...

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Authors Claim That Internet Archive’s “National Emergency Library” Is Just...

Right now, digital sales for books are going up. Many are trying to read the newest titles, or classics, in order to keep their mind occupied during this trying time. One site, The Internet Archive,...

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Congratulations To This Publisher Who Came Up With the Worst Possible Way To...

Piracy is becoming a bigger and bigger concern among authors, and with good reason. It’s never been easier to find PDFs of copyrighted books online, whether you’re buying a $2.99 copy on Etsy or...

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