by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Global Digital Citizen
via Vitrium Online piracy has not become less of a threat to industries and artists in recent years. The myth is that streaming services have taken pirates’ attention away from torrenting and shifted it to services offered by Pandora, YouTube Music, and others....
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Global Digital Citizen
Via NZ Herald Many millions of people throughout the world will illegally download the fifth season of Game of Thrones, released by HBO. Legally speaking, what they will be doing is a violation of intellectual property rights, or “piracy”. But will they be...
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Global Digital Citizen, Information Fluency, Technology
via BBC News By Dave Lee After years of wrangling, a deal between entertainment industry bodies and UK internet service providers to help combat piracy is imminent. BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media will send “educational” letters to customers believed to...