Tesla Holding Bitcoin Worth $2 Billion — Sees Crypto as Both Investment and Liquid Alternative to Cash
Elon Musk’s electric car company, Tesla, has filed an annual report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) showing bitcoin holdings with a fair value of almost $2 billion at the end of December. The company sees crypto as both an investment and liquid alternative to cash. Tesla Has $2 Billion in Bitcoin Tesla filed an annual report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Friday. “We continue adapting our...
Search Engines Will Deindex All Domains That Have 100+ Links to Pirated Content
Tackling sites that mass distribute links to infringing content is a time-consuming activity for rightsholders. Many feel there should be greater cooperation from the tech sector to lighten the load and in Russia, that certainly appears to be happening. Signed in 2018, a memorandum of cooperation signed by major rightsholders and internet companies including Yandex changed the way infringing content is handled. Following the creation...
Member of Scene Piracy Group SPARKS Gets 22-Month Prison Sentence
For several decades, The Scene has been the main source of all pirated content made available on the Internet. Technically, release groups operate in a closed ecosystem, but the reality is different. The vast majority of the files published on private Scene servers eventually find their way to public pirate sites. The SPARKS Bust The secretive nature of the Scene has been a major challenge for law enforcement but last summer the US...
Danish Torrent Tracker Admin Gets Conditional Prison Sentence
Over the past year and a half, Danish law enforcement authorities did their best to shut down the local torrent tracker scene. It started in September and October 2020 when DanishBits and NordicBits went offline after their operators were caught. New Targets As is often the case, it didn’t take long before other sites stepped up. Rival trackers such as “Asgaard” and “ShareUniversity” opened their doors to new members, resulting in an...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 02/07/2022
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. These torrent download statistics are only meant to provide further insight into the piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources. This week we have two new entries on the list. “House of Gucci” is the most downloaded title. The most torrented movies for the week ending on February 07 are: Movie...
