ACE Lawsuit: YouTuber ‘Touchtone’ Was Paid $500,000 To Market Pirate IPTV
With pirate IPTV services all the rage among millions of pirates, companies operating in the movie and TV show space are trying to bring the phenomenon under control. As part of this effort, last April companies owned by Columbia, Amazon, Disney, Paramount, Warner, and Universal (all members of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment) filed a lawsuit in the US against the operators of Nitro TV. This ‘pirate’ provider had been...
Pirated Screener Leaks Drop to New Low as Release Windows Shorten
The coronavirus pandemic has changed the world over the past year and Hollywood is no exception. Movies theaters had to close around the world, so studios started experimenting with shorter release windows or got rid of them entirely. This change was noticeable on pirate sites as well where high content started to appear quicker and camcorded films became a rarity. The latter is true for copies of pirated awards screeners, which...
My favorite open source tools to meet new friends
In March 2020, I joined the rest of the world in quarantine at home for two weeks. Then, two weeks turned into more. And more. It wasn’t too hard on me at first. I had been working a remote job for a year already, and I’m sort of an introvert in some ways. Being at home was sort of “business as usual” for me, but I watched as it took its toll on others, including my wife. read more Powered by...