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Pirates Earn Up To $70 Million/year, Shows Study

Short Bytes: A new study has surfaced which claims the yearly earnings to the pirates to be around $70 million/year. Digital Citizens Alliance (DCA) commissioned RiskIQ to conduct the study out of a sample of 800 pirate websites. The dusts from the unabating tussle between the pirates and the copyright holders is still befouling the […]

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Google Deleted 100 Million Record-Breaking Pirate Links in 2015

Image: michaelbrandvold.com It’s just the start of the July of 2015 and in this short span of few months, Google has already processed over 100 million copyright takedown requests to delete pirate links (illegal content). Just a few days ago, Google received its 100 millionth request takedown request of the year 2015. TF writes that […]

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